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$10,000 water habit

I think she is aptly named Material Girl not more so for her song but her habits. The gossip goes that she spends $10,000 every month on her water alone. She picked up the outrageously expensive habit of drinking specially blessed Kabbalah water, which costs about $5 per bottle.
It might not be a big news for the affluent society of Hollywood but for me personally it is a big waste of money. I think she has every right to drink all kinds of blessed waters if she can afford but again the spending is outrageous. When we keep in mind that clean drinking water is available to only 20% of Karachi's population. In most African countries people have to travel miles to get a drop of water to quench their thirst. Livelihood of people living in North Africa depends upon the seasonal rains that fall in the desert once in a while.
But on a lighter note the calculation does not seem to make sense if the tag is for her drinking water only. By this measure she consumes 2000 bottles of water every month. That means she drinks on the average 66 bottles of water every day. Medicine tells me that is not possible or she would have died of water poisoning long ago. Now if the bottle is around 250 ml (safest estimate) even then she consumes 16,500 liters of water every day. This is not humanly possible unless you use the same water for other chores on your house. And on top of that doesn't she drink anything else. I mean how much liquid can you store in your tummy? She must drink beer, wine and stuff like that every day too!!
Ah! what the hell i care. But still this is insane and money can be put to better use.


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