Interchanging Water bottle spouts and tops

[Anonymous]

So we all the same brands of bottles and we have a few klean kanteen and hydro flasks, Nike huperfuels for summer sports and a few Stanley’s. My tween today complained she is not happy that we are interchanging the water bottle tops with her sisters and us parents. She says no other family does it and share spouts, tops or water bottles.

Isn’t it normal to grab whatever that’s available and maybe your original that is in the dishwasher that may not have been washed yet. Plus they are all the same color and we deliberately use them (eg klean kanteen and hydro flasks bottles fit each other).

Do you guys have label each and every one part for each kid. At most we label the bottles itself only so they don’t get lost in school. Not like the straw of a Stanley?

[Anonymous]

We don’t share tops and straws. That would bother me and my DD. She can join my family.

[Anonymous]

I trust the dishwasher.

[Anonymous]

I mix them up but my kids prefer the straws and i prefer the pour, so in practice we don't use the same ones. DH doesn't ever use a bottle. Between the kids they have their own bottles which are decorated etc but i put whatever straw and top are clean each day. They don't notice nor comment.

[Anonymous]

Our 3 kids all have different colors/designs and do not want their siblings tops switched for their own.. But I also don’t find it too difficult to match them up, so it’s not a huge deal.

[Anonymous]

We always have ones that are assigned to each kid/adult. It wasn’t always like that, but then my middle kid started chewing her sour to pieces and no one else wanted those. Once we were separating hers, it was just easier to have water bottles stay with their own tops/straws

[Anonymous]

We share. I hate carrying a bunch of water bottles around so I typically carry one large bottle and stacking metal cups for the kids, and pour from that. Too many bottles means one always leaks and it’s too cumbersome.

[Anonymous]

If it fits and hold water then it’s fine. I can’t even imagine caring which bottle never mind the top. I’ll admit no one wants the chewed up straw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We share. I hate carrying a bunch of water bottles around so I typically carry one large bottle and stacking metal cups for the kids, and pour from that. Too many bottles means one always leaks and it’s too cumbersome.

So do you go to your kid's sports practice and stand there at the sidelines with a metal cup just in case? I get what you're saying, but I don't think this is what the OP was talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it fits and hold water then it’s fine. I can’t even imagine caring which bottle never mind the top. I’ll admit no one wants the chewed up straw.

+1

The idea that a family can't share water bottles and tops that have been washed feels extra. Do you all have your own cutlery and glassware sets too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We share. I hate carrying a bunch of water bottles around so I typically carry one large bottle and stacking metal cups for the kids, and pour from that. Too many bottles means one always leaks and it’s too cumbersome.

So do you go to your kid's sports practice and stand there at the sidelines with a metal cup just in case? I get what you're saying, but I don't think this is what the OP was talking about.

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Np but we don't even bother with the cups. We just pass around a big nalgene when we're out and about.

[Anonymous]

In theory I don't think there is anything wrong with sharing. But in practice, my family doesn't. There are just some things that we are possessive about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In theory I don't think there is anything wrong with sharing. But in practice, my family doesn't. There are just some things that we are possessive about.

Thanks all!

But how do you know who’s is who’s if let’s say there are 3 exactly similar klean kanteen spouts out there of the 5 in your family. Like do you look and say oh this belongs to A and look at the other and say, oh this belongs to DH? Or a Stanley straw where there is really no room to label them.

I am leaning towards her dealing with it that everything will be mixed up if you get our service of using the house dishwasher. If you want your own, wash your own bottle yourself and keep it in the bedroom.

And the best part, I am not 100% sure but I think she is actually the one contributing more to leaving her teeth marks on the spouts….:

[Anonymous]

But on the other hand, am I entitling bratty behavior. Hence the question….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it fits and hold water then it’s fine. I can’t even imagine caring which bottle never mind the top. I’ll admit no one wants the chewed up straw.

+1

The idea that a family can't share water bottles and tops that have been washed feels extra. Do you all have your own cutlery and glassware sets too?

Yeah, that's weird. For sanity's sake we all use the Yeti system in my house. I've bought a couple of extra tops and the bottoms are compatible with both chug caps and straw tops. If we are out and I only have my giant Yeti then we all drink from it. No germ-phobes in my house.