Your status water bottle is such a lovely thing until you're stuck carrying a giant empty water bottle around all day
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I’m unusually prone to dehydration, or at least it seems that way to me. After, say, 15 minutes without water, my mouth gets dry, and I can feel both my skin and mind beginning to shrivel. At some point, I decided that achieving thirstlessness was worth minor but constant encumbrance, and started bringing a one-liter water bottle everywhere I went, but those only made sense when I was carrying a bag large enough to accommodate them.
Vapur Element Bottle, 1 Liter $12 $14 now 14% off $12 Buy at Amazon Buy $12 at Amazon Buy Don’t let the name fool you — an anti-bottle is, in fact, a bottle, only better: It’s a reusable, washable pouch made of flexible BPA-free plastic. Judging by the carabiner and the company’s marketing materials, the Vapur was designed for hikers, but I’ve found that it’s ideal for life in a city where I have to drag my stuff around all day without desiccating.
The best thing about the Vapur is that the size adjusts to the amount of water that’s in it, so I can fit it into any bag . Over Memorial Day, I attended a wedding in hot, humid Maryland with perhaps the world’s smallest purse. The bus ride to the ceremony was an hour, but somehow no one thought to bring along a case of water bottles for the riders .
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