The Catch 22 of waterbottles.

Waterbottles. A favorite item of mine. I am very much the poster child for those PUR and Britta commercials that say filter and use your own reusable waterbottle. I have many cute ones.

While at work and filling up one of my many cute waterbottles, I realized there is quite the Catch 22 when it comes to waterbottle mouths.

There are first the wide mouthed waterbottles.
There are most excellent for filling up with ice quickly, but difficult to drink out of without spilling too much.

Then there are the narrow mouthed waterbottles.

These are awful to fill up with ice and require you to buy some special  ice making tray that make slender rods of ice. But, they are easy to drink from with minimal spillage.

 In the middle are the moderately open mouthed waterbottles.

These are not great to fill up with ice, definitally done better by hand than just holding it under the dispenser, and are somewhere in between on the spillage factor.

There are also specialty waterbottles, such as the camel back vareity with a wide mouth for easy ice cube insertion, but screw on lid with no-spill sip-straw. But I find that when you simply want to chug some water, these bottles do not provide you with the flow you desire. They are also quite difficult to clean.

There are also the less fancy straw waterbottles, with flip up and suck. I find these are just as bad as the camelbacks and leak.

There are flip top waterbottles also. I find mine never close the same after washing and it leads to leaking.

Alas, some smarty decided "oh what about freezable inserts," but these leave you with ice for only part of the day. Once thawed, the ice insert takes many  hours to refreeze.

Alas, all of these downfalls have simply led to me having a wide variety of waterbottles for all occasions, and I greatly enjoy all the different ones I have. So in the end, this is a good thing.