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By TJ, July 30, 2009 7:53 pm

About 2 months ago I splurged and spent 20 bucks on a Nathan Stainless Steel 700 mL Flip Straw Bottle.  It was absolutely the best investment of $20 I’ve ever made.  I’ll be honest, I wanted to buy one about a year ago, but I delayed because $20 seemed like too much for a simple bottle.

I could not have been more wrong.  Here are 6 reasons why this bottle rocks:

1. It saves money.  If you buy water or any other drinks, it gets expensive.  As Benjamin Franklin said: beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.  I was spending $1.50 on coffee every morning, $1.25 on diet mountain dew ever afternoon, and $1.50 on a bottle of Gatorade after my evening run.  Every Day!  That means I’m saving $4.25 every day.  I realize you all won’t stop buying your daily fix of caffeine, but this bottle helped me do that.

2. It got me off my regular caffeine and diet soda fixation.  I wouldn’t classify myself as a caffeine addict, I could skip caffeine any time, but I did drink it regularly.  I have mostly eliminated it now, except for an occasional coffee.  Also, when I drank water before it was usually a 16 oz. bottle, now I’m drinking free water from the faucet.

3. It keeps you hydrated. When you drink lots of water, I drink about 5 bottles a day, you are hydrated.  This gives you vital energy, which means more performance at work, more energy for your workout, and more energy when you’re at home with your family.

4. You can drink it laying down.  This probably sounds like a prettyt strange benefit, but hear me out…  I like a drink by my bedside because I often wake up in the middle of the night needing a drink.  With the straw aspect of the Nathan flip straw bottle, I just reach over, suck it, and put it back.  I don’t get up, and I don’t spill.

5. It’s unbreakable.  My kid is 18 months old and likes to take it and run with it.  And on hard surfaces like the concrete in my garage, he likes to throw it. It slams down and makes a lot of noise (which he loves), but there’s no damage to the bottle.

6. The QuickClip allows you to easily attach it to anything.  I’ll clip it to my book bag when my hands are full going into work, or to my belt straps when I have my kid in one hand and all his crap in the other.

So there you have it.  It makes you healthier, livelier, it’s convenient to use, and it pays for itself in weeks if not days.  It’s the best $20 you can spend.  So go get one, try it out, and let me know what you think.