I’ll sell ya gallons and gallons of it, ya just gotta come to TN to get it!
I want to buy water where you do… 
I think Mikemike2 was using the non-bulk price of $0.75 to $1.00 (or more) per 20 oz. bottle of water commonly found at vending machines. Especially those at gyms. Even those that have water fountains where you can drink, or fill up any empty bottle for free.
As for a bulk price, what you quoted still seems astonishingly low to me. I would pay about $8.50 for a case of 24 0.5L bottles of Aquafina at my local supermarket, not including tax. $5.31 for 32? Wow! Do you run a convenience store?
Plain old water is a well-known hangover preventer. I don’t think the extra stuff in Propel is what is doing it.
Sam’s Club. The membership pays for itself by sheer volume of water that we buy. They are the only place that carries the 32 packs of Aquafina (that I have found, though Costco is coming to Nashville, who knows?). The price is 4.88 per pack, our sales tax on food is .0875. Even if I figured in the cost of the Sam’s Club card, it’d still be far less than gasoline.
I never buy individcual bottles, so I don’t even know what they cost. I guess they probably are much more expensive. At my house, we drink water primarily. There are 4 of us, with me leading the pack at approximately 10 bottles per day, my husband takes one bottle and refills it at least that many times, my daughter drinks close to that amount and my son around 4 per day. We have to buy in bulk, obviously.
Even if am too lazy to go to Sam’s, a case of the second-best water (Kroger’s generic brand) is $3.99 for a 24-pack. That’s 4.34 with tax or .18 each bottle or $1.36 per gallon.
No joke, my husband and I did a cost analysis over the Sam’s card and realised that what we would spend on the annual fee we would recoup in bottled water within 2 months. This might not be true for everyone, but as my family has gone through 24 bottles of water in the last 24 hours…you see where I am going.
When I was training for a marathon, I learned that it’s very easy to underestimate how dehydrated you are. I don’t particularly dislike the taste of normal water, but I don’t really like it, either, so I found I was never drinking as much as I should. Propel changed all that for me. There’s only 2g of sugar per serving (Gatorade, by contrast, has 22g), and no artificial coloring, so it looks just like water but has a very mild taste that’s sweet enough that I found I drank it a lot more while training.
Now, I drink it all the time (4 bottles a day, at least), which is much better for me than the milk and diet sodas I used to drink regularly. I know I would never come close to drinking that much regular water (bottled or tap), since the taste of water kinda bores me more than refreshes.
:eek: Have you looked into the impact this is having on the environment? Have you considered getting a water filter and reusable bottles?
Yes and yes. Any other questions you would like to ask?
Wow, I had no idea Gatorade had so much sugar! I’m not much of a sweets person, especially when I’m running. That probably explains why I hated Gatorade. During my marathon training days (I say that like I’ll never do it again, but every time I say never and someone asks me to, I agree, but that’s beside the point), I preferred water over anything else and only forced myself to drink the energy drinks because I knew that, after a certain point, it was a good idea to mix those in with the water. There’s just something about strong flavors and running that doesn’t mix well for me, I guess.
[short hijack]Even worse, though, was the Gu - the chocolate stuff was like eating frosting while running. Yuck. I was so thankful when they came out with the plain stuff. [/short hijack]
Our gas is currently $1.05 per litre, although it is rumored to be going up as high as $1.50 by summer. It is easy to pay $2 or $3 per litre for bottled water. You can pay that much for half a litre, but I never do. I don’t buy bottled water. What the hell is a gallon?
A gallon is 3.7854118 litres 
It doesn’t. A serving of Gatorade has 13-15 grams of sugar. It varies slightly between flavors and “styles”.
Yeah. What’s stopping you?
The fact that drinking well water, even purified has caused me more health problems than it is worth, and at this time, we have no other options than well water.
Oh, yeah. I love the wild berry.
IME, FWIW, Propel works better than plain ol’ water. (Trust me, I’d love it if water worked better for me.)
I sympathize with your health problems, but chances are that purified well water is cleaner than what you’re getting out of a bottle. That stuff is not regulated and often comes right out of a tap somewhere. If your well is so polluted that you can’t drink the water even after filtering then you shouldn’t be bathing in it and you’ll probably need to find a new water source if you ever want to sell the house. If you can’t afford to get your well disinfected, deepened, or moved at the moment I urge you to buy by the gallon until you can get your problem taken care of.
Well, I got 22g from the bottle I found in the fridge here at work, so it varies quite a bit, it seems (this one was “Ice Punch”, so at least there’s no artificial coloring there).
Ah, that one comes in a 12oz bottle and the whole bottle is the serving size. In most other bottles they consider 8oz the serving size. That’s where the discrepancy comes from.
Please allow me to second this. Water does come in larger sizes if you really need bottled water where you live. It is almost guaranteed to be less convenient for you, but 24 plastic bottles of garbage generated every 24 hours is a whole lot, even if you’re recycling them.
And all you Calgarians/Albertans, knock it off with the bottled water. You don’t need it here! Buy a refillable container and use the damn taps.
Oh, by the way, there have been studies done that indicate that if all you ever drink is pure distilled water, you’ll become deficient in some trace elements/minerals found in regular water.
This works when your abdomen needs to do work to stabilize the body in place when doing an exercise.
Single dumbbell exercises work the best since your abs have to work to keep your body from tipping over to one side. Compound exercises like cleans, snatches and squats work too because they all require your abdomen to do work to keep you from tipping over.