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Mike Ferry –

  

Got 6 of these in brown to handle the morning coffee commute. Kids and wife use them for everything, even cold drinks. Microwave reheating is fine. The lid goes on with a secure quarter turn and works fine. For the first week or so it had a bit of a plastic smell as whatever wonder material outgassed its yummy petroleum products…if you are one of those people who take more than 3min to describe to the barrista what kind of coffee you want, well you may want to run these through the washer about 10x before using.

The real beauty of these is when you lose a lid etc, it is no big thing…it is a cheap plastic mug and there are more where that one came from. This gets rid of the usual “where is the lid to my travel mug” argument that foreshadows my morning commute. 2 pieces of wisdom to offer here:

1. Do not slam them down on a counter. Your coffee will jet up in a beautiful brown geyser of joy. I suppose if mug slamming is an important part of your morning routine, you could alter your move by putting the thumb over the hole when you do it. You can also get the coffee geyser going if you grab it by the lid and power walk it with an arm swinging, centrifuge like motion. If you put it in that little drink webbing on your backpack, you will have brown sloshy stains on your back. These are not sealed like other mugs and treat accordingly.

2. Don’t get brown. I got brown. Everyone else has brown. They look like Starbucks. So when you set your brown mug down next to someone elses brown mug, only later when you have wandered off and swigged that vile super sugared swill your friend calls coffee do you realize you picked up the wrong one. Get some flamboyant color nobody else will be caught dead with…this will avoid the confusion entirely.

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Toni Stutler (Akron, Ohio United States) –

  

Great mug. Does not leak. The first couple of times I used it it took two tries to get the lid on right but then I got the hang of it. The green sleeve is a little greener in color than this photo shows. It is very sleek looking.

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Abigail Taylor (Seattle, WA) –

  

I found this mug for much less at a local store – amazon has the brown ones for $6 but for other colors they are around $14. I got it for $6 elsewhere because brown isn’t really my thing. I like that the mug is dishwasher safe, there is no plasticky smell, and the cup lid is comfortable to drink from.
I only have one complaint, and that is that the air intake hole (what allows the beverage to flow out when you’re drinking) is in the center of the lid, rather than on the opposite side, and my nose seems to hit it when I’m drinking and block the flow. It’s kind of annoying. Otherwise, the cup is well made and seems to be a good choice.

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