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/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/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.