Klean Kanteen makes these adorable stainless steel sippy cups in a variety of colors that will differentiate your child’s sippy cup from the others in the room. Often, just having a stainless steel sippy cup means you can easily find your child’s at a playgroup or at school. They contain no BPAs and have a wide mouth so you can fit ice cubes into your child’s drink on a hot day. The other good thing about the wide mouth is that it makes this sippy cup super easy to clear. You can see down inside to make sure no milk has become gunky at the bottom.

If you’re looking for a water bottle to get someone as a gift or to get for yourself, you might enjoy looking at the beautiful “lifestyle” SIGGs. These are works of art. I don’t know where they find their graphic designers, but SIGG sure gets some good ones.

If that does not float your boat, then SIGG also offers what they call “traveler bottles” which offer a more conservative look with solid colors.

My daughter loves her “special” bottle, and we received many positive comments on it when we went to playgroups. Another nice feature is that you always know which sippy cup is your child’s when 1) you have a SIGG and 2) you have such a unique design on your SIGG.

I liked my daughter’s bottle so much that I went and bought one for myself. I receive a lot of positive comments on the bottle’s beauty, and I’m happy about not using those disposable water bottles that often do not get recycled. For one, Dasani recently issued a press release that their water comes from municipal sources. In other words, it’s just tap water anyway. I can filter my water in my Brita (or not) and save myself money, save oil and reduce waste.

One little drawback is that these can dent. That is not a big deal to me when I think of how beautiful my SIGG is, how much oil I’ll save over a lifetime from not having water shipped to me from France, and how much landfill space I’ll save. It’s a good deal all around, and it pays for itself after about 12- 15 or so uses.

You can see the one I bought for myself to the right. I think it’s a work of art! So many people tell me how beautiful it is. When I saw someone else with the same design, I asked her if people are always saying how gorgeous it is. She laughed, pointed to the women next to her and said, “she just said that.” They’ve got SIGG bottles at Reusable Bags if you want to check them out.

PepsiCo Inc. will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry.

That makes getting a bottle of your own a no brainer!

You can carry your own water in a SIGG or Kleen Kanteen and save yourself money in the process.