Late Sunday evening a sickening snap echoed through the house followed by a howl from Zippercow that sent me rushing into the kitchen, certain that Zippercow had hurt himself. It was worse. So much worse.
The spigot for or 18 cup Brita water filtration tank had snapped off.
See? The little blue thingy (yes, technical term) is supposed to be attached to the white thingy. Yet clearly it no longer is. Do you know what can make Zippercow look like this?
And that of course is this:
You see, Zippercow is actually a blob of water that miraculously walks about on two legs. By that I mean he drinks gallons of water a day and he does not like tap water either, so he has to drink gallons of fancy filtered water. Enter yard sale Brita. Oh the times we’ve shared together.
Yard sale Brita joined our family a couple years ago. We were (strangely enough) at a community yard sale and came across this filtration system. We previously were using a pitcher variety that had to be refilled multiple times a day so we were intrigued by its size AND it also came with a box of the replacement filters. After some deliberation we decided it was important we welcome this yard sale Brita into our lives. Then a couple houses down we found 2 more packages (containing four each) of the filter replacements. In the end we had the filtration system and 3 boxes (four filters each) of replacement filters for less than $10. Zipper cow was ecstatic! He could have tons of cold filtered water and we were able to do it with very little money!
Yard sale Brita is survived by one replacement filter. That’s right, we still have one of those suckers left! And of course yard sale Brita was quickly replaced. We had to, Zippercow almost had to drink tap water!!! The new filter system is thinner, shinier and fits in our fridge better. So we replaced our old clunky filtration system with an new, sleek and sexy model. Hopefully after this post Zippercow won’t decide to do the same to me! Most likely not, because much as he found this time “trading up” cost us five times as much as our old one and we only got one filter with that.
So yard sale Brita, we bid you adieu! You were the freakin’ giving tree of filtration systems and you will be missed greatly.
Yard Sale Britta (a.k.a. shopping coo (sp?) of the year, that I was proud to be present for) R.I.P. You provided many times your cost of valuable, daily drama free hydration for our beloved son-in-law (ZipperCow). You have served your Master well, so I say again R.I.P. old friend.
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You are one gifted writer, sister! I am in stitches over every word of this entry! So glad that filtered water will continue to hydrate the zipper herd. :)
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