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One Thermos and Three Generations of Underground Coal Miners
A few years before my grandfather retired from working in the underground coal mines he purchased a new Stanley Thermos to take with him to work. When he retired he gave it to my father who was working in the mines. It suffered some cruel treatment and received a large dent in the side, but still works great. My father retired and passed it on to me, and I've carried it underground only until I realized how sentimental it was and that I'd rather not loose it. If you work in an underground coal mines you know Stanley is the only thermos that will survive the harsh conditions and mistreatment, t...
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READ FULL STORY It is like a common tool for Construction Workers
When my father started in the construction industry in 1979 he purchased a Stanley Thermos. When I took my first job in the industry in 2007 after graduating college he passed his trusty thermos on to me. As I got on the jobsite, I noticed many construction workers relied on the Stanley brand for keeping coffee hot ALL DAY LONG! It is amazing to me that after so many years of use and abuse it keeps on tickin! THANKS!
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READ FULL STORY Grandfather's Stanley N944
For years I saw my grandfather's thermos in our storage building. Didn't think much about it until I started taking coffee to the duck blind. I purchased a rather nice "thermos" thinking it would do the same as any other, but it was easily dinged up while carrying to and from the swamp. My fellow hunters were all carrying Stanley brand and had nothing but praise for them. My mind immediately went to that old Stanley sitting on the shelf of the buidling many years ago. I went back to my parents and asked if they knew where it was located now. My mom had found it in the building...
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READ FULL STORY A Welcome Legacy
I am using an A-944B Bottle that has been in use by my Grandfather since 1974. When he passed in '06, my grandmother gifted it to me. Every day when I was little, I remember him taking this bottle, cradled in its matching Aladdin lunchbox to work with him as he drove a truck for the Lancaster County Roads Department in southeast Nebraska. Every day for over thirty years. Now it comes to work with me. I love the thing, even though everyone I work with pokes fun at my antique. Long after their Starbucks or Scooters cups have been discarded, I'm still sipping away on my next-to-scalding pla...
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Baby Water
I was trying to find a way to keep water hot until I needed to make a bottle for my 3month old baby girl, my husband tells me I use my stanley to keep my coffee hot you might want to try it for the babies water. So here it is I use my stanley everytime I go out the house to make sure I have hot baby water when needed to make a bottle its the best ever I just wish it came in pink so it could match her diaper bag! Thanks you saved my life and I will never need a mircowave around to heat up a bottle when I am out and about. P.S Those heating elements they make for babies bottle don't work worth a...
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READ FULL STORY Tired of a nagging wife? Get a Stanley!
I was cleaning the livingroom today and I needed to adjust the area rug that the couch partially sits on. I heard the Stanley thermos could jack up a car, so i figured the couch would be nothing! Sure enough, it worked and the livingroom is now in tip-top shape. The possibilities are endless! As a petite control freak, I can get things done around the house when I want without having to beg my husband to help me! (Maybe the Stanley thermos is the key to a long and happy marriage!) Now off to see what else I can get done around the house...
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READ FULL STORY It's True
I am not exactly sure when I received my Stanley stainless steel thermos, but I know that I was around 15 years old. It was a Christmas gift from my brother and was meant to be used when we went deer hunting. I am nearly 51 years old now, so that bottle is/was at least 36 years old. For over 20 years I stopped deer hunting and rarely used the thermos during that time. When I used the thermos during the 2008 deer season I was impressed when I poured myself a cup of coffee and it was still hot after 10 hours in the near freezing cold. This past 2009 deer season I used the thermos again....
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READ FULL STORY old friend
i have owned a stanley for 22 years, and i mean the same one.Im a union ironworker and its a pretty tough busness, my stanley has dropped at least 3 floors and survied, it has never let me down i do a lot of work in new york city so when i leave my house its around 3:30 am coming from delaware and even the last cup of coffee, and that can be at 3:00 p.m and its still warm.Well this christmas my son got me a new stanley, but my old one still works fine, i just cant let my old friend go, thanks for a great product. Poncho , new castle delaware.
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READ FULL STORY I DID NOT THINK
I DID NOT THINK THAT MY STANLEY WIDE MOUTH FOOD JAR WOULD KEEP MY FOOD HOT FOR 14 HOURS. WOW, I WOULD BUY THIS FOR ALL MY FRIENDS. THIS IS A GOOD PRODUCT AND I'M USING IT AT THE AGE OF 17.
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READ FULL STORY Old Faithful
My father worked for Amoco Oil Refinery for 30 yrs. He never worked a shift without his lunch box cooler combo. When I was 13, 23 yrs ago he gave me the original 1.1 qt bottle that went to it when I started working summers in the family house building business. I have since looked with no success for 23 yrs to find my own lunch box cooler to match it. I am now 36. Stores either don't carry the item or only other size food and beverage containers. I took the 1.1 qt bottle with me to Iraq and afghan. The 1.1 qt kept drinks hot and cold like it was new on many a lonely and dangerous mission. T...
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