We're only moving a couple of miles, and finances right now dictate that hiring movers is a luxury best avoided. Now if we were moving halfway across the country...

I guess I'm thinking that as I empty the Tainers, I should just leave them empty until after we move...replacing part of that stock with bottled water. Not as much as I keep in the Tainers, but enough to get by with for a while.

I don't feel right just dumping them out...I don't like wasting things when I can avoid it. Right now I use the water to fill up my water bottle(s) for the day, making kool aid, etc...to keep the stock fresh.

Hoping to get a water softener/drinking water system installed in the new house, so I'll have to put more of a conscious effort into rotating...

The Tainers are a pain to move after filling them up at the store, but for large quantities, it seems more environmentally responsible instead of just buying bottled water, although I do keep some bottled water on hand in case my wife would have to load up supplies to BO when I'm not around...no way she could move the Tainers.

And now I'm wondering about my choice for using the Tainers...one was cost. To maintain the supply, it would cost me approximately four times as much to replace the Tainers capacity with bottled water. It would be easier to transport...a case is approximately 3 gallons as opposed to 7 for the Tainer. Then again, the idea is not to move the Tainers to BO, the idea is for sheltering...so...maybe I'll just up the amount of bottled water I keep on hand, AND fill the Tainers once we move.

Sorry about all the thinking out loud...helps me to talk things out though.

So the question is, am I REALLY irresponsible if I let my two week water supply dwindle to, say, 3 days as the Tainer supply runs out before the move?