OT: The Stanley water bottle craze
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What's funny about those is I got one that looks exactly like those like a year ago before it was a thing, but non brand $7.99 at Walmart. Also, it's hilarious, I was in Jamaica recently and every young female is walking around with one everywhere they go,
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These are the good ole days. You get a $100 water bottle. You get a $100 water bottle. You get a $100 water bottle. NIL money free-flowing. Ah the roaring 20s. Hopefully the 2030s dont bring what the 1930s did.
My granddaughters in Charlotte won’t go anywhere without their water bottles.
I’m not aware of the new fad, but water bottles have been important to them forever.
Weren’t Nalgene water bottles a thing for a while? This meant new. More importantly, why do I continue to engage with SMFs stupid troll thread?
pittdan77
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Not sure if it started with sports but I remember the first time I saw a HS football team at practice and everyone had their own water bottle. I think it's more of a sanitary thing than anything else. Also reduces waste since you don't have a bunch of plastic to throw away. Since Covid, it's just become normal for them to have their own water bottle at school.
I will also add, again taking this thread more seriously than I should…
At least one of the major universities in my city phased out plastic water bottles from vending machines and food vendors over a decade ago. So having a good trusty reusable water bottle is essential.
At least one of the major universities in my city phased out plastic water bottles from vending machines and food vendors over a decade ago. So having a good trusty reusable water bottle is essential.
You understand that that means that if you take inflation into account, that if you were invested in a Dow index fund that you'd actually have less "real" money (about 10% less) today than you would have two years ago, right?
On second thought, don't answer. Because it's clear that you don't actually understand that.
What you dont understand is that the economy was roaring since a few months after Covid started, helped initially by free money the government sent out but then it caught up to us and inflation kicked out but. The necessary interest rate hikes to curtail spending helped eliminate further inflation but also hurt the stock market. However, now with inflation in the rear-view mirror and the recession that everyone was pricing in, not happening, the economy and stock market is back to its sizzing self. These are the good ole days.
What I don't understand is how someone can be so sure that they are so right about something that they clearly don't know anything about at all.
Ok, now that's funny but what is not funny is how little some of you people know about basic economics.
He probably gets him confused with the lead singer of Tool.
It was completely, utterly off topic. It doesn't make any difference WHY your money is worth less today than it was two years ago, it only matters THAT your money is worth less.
If you had $1000 in an index fund two years ago you'd have (approximately) $1000 in that fund today. But over the last two years inflation ate away at approximately 10% of your value, so your $1000 that you have today is only worth what $900 would have bought you two years ago.
It is hilarious that right after a post that you demonstrate that you have no idea how inflation affects the value of money that you claim that other people don't understand basic economics.
My wife likes to use a straw, so for Christmas I bought her a Brumate Era 40 Oz tumbler. It has a really cool feature. The straw stays in the bottle and you turn the top to close the straw. No leaks and you don't have to remove the straw. Really clever idea. I looked at the Stanley, but for her use this was much more functional.
I'm not a big straw guy. I'm too lazy to clean them. The chug caps are perfect. I can easily handwash it. Plus I only put water in it. I'm not sure how people are able to keep theirs clean. Or maybe they don't.
