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How to Conserve On Your Water Bill

November 17th, 2006 · No Comments

My son told me he was single-handedly saving the family a fortune in water bills. His method? Not doing laundry. What a load of ….dirty laundry.

My bad for not going into his room for a week and seeing the sledding hill-sized pile of laundry on the corner. I should have been tipped off when I passed his room and had un-explicable high school flashbacks. Now I get it. My locker was near the boy’s gym for four years.

Apparently, if you use enough Axe body spray, you can smell fresh to the girls. It works like olfactory whitewash. I should have suspected when I could smell that freshness wafting, no more like flooding, all the way downstairs each morning.

My dad used to hate perfume and if anyone used it he would say they smelled like a French whore. Once I asked him how he knew what they smelled like. I never got an answer so it was all very fishy.

I foiled my son’s moneysaving efforts. He needs to learn to spin a bit better. We have well water and don’t pay a dime for it. I broke the good news to him. He looked very relieved. Or was that reviled?  At any rate, that drip is going to wash and dry all weekend!

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