Everyone's Got A Story About Their Stanley

Bears don't like Stanley

By Bill Justus from innisfil, AL, a Stanley user for 2 years | April 01, 2012

Last summer on a fishing trip in Algonquin Park my son and I had a confrontation with a Black Bear. We were in the interior portaging to a sight that I like to camp, when a Bear came out on the trail. We had been resting in a clearing and our packs were a hundred yards away from us. The Bear came out of the woods and started to root into our bags. All we could do was watch from where we were. The Bear must have smelled some spilled coffee on my Stanley container because he pulled it out and started to chew on it. For a good 15 minutes he tried at that container, then finally gave up going back...

Topics: Travel, Outdoor

My 3.5 million mile Stanley

By Jim Levingston from Medford, OR, a Stanley user for 22 years | March 18, 2012

After 22 years of long haul flatbed trucking my Stanley and I retired. My Stanley as been by my side for more than 3 1/2 million miles, 1 hurricane, 2 tornados,3 earthquakes and countless snowstorms. My good buddy Stanley has been used to hold a flashlight while I put on tire chains, held engine parts and even used as a hammer in times of need. Stanley was filled over 8,640 times and has poured more than 2,160 gallons of truck stop coffee and has been hugged by more waitresses trying to get the well sealed top off than I can count. Thank you Stanley, I'll take you fishing now.

Topics: Working, Built for Life

Flew out of the back of a pickup on a logging road

By Donald Hanley from Kirkland, WA, a Stanley user for 42 years | March 12, 2012

In January of 1970 my new Stanley quart Thermos flew out of the back of my pickup truck on a logging road in Montana. It was well below zero at the time and the thermos hit a rock along the side of the road. I stopped and went looking for this new thermos in the snow and brush - glad I found it as it still works perfectly after these 42 years - and the large dent in the bottom reminds me of a time long ago. Thanks for making such a great product!

Topics: Built for Life

Good Customer Service

By Lina Sponsky from Austin, TX, a Stanley user for 2 years | March 02, 2012

I'd had my Classic 1.1qt Vacuum Bottle for a little over 2 years when the spot welds that held the handle bail broke. Since it was supposed to have a "lifetime warranty" and I wasn't dead yet I called Stanley. The lady I spoke to was very polite and helpful and after giving only a minimum amount of information she told me I'd have a new one in one to two weeks. I didn't even have to send the defective one back. No receipt, no where did I buy it. Just took care of me. It's encouraging to find a company that means what they say; Lifetime warranty means just that. No ifs, ands or buts....

Topics: Built for Life

Still going. . .

By John Koons from Chicago, IL, a Stanley user for 19 years | February 25, 2012

I just bought my first Stanley thermos, a 17oz soup jar I use at the office. However, I still have the first one I got 19 years ago, given to me used by a coworker who got it used himself. I've used it to tap in nails, hold blueprints down in the wind, prop up joists when I needed an extra hand, and occasionally even carry coffee in it on the morning ride in to work. It's one of the few things left that still measure up to its words.

Topics: Working

My very old classic Stanley

By Yadith Sepulveda from Los Angeles, CA | February 16, 2012

Topics: Built for Life, Family

The Legend

By PETER KLUSKA from MONTREAL, AL, a Stanley user for 25 years | February 07, 2012

When I was 6 years old my father went to USA for work from Poland where we had communism and there was nothing in the stores. He was there a year and a half and when he came back in 1987 he brought a green Stanley Classic Vacuum Bottle. It was something and I was amazed by this. He used to say that this Stanley is so strong and hard that even a tank could run over it doing no sign of damage and I believed him. My father used to work at construction in many European countries and also had own company and he was using this Stanley every day. At the morning he was pouring the tea to have somethi...

Topics: Built for Life, Family

Still Hot

By Robert Stephenson from Florence, AL, a Stanley user for 5 years | January 18, 2012

I just recently celebrated my 5 year anniversary with my Stanley Thermos. It still keeps my coffee as hot as it did the first day. Couldn't make it a day without my coffee so Thanks Stanley!!!!!!!!!!! Robert Stephenson Florence, Alabama

Topics: Built for Life

Memories of my father...

By Rick M from Naperville, IL | January 11, 2012

I grew up seeing the green Stanley thermos around the house and it became synonymous with my father. We had several different Stanleys, a ~2 quart for his tea or whatever was the choice of the day and a wide mouth that he used for carrying soup. I remember seeing it in a VW Camper that we owned, on the desk at his workplace (towerman for the railroad) and sitting on the console in the camper with steam coming out on a cold winter day after sledding. I always said I'd buy one, and over the years I've had a few thermoses from other manufacturers, but just not the old green Stanley. I just ne...

Topics: Outdoor, Family

Perculator and the Stanley

By Sandra Kohler from Levittown, PA, a Stanley user for 2 years | December 27, 2011

My husband likes his coffee so hot, it could take the skin right off your tongue!! No regular coffee pot ever made his coffee hot enough, so I broght him an old fashion perculator, finally his coffee was as hot as he liked it. Now the challenge would be to find a thermos to keep it hot all day while he works at his construction job. One day he filled his thermos, as he did each morning before going to work, and then forgot it and didn't remember it was filled until the following morning. To my husband's shock it was just as hot as when he had poured it into his thermos the morning before. Wh...

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