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Readers 65 and Older: Up to 67% Off the 2-Ounce Straw That Beats Lifting 27-Pound Cases of Water
One straw in your kitchen drawer is rated for more than 300 of the cases in your garage. Each of those cases lasts one person about 3 days.
MBy the MINIMLS Team
Updated November 2026 · 8 min read
Dear Reader,
Ask almost anyone how to get ready for a water outage and you'll hear the same thing. Stock up on bottled water.
That's easy to say when you're 35.
A case of 24 bottles comes in at about 27 pounds. You lift it into the cart. You lift it out of the cart. You lift it into the car, out of the car, and across the garage. And when you finally set it down, you've got about 3 days of water for one person.
Three days. For one person. For all of that lifting.
And what happens on day 4, when the tap is still off, the aisle is bare, and nobody's come by yet?
There's a different way to do this, and it weighs 2 ounces.
The MINIMLS Emergency Water Filter Straw fits in your kitchen drawer. It's rated for 1,800 gallons of fresh water from a rain barrel, a creek or a pond. That's more than 550 of those 27-pound cases. It needs no power and no batteries, so it's ready on the same day your tap isn't.
Right now, the Emergency Preparedness Sale takes up to 67% off right now.
See the 2-Ounce Straw at Its Sale Price★★★★★ 4.8 stars, 2,318 reviews
A lot of our readers are retired and careful with their money. We respect that, so here's the plain part.
You buy it once. There are no batteries to replace. There are no refills to order. There's no monthly plan and no membership.
The real trouble with your water plan is the lifting
Nobody says this out loud, so we will.
Every water plan you've ever heard of depends on somebody strong. Somebody to carry the cases. Somebody to stand in the line with the jugs. Somebody to haul the pail back from wherever the water is.
For a couple, the CDC's two weeks comes to 28 gallons. That's about nine cases and more than 230 pounds.
Who's carrying that? Your back? Your knees? Your son, who lives two hours away, on the day the roads are closed?
That's the trap. The plan works right up until the day you need somebody else to make it work.
So the fix isn't more water in the garage. The fix is making the water come to the kitchen table, in amounts you can lift. A bottle at a time. Sitting down.
Why this straw suits people who are done lifting cases
It weighs 2 ounces
That's lighter than a deck of cards. There's nothing to haul, lift or stack to own it.
You squeeze it, so there's no hard pull
Thread it onto a regular water bottle, turn it over, and squeeze. Filtered water runs into your glass. A full bottle weighs about a pound.
No getting down on your knees at a creek
Fill a bottle outside, or have a neighbor fill it for you. Then filter it in your own chair at your own table.
No power and no batteries
There's nothing to charge, nothing to set up and no moving parts to wear out. It works the same with the lights off.
Your tap doesn't always stop the way you'd expect
You might be thinking, "A power cut doesn't shut off my water right away." You may be right. That was never the real risk.
If you're on a well, your pump runs on electricity. No power means no water, even with every pipe in perfect shape.
If you're on city water, a storm or flood can damage the system, and you can end up under a boil notice with your lights still on.
And these don't always clear up by the weekend.
Jackson, Mississippi spent more than seven weeks under a boil-water notice in 2022. In the 2021 Texas freeze, more than 14 million people were affected by boil notices at one point.
And here's the part for readers 65 and over. The CDC says adults 65 and older are more likely to get infected with E. coli and Salmonella, and it says those stomach cramps can be severe. That's not the week to be guessing about what's in the glass.
Here's how a bad week goes without it
Say it's a Tuesday in September. A storm took the power out overnight. You turn on the kitchen tap and get a cough of air. The radio says it could be days.
You drink what's in the fridge. You use the bottles under the sink. By day three, those are gone.
The roads are bad. You're in no shape to go out on them just to look at an empty shelf. The phone isn't much help. Your daughter is calling from three states away, and all she can do is worry.
There's water in the rain barrel, 20 feet from your back door. You can see it from the kitchen window, and you can't drink it.
And here's the same week with it
You fill a bottle at the rain barrel, or a neighbor brings you a pail from the creek. You let the muddy part settle.
You sit down at your own table. You take the straw out of the drawer, thread it on, and squeeze yourself a glass of filtered water.
You didn't lift a case. You didn't stand in a line. You didn't wait on anybody.
Easy to keep, easy to use
It's bright red. You can spot it in a drawer or a bag, even in poor light.
It fits where you can reach it. It's about 8 inches long. It goes in the kitchen drawer or on the nightstand, so you're not digging through the garage in the dark.
It has no expiration date when stored dry. Keep it from freezing, and let it dry before you put it away. That's the whole care list. You can store it 5, 10, even 20 years. It doesn't matter if you need it next month or many years from now.
You can use it 2 ways. Sip through it, or squeeze from a bottle. That's all there is to learn.
Many filter straws are sold to hikers. We sell this one for the week the water is out at your house, and for the person who has to manage it from a kitchen chair.
What's inside, and why you can trust it
Water passes through four stages. A screen stops the sand. A medical-grade PP cotton layer takes the fine silt. A flow layer steadies things. Then a 0.01 micron hollow-fiber membrane removes 99.99% of bacteria and protozoa, including E. coli, Salmonella, Cholera, Giardia, Cryptosporidium and Legionella.
That's up to 20 times finer than the 0.1 or 0.2 micron straws you'll find at many outdoor stores. It also blocks microplastics. The materials are BPA-free and FDA food-contact-compliant. And hollow fiber is no gimmick. Hospital-grade purification and military field systems use the same type of technology.
It's third-party lab tested for bacteria and protozoa removal, and pressure-tested for membrane integrity, seal strength and leak resistance. It's tested to the rated figures, and it's been drop-tested from about 3 feet, in case it slips off the counter. Buyers give it 4.8 stars across 2,318 reviews.
Emergency Preparedness Sale ends in
- Filters 99.99% of bacteria and protozoa
- Rated for 1,800 gallons
- No batteries, no pump, no expiration when stored dry
Up to 67% off. Try it for 30 days. If you're not happy, email us and we'll refund you. Not sold on Amazon. 100,000+ happy customers.
Here's what it doesn't do
You've been around long enough to distrust anything that claims to do everything. Good. Stay that way.
This straw does not remove viruses, chemicals, heavy metals or salt.
When viruses are a concern, boil the water or add purification tablets. Don't drink water you suspect is chemically contaminated. The CDC says boiling or disinfecting can't make that water safe, and a filter can't either.
If you have a weak immune system or a medical condition, ask your doctor what they'd want you to do about water in an outage. Then do that.
And keep what stored water you can manage. A filter still needs a source. We'd rather you know exactly what's in your drawer than find out on a bad day.
"Is this for me?" What people your age ask
"Will my hands manage it?" Squeezing takes some grip, and the first few draws take effort. Try it when it comes. If it doesn't suit your hands, you have 30 days to tell us, and you get your money back.
"Is this a gimmick?" It's a filter with a plain job and plain limits. You just read them. Run a bottle through it at your own sink and see what comes out.
"I'm not one of those prepper people." Neither are we. You've kept a flashlight in the drawer your whole life, and no one called you a prepper for it.
"I'll get to it after the holidays." Most people mean to. But a package takes days and a boil notice gives you none. The only good time to buy is before, because the aisles empty first.
For your independence
You've looked after yourself, and everybody else, for a long time.
You've earned the right not to be standing in a water line with a jug in each hand. You've earned the right not to wait on someone's schedule for a glass of water in your own home.
And if your kids worry about you living on your own, this is one thing you can take off their list today. It's a short conversation: "Yes, I've got water covered. It's in the drawer."
You don't need a bunker. You need the bare minimum.
The MINIMLS Team
Five straws for $79.99 instead of $149.95
Our rule of thumb is one per person, plus one for the go-bag. The Family Pack is 5 straws, 1 free included.
One for you. One for your spouse. One for the car. One for the bag by the door. And one each for the kids or grandkids who'd never get around to buying this themselves.
Bought singly, five straws would be $149.95. The Family Pack is $69.96 less, about $16 a straw. You won't find this offer on Amazon, because we don't sell there.
Buying for the whole family or your church? 10 straws, 2 of them free, are $129.99, about $13 a straw. 20, 4 of them free, are $199.99, about $10 a straw.
Where do they go? The kitchen drawer. The nightstand. The bag you'd take if you had to get out. The car. Your kids' and grandkids' houses.
How to order in three steps
- Choose your pack. The Family Pack is already selected, but you can pick any size.
- Check out. The sale price is already applied. There's no code to enter and no form to mail in.
- Watch for your tracking number. Every order ships the next business day, tracked and insured.
Questions? Write to hello@minimls.com and a person will answer.
And you take no risk at all. Try it for 30 days. If you're not happy, email us and we'll refund you. Unused or used.
So there's really only one question left. On the day the tap stops, do you want to be looking at a wall of cases you can't lift? Or opening a drawer?
Choose your pack below, before the next forecast chooses for you.
Feels sturdier than I figured for the price. Caps fit tight.
Walt E.It's a filter. If you know that going in you'll be happy.
Ed V.He's the skeptic in the house. He cut the instructions out and taped them inside the cabinet, so that's a yes from him.
Nancy J.
Try it for 30 days. If you're not happy, email us and we'll refund you.
Yes, Send Me the Family Pack: 5 Straws for $79.9930-day money back.
P.S. You'll probably go years without needing it. That's the plan. It keeps in the drawer with no expiration date when stored dry. But if the day ever comes when you do need it, you won't be able to order one then.
Sources: CDC on stored water, on E. coli and Salmonella, and on water treatment. WUNC on Asheville, November 18, 2024. Fox Weather on Jackson, 2022. Fox 5 on Texas, 2021.