Americans are taught: “Take a shower or bath every day!” A growing number of us see the advantages of washing ourselves with a cold washcloth, and using a little deodorant, to avoid stripping our skin of the valuable nutrients and oils God programmed our skin to produce to protect us from irritations that possibly include some skin cancers. Some of us realize what Daily Bath and Shower Propagandists do not want us to know:
1. The average shower uses 20 gallons of water. A bath uses 40 gallons. Every day, nearly 300,000,000 Americans use an average of 30 gallons for daily baths and showers. Every day, approximately 9,000,000,000 gallons of bath and shower water flow in and out of an average American home for baths and showers. Every year, 3,285,000,000,000 gallons of water go down America’s Daily Shower and Water Drain.
A gallon of water for those with wells and septic tanks costs less than a penny for the ever-fewer families who are blessed with the freedom to have them. Those enslaved by being forced onto needlessly expensive public water and sewer monopolies owned by greedy profiteers profiting from imaginary environmental and watershed concerns often pay more than 4 cents for each gallon that comes in and goes out. At an average in-and-out cost of 4 cents per gallon, 300,000,000 Americans spend $131,400,000,000.00 on water for daily bathing.
3. Half of that water is heated. It costs 2 cents to heat our 1,642,500,000,000 gallons of hot bath and shower water, wasting another $32,850,000,000.00 per year.
4. Americans spend about $85.00 a year on soap and shampoo. That could be reduced to $5.00 by taking fewer baths and showers. That would save each of 300,000,000 Americans $80.00, nearly $240,000,000,000.00.
5. Since daily baths and showers with soap and hot water wash away valuable nutrients from the skin, American men and women spend a yearly average of $400.00 on skin care products. 300,000,000 people spend $1,200,000,000,000 to replace some of what they have unthinkingly washed and scrubbed away.
6. Washing, drying, folding, and putting towels and washcloths away costs 300,000,000 Americans at least $5.00 a month, $60 a year, for $18,000,000,000.00.
7. Purchase, installation, repairs, maintenance, and too-frequent replacement of water heaters, washers, and dryers costs at least 150.00/year. 300,000,000 people spend $4,500,000,000.00 a year on that.
8. The time spent on all the unnecessary activities above wastes at least an hour a week. $20.00/hr x 52 hours x 300,000,000 people means that Americans waste at least $1,200,000,000.00 every year that could have been invested in family or work!
When we total those numbers, we see how much American money goes down the drain by taking unnecessary baths or showers every day: 131.4 billion + 32.85 billion + 120 billion + 1.2 trillion + 18 billion + 45 billion + 1.2 trillion = $4,429,000,000.00.
Our national debt is $37,400,000,000,000.00 (37.4 trillion dollars). 300,000,000 people taking fewer showers and baths could save enough money to pay off more than $4,429,000,000,000 trillion of our National Debt in one decade! In one lifetime, it could nearly all be gone!
President Trump could encourage This New Catholic Idea and eliminate our National Debt in about as much time as it took Andrew Jackson to finally pay off America’s National Debt from the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He could be the Greatest Champion of His People in History!
And, all Americans would look younger because our faces would not be prematurely aged by hurtful scrubbing and being wrinkled by needless worry!
May Americans be blessed to think clearly enough to ignore all the Take a Daily Bath or Shower Propaganda and help pay off the National Debt by simply washing ourselves with a damp washcloth at least six mornings out of seven.
This new Catholic idea is worth sharing with those who love God and our neighbors. Hope someone tells President Trump and whoever replaces him!
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Is it obscene / to be too clean?”
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