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....
  • Fridgeratr@lemmy.world
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    9 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
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      9 months ago

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

      • 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social
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        9 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.

  • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 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?

    • autumn (she/they)@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      9 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
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        9 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.

  • rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    9 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
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      9 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.

  • white_shotgun@aussie.zoneBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Ive been collecting stainless steel thermoses for decades. Only because they’re shiny and i like shiny things haha. Seriously though i have no fuckin idea why i collect them. My top kitchen cupboard has heaps of all sizes. Maybe one will get used a few times during winter to take hot water for beverages to the football. That’s it though they’re the worse collection of useless stuff that i possess haha

    • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 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…

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 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
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          9 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.

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    9 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.

    • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Think of stamp-collecting, but instead, you start collecting algorithmically controlled limited-edition thermos flask. The goal of these bottles were to be reusable, but people have started buying them as status symbols, just like Nike - they’re not going to be used, they’ll “rot” on the shelves. People are not buying them because they care about the environment, but because FOMO.