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My great friend Mr. PIXIE composed some music to accompany my narration of this short story. He featured it as one of the "treats" he's giving out for Halloween on his facebook  fan page. You can watch the video and listen to my awful southern accent below. If you'd like to read the story instead, follow this link . Happy Halloween!

We got two, TWO options for flushing now.

HydroRight Dual Flush Converter My partner and I were buying some paint at Home Depot recently and saw a display for water saving toilet converters. We had noticed a few of the restaurants we frequent have two options for flushing in their bathroom and thought it was a pretty neat effort to "go green". The toilets offer a big flush and a little flush. We looked at the box for the kit and it seemed simple and cheap enough to try out. For about $20 ($17.98 + tax at home depot) and 5-10 minutes of installation time-according to the box- we could reduce our water consumption by up to 30% a year. Now, I'm all about saving water and the environment but I'm always a bit more motivated when it also happens to save me cash. So, we bought a converter kit and installed the HydroRight Dual Flush Converter (http://bit.ly/cyGGc5) about a month ago. It did not take me 5-10 minutes to install. It took me about 20 minutes to eff up by misinterpreting the visual aids and securin