What was once a symbol of your eco-friendly lifestyle has now become a status symbol - with people owning whole walls of reusable bottles to show off online....
  • Yamainwitch@lemmy.world
    261·
    11 months ago

    Ughhh conspicuous capitalism strikes again. I just don’t get it. No single person needs a WALL of tumblers, what is happening out there?

    • TammyTobacco@lemmy.ml
      12·
      11 months ago

      I’m going to go back to carrying those big orange water jugs around. They worked my whole childhood, they’ll work now.

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        I miss my zoji fuzzy logic cooker. Wedding gift. It broke several years ago. I’ve been cooking rice in a pot since then, like some kind of animal

        • 0xD@infosec.pub
          4·
          11 months ago

          I will never buy a rice cooker since I am completely happy with rice made in a pot, be it for sushi or anything else. Is there really such a difference? I don’t really notice a difference between my rice and that in restaurants.

          • library_napper@monyet.cc
            5·
            11 months ago

            I think the most important difference is that you can leave the kitchen and completely forget about it, and it will not burn

          • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            11 months ago

            I don’t own one, but my family did and I used it. What’s nice about rice cooker’s is you just load them up and the rice will always come out perfect. In addition, some allow you to boil some veggies at the same time. Basically you have a grain and veggie dish prepared with less effort than with pots. If I see a used rice cooker, maybe I’ll buy it, but its not a big enough change for me to buy new.

      • mx_smith@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        Yeah I can’t speak enough about my Zojirushi cup. You can order replacement parts directly from Japan and at a very good price.

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
    182·
    11 months ago

    Can someone explain to me why this is consumerism? I’m not going into YouTube to watch, due to the ads, but I have one of these (not a Stanley but very similar) and it has actually helped me buy less drinks and drink more water.

    • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      My household growing up was drowning in thermoses and water bottles. In large part due to having two kids in competitive high school sports and one in competitive highschool arts and sciences.

      It’s one thing to have a bunch of kids who need and use water bottles on the regular, but it’s entirely another thing when all these institutions simultaneously declared, “Trophies? Ribbons? Placards? Those utter wastes of space? We should be giving these kids useful prizes for winning their events!” Cue racking up four or five cheap, flimsy water bottles and other assorted crap per kid per year…

  • rekabis@lemmy.ca
    112·
    11 months ago

    I would be interested in one of these… but only in the default/traditional Stanley Green. Call me square, but I really do prefer to run unobtrusively stock, at least from a visual perspective. If I get one, it will be purely for the quality of it’s build and it’s functional attributes. I wouldn’t even care to be noticeably seen with one, I would just care that it works and fulfils its functions in an exemplary manner.

    • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      45$ is way too expensive - I can’t figure out why Stanley and Hydro Flask are on the expensive range. 25$ is more than enough for a high-quality vacuum thermo-flask. I got myself two 1l bottle from Borosil for about 755₹ (9$) per bottle. It’s been more than six years, there’s a few dents and scratches, but it works just fine.

      • lud@lemm.ee
        6·
        11 months ago

        Isn’t everything (at least domestic stuff) way cheaper in India?

        • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          11 months ago

          Are you talking about the Borosil Hydra Bolt? Then no. The cap suffers from deformity, but that’s it. There is no issue with the body, and it still performs really well in containing the heat.

        • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          Apparently, almost all mass-produced bottles have lead-based solder in them, including the expensive ones. Lead-free solder is expensive, so there’s not a lot if brand that exists with safe solder. Also, the solder dot is on the outside, at the bottom of the flask, so as long as it is protected from erosion by use of a cap-like structure, you’re safe.

          • emptiestplace@lemmy.ml
            3·
            11 months ago

            I’m talking about the steel in general. There have been many recalls of items made using stainless steel that was contaminated.

            • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlOP
              1·
              11 months ago

              Updated my old comment. Lead is present as a solder dot in most of the expensive flasks, including the Stanley. Mine happens to have a cap over the sealed area. My particular flask is made of stainless steel grade 304.

  • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    I watched a similar video this past week by Phil Edwards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrUWQ56GeyU

    Fads and trends and novelties aren’t anything new. The speed and prevalence that they spread today has been propelled because of TikTok and YouTubers and other “social media” either specifically promoting things or generating content in order to capitalize on existing trends. So, when you search the internet or YT for “Stanley Tumbler” because you want to know why it’s a thing, content creators can make money off of your curiosity.

    Consumerism is certainly a big part of this but there’s also something driving us to want to belong to (or not be left out of) a group/trend. And Capitalism is right there hovering over us waiting to take advantage of it and spread the story even further for their own gain.

    It’s an obvious formula. If you’re not in favor of it, how do you propose we deal with it?

    Edit: I don’t want to speak badly against reusable containers though. This particular one isn’t my “cup of tea”, so to speak, but refilling a container with (filtered) tap water is vastly better than getting a case of single-use plastic water bottles from the grocery store. The thing is, I don’t know why but I feel like the same people collecting these tumblers are the same people who buy bottled water. Consumerism / capitalism / marketing have convinced a lot of Americans that tap water is gross or dangerous. Granted, Flint Michigan and articles like this haven’t helped tap water’s reputation.

    • autumn (she/they)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      61·
      11 months ago

      some of us are (very) slow drinkers but still want hot coffee. i usually make my coffee at 9am and don’t finish it until just before noon.

      granted, i don’t have one of these tumblers. i do make my coffee in one of their camping french press thingies though, then move it to a different thermos vessel for drinking.

      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
        61·
        11 months ago

        I’ve got an hour commute into work. It’s nice to have hot coffee throughout the drive and not for just the first 10 minutes.

    • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      Looks like a good option for my on the go lifestyle. Mug coffee on a train! On the bus to work! At the gym!

      You silly potato.

    • ThenThreeMore@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I got a Stanley classic trigger a few years ago because the job I was in was so frantic I’d never get to drink a hot drink hot otherwise. It’s been doing we great since.

      I can’t understand collecting the damn things though!

  • Fridgeratr@lemmy.world
    7·
    11 months ago

    I just got an insulated bottle from Owala a bit ago because it’s a cool NASA themed one and I liked it. Apparently there’s kind of a cult behind these too though… I just wanted a water bottle for work lol

    • 0xD@infosec.pub
      6·
      11 months ago

      Just get what you enjoy, you don’t have to follow or reject trends because of others :)

      • 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social
        8·
        11 months ago

        There’s nothing wrong with getting an insulated and reusable thermos. In fact, that’s probably a great thing to do and should be encouraged. What people are rejecting is the trend of collecting them as status symbols or buying multiple in different colors to match your outfit. That behavior has real and negative consequences.

    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
      51·
      11 months ago

      I was super resistant to buying a yeti for years, but was given one in a grab bag from a vendor.

      Out of my dozens of vaccum walled containers from no-name brands, it’s the only one that hasn’t had the vaccum fail on it, and I’ve been using it daily for 3 years.

      I still won’t pay for one, but I can’t deny that it’s better quality than the rest.

      • dmtalon@infosec.pub
        5·
        11 months ago

        My wife had one (Yeti), and it worked quite well so I bought one and carry it around quite often. I also happen to watch ‘Project Farm’ on YT and he JUST did a thing on tumblers. Yeti was actually kind of middle of the road compared to the others he tested.

        Funny enough, my wife walked in while I was watching it and this is when I found out there was a big Stanley craze happening right now making them hard to get. I do not watch tik tok and I guess that’s where it started. At any rate the Stanley ranks pretty high on actual function against the others he tested.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S51X9h6K6g

          • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            11 months ago

            For real, easy cleaning is so under rated. When I see bottles with super complicated lids and small openings, I think, “that’s almost literally only for water or I’m going to struggle keeping it clean”

          • nackmack@plesiosaur.net
            0·
            11 months ago

            I guess that’s why hydro flask is pleading with me to hand wash my bottle with all those stickers

            In seriousness I’ve never seen a steel vaccuum water bottle advertise as being dishwasher safe, I just assumed it’s one of those things I have to suck it up for like knives? How long do the bottles last in the dishwasher Lol

            • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
              1·
              11 months ago

              The one that failed had been machine washed every day for about 5 years. The rest are still fine.

              The only reason they say they aren’t dishwasher safe is any colored paint will peel off. After the first round of peeled paint 5 years ago, I only buy plain stainless. I put water proof stickers on them for the kids.