The Family Pack
When the Tap Stops, You Can Still Make Clean Water. This Sale Takes Packs Down to About $10 a Straw.
One straw is rated for 1,800 gallons of fresh water. No power, no batteries, no chemicals. Emergency Preparedness Sale: up to 67% off.
MBy the MINIMLS Team
Updated November 2026 · 5 min read
The best day to buy this is a quiet afternoon with nothing on the news. Here's why.
On the day a storm shows up on the forecast, the water aisle at your store is picked over by supper. The people with water that week are mostly the ones who already had it.
At the CDC's gallon a day, a family of four needs 56 gallons for two weeks. That's about 19 cases and about 470 pounds. You aren't going to find 19 cases on a Wednesday afternoon, and you aren't going to carry them if you do.
So when the case in the garage is gone, what does your family drink?
Here's the answer, and here's the price. The Emergency Preparedness Sale takes up to 67% off. Bigger packs come down to about $10 a straw. And there's a 30-day money-back guarantee behind it. MINIMLS has 100,000+ customers.
See the Sale Price on Every Pack★★★★★ 4.8 stars, 2,318 reviews
What you're actually buying
This is a mechanical filter. Nothing to charge. Nothing to plug in. Nothing to wait on.
You put one end in fresh water and draw through it. Inside, the water goes through four stages on its way to you.
- A coarse screen catches sand, mud and anything else you can see, so the fine membrane doesn't pack up early.
- A medical-grade PP cotton layer takes out the fine sediment, which is why the water comes out clear.
- A flow layer evens out the pressure, so the draw stays steady for a child or an older adult.
- A 0.01 micron hollow-fiber membrane does the real work. It removes 99.99% of bacteria and protozoa, including E. coli, Salmonella, Cholera, Giardia, Cryptosporidium and Legionella.
Many hiking straws are rated at 0.1 or 0.2 micron. This one is up to 20 times finer. E. coli, Salmonella and Giardia are the germs behind the hospital stories, and you can't see any of them in a clear glass. It also blocks microplastics, and its materials are BPA-free and FDA food-contact-compliant.
Water you store runs out. Water you can make doesn't.
Every case in your garage is a number that only goes down. You open it, you use it, and it's gone.
That's the difference between what most houses have and what this does. A filter turns the rain barrel, the creek or the pond down the road into water you can drink.
You should still keep some water. A filter needs a source. The CDC says to store at least 1 gallon per person per day for 3 days, and 2 weeks if possible. The straw is for the day the stored water runs low and the tap still isn't right.
More than a thing you sip from
Sip it. One end in the water, one end in your mouth. The first few draws take some effort. That's normal.
Squeeze it. Thread it onto a regular water bottle, fill the bottle from whatever fresh source you've got, turn it over and squeeze. Filtered water runs into a glass or a pot. So you can cook with it and wash with it, not just drink it, and nobody has to pull at all.
Carry it. At 2 oz, a child can carry their own.
Store it. It fits in a drawer, a glovebox or a coat pocket. No batteries, no pump, no moving parts. It has no expiration date when stored dry.
Why the pack is the whole point of this sale
A straw in the kitchen drawer can't help you on the highway.
A straw in the car can't help your daughter in her apartment across town.
People get split up, and a straw can only be in one place. So our rule is simple: one per person, plus one for the go-bag. A family of four with one go-bag is at five.
That's the Family Pack: 5 straws, 1 free included.
Bought one at a time, five straws cost $149.95. The Family Pack is $79.99. That's $69.96 less, about $16 a straw. And you buy it once. No refills, no plan, no membership.
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.
Here's what it doesn't do, and you should hear it from us
Be careful of anyone who says one little straw handles everything.
This is a filter. It doesn't remove viruses, chemicals, heavy metals or salt.
That's not us being modest. It's what a hollow-fiber membrane is. It strains by size. A virus slips through the pores, and a dissolved chemical isn't a particle for it to catch.
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 neither can this straw.
That leaves the job it does do: fresh water you can't trust from a rain barrel, a pond or a creek, on the day the bottles are gone. Most households have no answer for that day.
Does it really work?
You get a 0.01 micron membrane, tested to the rated figures, with 4.8 stars from 2,318 reviews. It's third-party lab tested for bacteria and protozoa removal, and pressure-tested for membrane integrity, seal strength and leak resistance. In the factory's lab test, about 210,000 E. coli per milliliter went in, and none were detected coming out.
But your own kitchen is the better test. Run a bottle through it when it comes. If you don't like what you see, send us an email and get your money back.
It keeps with no expiration date when stored dry. You can store it 5, 10, even 20 years. Keep it from freezing, and let it dry before you put it away. That's the whole care list.
Two questions before you buy
"Why not wait?" A package takes days. A boil notice gives you none. What runs out when you wait is the price, the time and the aisle.
"Why not a cheap two-pack off a marketplace?" You can. But you won't know what's inside until the day you need it. Cheap look-alikes are out there, and a label can say anything. Whatever you buy, check that the seller tells you what it can't do and will take it back.
Which pack should you get?
1 or 2 straws cover one or two people, with nothing for the car. That's $29.99 or $49.99.
The Family Pack, 5 straws with 1 free included, covers a family of four and the go-bag. It's $79.99, and it's where we'd start.
The 10-pack, 2 free included, is for the car, a bigger family or your grown kids. It's $129.99, about $13 a straw.
The 20- and 40-packs, 4 and 8 free included, are for churches, neighbors and big families. They're $199.99 and $389.99, about $10 a straw. That's where the deepest savings are.
See Every Pack and Price30-day money back.
Handle it this weekend
You've seen this movie.
The forecast turns on a Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon the aisle looks picked over, and a man is walking out with the last case while you're still looking for a cart.
Or the same forecast, with five straws in the drawer. You fill a bottle, thread on the filter, and squeeze a glass for your grandson. Nothing else about that week changes. You just aren't in that aisle.
Take the easy step today, and you'll skip the hard one later.
You don't need a bunker. You need the bare minimum.
Every order ships the next business day, tracked and insured.
Try it for 30 days. If you're not happy, email us and we'll refund you. Unused or used. The sale is on now.
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.
Get the Family Pack: 5 Straws for $79.9930-day money back.
P.S. This sale won't run forever. The next storm won't post a date.
Sources: CDC, emergency water supply and water treatment guidance. MINIMLS product specifications.