I’ve no idea of the difference between Club soda and seltzer other that seltzer is amazing American term. Here we have soda water or sparkling water, sparkling water would be branded as coming from a particular spring and have special minerals in it depending on where it comes from. Since giving up my nightly wine ( weekends only now) I still want the feeling of having a drink so have a large cocktail glass with sparkling water with lime and possibly mint or rosemary or basil in it, my new cocktail. I could easily have 1 to 1.5l of this each evening. I have become very conscious of the single use plastic and the issues to me and the environment. But while researching Soda streams and their dupes I came across arguments against them due to environmental ( and indeed political) issues. So it’s hard really to know which is best.
Club soda vs Seltzer water... should I care?
We spent far more money on fizzy water in plastic bottles. Not sure of the economy with you particular tipple but for me, in the long run, it’s an easy choice.
I thought about that. And it kinda surprised me to learn that most of the soda makers for sale make your soda in… plastic bottles, reusable, yeah, but still plastic. 
Granted, probably a little different kind of plastic.
I think I did see at least one that was made with a glass bottle. I actually do like that.
When I first started looking, I was thinking it would save me money. I’m kinda seeing that monetary savings may be pretty small. But yeah, I am seeing some value in getting away from the plastic.
I’ve kinda gotten that I like the fizzy water about as much as what I’d have drank if I’d had a “drinky”. I enjoy a glass of wine. Occasionally, I’ll have something else. (Always just before bed, and NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, when I’m out away from home and any chance of driving anywhere, I just don’t wanna. Besides, it tends to make me sleepy which works very well with planning to go to bed shortly after.)
That said, I’ve found that with the fizzy water, I don’t get the “sleepy” side effect, probably not enough in it to matter. But if I put a little wine in it, instead of it being 6 - 8 oz, it’ll be 2 tbsp or so. Gives me a bit o’ flavor, not much else, but I seem to be pretty satisfied with that at the moment.
Yeah, I know “none is better” when it comes to alcohol. I’m not a drunk and I don’t HAVE to have it, nor do I finish the bottle in an evening if I open it. The current bottle of wine was opened sometime in the late summer, I think, and I have a couple more drinkies left in it. I know some have issues like that and in that case, yeah, you leave it alone.
Anyway, that’s the current situation. It can change. 
My process: store filtered water in fridge in glass bottle (we don’t have on-tap chilled water). Pour chilled water into the “mixing bottle”, which is an appliance specific bottle, yes, hard plastic. Zizz it, which takes about ten seconds. Pour that into big cup(s) with lemon, herbs or whatnot, and probably finish off the liter within half an hour. It’s a little fiddly. If I drank my seltzer in 8 oz servings like normal people, I’d dedicate a second glass bottle to fridge-seltzer storage, as you need to make a liter at once.
Where there’s a will (a really stubborn, perfectionistic, putting-my-foot-down will, 
), there’s a way.
That’s about as much as buying carbonated water here and there was very little extra cost in the beginning. I have 2 1.5 liter bottles and the supermarket replaces the empty ones with full ones. We have this system since ages, probably since very many decades.
When I was a kid, we had a simple machine but it’s a rare thing now and it wasn’t always comfortable - but we needn’t to bring home the actual water…
I only am willing to drink pure carbonated water. Salt makes water horrible to me, even a little bit. I have soups for salty water I can’t even imagine baking soda but as it tastes worse than salt and I need to be super careful at baking, I probably wouldn’t like that either. But who knows? Maybe something interesting happens with water. Unlikely but life can be surprising like that.
We (my SO and I) never ever ever ever buy mere drinks in plastic bottles (well my SO wouldn’t, I would if I was super thirsty while forgetting my own bottle AND I could’t buy a tomato or something. it never happened yet). We have tap water so making more garbage sounds a bad idea. It’s actually painful for us. No matter how we throw it out, it’s best not to have it at all, clearly. The bottles I use are plastic but they are reused zillion times. And I love my carbonated water now and then.
Well it is a toxin but we can handle a little bit just fine so I drink as much as I like, absolutely no limit there. It’s fun. I can do it as I drink maybe 1/100th of the average Hungarian alcohol consumption and that’s not little (but we only first in alcoholism, not nearly when it comes to alcohol consumption, apparently. but it’s not little). I can’t drink wine as the not super sugary one spoil in 1 week or something and no way we ever could drink a whole bottle in a week without extra effort. We do that once a year using spiced wine in December but we don’t really need/want THAT much. What kind of wine do you drink that it lasts so long?
I don’t think I am into watered down alcohol but watered down juice (with carbonated water if possible), that is my thing. I use the liquid from my jars. My SO eats the fruit, I drink the liquid unless it’s much. It’s about 20ml juice at once, it makes a nice glass of more or less sweet, tasty, enjoyable drink. I don’t need or specifically desire it but we have 30ml juice in the bottom of the jar and drinking it is the most logical thing… And my SO doesn’t do that. I can collect in the freezer and do things with it later but I don’t bother when I happen to be in the mood for some fruity bliss and when I am not…? (In my true carnivore times but they are rare and don’t seem to bring any extra benefit.)
I feel like drinking more water now I need all kind of drinks that ISN’T coffee (or cocoa), I really really should quit already (well not completely but my coffee drinking is a very stubborn habbit gotten out of hand since too long) and it’s good if I have many options for drinks for my fasting window. I have water and tea but it’s not enough.
I will experiment with flavors 