I’ve been using a reusable 36oz/1L plastic “flip lid” bottle from Bezos’s market - this is my third one (sadly replaced almost on a yearly basis) since I keep accidentally breaking the lids.
It practically comes everywhere with me - walking, cycling, in my backpack. This lid is starting to crack at the hinge and the latch though, but don’t really want to replace it with the same thing again.
How long have you had you had your current bottle, and how are you finding it so far?
Nalgene for life. Lifetime warranty, BPA free, and durable as all hell.
Nalgene sounds like something you shove up your bottom to cure piles
My only problem with them is that the little rubbery plug in the lid trap water. The trapped moisture is perfect for black mold to grow.
I have a free one I got from the Library that’s also BPA free and seems to last forever. I’ve had it for… 7-ish years maybe?
I bought a Silo once, like twenty years ago. Dropped it on asphalt and they replaced it. Dropped that on asphalt and they sent me two. Dropped one of those on concrete and they sent me two more, one in Tritan and one in polypropylene.
Apparently I’m not allowed to not have a Nalgene. I lose them all the time, but never for long.
Get a good stainless one. Something with a wide mouth so it’s easy to clean, and from a good name like HydroFlask, Yeti, or Simple|Modern.
They are (mostly) dishwasher safe and they hold up forever. My yeti tumblers get used nearly every day for almost three years, get loaded into the dishwasher, and just show a little finish wear from scraping it with my keys or my wedding band.
My kids use Simple|Modern bottles and they hold up quite a bit more. The kid-style prints don’t last as long, especially with kids that drop and scrape them all the time. I have a SM one too (larger one) that has held up pretty good so far (and uses the same lids as the kids, but I’ve only got a year or two on it.
I buy aluminum exclusively, no plastic.
Plastic doesn’t age well and isn’t as recyclable.
It’s a glass jug, so forever.
Nalgene covered in stickers, as was the style at the time. Somewhere around 5-6 years old at this point? Been through quite a lot.
This. I bought a 32oz Nalgene when I was in high school. Lost it on a camping trip in my early twenties, and replaced it with the exact same one. I’ve had it and used it daily for over 15 years now.
Buy a hydroflask or other similar double walled insulated metal water bottle. They last forever (albeit with a few dents), you won’t be ingesting plastic, and it’ll keep your water cold for at least a full day.
And a company like Hydroflask offers replaceable lids. So if you do lose it or break it, you can replace just the lid rather than the entire bottle.
They also sell sippy straw lids if you lose the lid a lot
I have 2. 1 from previous work which I’ve using from past 3 years and the other I got when I joined the new workplace. Fuckers asked me to choose between a coffee mug or water bottle so I chose water bottle.
Bought my current Simple Modern 24oz steel double-wall insulated water bottle over four years ago. I buy silicone sleeves for it to keep it from making too much noise and from being banged up, and I have bought many replacement lids (I prefer flip-top lids and they’re prone to breaking), but the bottle itself has been my constant companion over these four years.
It keeps ice water so damn cold all day long. I love it dearly. It is my emotional support water bottle and it supports me emotionally.
I use an insulated Contigo Autoseal bottle that I’ve had for at least ten years. It keeps water cold for quite a while. Its big virtue is that it closes itself automatically if I let go. I’m not all that clumsy, but I have dogs that sometimes decide to poke my hand unexpectedly.
I didn’t even think about it until now but I think it’s been about 4 years on my work water bottle
It’s metal and has lost a lot of paint and gained and lost a lot of stickers
Edit: At this point I don’t even know the brand as that has also worn off.
Bought a 360 Degrees 1 litre stainless steel vacuum one from a hiking shop. 37 Euros. I could keep water cooler by storing it in my armpit. It’s absolutely fuckin rubbish
Emailed the company, ignored. Emailed them reminding them they’d ignored me, ignored
Definitely won’t be buying their overpriced shit again
360 Degrees bottles Cost $3 dollars to make!
I occasionally buy soft drinks. When I’m done with it I reuse it as a water bottle until I buy another soft drink.
I have a couple of cheap no-name screw top steel water bottles I bought from a Kroger almost 20 years ago for like $3-ish a piece. I bought them solely because the bottle part was one solid piece, and they didn’t have any of the weird plastic clearcoat a lot of steel drinkware has, which meant I could boil water in them if I needed to when I was up camping or hiking. A lot of other more expensive bottles being made at the time were two or three pieces press-fit together, and wouldn’t be likely to survive much of that.
I’ve been using them daily more or less constantly since then. They’re a little banged up, but still going strong. I wish I knew where I could buy more.
I’ve had a flip-top zojirushi for more than 5 years. It replaced one of the same, the lid eventually cracked after about 6 years from being dropped so many times. This one has been dropped less. I have a new one in the pantry for when this one eventually dies. It still insulates as well as the day I bought it and the flip mechanism is just as satisfying.
My criteria: pocketable (not huge diameter), insulated, covered to keep work dust out of it. Sometimes the metal bottom gets a bulging dent when I drop it, I use a hammer to flatten it back out.
I’ve got a 0,7l steel bottle from my ex-company 3 years ago.
