Thermos or Stanley? What your water bottle says about you ...Middle East

So Ian McEwan hates water bottles. In what is probably one of the more hilariously worded public statements of the year, the 77-year-old author recently called the contemporary trend towards carrying a personal, refillable water bottle a “derangement”. While I’m not necessarily inclined to agree – I’d call myself pretty sympathetic to the causes of both personal hydration and environmental preservation – it is certainly true that what we might call Water Bottle Culture is all around us, with as many bottle options as there are types of person.

It follows, then, that perhaps our hydration vessel of choice might be more revealing than we think. What are you telling people when you crack out your bottle for a quick swig on the bus? Are you a trend-hopping Nalgene sipper? A brand-loyal Thermos fan who appreciates proper product engineering? Or perhaps you’re a plastic bottle-clutching chaos goblin.

Regardless of which tribe you might belong to, read on for mildly judgemental analysis of what your water bottle is announcing about you to the world. No liquid receptacle is safe.

Thermos

The old faithful. The reusable water bottle before reusable water bottles were a thing. You are someone who respects sturdy engineering and a hardy product, which is why you have driven the same Hyundai for 20 years. When your children were in school, you’d force them to go camping every half term, assuring them that cooking beans over a camping stove in the torrential Scottish rain is an important life skill, and you have never ordered anything from a coffee shop that is not simply: a latte. You are really, really difficult to buy a birthday present for (“I don’t want anything!”) so usually, you just get a new Thermos.

Glass San Pellegrino or Vichy Catalan bottle

You don’t own an actual reusable water bottle because it wouldn’t fit in one of your many handbags, so you simply float into a corner shop whenever you need to hydrate on the go. As someone who wears sunglasses indoors, even at work, and who would rather just stay home than leave the house in an item of clothing which has not been pristinely tailored, you would, of course, never be caught dead with a tatty old Highland Spring bottle – it’s the finest sparkling beverages on the market only for you. Possibly you are Italian, but you also might just be extremely glamorous.

Brita Filter Water Bottle

You’ve sort of made being really worried about microplastics and ultra-processed foods your personality (you have been known, for example, to share internet videos about “non UPF finds in Sainsbury’s”) but when your children are at their friends’ houses – no nuggets or frozen chips, only chicken breast goujons for the little ones, please! – do you slope off for a Big Mac and a Diet Coke as big as your head? You could not possibly comment.

Nalgene 1L

You have a computer job which in no way necessitates a water bottle of this size, but it has been decreed by the Instagram gods that this is the Cool Water Bottle of the moment, so you dutifully added one to your online shopping cart, along with your Service Works trousers and your pickles – with the quirky, esoteric label, of course. Your rental home is full of useless, trendy accoutrements (when has anyone ever needed an £85 incense holder?) and you will happily spend £5 on a bag of posh crisps. Your siblings may have families and fulfillment, but you have an Ooni pizza oven on the balcony of your flat, so who’s really winning?

Trusty Nike sports cap from Sports Direct in 2021

Having accomplished the incredible feat of managing to hold on to the same water bottle for a good four years (last summer, you even got two buses back to the pub you left it in, such is your dedication), it would be a pretty safe bet to call you reliable. You’ll always step in when your pals need someone for five-a-side, you ring your mum twice a week, and you’re the person in your group chat who always organises the boring stuff on holiday, like airport transfers or the Monzo split. Not to read too much into your drinking receptacle of choice or anything, but you’re probably the type of always-there Good Egg whose friends love telling you, after two pints, “You’re a bloody good mate”, aren’t you?

Stanley Cup

You have a TikTok following of thousands, or at least you aspire to. Your loungewear is specifically selected to match the decor of your living room, you can put your hair in a perfect slicked-back bun in under 30 seconds, you proudly drive a Fiat 500 (they’re actually great little runners), and you follow everyone who has ever been on Married at First Sight (all countries) on Instagram. For what it’s worth, I’d like to be your best friend and get drive-thru coffee with you every weekend.

Chilly’s X Chopova Lowena water bottle with additional Chopova Lowena bottle carabiner

You paid £100 for a metal Chilly’s water bottle engraved with designs by a hypey designer duo and a matching decorative attachment, meaning that you are a 31-year-old idiot with more bag charms than sense, whose Screen Time notifications reveal worrying patterns. (Would it shock you to learn that this is my water bottle?)

Random crumpled plastic water bottle that you got before the gym

You’re in the same group chat as the person who’s had their bottle for four years, only you’re the one on the holiday who forgets their passport before leaving for the airport, and who books everyone on to one of those beer bike things against their will. You are the life of the party but even you would admit that you can be such an agent of chaos that a reusable water bottle would never stand a chance. Also there are about six of these plastic bottles in your bedroom at any given moment.

Sports cap with a company name printed on the side

You work at one of those banks or consultancies where they want you to not leave the office so badly that they have hairdressers on site.

Red Metallic Yeti

You did Couch to 5K and then bought a running vest that you’ve worn precisely once. You have a climbing wall membership that you keep paying for because you will “definitely” go next week. And let’s not even mention the Brompton folding bike. The phrase “all the gear and no idea” comes to mind, but maybe that’s ungenerous. God loves a trier.

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