How we baby boomers, made it through our childhoods without (disposable) water bottles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you know better - you do better. We were dehydrated as kids, no question.

And everyone I know has reusable water bottles, myself included.

But what are you filling it up with, tap or bottled water?

Different poster but filtered tap here and I am sure that is what almost everyone does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I graduated from high school in 89 and played field hockey and tennis. I remember we just had a big cooler of water and a bunch of disposable plastic cups. As for the regular school day— water fountains! I surely didn’t drink very much water during the day but don’t remember any ill effects.

This.
We had a huge orange cooler of water at outdoor events.

[Anonymous]

We drank out of the hose, any hose. Wherever we were, you could just go up in someone’s yard and use their hose to get a drink. It’s just how it was.

[Anonymous]

I was born in 1970, I grew up here. Nobody carried their own personal water bottles or had individual plastic water bottles.

However, I did bring a jug of water to soccer practice. We ran hard in 90 degree DC area heat and humidity. Water jugs were used at practices and games. In fact, I remember kids getting heat exhaustion, heat cramps.

The having water with us everywhere is strange to me----but water during intense sports activity is common sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1970, I grew up here. Nobody carried their own personal water bottles or had individual plastic water bottles.

However, I did bring a jug of water to soccer practice. We ran hard in 90 degree DC area heat and humidity. Water jugs were used at practices and games. In fact, I remember kids getting heat exhaustion, heat cramps.

The having water with us everywhere is strange to me----but water during intense sports activity is common sense.

This. Either gallon jugs OR there was a big thermos and disposable cups.

We use reusable bottles. I'm another one who gets bad headaches when dehydrated. The only time we buy single use bottles is when we go to Nats games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you know better - you do better. We were dehydrated as kids, no question.

And everyone I know has reusable water bottles, myself included.

But what are you filling it up with, tap or bottled water?

Different poster but filtered tap here and I am sure that is what almost everyone does.

I fill mine with unfiltered tap most of the time.

[Anonymous]

Easy. As baby boomers we made it through childhood sans disposable water bottles the same way we made it without car seats, seat belts, head rests, cell phones, the Ineternet, etc. Amazing, so many of us survived!