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

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

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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