My Name is:
Harold E. R.
Hometown:
Inverness, Florida
I've had my Stanley for:
20
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I have a 64 oz Stanley thermos that has rode with me in a truck for more than 18 years. We have more than 2,000,000 miles logged together it has given me more than 3,000 gallons of coffee exactly from all 48 continental US states and Canada. I have dropped it, forgotten it and neglected it from time to time but it has always served me faithfully through all the years. I love my Stanley.
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My Name is:
Dwight U.
Hometown:
Milwaukie, OR
I've had my Stanley for:
57
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
While attending College, the fore-runner to the weight-room for football players was working in the woods, setting choker to get into shape. This one particular summer, we were logging in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness area, we lived in a base camp close to our logging operation and all meals came from the cook shack, as well as the lunch, which was put up for you each day. Coffee, which I carried in my 1 qt. Stanley thermos, was so strong that I had to put a lot of cream and sugar into it so just to drink it. We would find cool area in the canyons where we were working to place our lunch and drink, as we were quite a ways from our base camp.
This particular day, as we broke for lunch, we had found a nice shady crevasse with a small trickling stream to have our lunch. But when we got to the area, there was a small black bear, chewing on the cork of my thermos and our lunch sacks ripped apart. Throwing whatever we could get our hands on, the last thing I saw was this bear, running off with my thermos.
The next weekend, I replaced my thermos when we were in town (Sweethome, OR). Two weeks later, about 4 miles from where I lost my thermos to the little thief, my original thermos was discovered by a creek in the canyon of which we were logging. The cork was pushed to the inside and no liquid was inside. The new thermos, which I purchased today, is my 4th one in 57 years and was only replaced because my last one was lost by the airlines on a recent trip.
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My Name is:
Jason B.
Hometown:
Decatur
I've had my Stanley for:
10
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I got my first Stanley at thrift store. I went to get a replacement stopper for it, turns out it is so old it needs a cork. You can’t tell by looking at it . Without the stopper it STILL keeps liquids warmer than my other flasks.
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My Name is:
Richard B.
Hometown:
DeKalb, IL
I've had my Stanley for:
8
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
Not much of a story really. After about 8 years, my wife's Stanley thermos developed a minor leak. She sent me to the store to get her another thermos. When I brought home a glitzy looking other brand, she sent me right back to the store to exchange it for a Stanley. That is the only brand of thermos as far as she is concerned.
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My Name is:
Brian H.
Hometown:
Pocatello, Id
I've had my Stanley for:
10
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
Watching my Stanley fall out of the truck at 50 mph and watching it spark down the dark country road and then picking it up and using it for that day’s duck hunt and for many years after.
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My Name is:
Paul G.
Hometown:
Annapolis, Md
I've had my Stanley for:
34
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
It was November 2003 and I was in the air force and stationed at Elsworth AFB, South Dakota. I was working at a Minute man Missile silo and the temperature outside was around 10 below zero. My wife had gotten me a Stanley thermos for my birthday so that I could carry coffee with me on the job. At the job site, the personnel hatch was open and our work vehicle was back up to the hole. I was in the back of the truck lowering our gear down the access hatch when I needed to warm up so I went and grabbed for my thermos when I lost my grip on it and it fell down the personnel hole which was 40 ft down and roll 5 feet and then fell another 90+ feet to bottom of missile silo. When I finally caught up with it, the coffee was still hot and the thermos in tact except the cap shatter and the side dented. I since retired that thermos for a larger one and I only buy Stanley thermos because if it can stand up to a fall like that then that is thermos for me.
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My Name is:
James E. L.
Hometown:
500 hwy 24/27 E. Albemarle NC.
I've had my Stanley for:
20
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
We have had our Stanley for 20 years. And take with us everywhere. The other day we were going to a car show and put some hot water in the bottle to get it good and hot. When I poured the water out, it came out what looked like rust. We were shocked, this was not supposed to happen. I looked in the bottle with flashlight, it look rusted. So I called the Stanley folks and they said to put some oxi-clean in it and let it set an hour or two. Well, we were amazed at how nice and clean it came and it was only coffee stains. Thanks Stanley, we love our bottle.
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My Name is:
Robert H.
Hometown:
Lovelady, TX
I've had my Stanley for:
8
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I've been carrying my thermos full off coffee since I was a freshman in high school. The only moment since then I have been without it was when I was 18. I was working in a saw mill and accidentally cut two of my finger tips off. At the hospital, when I woke up from the surgery the first thing I asked for was a cup of coffee. The nurse told me she wasn't sure if I could have anything to eat or drink yet. I told her to just give me my thermos and I'd get my own coffee. She then told me no one had brought it to the hospital. It took four hours before they released me from the hospital, still hadn't gotten any coffee and over 18 hours after the accident. My first stop even before going home was the saw mill back to where I was working to get my thermos. As soon as I picked it up, I poured a cup still just as hot as when I'd just made it.
Never again will you see me without my thermos more than a few steps from me.
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My Name is:
Mark G.
Hometown:
Farmington, Illinois
I've had my Stanley for:
12
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
In 1994, I received as a gift a Stanley Thermos. I was just out of high school and had a job in a local coal mine. After working in the mine for a little over a year and using my thermos daily for my coffee, I was informed that the mine would be shutting down. I them joined the U.S. Army. I was gone for four years, and when I came home, my father-in-law got me interested in Fishing, Hunting, and trapping.
I was telling my wife one day about this green thermos I used to have when I worked at the mine, and how I must of left it at home or lost it when I joined the service, but that I would like to have another one to take when I am fishing. I left and went to work that day, and to my surprise when I came home there was my thermos washed and ready for use.
My mother had packed it away when I went into the service. My wife called and asked if she knew if she still had it or where it went, and bless her heart, my mother had used it for hot tea while I was away because it made her think of me. Well thanks to dear old mom, I am back in business with the same Stanley Thermos I have had for 12 years now!!
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My Name is:
James H.
Hometown:
Barberton,Ohio
I've had my Stanley for:
15
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
With all the scratches, dents, duct-taped lid and all, my Stanley was at my side each morning with hot coffee in it either to work or to the woods. One morning I left it on the tail-gate of my work truck and I ran over the end of it with the truck. If the cap hadn’t broken, I think that it still could have been used, I went out that evening a purchased another one for I would miss my friend next to me in the truck. Just hope this one outdates me. If it is not in the truck, I look twice to make sure that it is.
Thanks Stanley you make a lasting product and only man can destroy them.
James H
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My Name is:
Alicia D.
Hometown:
Perris, CA
I've had my Stanley for:
1
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
For my husband, it's milk so he can have his cookies and milk during his breaks at work and at school. And for me, it’s tea homebrewed so I can tell everyone that their coffee isn't as good and healthy as my tea. Nothing fancy, as dropping it and running it over with a car, which is what my brother would do, or surviving any of Mother Nature’s wrath. My Stanley thermos just provided the comfort and satisfaction we seek on a daily basis when away from home.
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My Name is:
Jim S.
Hometown:
Iowa
I've had my Stanley for:
23
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I've had 3 Stanley bottles in the 23 yrs since I've left high school. The first was lost somewhere along the road when it fell off the roof of my pickup. The second served me well for over 15 yrs.
I dropped it more times than you would care to count, even ran it over by a crawler end loader once. This bottle bailed out my 12 ft johnboat when my hunting partner and I almost tipped the boat over when we were duck hunting one November morning.
It sure took us a long time to bail ourselves and the boat out one Stanley 1 qt. at a time! The bottom finally wore thin and rusted through so I retired it about 5 yrs ago.
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My Name is:
Sandra W.
Hometown:
Detroit, Michigan
I've had my Stanley for:
35
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
It was my dear friend Tony who introduced me to Stanley products. He was a fisherman and we loved going to the Michigan lakes to fish. Stanley products were the only products for the outdoor life camping, hunting, fishing, etc. as far as Tony concerned. When I purchased several Stanley products, my intentions were to use them for the outdoors, but I noticed that my products started going to work. One day at work a co-worker (male) had Stanley product full with coffee on his desk and he looked at my desk in a surprised way as if it was a manly thing to have Stanley products and a female shouldn’t have it. My Stanley product was taller than his and I had a Stanley lunch box. Over the years some of my Stanley product were misplaced or just walked away without saying good bye…..
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My Name is:
Lisa L.
Hometown:
Lakeland, FL
I've had my Stanley for:
4
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I was driving a tanker for Tropicana in Bradenton, Fl. Sometimes it took hours to get loaded. This one particular day, the lot at Clewiston, Fl. was packed with trucks waiting to load. A couple of us with the same trucking company waited 15 hours before we got assigned a loading bay. Nothing else to do but do some housekeeping in the cab, get in some reading, and take a nap. The comforting thing was when I woke; I still had nice hot coffee from my fill up at the truck stop 16 hours prior. Thank you Stanley!!!
--Lisa Lyons, Lakeland, Fl.
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My Name is:
mark k.
Hometown:
Erie, PA
I've had my Stanley for:
20
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
My favorite moment is hard to choose ‘cause there are several. The most memorable time was when I was bouncing across I-80 in PA. There was a part by Snowshoe that was pretty bumpy. I was bouncing a lot. Then, by chance, my thermos got jammed under the seat. My Stanley stopped me from bouncing up and down. I really like your thermoses.
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My Name is:
carol kankoski .
Hometown:
new kensington pa
I've had my Stanley for:
40
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
This thermos that I have is a Uno-vac thermos which was my father’s. He was killed in 1972, and this is all that was recovered. I still used this thermos all the time till this past Friday night when the stopper broke in half for me and the Stanley is finally unusable now without it. For years, I have worked in jobs ranging from police work, to being a single steelworker parent and I have carried that thermos; it was like my safety security charm, if that makes sense. I know it only had a 5-yr warranty on it but wow it is over 40 yrs old since my father carried it to work with him. If I can only find a stopper for it, then my safety charm will go on. Keep up the good work guys on your products.
Thank you
Carol K
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My Name is:
Richard W.
Hometown:
Rome,NY 13440
I've had my Stanley for:
30
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I have always used Stanley products and have been very happy with your product and your service. A few years ago, I had to retire my old Bottle and with no hassle your company replaced it with a brand new one. Thanks very much Stanley for your good service.
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My Name is:
Joe V.
Hometown:
Norco, CA 92860
I've had my Stanley for:
29
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I found my first Stanley in the trunk of an old car I purchased in Anchorage Alaska, I'm from California. It kept my coffee hot for 24 hours; everyone that I knew was amazed. I used it everyday. On one occasion, it fell off of my truck and a stepvan’s tires hit it and left its marks. I kept using it for years after, until I lost it recently, and I had to buy another.
That’s my story ..........Joe
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My Name is:
Robert M.
Hometown:
Odessa Texas
I've had my Stanley for:
30
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
My Stanley is always hot. Work or play,long trips. Or just here in the house, it is always fresh and hot.
When I was just starting out work in 1955 , I worked with a man that had one just like mine, except his was well worn with long years of use. Out there in the oil field it was with him all the time, and I just made a decision that I had to have one just like his. The main reason I bought one was because it seemed so dependable.
Robert
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My Name is:
Karen C.
Hometown:
Pine City, MN
I've had my Stanley for:
15
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I use my Stanley for those cold Minnesota mornings during deer hunting season. It's the greatest to get out in my deer stand and listen to the quiet of the pre-dawn. Unfortunately, just at dawn is when it gets the coldest. The only thing that has saved me all of these years is opening my Stanley and pouring a nice hot cup of coffee or hot chocolate. And the best part is that when you accidentally drop it out of your deer stand - it doesn't break!!!!
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My Name is:
David R.
Hometown:
Jones, Alabama
I've had my Stanley for:
15
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I was at work and my Stanley thermos fell out of the truck and I didn't realize it. It was run over by the work truck. It was dented a little but that was all. It still kept my coffee hot, and I still used it. The handle finally came off and I lost the top; the cup part. It still had the screw on top and, yes, I still continued to use it. My wife decided that it was time for a new one, so she retired the old thermos. It still kept my coffee hot; never let me down.
David R
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My Name is:
John N.
Hometown:
Superior, WI
I've had my Stanley for:
10
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
My young son had just turned 12 a few days before the opening of deer season. We had placed our stands in the same tree were close enough to whisper to each other. His stand was a couple of feet above my head as he readied for his first season of archery hunting.
Weeks earlier we had been preparing for first hunting season. I had taken him to the local store and we bought some of the things he would need to begin his hunting career. First on the list was a new vacuum bottle to spend the chilly days with. He told me he did not want a new one, rather he would like my old bottle complete with green paint, nicks and dents. I offered to buy him a new one but he insisted on using my old bottle.
I bought myself a new Stanley vacuum bottle and gave him my old one. He was as proud of that bottle as the new bow he had received only a few months earlier.
It was a chilly morning and we had begun early that morning preparing hot chocolate to put in my old Stanly vacuum bottle. The old bottle had been on many hunts with me over the years and taken lots of abuse but still worked as if it was new. This year however, it would not be filled with hot coffee. The bottle had a new mission in life. Hot chocolate for a young hunter.
As the sun began rising over the field we were hunting near, we could see many deer out in the field. The deer were browsing calmly and began to filter out of the field and back into the woods to spend the day in their bedding area. Just before sunrise, I heard the tell-tale sound of my old bottle being opened and hot liquid being poured in the dented cup.
My son set the bottle down on the metal stand and began sipping from the cup. I could smell the sweet chocolate in the air. After he finished his first cup of hot chocolate he quietly put the cup back on the bottle. Only a few minutes later we saw a nice buck walking toward us. It was a small eight pointer and it looked as if it would jump the fence and use the trail that passed directly below our stands.
My son readied his bow in anticipation. The buck walked slowly toward us and stopped on the other side of the fence. There the buck stopped and began feeding on acorns that had fallen from a white oak tree. I could hear my son breathing hard with excitement. The deer was only 30 yards away.
The buck jumped the fence and began to quickly trot along the trail that lead directly underneath our stands. The buck was moving faster than my son had anticipated and he had to turn slightly to get a shot. When he stepped to the side he accidentally kicked the vacuum bottle and knocked it from the stand. The bottle struck me in the shoulder, bounced off of me and fell over 15 feet to the ground.
The bottle landed upright and struck a large rock on the corner of the bottle. The bottle, nearly full of hot chocolate struck the rock hard. It bounced off the rock and the cup flew off the bottle. The impact with the rock was so great I thought the bottle may break open. The bottle held together and bounced to the ground.
Of course the deer heard this sound because the bottle had only fallen a few feet in front of the deer. The deer stopped, not knowing what had happened or what to do. My son looked down at me, also not knowing what happened or what to do. I silently whispered to him, shoot the deer! He drew his bow and made a perfect archery shot at the deer. The deer took of running leaving a clearly visible blood trail from the moment the arrow struck the deer.
We climbed down from the tree and retrieved the bottle. It had another good dent in it. This dent would be his story to tell.
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My Name is:
Sue D.
Hometown:
El Paso, TX
I've had my Stanley for:
26
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I bought a Stanley when I was a newlywed, commuting by bus to a job in downtown Chicago. Even on the coldest winter days, my coffee was still as hot on the way home as in the morning. I've used my Stanley for 26 years, in seven homes, in five states, through the births of six children. I’ve taken it on horseback round-ups in the Chihuahuan Desert and on mission trips to Mexico and New Orleans. Friends tease me about the beat-up, dented, dinged, thermos I always carry. When I don't have it, they ask me where it is. But, recently, I dropped the thermos one too many times and the top chipped. Soooo, I've given in and bought a new one... but I still love that old banged up one... I think I'll put it on the mantel.
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My Name is:
Rodolfo E.
Hometown:
Winkelman Arizona
I've had my Stanley for:
0
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
Where we live is somewhat of an outdoor area and we were out fishing and of course I had my Stanley with me. We were out there for a couple of hours and my two daughters slipped, dropped the Stanley and the river started dragging them away. Luckily, I was able to grab them when they came past me and after a bad moment out there I was able to calm them down with the warm soup I had brought in my banged up Stanley. It had been thrown a couple of feet away and nothing happened to the Stanley or the food. My girls were able to warm up thanks to the Stanley.
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My Name is:
Misty L.
Hometown:
Whitecourt, Alberta
I've had my Stanley for:
11
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
While in college, one winter night myself and a bunch of other girls decided to go tobogganing. Being young, broke, and determined, we filled up our thermoses and decided to head out to the toboggan hill at 1am. The lack of toboggans did not stop us; we decided to grab our roasters, cookie sheets and cake pans to use as sleds.
It was -20C outside but our hot chocolate kept us warm and happy.
Two days later I grabbed my Stanley and decided to clean it out. To my amazement, when I opened my Stanley, steam came out, and the hot chocolate was still hot!
To this day I’ve never found a thermos that comes close to it. And my husband has adopted it as his permanent work thermos for past 7yrs.
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My Name is:
Rick H.
Hometown:
Charleston TN
I've had my Stanley for:
10
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
This story is about my new Stanley 2qt. Been using it about 2 wks when the wife dropped it. It hit the steps coming down into the basement of our home. Being full of coffee it sounded as if she had made the fall. I looked back quickly, but she was standing at the top of the steps. I asked if she was okay. She said I'm fine but your coffee bottle hit the concrete floor and you’d better check it. And again, I was more than glad to let her know that it's not a coffee bottle it's a Stanley. And she had just given it it's very first battle scars.
Thanks for still building a great product. Not many things we purchase anymore last long enough to have memories of. We drive a truck for a living and I can't remember how many other types of bottles we have had. But I can remember my first Stanley ‘cause I still have it. I just needed a bigger one.
R.H. Charleston TN.
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My Name is:
Larry H.
Hometown:
hazlehurst,georgia
I've had my Stanley for:
5
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
It look like it been thru a war, but it still works, until I dropped it out of the boat.
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My Name is:
Anita B.
Hometown:
Hagerstown Maryland
I've had my Stanley for:
11
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I have many stories but I would like to share the following:
My husband, John is a heavy equipment operator. One day he came home from work and his thermos was badly damaged. The thermos had been dropped several times and had large dents on the side from where it had smashed up against the equipment. I told my husband he needed to go purchase a new thermos that evening for the following work day. He laughed at me and said, “it will be fine.”
The next day he took the smashed thermos to work, which still kept his coffee HOT but a little less coffee due to the dents. While he was at work, I called the Stanley company and was surprised when I was instructed to send the thermos back for an exchange. That evening I advised my husband what I was going to do and he was not happy. He was afraid that the new thermos would not be the same excellent quality and would take forever and a day for the replacement to arrive. But, being the hard-headed wife that I am, I returned the bottle.
Amazingly, a new thermos appeared in the mail sooner that anyone could have expected and the quality...well let’s say I won that bet! The superior quality of the thermos was the same or better. Stanley makes great products and stands behind what they sell. This is the reason they are #1. Excellent customer service and superior products.
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My Name is:
dakota c.
Hometown:
ochelata
I've had my Stanley for:
1
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
When I was hunting with my grandpa and I was using my thermos and it has been dropped so many times! We almost dropped it in the lake!
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My Name is:
John P.
Hometown:
Hermiston, Oregon 97838
I've had my Stanley for:
33
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I am on my fourth Stanley in 33yrs. We still have the other 3, but they are retired with each one having gone something over a million miles in my semi trucks over the years. While they're pretty beat up on the outside, each one would probably still do the job pretty well.
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My Name is:
ouwang s.
Hometown:
merced ca.
I've had my Stanley for:
1
years
My favorite Stanley memory is:
I love the Stanley because it keeps my coffee hot so I can drink it hot. I drive big 18 wheeler trucks!!!!!!!!
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