Can also be used as a sex timer (for people other than me).

Nice timer, first one I've ever seen with colored sand. Most of the ones I have seen are just white sand. This one has green. I'll take 3!

You too, Matt? I thought I was the only person here on Gizmodo from GA, and come to find out we're home to one of the contributing editors? Pretty awesome.

I'm sorry but if you spend $10 on that then you are an idiot.

Oop, nevermind, its $3.

We've had these in Australia for a while now because the drought here is really bad (nation-wide as well)... The government gave 'em to everyone free of charge.. Ours have blue sand though.. i like green more..

@jawzxy:
Had to chime in as I'm from Ga too.
Good thing my GF is in Japan for the year, she wouldn't be able to deal with takeing short showers and only once a day.

Someone had a genius idea for how to get rid of all their faulty egg timers.

@tehmark: Even at 3$, the purchaser is still an idiot.

I'm living in GA at the moment (for college reasons) and am soon graduating (10 days and counting). I'll be the hell out of this stinkfactory long before GA goes dry, so I'm shoring up as much damage to this place as I can contribute.

I'll shampoo just a little longer, wash that glass that I only drank ice water out of, shave my balls just a smidgen longer to make the people's lives here a living -- and literal -- waterless hell.

So long, South. I hope you burn and fall back into the fetid swamp waters from which you were raised.

@shiftyeyedgoat: Okay, I hope you were joking.

As for the short-shower concept, I started turning off the water when I am scrubbing (I am a stinky guy and need plenty of scrub-time), and that cut my showers down under the 4 minute range without much effort. It works well, but I must admit that I hate how cold it is. Plus, there is something particularly degrading about standing in a shower, completely wet and cold, and not having water running. Maybe in a few decades I will get over it, but I doubt it.

@shiftyeyedgoat: Hmmm... Sounds like someone had a 'Deliverance' experience while at college.

i stink too, what a coincidence, but then again i'm from the land of sand and ghosts.

I follow a strict routine in my showering. Not unlike the ritualism of the religious faithful. I am not shutting the water off because of the silent screams of a green sanded hour glass. Just as I don't heed the yelling from my sun dial.

I was stationed in Qatar for three months in 2004. We lived in "Coalition Compound," which was a couple hundred trailer homes and trailer based bathroom facilities.

We were told to take, at a maximum, three minute showers. "Combat showers," they were called. You don't have to stink from a combat shower: Turn the water on for 30 seconds and get wet. Turn the water off and soap up and put shampoo in your hair. Afterward, turn the water on for two and a half minutes and rinse off. What this involves is considering the shower a place to get clean, not to luxuriate in the hot water.

You can take a three minute shower and not stink.

There was very little privacy in Coalition Compound, save for being in the shower.

Military officials at the time were concerned about ways to reduce instances of sexual assault on the base. One way to reduce sexual assault, I suggested, was to increase the combat shower time to about 8 minutes for men in the 18-30 crowd. Nobody pays attention to those kinds of suggestions, because for the dim ones, you really need to draw a picture.

could it be intended for conditioning?

@shiftyeyedgoat: wow, you must be one of those tards from California, you know, the land of the fag? Go back on home...

Conserving water won't help Atlanta to smell any better, so I throw this timer out the window! The sewers and storm drains stink terribly these days. The Gov needs to pray a little harder.

@tehmark: So actually you're right: if you spend 10 dollars on a 3 dollar product, you are an idiot.

@shiftyeyedgoat:

I'm guessing your canoe trip in the north Georgia mountains didn't work out so well, huh?

Go borrow some water from Oregon. They've got plenty right now.

I usually take a 40 minute shower in the morning. I'm in there for 20 minutes, sitting on the tub floor, before I even reach for the soap or shampoo.

I love my long hot showers.