How to keep your Nalgene from slicing your fingers open

Back in January, I decided I need to drink more water, so on a random trip to Whole Earth Provision Co., I picked up a new shmancy Nalgene bottle.  I developed a severe love for it, and bought another one this weekend.  Every morning before work, I fill it up, and then I try to carry it with 2 fingers and slice them into pieces.

For Christmas, Dan sent DC his Nalgene back home, and it has this really amazing magical comfortable accessory that keeps DC from shredding his fingers.

I asked him to put the same thing on my bottles.

You need a Nalgene bottle (you can get them here, here,  or just about anywhere that sells outdoor, fitness, or camping gear), a lighter, a sharp knife, and a 9 or 10mm climbing rope.  Again, you can get this at most outdoor places (like REI) and buy it by the foot.  Very cheap.

Take the lid off of the bottle and measure your rope against the "handle" piece

 

Cut the rope down to the length that you measured

 

Pull the white cords out of the sheath

 Then burn both ends of the rope with your lighter

 

Bend the round part of the lid (the piece that goes around the bottle) and thread it through the rope.  With a 9 or 10mm rope, this should be fairly easy.  Anything smaller than that (like the one we used because it matched my bottles...what?!) is a bit of a struggle.  Once it is all the way through, reattach the lid to your bottle

 and carry it to work without looking like you did a handstand on shards of glass.  Then drink a lot of water because I know you don't drink enough.

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I got my Coffee Cozy from Water4Christmas this weekend

It’s cute and I love it and it works perfectly.

The coffee shop lady got mad at me for having it- not sure why she took it personally that I was not using one of their sleeves.

Whatevskis.

I also love that the $6 I spent on it went toward giving people in Africa some clean water to drink.

I love the quote on their etsy page:

There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

–Denis Waitley

I don’t love how I couldn’t get the shine off of the table, but ‘tis the nature of an iPhone photo.

Check out Water4Christmas’ etsy shop and get some stocking stuffers.

I think I may snag me one of those water drop ornaments.

Happy Monday!

A Post of Randoms

I added some pictures to my Friday post below…we had a beautiful weekend in Houston only to be followed by a Monday full of rain and gloom. Womp womp.

Whatever has a link to the Etsy shop for Water4Christmas. Everything purchased from that shop goes to give clean water to the people in Liberia. Check it out, get some good stuff for Christmas. I got the coffee cozy. So cute. So cheap. You can afford it. They also have super cute kids tshirts with an outline of Africa on it- I love them, so there’s somethin’ for all you baby mamas.

Star of Hope needs some moolah to feed the homeless this Thanksgiving. $16.55 can feed FIVE people some turkey and goods where they would normally eat garbage...not like bad for you McDonalds garbage, but like seriously garbage. I am pretty sure Devin and I spent more than $16.55 on 4 pieces of pie when we treated our friends at House of Pies on Saturday night. You can feed 5 people. Or more. Check out the different donation options. Do it to it!

Devin’s coworker sent Devin home with some eggs on Friday.

I just thought they were really fun…pink, brown, blue…all different colors, some with freckles, straight from the coop. As we informed my friend from the northeast this weekend, eggs do not come out of the chicken stark white.

I told you it was all random.