In our household, we’ve gotten hooked on sparkling water. The only problem is they’re expensive. Even in bulk at Costco, the price per bottle is at least 3 times what we pay for bottled water or soft drinks. That just didn’t seem right. Plus, with regular water at least we avoided using too much plastic by using Brita but not with sparkling water. So, looking around on the web we found a home carbonation system that makes sparkling water as well as a wide range of carbonated soft drink flavors (cola, lemon-lime, root beer, etc.) and cocktail mixing flavors (tonic, cranberry-raspberry, grapefruit, etc.). We’ve been using it now for a month and couldn’t be more pleased with it. It costs a little over a hundred dollars for a full kit to get started but we expect to easily save over a hundred dollars a year on the sparkling water purchases plus it’s a lot of fun to make your own flavors whenever you have the urge.

We got ours from SodaClub.com. If you google for a promotion code before you purchase you can save a few bucks too.