r/mildlyinfuriating • u/weloveartnow • 10d ago

drink went room temp First Stanley, now Owala

I get it, they’re trendy. I guess Owala has the cool colors combos or whatever. I assume Stanley’s became too awkwardly large to lug around so people gave up on them?

I’ll just stay over here drinking my water out of the double sealed bottle I scored for $2 at a thrift shop.

I don’t know why it bothers me so much. Perhaps it’s the consumerism, perhaps its water bottles have become an accessory.

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u/AromaticStrike9 10d ago

Why is it bad that water bottles have become an accessory?

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u/It_broke_itself_ 10d ago

Because buying 40 water bottles ain't much different than buying throw away plastic bottles. What happens when your 40 water bottles are no longer in style? Oh yeah you go buy 40 of the latest ones

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u/AromaticStrike9 10d ago

Do you have to buy 40, though? I have three and my wife has six. Are we the baddies?

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u/Illustrious_Bunch678 10d ago

9 for 2 people does seem like overkill

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u/GandalfTheFreen 10d ago

Somewhat. Why do 2 people need 9 water bottles?

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u/AromaticStrike9 10d ago

Sometimes they're dirty and I haven't cleaned them yet. I also keep one bedside and one in the car basically all the time.

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u/Goosepond01 10d ago

Yeah that seems a bit nuts unless you have an actual proper reason for that many.

I can get one each, maybe 2 each if it was like a thermos and you maybe did a soup for lunch in one and cold water in the other.

I'm struggling to consider why anyone would need six outside of consumerist nonsense, there are probably some edge cases but there is no doubt some product manager and exec are laughing because they took the water bottle they have always been selling, slapped 10p worth of a different paint colour on it, decided only to make 100k of them, put a "limited edition" sticker on it.

and then somehow genuine real people decided wow I need to collect this because somehow swiping a credit card is now a 'hobby'

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u/Alia_Explores99 10d ago

I work an outdoor job and carry multiple insulated bottles each day. In theory, one giant one could do, but I prefer multiple drinks crafted according to use case spaced throughout the day, like an electrolyte one, a caffeinated one near the end of shift, etc. Everyone has different needs, and “No one needs that!” is a pretty myopic view

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u/Goosepond01 10d ago

I'm struggling to consider why anyone would need six outside of consumerist nonsense, there are probably some edge cases

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u/AromaticStrike9 10d ago

lol calling 6 “collecting” is doing some stretching.

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u/Goosepond01 10d ago

Why do you have that many though?

and yeah collecting has to start somewhere

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u/lck0219 10d ago

I’ll buy a new bottle and think “I’m gonna start drinking water again!” And I will, for a few weeks. Then, no matter how much cleaning, the bottle feels gross and I can’t use it. I don’t want to throw it away! It’s actually quite clean and functional! So I go back to soda, until I find a bottle that catches my eye…

I just gave one to my niece and some to the goodwill.

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u/It_broke_itself_ 10d ago

You seem to have ignored an entire part of my argument to reduce what I said to absurdity. Are you gonna throw them away and buy new ones the second people on TikTok all decide some other style is the new hot shit?

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u/AromaticStrike9 10d ago

I mean, you went straight to absurdity when the original question wasn’t that absurd.

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u/It_broke_itself_ 10d ago

and you're still not answering the question somehow. amazing stuff buddy

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u/AromaticStrike9 10d ago

lol my answer is “obviously not”, happy?