Alarm goes off. You’re as parched as the Sahara. You take a peek in the fridge and find 4 water bottles. You begin mentally going through your day’s to-do list… camp, 2 sports practices, a conference call and ZERO time to make it to the store. What do you do? Do you drink the water? Do you reach for something sugary instead?
If you struggle with this type of dilemma, it turns out you may suffer from FORO– also known as the Fear Of Running Out.
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When it comes to your home, you want to feel confident that you are always making the best choices for you and your family, especially when it comes to health.
In our house we don’t keep a very wide variety of beverages. In fact, a quick peek into our fridge will show you that our daily choices are usually water, milk … or … water.
This is intentional.
You see, a few years ago, I found that our family had developed a bad habit of reaching for the sweet stuff before even glancing at water, and with active, growing kids I knew this had to change.
Fun fact: Did you know? Replacing a single 12-ounce, 140 calorie sugar sweetened beverage with water each day for a year can cut more than 50,000 calories from one’s diet.
Well I took it one step further. I replaced ALL of the sugary beverages in the house with water.
Cold turkey.
It was the only way to truly ensure we cut back and upped our water intake. It was tough at first, but now 3 or 4 years later? It’s become our norm.
The new challenge at hand? Keeping the water stocked!
With Laina at cheer and tumble 4 days a week, Ryan at basketball 3 days (in the off season!), we go through bottles of water like… well?… water!
The need to run to the store to restock the heavy cases and even heavier jugs of water is at minimum a weekly occurrence and very honestly, sometimes? We just don’t have the time!
So what do we do? We ration our last bottles – #FORO!
So even though we are exclusively drinking water (yay!) we are no longer drinking enough of it (boo!)
Enter ReadyRefresh by Nestlé – a business built on the belief that your hydration should never hinge on the inconvenience of restocking your bottled water supply. Having your favorite bottled water on hand, without hassle, keeps you in control of what you drink, and when. Because when you’re thirsty, you should get to drink your beverage of choice—not fall victim to Fear of Running Out.
ReadyRefresh FORO Experiment:
Did you watch that video like I did and shout “OMG! That’s us too!! We do that all.the.time.” ???
ReadyRefresh also conducted a survey of 4,000 individuals across the United States to collect statistics around water consumption habits and the FORO phenomenon. Here are few fun facts they found:
- More than half of all surveyed (52%) experience FORO at least once a week.
- 69% of those surveyed experience feelings such as stress, anxiety and worry when household items start to run low.
- 69% of survey respondents run low on everyday household items at least once a week.
- Nearly half of all full-time working parents (46%) surveyed say they ration or replace everyday household items with a less desirable alternative at least once per week, in order to avoid running out completely.
- Of those surveyed, three out of four (75%) working parents would buy more household items in bulk if it was more convenient.
- According to the survey, more than half of full-time working parents (55%) say that daily errands keep them from spending quality time with friends and family.
Our FORO Experiment:
Convinced that we definitely suffered from FORO, I decided to do a little experiment of my own.
Last week I logged onto the ReadyRefresh website for the first time and ordered jugs of water, a variety of our favorite bottled waters– including Nestle Splash–in lemon and berry– and 48 hours later, while the kiddos were at camp I got a visit from “Dan The Water Man”. No. I didn’t make that up. That is how he introduced himself.
Dan was upbeat, friendly, delivered all the water into our garage storage area and rattled off a bunch of other houses (Not kidding. Probably about 10) in our development who were already regular ReadyRefresh customers.
How could I be so late to the party?
Anywho.
The kids came home and found a fully stocked refrigerator of water and I’m not kidding you, their reaction was like Christmas morning (Oh, hello, FORO kids!)
I encouraged them to drink all the water bottles they wanted (so I could easily keep track), to which they said “Even the flavored waters???” …. Yep. Even the flavored waters!
That day (starting at 2pm), between the 2 big kids who had practices, my husband and myself…. we went through… wait for it… S I X T E E N bottles of water.
I couldn’t believe my eyes.
ReadyRefresh made staying hydrated easy and convenient. They even offer expanded delivery hours, flexible frequency options (weekly, biweekly, monthly, bimonthly, every 3 months or even one-time ordering) for any product delivered and increased communication (pre-delivery and post-delivery notifications). Which is invaluable to on-the-go people like us.
The kids are already putting in their requests for an order next month– though we will miss “Dan the water man” who kindly let me know he will be on vacation for our next scheduled delivery date.
Interested in giving ReadyRefresh a try?
All new members receive $50 off their first order!
Tell me, have you and your family ever experienced FORO? Let me know and join in the conversation on Facebook and Twitter by using hashtag #NoMoreFORO
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Thank you to ReadyRefresh℠ by Nestlé ® for sponsoring this blog post. All opinions are my own.
