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No shower here, but a good old bath with rainwater for the summer. It change from the hot pan of water on the stove during snow season.

Edit: will use later this year the Summer shower BB to resubmit this part.
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Rainwater bath
Rainwater bath
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18liters pooless water for the new row of rasberry
18liters pooless water for the new row of rasberry

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To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must show proof of the following (as pictures or a video < 2 mins):
 - Three gallons of water from your shower that's obviously poo-less
 - Giving the water to something outside or to flush a toilet

- See the 'Collect' photo for three gallons of poo-less shower water.  As I recall, it took three showers to fill the bucket.  A bit under four gallons of water fit inside the kitty litter container, for context.  As of this writing, I have been poo-less for 5+ years and loving it.  Please forgive the dirty looking shower water in the bucket.  The bucket previously had been used outside for rain water collection, outdoor rinsing, watering, etc.

- See the 'Distribute' photo for giving the water to something outside.  The 'something outside' is the lone oak tree on our 3 acres.  It's rather over-crowded & over-shadowed by Black Locust, Red Mulberry, and Elm trees.  Trying to give it some help!
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This is my second BB submission, 2nd day in a row!

I've been 'poo-less since December and I kind of wish it wasn't called 'poo-less because most people assume that I'm proud to say that I'm constipated. Maybe soap-free? But then again, because it isn't obvious, I then get to explain it to another person. Either way, I was able to achieve a min of 3 gallons from two days' worth of showers. The shower stall is very small so I use a smaller bucket and dump it either before or after a shower.


For this BB, I collected the smaller buckets of unknown volume into a 10 gallon bucket that's usually used for outdoor work so the bucket wasn't free of debris. I did take a picture of the water to show that it wasn't soapy.


I then took a height measurement with the objective of achieving 3/10 of the overall height to correlate to a 3 gallon volume.


The measurement yields that the fill volume is 8.5inches and the overall height is 17inches. So this is approx. 5 gallons! More than I thought!

I then watered a new garden bed that I threw cover crops and kitchen scraps at the beginning of the season.


*I'm also attempting to attach the photos using a google photos url share link because it would be more desirable than downloading-uploading photos and the preview isn't showing the photos so I decided to download-upload the photos just in case.
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not soapy water
not soapy water
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watering the plants
watering the plants
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measuring the volume. my finger marks the height of the water.
measuring the volume. my finger marks the height of the water.

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To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must show proof of the following (as pictures or a video < 2 mins):
- Three gallons of water from your shower that's obviously poo-less
- Giving the water to something outside or to flush a toilet

- See the 'Collect' photo for three gallons of poo-less shower water.  As I recall, it took three showers to fill the bucket.  A bit under four gallons of water fit inside the kitty litter container, for context.  As of this writing, I have been poo-less for 5+ years and loving it.  Please forgive the dirty looking shower water in the bucket.  The bucket previously had been used outside for rain water collection, outdoor rinsing, watering, etc.

- See the 'Distribute' and 'Distribute2' photos for giving the water to something outside.  The 'something outside' is the lone oak tree on our 3 acres.  It's rather over-crowded & over-shadowed by Black Locust, Red Mulberry, and Elm trees.  Trying to give it some help!
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It’s amazing how much water can be caught from just a couple showers, and most of this is just waiting for the water to warm up. I had about 4 gallons with gave me 3 toilet flushes.  

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I collected almost exactly 13 Liters/3 gallons. Been poo-less for 3 weeks now and havent used soap on my body for many years. The watering can has 10 liters written on the side, I measured the rest. Sorry about the lighting, there are baby plants living in the bathroom I used the water to water my seeds in the garden, saving precious rain water for later.
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EDIT: added a picture showing the bucket contenance (16,6 L = 3,65 gallons)

After a few showers, I finally had enough water! I will keep collecting the water from the shower from now on, it is such a waste to let it go like that^^
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Bucket contenance
Bucket contenance

Lyam

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So I dumped the shower bucket for fisher price house on where I am building a "level 1 pee spot" that needed 2 gallons of water.
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Full bucket
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Compared to 2L bottle.
Compared to 2L bottle.
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Pee spot
Pee spot
 
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I wasn't sure how many showers this would take, and was a bit surprised to find that one leisurely 10 minute shower, not all of which landed in the bucket, almost filled the 5 gallon Home Depot bucket.
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Empty 5 gallon bucket before showering.
Empty 5 gallon bucket before showering.
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Almost full after showering.
Almost full after showering.
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Ready to water rosemary.
Ready to water rosemary.
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Watering rosemary.
Watering rosemary.
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Empty bucket after watering.
Empty bucket after watering.

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Tried the no-poo thing.  Day 4, a houseguest says, "What smells?" then, "I think your cat threw up on you."  My hair did feel and look better, so I think I'll just go with cutting down on shampoo frequency, but not out.  Here's a bucket from a no-poo day.
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almost 3.5 gallons
almost 3.5 gallons
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notice the top line; that's 3.5
notice the top line; that's 3.5
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dragging it outside was heavy
dragging it outside was heavy
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Here’s my poo-less shower water. I conveniently carried it to the plants on my balcony and also used it to fill up my watering can for the indoor plants — repeated this for a few days until the water was all used up
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I took a shower with a moveable showerhead and collected the soap-less and shampoo-less water in a 5 gallon bucket to flush the toilet.


Poo-less shower water in 5 gallon bucket.


Moveable shower head so I could wash/rinse over bucket.


Using poo-less shower water to flush toilet.

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