Jean in Newcastle Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 How and where do you store them? Do you leave the caps on? Or are you worried about possible mold? Do they fit in your cabinets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 We only have one per person so they follow us around the house. Each is a different color so we all know which one belongs to who. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd293 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I hand wash, drain on the draining board or a dish towel, then store in the cupboard with the caps off so any residual dampness can evaporate. That's pretty much how I tackled toddlers' milk bottles, and those never grew mould, I don't worry about the water bottles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I definitely need a better storage solution. I would love to have a big drawer in the kitchen that I could throw them in with a little basket in the drawer for the caps. We have way more than 1 per person but we use most of them. Soccer player sometimes needs more than 1, dh has a couple of insulated ones, we each have one for regular every day needs, there are a couple of freebies we use when they could get lost (cross country practice) etc. At the moment they are in the same cupboard where we keep glasses, top shelf, caps in a little basket on lowest shelf. Not ideal. Kiddos can't really reach top shelf (I barely can), dented Kleen Kanteens tend to wobble and fall, etc. I'll be checking this thread to see if anyone has a storage solution we could implement in our smallish home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEmama Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I wash them in the dishwasher and store some of them in a deep drawer and the rest in a cabinet without their lids. Lids are kept in a separate basket in the drawer. We have soo many from various races and events; I swear they multiply when I'm not watching. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I just air dry and store the spare reusable plastic water bottles with the cap on in my kitchen cabinets. My kids' Kleen Kanteens are used daily so they are just washed and air dry on the countertop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 My kids' Kleenex Kanteens are used daily so they are just washed and air dry on the countertop. Gotta love auto-correct! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucabird Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 My daughter that can keep up with hers :rolleyes: washes the bottle, sets it to dry, then pretty much uses it again. She is an athletic kid and uses a WB daily. The ones I use (activities, picnics, etc.) I wash, leave to dry, then store without lids in a plastic box with thermoses, etc. I am in a humid area and worry about mold and bacteria. I am also too lazy to take bits of a WB apart, so I purchase bottles that are easy-to-clean (i.e., ones with largish. round holes; not those with flip thingies). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Dishwasher when I notice they need it. A rinse and quick scrub on a daily use basis otherwise. They're sideways in the snack cabinet right now, but I was thinking of reorganizing to a drawer. I need to redo a number of things about the kitchen organization, honestly. It's funny how what you eat and use changes over time and thus the organization of your kitchen drawers and cabinets changes too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Gotta love auto-correct!For once it is the Kindle's fault rather than the iPhone :lol: I would have to turn off autocorrect on the kindle as well. It change my kids german vocabulary words to english. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hikin' Mama Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I wash and let them drain upside down. I have a big drawer I store them in. I leave the caps off, because I'm anal about things getting air circulation. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted October 16, 2015 Author Share Posted October 16, 2015 Thanks. I have reorganized them so that they are in a big wire basket on the pantry shelves and the caps are in a smaller basket. I think this will work. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 I have a canvas basket under one cabinet in which I store them. I store them with caps on, but I let them air-dry on the counter before capping them and putting them horizontal in the canvas basket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 caps off, wine rack (caps are tucked in between bottles) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I hate matching lids to anything! I wash them in the dishwasher and let air dry. The lid (and straw if they have one) get put on the cup before it is put away. Once dry, they go in an awkward cupboard we have, or the bottom drawer in the kitchen. We have about 14 various hot or cold cups due to sports and different preferences, so we have to have a system. LOL We have 5 family members and it isn't uncommon for anyone of us to have 2 at a time going (hot coffee for morning and water bottle for later, or 2 water bottles for sport practice etc) 4 sig bottles 2 glass/silicone 4 polar 4 coffee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I store them with lids off so they can dry out completely. They fit in the cupboard. Nalgenes have the lid attached to the bottle - no losing lids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staceyobu Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Ugh. I pull water bottles out of the dishwasher and immediately screw the kids on and stick them in the cabinet. They can get moldy?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaeFlowers Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I hate matching lids to anything! I wash them in the dishwasher and let air dry. The lid (and straw if they have one) get put on the cup before it is put away. Once dry, they go in an awkward cupboard we have, or the bottom drawer in the kitchen. We have about 14 various hot or cold cups due to sports and different preferences, so we have to have a system. LOL We have 5 family members and it isn't uncommon for anyone of us to have 2 at a time going (hot coffee for morning and water bottle for later, or 2 water bottles for sport practice etc) 4 sig bottles 2 glass/silicone 4 polar 4 coffee You should get Yeti cups so you won't have manage so many! They're expensive but worth it. In response to the OP, DH is the only one who uses one. He washes it out each night and dries it on the drying mat. He uses it everyday so I have no idea if it fits in the cabinet. His old Nalgene bottle did not, though. It lived on the counter next to the coffee pot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 You should get Yeti cups so you won't have manage so many! They're expensive but worth it. In response to the OP, DH is the only one who uses one. He washes it out each night and dries it on the drying mat. He uses it everyday so I have no idea if it fits in the cabinet. His old Nalgene bottle did not, though. It lived on the counter next to the coffee pot. Nice idea.....but we would each still need two Yeti to take with us at a time due to taking two different kinds of liquids. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 We have one per person, so they are in constant use. I put them through the dishwasher and they are refilled immediately. The caps are attached so we don't lose lids. Actually, we do have a few extras that we don't often use. Those air dry on the counter for a day and then are capped and stored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrichor Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I had to adjust the shelf height in one of the cupboards. We don't have very many bottles that aren't used daily, but the ones that do get stored (including some larger bottles) go on a low shelf, where I also keep the pitchers/jugs. Everything is stored upside down, like water glasses and mugs. Since making the one shelf higher, I was able to fit a cupboard shelf organizer in there, and keep all of the lids for bottles and jugs on one of the shelves. Another idea for lids is to put them all in one bowl. I store all of my assorted plastic tupperware lids in a large plastic tupperware bowl. The bowl would have been tossed if I wasn't using it for storage, so it's not like I have to empty the lids out each time I need to use the bowl - since I don't use the bowl... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I hand wash, drain on the draining board or a dish towel, then store in the cupboard with the caps off so any residual dampness can evaporate. That's pretty much how I tackled toddlers' milk bottles, and those never grew mould, I don't worry about the water bottles. This is how I handle ours :). We don't have that many, an insulated metal one for each of us, two Brita bottles, and two travel coffee mugs. I donated all the freebie ones last year to make space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaeFlowers Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Nice idea.....but we would each still need two Yeti to take with us at a time due to taking two different kinds of liquids. Well, I guess that would kind of defeat the purpose of a Yeti then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Does anyone else have a problem of still ending up with way too many plastic bottles? We have nice reusable bottles. I try really hard to fill mine, and use it (sometimes I forget) but nobody else does. I hate this! We still end up with a zillion plastic bottles floating around. At one point we had 18 half empty bottles in the car. 18. :blink: We are a family of three. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Our solution is to treat them like Tupperware/Pyrex. So they are all in one place all mixed up and every year we have to recycle about 50% of them because they don't have their lids, and we also have like 50 lids with no water bottles attached to them. But we are sure that as soon as we recycle the lids we will find the bottles. So they sit there. Then half the time the kids forget them by the door and we end up using water fountains anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I have a plastic bin in a closet near the kitchen that I keep all of our bottles and insulated coffee cups in. I have a smaller plastic box beside it that all the lids get tossed into. I don't store them with the lids on because they tend to get gross if I do. I have a glass one from Target (Zulu brand) that I love. No straws or hard to clean bits, and since it is glass it doesn't make my water taste weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 My sister puts hers on the back of her pantry door in a shoe organizer. I only like the ones that get clean in the dishwasher. I have one that screws together near the middle so it goes in the dishwasher in two pieces (plus the lid). If I don't use that one I just use a travel coffee mug. Basically, it it doesn't come clean in the dishwasher I'm not interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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