sippy cup fail- just a dumb rant

superaunt

i'm so pissed about this and i know that's dumb but ... ARGH!

tomorrow starts full whole milk with no more formula (we introduced it very slowly- an ounce at a time for one week at a time). i know she won't have a problem because she's drinking primarily whole milk BUT i was planning to completely get rid of the bottles tomorrow, too. at least try it. she's been drinking from sippy's since she was 6 months old- water and formula- so i know she can do this. thing is that i wanted to try to match daycare's sippy's so that i could stop bringing stuff to daycare. they use the hard sprout playtex kind. fine. she's been using and is used to the cheap Take N Toss ones and those have a hard(er) sprout so shouldn't be a big deal. i go to walmart at lunch in -2 degrees and find these PLAYTEX INSULATORS. they looked closest to the ones at daycare so i got them and get them home to wash only i cant open the mofo things! ARGH! here i am wrestling with the stupid thing thinking i've totally lost my marbles. i read the packaging i ripped open in pieces and it says to make sure to read and keep instructions. well where the F are the instructions?!??? ARGH!!! i go online and find on the website how to lock the damn cups but no instruction how to open. ARGH!!!! then i see on amazon a review that someone says they're the worst cups because once you get them closed they're impossible to open so at least that made me feel a little better. (I finally do manage to open one and guess what's inside- the instructions!)

i just hate wasting my time and money on stupid crap and it frustrates me to no end that these mofo stupid things aren't going to work out cuz now i gotta get back out there and waste more time trying to return them. ARGH.

lesson to be learned: IF IT AINT BROKE DON'T FIX IT! i'm sticking with the damn cheap Take N Toss cups with lids that snap on and off and are pretty damn leak proof considering. 

ARGH! stay away from Playtex Insulators!

BrideBuddies

I feel your pain.  Those toss and take cups are about the only one's C's managed to figure out.  Not the half-dozen or so that are abandoned in the cupboard.

richelle021

Ditto on the take and toss ones... we use those too.  We also got one from Target on day while we were out and needed one.  It cost 99 cents and Caleb loves it so much, we went out and got another one!

lynnshey

Those take and toss ones are great - S loves them.  I have a hard time opening them, so I'd be a basket case with the Playtex ones.  Thanks for the warning.    Think of it this way - you did a good deed for all of us by "testing these out" - lol.

dkays

Sorry you went through all that frustration. T drinks better from the toss and take also.