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My neighbor's kid called my rain barrel 'vintage' and I had to laugh
Was out back hooking up a soaker hose last Saturday when the kid from next door asked why I didn't just use a sprinkler timer like his dad. I told him my setup is a 55 gallon barrel off the downspout that cost me $12 in parts and it's been watering my tomatoes for six years now. He shrugged and said that sounds like a lot of work, and honestly I get it, his generation grew up with phone apps that run everything. But here's the thing, I remember my grandpa out in Fresno with three barrels lined up along the fence, and nobody thought twice about it. Now you can buy a $400 rain collection system online and people act like it's some new invention. So for the folks here, are you still running a simple barrel setup or did you switch to something fancier?
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betty_wells13d ago
That "sounds like a lot of work" line is where I'd push back a little, because a sprinkler timer is the thing that actually breaks. Mine has a cracked valve and a dead battery every spring, and it either waters nothing or floods the bed while I'm at work. A barrel just sits there and does its job, no power, no app, no firmware update.
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