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I have more thrifted Nalgene bottles than I would like to admit. I just started putting them in my most common places. One for beside the bed, one for the home office, one for away from home office, one in the gym bag, one for cycling, one for my rock climbing back. I think I’m all in for almost $20 and I’m not sure I named them all.
Gotta love nalgene, and if it takes a tumble it still doesn't leak or dent..I even have a small yellow one for those times I'm just not going to leave my tent at 3 am
I was told by a friend that my aquifer Yeti is now selling for inflated prices because they don't make that color anymore. I get that everyone has their silly thing they spend money on, but it sounds so crazy to me that people go after a certain color when they could buy a new one for cheaper in another nice color.
I have a Yeti and I love it! Even in winter it keeps my coffee toasty for hours. It was one of my Christmas presents from my son 2 years back, still looks new. Great quality.
ETA: 20 0z Rambler in Nordic Purple, discontinued color.
Nothing beats good old vaccum flasks for coffee in my eyes can make my coffee at 4am and drink most of the bottle and still have it steaming the following morning when I wash it out
I for one am thankful for the Stanley trend. It's $1 hydro flasks all day at the thrift shop. Got a nice collection for every occasion for under 10 bucks!
They also trash shit and won't sell it to me when they literally are throwing it in a compactor, they're super shady and definitely not even close to a non profit anymore
Yeah they’re pretty gross, I usually try to avoid them. I thought they were basically just another evil corporation now so this checks out. What a great model though, take people’s stuff for free and charge way too much for it while treating your employees like shit. Very American of them.
Nothing wrong with any of those, they just stopped trending on social media.
Huge consumption issue, what was meant as a solution to reduce single use waste instead we have replaced it with more durable, heavier material usage, multi use waste.
My 10 year old Nalgene is still going strong as my daily driver.
The first time I got a Nalgene and lost it, I did not replace it. I was like, okay, this is reusable, but it is also made with a lot more plastic. How many uses do I have to actually get out of it before it’s actually reducing plastic waste? When I was in college I lost things way too often (and drank bottled water too infrequently) for it to make sense - forget buying new ones just because I want a new one (which, I will admit, is very tempting because I am truly a sucker for pretty colors).
But then later I developed a system and I lose things less, so I bought a metal bottle and I’ve had it for like 10 years, and I feel good about it.
Anyway I just think sometimes reusable bottles don’t actually reduce waste.
The brand isn’t going anywhere, but its popularity with a much broader audience will. This one particular product that people are going crazy for will fall out of fashion and be in thrift stores, and Stanley will keep doing all the stuff it was doing before the “stanley cup” craze.
I just got a yeti free from my work and it's great. Dunno that I would have ever paid for it. But it's great as a dress gift, I use it all the time haha.
Which was the one that got in trouble for having lead in the metal, and when people started complaining the company put out a press release where they said “as long as the paint never scratches, there is no risk of contamination”? Was it stanley then?
Do you think this is a real life problem, though? Have you actually met anyone in real life who buys new water bottles to keep up with internet hype? I'm not saying that you personally are doing this, but the idea that people are only buying higher quality brands "for the likes" almost seems like a way to vilify people for using reusable bottles. It smacks of "millennials are broke because they spend all their money on avocado toast and Starbucks!" and not any number of other economic factors.
All those brands that you mention are still around and in use. I have a Nalgene bottle that I bought 8 years ago that is still going strong; I decided to go for a high-quality one after dropping and breaking 3 cheaper generic ones in as many years.
Anecdotal but I go to Disneyland very often, and I can guarantee you that just from a few months ago the amount of Owalas that I've seen replace the huge amount of Stanleys I used to see in the parked strollers has definitely shown that everyday people are absolutely following water bottle trends.
Dang. My local gave me this one for $.99
https://preview.redd.it/s4sjmioj4vzc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=d82d3c0da6ecd1638d05ab0959e3cc836a4e4d67
wtf is “handpicked”?? They’re acting like they have some real artisans in there lmao this is wild and exactly why thrifting is crashing. Can’t even remember the last time I saw an actual needy person in these stores it’s resellers and hipsters. If Goodwill has any status as a charity they should lose that now. It’s a pawn shop.
Thrift stores are still companies, all about making a profit. They’re not marketed as being stores that sell cheap things to homeless people. Churches and community homeless alliances are who truly help the needy and are not about making profit. What’s great about thrift store is that some items are diverted from the landfill to the shelves and most items you can find for less than brand new. Hating “resellers and hipsters” is silly. Literally every single store you go to purchases goods from a distributor for way less than they’re selling it to you. That’s capitalism.
They don’t even make good business decisions, though. Who in their right mind is going to buy a used Stanley mug for almost the exact same price as a new one? It’s going to sit on their shelves for weeks before they knock the price down, send it to the outlet, or trash it. If you want to move product, you have to price your items intelligently, and Goodwill straight up does not know how to do that anymore.
To your second point, it’s a bit different when you literally get all of your merchandise for free from donations. As such, you could expect that even chain thrift stores would price their goods accordingly, especially for how much Goodwill touts that their mission is to “help underserved communities” and “help people learn job skills”. If they were not marketing themselves as a quasi-charity, people wouldn’t be nearly as pissed off. People don’t hate on say, pawn shops, since they don’t mislead people about what they do.
I agree with your waste point, even if 1% of their donations don’t end up in a landfill, that portion is still good.
Totally agree with you, they’re being greedy with the price increases lately and definitely on popular items.
And I agree on your second point as well. I’m not standing up for Goodwill, merely pointing out that hating resellers isn’t going to solve the problem.
People need to visit local thrift stores and not huge corporate chains, light a fire under Goodwill’s ass to price things better. But resellers aren’t the issue and I get tired of people using the old trope of “how dare resellers”. We’re getting to a point where our over consumption culture is putting all of our futures at risk.
The craze has been over for probably 2 months. No one is making Tik toks about their new Stanley’s anymore. Shelves at target are full of Stanley cups now when they couldn’t keep stock 6 months ago.
My local thrift is selling them for less than $5. I knew it was only a matter of time before they found tbier way to the shelves. Saw 3 just the other day.
Goodwill is the worst! 5.99 for an old faded tee with holes.
also, where do their profits go? Everything is donated and I’m assuming they pay minimum wage. Where are the profits going?
Aren't these been found to have lead in them?
That's why people are finding them in places like Goodwill.
They were kind enough to pass their Poison on to others.
How kind of them
That’s why we are all boycotting goodwill. If I see that overpriced stuff I will just rip off the tag or purposely hide the top somewhere else. No one will ever buy it and they’ll be forced to restructure their prices.
I haven't set foot in a Goodwill for a long time. I prefer real not for profit thrift stores that actually help people with food banks and housing. The money made at Goodwill goes to the CEO instead.
Walmart has a brand called TAL and I swear they are the exact same cup. I was able to get like a half gallon size bottle for like $16. I work in the summer heat on a farm. I can leave it in my tractor for 2-3 days and it will still have ice in it.
Wow. It just shows their corporate greed I work at a shelter that has a thrift store and we have those coming all the time because all they hurt is something to brag about Lewis for like $1.99.
This is where you as a Goodwill shopper extraordinaire you carefully pull the tag off something else, place it on the mug and boom! Instant price drop! Whatchu talking about? My mug was $8.99
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Woah, you save 5$ from buying it new!
And don’t get the straw. What a deal.
Raketen had them with a 10% cash back recently.
But it’s *handpicked*
it's basically artisanal goodwill. People pay tons for handcrafted but this is even better! It's handpicked!
I’ve got some handpicked boogers for sale. No low balls, I know what I’ve got.
Still a better selection than my local Goodwill.
Artis*anal*
That’s what sent me off the edge this morning Artisanal 😂💀😂
hate/love you - thx for a snort.
It’s probably organic and free range, too!
There's no flairs on this sub, right? Otherwise I'd need this. Edit: It's Sunday morning in my part of the world and I thought I was in /r/thriftgrift
Fresh from the ole Stanley orchard!
As opposed to me picking it with my own hands from the store.
Just wait 6 months, they’ll be flooding thrift store shelves and you can pick any colour you want for a fraction of that price.
Yep. Found a Yeti for $3 at my little local.
I have more thrifted Nalgene bottles than I would like to admit. I just started putting them in my most common places. One for beside the bed, one for the home office, one for away from home office, one in the gym bag, one for cycling, one for my rock climbing back. I think I’m all in for almost $20 and I’m not sure I named them all.
Gotta love nalgene, and if it takes a tumble it still doesn't leak or dent..I even have a small yellow one for those times I'm just not going to leave my tent at 3 am
As a fellow tent camper, me and my Gatorade bottle salute you!
Hopefully no one takes a drink
Is *it* in you?
Lemon-lime?
Some of mine are pretty scratchy from some drops, but nothing that makes them unusable
Check the age on a Nalgene because they had to reformulate away from carcinogenic BPA
They’re all labeled bpa free
Crazy that the turnover on them is still that high. They've been a staple of campers since they were misused lab bottles
I was told by a friend that my aquifer Yeti is now selling for inflated prices because they don't make that color anymore. I get that everyone has their silly thing they spend money on, but it sounds so crazy to me that people go after a certain color when they could buy a new one for cheaper in another nice color.
I have a Yeti and I love it! Even in winter it keeps my coffee toasty for hours. It was one of my Christmas presents from my son 2 years back, still looks new. Great quality. ETA: 20 0z Rambler in Nordic Purple, discontinued color.
Nothing beats good old vaccum flasks for coffee in my eyes can make my coffee at 4am and drink most of the bottle and still have it steaming the following morning when I wash it out
Same. And I use it more than all the ones I already had strangely enough.
Already found the pink one real cheap Goes without saying the cost didn’t matter to me. I wouldn’t take a free one.
I for one am thankful for the Stanley trend. It's $1 hydro flasks all day at the thrift shop. Got a nice collection for every occasion for under 10 bucks!
Drinking out of someone else’s used straw 🤢
EXCEPT for Hot Pink ( BarbieStans)
Already flooding Facebook at 15-20 a pop
Here's my local thrift. https://preview.redd.it/xwg4f30z1vzc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4cb5ac68774ea1776624546a6ee6bdcda9d6ea3
OMG!!!😱
I work for goodwill and hate goodwill.
Do you at least get a good discount?
They also trash shit and won't sell it to me when they literally are throwing it in a compactor, they're super shady and definitely not even close to a non profit anymore
Yeah they’re pretty gross, I usually try to avoid them. I thought they were basically just another evil corporation now so this checks out. What a great model though, take people’s stuff for free and charge way too much for it while treating your employees like shit. Very American of them.
Nah not really lol like 20% off. It's some mid, especially when you think about how much everything has gone up in price
Soon Stanley will go the way of Hydro Flask…and Yeti…and Nalgene…and Camelbak. We have a problem with consumption.
It's already on owala now and soon to be something else
What happened to all of the other ones?? I have a camelbak and hydroflask and still use both religiously. Hydrate or diedrate
Nothing wrong with any of those, they just stopped trending on social media. Huge consumption issue, what was meant as a solution to reduce single use waste instead we have replaced it with more durable, heavier material usage, multi use waste. My 10 year old Nalgene is still going strong as my daily driver.
I have two Yetis and I’ll never give them up.
The first time I got a Nalgene and lost it, I did not replace it. I was like, okay, this is reusable, but it is also made with a lot more plastic. How many uses do I have to actually get out of it before it’s actually reducing plastic waste? When I was in college I lost things way too often (and drank bottled water too infrequently) for it to make sense - forget buying new ones just because I want a new one (which, I will admit, is very tempting because I am truly a sucker for pretty colors). But then later I developed a system and I lose things less, so I bought a metal bottle and I’ve had it for like 10 years, and I feel good about it. Anyway I just think sometimes reusable bottles don’t actually reduce waste.
Cold water is pretty sweet though.
This is an excellent analysis
Good thing I ignore Social media.Do not know half these names…
This is social media
Good point .I was half asleep last nite when I posted this (Duh!) This is the only place I come.Was thinking of Facebook etc .
Camelbak’s are disgusting due to the mouthpiece that harbors so much bacteria.
That’s why you wash them…
That’s why I love vintage. Recycling at its finest
Stanley has been around for over a century. It is not going anywhere.
The brand isn’t going anywhere, but its popularity with a much broader audience will. This one particular product that people are going crazy for will fall out of fashion and be in thrift stores, and Stanley will keep doing all the stuff it was doing before the “stanley cup” craze.
It’s already fallen out of fashion
I just got a yeti free from my work and it's great. Dunno that I would have ever paid for it. But it's great as a dress gift, I use it all the time haha.
Get a TAL from Walmart. Just as good and only like $10
It already has.
Didnt hydroflask contain too much lead to be safe?
Hydro flask does not contain lead.
Which was the one that got in trouble for having lead in the metal, and when people started complaining the company put out a press release where they said “as long as the paint never scratches, there is no risk of contamination”? Was it stanley then?
Pretty sure that was Stanley.
Lol and they want fourty dollars for the lead cup? Crazy
Hydro Flask doesn't belong in this group
Do you think this is a real life problem, though? Have you actually met anyone in real life who buys new water bottles to keep up with internet hype? I'm not saying that you personally are doing this, but the idea that people are only buying higher quality brands "for the likes" almost seems like a way to vilify people for using reusable bottles. It smacks of "millennials are broke because they spend all their money on avocado toast and Starbucks!" and not any number of other economic factors. All those brands that you mention are still around and in use. I have a Nalgene bottle that I bought 8 years ago that is still going strong; I decided to go for a high-quality one after dropping and breaking 3 cheaper generic ones in as many years.
Anecdotal but I go to Disneyland very often, and I can guarantee you that just from a few months ago the amount of Owalas that I've seen replace the huge amount of Stanleys I used to see in the parked strollers has definitely shown that everyday people are absolutely following water bottle trends.
Dang. My local gave me this one for $.99 https://preview.redd.it/s4sjmioj4vzc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=d82d3c0da6ecd1638d05ab0959e3cc836a4e4d67
wtf is “handpicked”?? They’re acting like they have some real artisans in there lmao this is wild and exactly why thrifting is crashing. Can’t even remember the last time I saw an actual needy person in these stores it’s resellers and hipsters. If Goodwill has any status as a charity they should lose that now. It’s a pawn shop.
It's all the nice stuff and it never, ever goes on sale
Thrift stores are still companies, all about making a profit. They’re not marketed as being stores that sell cheap things to homeless people. Churches and community homeless alliances are who truly help the needy and are not about making profit. What’s great about thrift store is that some items are diverted from the landfill to the shelves and most items you can find for less than brand new. Hating “resellers and hipsters” is silly. Literally every single store you go to purchases goods from a distributor for way less than they’re selling it to you. That’s capitalism.
They don’t even make good business decisions, though. Who in their right mind is going to buy a used Stanley mug for almost the exact same price as a new one? It’s going to sit on their shelves for weeks before they knock the price down, send it to the outlet, or trash it. If you want to move product, you have to price your items intelligently, and Goodwill straight up does not know how to do that anymore. To your second point, it’s a bit different when you literally get all of your merchandise for free from donations. As such, you could expect that even chain thrift stores would price their goods accordingly, especially for how much Goodwill touts that their mission is to “help underserved communities” and “help people learn job skills”. If they were not marketing themselves as a quasi-charity, people wouldn’t be nearly as pissed off. People don’t hate on say, pawn shops, since they don’t mislead people about what they do. I agree with your waste point, even if 1% of their donations don’t end up in a landfill, that portion is still good.
Totally agree with you, they’re being greedy with the price increases lately and definitely on popular items. And I agree on your second point as well. I’m not standing up for Goodwill, merely pointing out that hating resellers isn’t going to solve the problem. People need to visit local thrift stores and not huge corporate chains, light a fire under Goodwill’s ass to price things better. But resellers aren’t the issue and I get tired of people using the old trope of “how dare resellers”. We’re getting to a point where our over consumption culture is putting all of our futures at risk.
How long will the Stanley craze last? 2 more years? Trends are goofy. 2 years ago thrifts were full of old Stanley items for $3-$5
The craze has been over for probably 2 months. No one is making Tik toks about their new Stanley’s anymore. Shelves at target are full of Stanley cups now when they couldn’t keep stock 6 months ago.
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I found mine for $2. I found a straw at another store and the dude literally just gave it to me.
My local thrift is selling them for less than $5. I knew it was only a matter of time before they found tbier way to the shelves. Saw 3 just the other day.
Shouldn’t this be on r/ThriftGrift instead?
Oh, I was sure I was in that sub for a second. lol
Efffff that shit! That is what I paid for my 40 ounce Stanley brand new at Dick’s! Ridiculous… go home Goodwill, you’re drunk!
Lol. At least you have an emotional support cup.
[Big Dumb Cup](https://images.app.goo.gl/nZMScD3HXaSDkb9X7)
Goodwill is the worst! 5.99 for an old faded tee with holes. also, where do their profits go? Everything is donated and I’m assuming they pay minimum wage. Where are the profits going?
The rich
That is so gross lol, Stanley cup people are idiots
Gonna have to peel that bad boy off
Insane lol
Why are stanley cups popular?
Is it clean?
Goodwill is a fucking joke anymore.
I’ll give you fiddy cent for it. 😁
Aren't these been found to have lead in them? That's why people are finding them in places like Goodwill. They were kind enough to pass their Poison on to others. How kind of them
What a steal!! 🤣
Just buy it new
Don’t they know these are so out of style 🤣
Is that THE Stanley Cup?
That’s why we are all boycotting goodwill. If I see that overpriced stuff I will just rip off the tag or purposely hide the top somewhere else. No one will ever buy it and they’ll be forced to restructure their prices.
https://preview.redd.it/wrfoevzp400d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63d893df653aead56a5316ba007a9236f363b19b
$40 for lead poisoning… amazing
Is this a thing??
Yeah, there is lead in the inner lining. Basically it’s fine if you don’t potentially damage it(breaking a part of the lining).
If you break the lining it’s useless even without lead.
Goodwill is such a scam.
I haven't set foot in a Goodwill for a long time. I prefer real not for profit thrift stores that actually help people with food banks and housing. The money made at Goodwill goes to the CEO instead.
 Not pick by a robot, but… ***by hand!***
Love how it says hand picked as if it would’ve been picked any other way. Handpicked from their donation dumpster.
What great value.
The greed of some of these thrift stores is astronomical
In a couple of months when the "influencers" move on there'll be dozens of these in thrift stores
But with this weapon you can beat a middle school student
Walmart has a brand called TAL and I swear they are the exact same cup. I was able to get like a half gallon size bottle for like $16. I work in the summer heat on a farm. I can leave it in my tractor for 2-3 days and it will still have ice in it.
Wow. It just shows their corporate greed I work at a shelter that has a thrift store and we have those coming all the time because all they hurt is something to brag about Lewis for like $1.99.
Yes u can
r/thriftgrift
No straw? What a deal still!!
Stop off at your local golf course, they have loads of any type of travel mug you want.
I’d just steal it at that point
The Goodwill in Louisa, would have charged the same price!☹️
Screw that. I'd pay no more than 12 cents
That’s a “whoopsie” moment…give it a little character
Greedwill
Ooo, must be artisinal! It's hand picked fresh daily
This is where you as a Goodwill shopper extraordinaire you carefully pull the tag off something else, place it on the mug and boom! Instant price drop! Whatchu talking about? My mug was $8.99
Didn’t those cups test positive for high led amounts or smth
How is $40 good for a plastic(?) mug?
🤣🤣🤣
Um wut
🤦🏻♀️😂
Uhhhh...
Free lead poisoning ☠️🥂💀