We’re a Yeti family - I have 3 or 4 I have on rotate (including 2 branded with my firm logo) - I love how they keep beverages super cold, or super hot for long periods.
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I don’t understand the mega-huge Stanley cup/bottle fascination. It’s enormous and really heavy when it’s full of liquid and they’re ugly. We’re a Hydroflask crew in our household.
My brother uses those huge Stanley water bottles - he owns a small plumbing company and is out on jobs all day, often with no access to water, in a hot climate. It’s perfect for him!
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Well ours from time to time smells like rotting meat when you take a shower. It will do that for a few weeks and then you get a very strong chemical smell - not chlorine. It comes and goes. They brought in DEQ and the army corps and nobody can find the source or a permanent solution. I don’t trust a filter to stuff like that.
Our area already seems to have a high rate of all kinds of serious health issues. And around the time the person in charge that I did trust was asked to leave. The new person just doesn’t have the same credentials
Now I’m going down a water bottle rabbit hole looking for a perfect one. lol
I’m too lazy, absentminded and cheap to invest in a heavy, pricey water bottle. But I do have two flat, tiny plastic water flasks with flip lids that fit into pocket when running or walking. (I joke to friends - “it’s vodka”). Great for travel. Definitely NOT trendy. I get in a panic whenever I temporarily misplace one because they are hard to find.
I’ve always been a big water drinker- I just feel better when I’m sipping all day long. I think my body got used to me doing this and now I have to keep it up.
Which is probably why people gift me water bottles. Currently using a 30 oz Stanley- I love the handle as my hand was hurting carrying around a 40 oz hydoflask.
And be sure to take apart your cups and thoroughly clean them!
I’m also thankful for the clean drinking water we have- sorry @ClassicMom98 your situation sounds awful.
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We have 5 kids, most who were into dance and sports, and now run and go to the gym regularly, we have 2 water bottle cabinets that k clean out a few times a year. Yes’s, s’well, Stanley, generic, and my kids have refused plastic straws for years. They rarely leave the house without one, fill it with the brita. I drink gallons a day but just re-use a large glass when home. H takes his to work, puts in tea, in the late afternoon he adds ice for iced tea.
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When my D17 was preparing for college, she desperately wanted a Hydroflask. With some ambivalence, I dropped the $50 on a 32 oz bottle that her father dubbed “the scuba tank.” I tried to imagine myself keeping track of such a thing in college, and was sure it would be lost by Halloween. Fast forward seven years - college is in the rear view mirror, but she still has the Hydroflask, and still uses it… so I guess that $50 is pretty well amortized!
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I don’t carry a water bottle because most of them don’t fit in the cup holder in my car. Instead, I have a metal Yeti tumbler cup. Most of the time, it’s got coffee in it, but I also fill it with ice and use it when I go to yoga, Pilates, etc.
Yeti products are really popular with young people, which makes me laugh. My H, a serious deep-sea fishing person, has had a Yeti cooler for the last 15 years. It’s where he keeps the fish!!
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I think your body just gets used to it, I LOVE water (and ice) and I probably drink too much (unsweetened iced tea too). I drink water starting immediately after waking and cut myself off by 7 pm. I grew up with water as my primary beverage (I’m not fond of soda, milk or juice). I do like wine!
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Yeti makes amazing coolers. I had to defrost our freezer and used the Yeti coolers to keep frozen food from thawing out. After 2 days, no signs of thawing! All went back into the freezer.
Kids use a Yeti soft side cooler as a diaper bag. I kid you not. 
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I also get Yeti coolers from work. I have at least 5. They really are awesome.
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I will say my 30oz Stanley fits in car cup holder as the cup narrows on the lower part, just in case anyone is interested. Same as the Stanley look a like that was posted up thread.
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My big Yeti is the same design and also fits in standard cup holder.
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I had no idea that water bottles were a thing until I posted a question about college graduation gifts. Someone on there mentioned the Stanley cup and the graduate’s mom said that a water bottle would be a much appreciated and used gift so … the Stanley tumbler made up a part of the graduation gift. I never would have spent that much money on a water bottle had it not been for a special occasion like that.
Our family’s water bottles are either free gifts or come from a discount store. They’ve all been less than $20 (usually much less). That includes the Hydro Flask ones and maybe a Swell one, too (or at least shaped like a Swell).
I keep a water bottle in the car, and then I have separate double-walled tumblers with lids at home and work that I use for my unsweetened tea (hot or cold). I usually drink water out of a glass at home. So at work I usually have two glasses and ditto at home.
I’m happy to see people using reusable bottles, but as the person who deals with lost and found in a large college classroom building----ARGHH! Why don’t people LABEL their water bottles? Every month, literally hundreds of dollars worth of water bottles go unclaimed. I’d happily send an e-mail to an owner who put their name on their $60 bottle. The orphans are eventually put up for sale, and those not wanted are thrown away or recycled.
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Glad I live in a place where the tap water is drinkable, so any drinking water fountain provides water as needed (without needing to carry any water bottle).
If you do live in a place with undrinkable tap water, wouldn’t the large jugs of distilled water be less expensive per unit than typical small bottles of bottled water?
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Since my H and I worked outdoors our whole career, we’ve always had and used lots of water bottles and coolers. My H went on a Wildland Fire rehab assignment last summer and thought that it was hilarious that the rest of his team, who were all much younger than him, thought his lunch cooler was very cool! At the time, I couldn’t imagine that they’d never seen one like his (it was really mine), because everyone we worked with used to have one. But I just googled it and discovered that it’s a valuable vintage item, lol. We’ve used ours for road trips and outings for over thirty years I guess. Still pack an old Nalgene water bottle filled with ice inside to keep other bevvies cold.
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