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Scarcity creates preciousness

Scarcity creates preciousness

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We have 6 "gallons" [each 19 ltr] of drinking water delivered each week. If it runs out and he cannot deliver immediately, we get a very strong feeling of how precious water is.



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You couldn't go 42 days without posting gooster! 🙂

-VR


@fmf said
Examples from your own experience, please.
Just eight one-month trips to the UK 1994-2002 made the country more precious to me than if I'd lived there.


@very-rusty said
You couldn't go 42 days without posting gooster! 🙂

-VR
or hours


@fmf said
We have 6 "gallons" [each 19 ltr] of drinking water delivered each week. If it runs out and he cannot deliver immediately, we get a very strong feeling of how precious water is.
Since when is a gallon 19 liters?


@suzianne said
Since when is a gallon 19 liters?
yeah a few gallons out there.

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@badradger said
or hours
Ok that trumps what I said. 🙂

-VR

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@badradger said
yeah a few gallons out there.
How many Litres are in a gallon?

3.785411784 liters

Almost 4 liters to 1 gallon.

-VR

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@badradger said
yeah a few gallons out there.
Even taking all the liters together, 19 liters is a bit over 5 US gallons and a bit over 4 Imperial gallons, but he did say "each".


@very-rusty said
How many Litres are in a gallon?

3.785411784 liters

Almost 4 liters to 1 gallon.

-VR
4.54 ltr to 1 imperial gallon my colonial matey


@suzianne said
Since when is a gallon 19 liters?
The Indonesians use the word galon to refer to a water dispenser bottle. That's why "gallon" has quotation marks around it.

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@fmf said
The Indonesians use the word galon to refer to a water dispenser bottle. That's why "gallon" has quotation marks around it.
a so its an indonesian galon shorty

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@badradger said
4.54 ltr to 1 imperial gallon my colonial matey
Ahhhh.....There is a difference!

-VR


A two-day working week is more precious than a six-day one.