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This Christmas I bought my kids a few of the snazzy, S’well bottles. Our daughter has an obsession with drinking water and water bottles. Don’t you think that water and water bottles are pretty trendy these days? I do have a few requirements about our family water bottles collection. They need to be either stainless steel or glass, you see I’m a little scared about all the plastic we have in our lives. So I try to steer clear of plastic drinking bottles and luckily our kids love these S’well bottles, and it appears to keep drinks really cold and hot. The added benefit is that this line of containers is beautiful, stainless steel, and double walled so not cold or hot to touch. So, I’m sure you are wondering where I’m going with this, but here is my ah-ha moment. I’m sure you all have dealt with this small problem, how do you get an ice cube into these water bottles! So, every morning while I’m making the children’s lunches, I only put water in their lunch bottles. I leave out the ice cubes since I don’t enjoy forcing them into the small openings. I even went as far as buying a little ice cube tray that molds the ice into a tube shape that fits into the bottles. But of course, this tray didn’t last. I failed to use these special trays, and I found it annoying that I had yet another thing to maintain.

Well, it finally dawned on me that if I only fill the standard ice cube tray halfway, the ice cubes will totally slide in through the opening! I’m almost a little embarrassed to admit that I didn’t figure this out early. It is one of those problems that made me think outside the box.

 

I did a little research about these great bottles. They have double insulation and the stainless steel is non-leaching. The other cool thing is that since it has two layers, the outside does create a surface of condensation. That means it is not going to sweat water in your bag, backpack, etc.. On a higher note, I also love that the company is committed to giving 10% back to charities who are providing clean water to parts of the world that have drinking water problems. In addition, to all the above info, I love the fact that they are trying to decrease the amount of plastic bottles in our world! Hooray!