More on the water footprint

I can't remember where I saw this idea but I am running with it. I went down to my recycle center and asked for a large bucket with a handle. They gladly gave me one and away I went. Muddy and yucky this buck was, I had high hopes for it. This little white ugly was going to save some several gallons of water per day for me. Jacob cleaned it, we designated a towel for it and now it lives by our shower door. 

I decided we needed to be saving the cold water that runs from the tap before the shower gets warm enough for a body to enter it. All that water could easily be used for something else, instead of it's highly productive use of going down the drain. I haven't been able to fill the bucket yet because I keep using it to fill the toilet tank.

When it's time to flush the toilet, I walk into the shower room and grab the bucket. Take off the lid of the toilet then flush. Once the flap at the bottom closes having emptied the tank of all it's water and flushing the toilet, I fill up that tank with the water I saved from my shower. 

I have also used this water for my indoor plants. Any number of water related necessities can be filled by this water. The bucket is clean, and it was clean tap water that came out of the faucet to begin with.  It isn't fashionable to have a giant white ugly bucket next to the shower, but practicality and ingenuity are not often fashionable, i.e. women's underwear.

Peace and water saving ideas!  ( and I mean no offense to thong wearer's everywhere.)