93. Turn ‘the water’ off.

We may be dating ourselves with this timeless suggestion, so let’s turn this into a dating profile and instead of turning ‘the water off’, let’s ‘turn the water on’ by building out its dating profile. 

Fortunately, we discovered the dating app ‘AquaTinder - the dowsing rod to your next flame’

‘The water’ turn-ons:

-Cleanliness 

-Beaches, lakes, rivers

-Being flooded with emotions

-Paradoxes:

Dry cleaning, Liberal Conservatives, Being turned off to be turned on

‘The water’ turn-offs:

-Droughts

-Deserts

-Oil - just won’t mix

-Dry humor

To help you “Turn the water off’, here’s a simple 2-step process:

1. Make 3 left turns on the water knob  
2. It’s the same as turning the water off right, right? 

Your Future You is encouraging you to keep your head above the water. In the future, your favorite way to grow and “Turn the water off’ by turning the water on, will be to dip your future toe into future uncharted waters and set sail for future wetter pastures. To prevent flooding your Future You with lots of future ‘water analogies’, this week’s message is a ‘lock, and dam’ good reminder of how overuse of water themes can be refreshing, replenishing, yet frequently re-annoying.

P.S. - It’s been reported that Corporate Housing Companies help guests “Turn the water off’ by waking guests up every 15 minutes or so to ask them if they remembered to ‘turn off the water’. This important service ensures our guests are using the water responsibly and stay diligent in everyone’s efforts to conserve water usage. Just be sure to tick the box on the rental application if you want this evening ‘turn the water off’ reminder service turned off. Give us your feedback - we don’t want to ‘turn off the guests’. If you feel 15 minutes is too long for regular nightly ‘water off’ check-ins, please let us know. If this doesn’t hold water, we don’t want to go to the well one too many times. (eye-roll).

Why does this ‘Future You’ Series exist? What’s it about? 

1. Promote easy, quirky sustainable practices that are NOT preachy, or guilt-ridden and without a focus on the ‘saving the planet’ (hint: the planet is going to survive no matter what we do). 

2. A playful post of simple ways to sorta improve our lives, and the lives of those we love. Also improve our future lives… by taking playful action today. 

3. Still reading? Cool. We think you’re amazing and full of joyful zest. 

This series is based off ‘105 Simple Sustainable actions’ - from Stephane Omsanski’s article in Parade from 2021.

https://parade.com/1300935/stephanieosmanski/ways-reduce-carbon-emissions/

93. Turn the water off.

While soaping up your hands, while washing your face—turning the water off conserves resources.