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?
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.
I've got a ~20oz Yeti vacuum stainless bottle with the small-opening screw-on top. I think I've used it for, maybe 5 years at this point? A long while. It's the right size for casual carrying at work and school, but I use a bigger non-insulated body when doing physical labor.
That poor yeti gets bounced off the back of ATV's, thrown in toolboxes, left baking in the car, all sorts of shit. It's dinged up and doesn't sit flat on a table but still doesn't leak so it keeps going.
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.
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 have a few bottles which ranges from 1-5 years old. Mostly plastic of the brand Camelbak. They are good, and I don't know what more to ask for in a water bottle. However, more often than not I just end up reusing an old soda bottle.
5 years with my Litre Yeti, going strong. When I drop it it tends to dent the ground not itself
I got a free one of those from my work when I started my job, and knew I'd found the right company
I occasionally buy soft drinks. When I'm done with it I reuse it as a water bottle until I buy another soft drink.
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.
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
Insulated Klean Kanteen. It's got about nine years worth of debts and scratches.
I'd like the bigger capacity I could get from a non-insulated bottle — as I really don't need the insulation anyways — but I have become sentimental towards this old thing.
I will lose every water bottle that I brought out of my home, so I just reuse the bottles of bottled waters. If I dont lose it, I will replace it every 3-5 months depends on the usage and weather.
I have couple durable, metal, and dishwasher-safe stanley and hydroflask bottles at home. They should be couple years old, but I am not keeping count.
Maybe six months. I had a flip-top one for a few years, but I wanted a wide mouth
My job got everybody branded hydroflasks ~3 years ago. I don't work there any more, but I pretty much never leave the house without that bottle.
My house bottle is a 1.5L Bubba bottle from Walmart. Had that about a year and a half so far and it is holding up well.
