Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

For years now I've worked in construction, and hate leaving the job site when I'm filthy to get in the truck to go grab an unhealthy fast food lunch. Once you drive to where you're going, wait in line, go back to the job site...if you've got a half hour lunch, you're lucky to have 10 minutes to wolf it all down. This is stressful. Maybe I'm getting more mature? Personally I like to have a little respite and eat in peace, but often I have essentially gone without a break to run around town chasing lunch because my choices are to literally "brown bag it", or take my enormous playmate cooler, that let's face it, isn't a cooler without a freezer bucket's worth of ice every morning. I have used the Stanley thermos for coffee before, Which keeps beverages either hot or cold), but have always carried it along separately with whatever other bulky crappy lunch container I brought with me. Every other cooler I've used, the lid pops off when you don't want it too, or it won't close. Now I've read other reviews from folks complaining about the Stanley's box size being too small, but my thoughts on that are unless you are eating like a horse, or are trying to pack one for lunch it's ideal for someone between 180 - 280 lbs. I guess if you need 5 sandwiches, family size bags of chips, and two liter bottles of pop for eats, this is probably not the lunch box for you. I bought two coleman reusable ice packs from Walmart for a couple bucks that fit perfectly in the Stanley's two compartments. I have no problem packing my average daily lunch of 1 banana, a full size sandwich, a ziplock bag of chips, a granola bar, some carrots, and sometimes either a bowl of salad, or a bowl of salsa for chips. It all fits WITH THE TWO ICE PACKS! And there's still room for cookies and a couple hard boiled eggs. When I get home at night I just pop the ice packs in the freezer and they're ready for my lovely wife who lovingly packs my lunch the next day. What's so nice about this lunch box is it IN'T TOO BIG... When I get out of the truck in the morning at work, I often have to carry two armloads of tools with me on the way to the job, saws, cords, tool belt, drill, tool box. So I like to make as few a trips as possible back and forth. This combo many times makes the trip, and I don't have to worry about bruising it, or yardsaling my lunch because of some other brands inferior lids or handles, etc. This is a pretty tough unit, it's solid, but I don't throw it around. The thermos nests in the top lid and is locked in when the handle is in the up position. I've found this thing to be the closest functional lunchbox to the old black metal or plastic lunchboxes that factory workers all over the country used to use, which were about the same size but were single wall design and didn't keep anything cold. Those old boxes kept a thermos in the lid too, but you can't find them anymore unless your old dad still has his, or maybe your grandpa and wants to part with it. Every company seems to make the big bulky vacationer size or fisherman size coolers, but Stanley remembered to make something for the working man. Up until I got this box, lunchtime was still work and a hassle, this has completely taken the hassle out of lunch.