Loving The First Years Take & Toss Spill Proof Cups

22. Dec, 2009 0 Comments

Toss Spill Proof Cups

With two little ones growing up, we’ve gone through a lot of sippy cups. My oldest was pretty picky about his cups for awhile, but only because he gave up the bottle at ten months, but as he and then my younger son moved off the bottle and into the realm of sippy cups, the cheapest and the most available has most certainly become our favorite.

Take & Toss Spill Proof Cups
I’ll readily admit that we are hard on cups. The breakfast cup with milk will get hidden by the couch for a few days before discovery and the cups of water travel around in the car for more than a week before rolling out from under the seats again, which is what makes the Take & Toss cups so perfect for us. They are cheap, and they can be used quite a few times before needing to be replaced.

When we used the cups with the valves, there were far fewer leaks, but there were also many incidences of lost or melted valves and a few special orders placed online to replace the valves since they don’t seem to sell them in store anymore. The Take & Toss cups don’t have valves. They don’t have insulation and they don’t have any frills, although you can get them with pictures of cartoon friends for a bit more.

Simple and Ready to Go
The Take & Toss cups are truly simple. There is a formed thin plastic spout on the interchangeable lids and a simple plastic cup with a rolled lip. The lid snaps onto the rolled lip and stays put rather nicely. The cup does leak a bit when turned upside down or shaken, but fluid doesn’t pour out of the three holes on the top of the spout.

Because there is no valve baby and toddler don’t have to work as hard to get the fluids out of the cup, and the spout is a natural form for the mouth. The best part of the Take & Toss cups is how easily they are lost and replaced.

When a cup is deemed too gross to wash after being left in the yard overnight, it gets thrown away. When a lid cracks from little boys testing their teeth on it, the lid is thrown out and plenty more in the cabinet still fit the cup. If I need to restock, I can do so for less than $5 and get three or more cups from any grocery, drug or baby store.

Growing with Take & Toss
The Take & Toss cups are still very much in use with my four-year-old, although not the sippy version. The cups stay the same as children age, but the lids change. The preschooler uses the straw lid. The lid is simply the same plastic fit but with a small hole punched through making it great for holding regular drinking straws – a safer way for the older kids to drink without have all the juice in the glass exposed to the carpet.

Looking back in time, my infant was able to drink from the smaller versions of the cups that actually come with special handle rings that snap over the lids to hold them in place through all the drama of a baby first learning to drink. That handle ring can be used on the small or large cups as all of the pieces are interchangeable. Outside of a few leaks, these cups are a terrific deal at the price.

First Years Take & Toss Spill Proof Cups are available just about anywhere for around $5.

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