Hydroflask

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. Hydroflask is SO 2023.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Fellow parents whose kids’ hydroflasks are perennially being stolen like this: if you order directly from hydroflask you can have their names etched on the bottle.

I broke down and did this after my sixth grader’s bottle was stolen for the third time when she left it at swim practice, and went back ten minutes later to find it gone.

I am hoping OP’s kid and the children of some of the PPs will draw the line at stealing a bottle with someone else’s name etched on it. But maybe not.

Kind of silly to have a name etched on a water bottle that’s not exactly valuable. After the second stolen one maybe switch to another brand and write her name in sharpie. Don’t believe the hype that these are miraculous compared to every other water bottle. Starbucks makes water bottles that hold the cold. Just put her name on it in permanent ink.

My daughter has had three iPhones stolen. Now that’s annoying.

Hydroflask does a pretty good job at avoiding lead and other contaminants. Not so much other brands. But thank you for suggesting I buy a different brand so your kid won’t steal it, I guess?

Seriously, if for some reason little girls are stealing certain brands of water bottles and your daughter had three stolen and you know it’s because it’s a certain brand, why buy another?
Yeti is equally contaminant free. Grays GeoPress water bottles have a water filter for the serious athletes. I would worry more about it getting lost so I stick to Starbucks

They are not stealing certain brands! Clearly there are people who think if you find a water bottle you can keep it. You have no basis for suggesting a Yeti magically be stolen. Stop distracting from the main issue which is not about a particular brand but the general concept of taking something you find that someone else lost. Our society is falling apart and this is one example of why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

Not everyone in your community is making good choices. How do people make these blanket statements with no embarrassment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

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[Anonymous]

OP - the only reason your daughter picked up this used water bottle is because it’s Hydroflask which is expensive and she views as a coveted brand. Let me guess, you wouldn’t purchase her her own to begin with. Why the hell else would she pick up and use someone else’s water bottle? You aren’t instilling good values. It should have been turned into the mall’s lost and found. They have one.

[Anonymous]

Drinking fountains. Why of why does everyone need to carry a water bottle everywhere now?

[Anonymous]

Your kid stole it. She returns it and a consequence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - the only reason your daughter picked up this used water bottle is because it’s Hydroflask which is expensive and she views as a coveted brand. Let me guess, you wouldn’t purchase her her own to begin with. Why the hell else would she pick up and use someone else’s water bottle? You aren’t instilling good values. It should have been turned into the mall’s lost and found. They have one.

Lost & found would have tossed it. The cleaners would have tossed it. She didn’t toss it. Good on her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

Not everyone in your community is making good choices. How do people make these blanket statements with no embarrassment.

Not everyone? Where did I say everyone was? I have left my phone and purse at places and they have always been turned in. I have turned in others personal items that I have found. Really, you live in a backwards community if people don't do this regularly. I once found a laptop bag and called the number on the business card and the grateful man came to retrieve it, brought his son, and made it a lesson for him that sometimes people do the right thing. He insisted I take $100 as a reward. It says a lot about you and your community that you wouldn't even consider making a good choice and assume nobody else would either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - the only reason your daughter picked up this used water bottle is because it’s Hydroflask which is expensive and she views as a coveted brand. Let me guess, you wouldn’t purchase her her own to begin with. Why the hell else would she pick up and use someone else’s water bottle? You aren’t instilling good values. It should have been turned into the mall’s lost and found. They have one.

Lost & found would have tossed it. The cleaners would have tossed it. She didn’t toss it. Good on her.

Strange that L&F is where I have found my kids coats, backpacks, lunch bags, and hoodies over the years. Do you know how this even works?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - the only reason your daughter picked up this used water bottle is because it’s Hydroflask which is expensive and she views as a coveted brand. Let me guess, you wouldn’t purchase her her own to begin with. Why the hell else would she pick up and use someone else’s water bottle? You aren’t instilling good values. It should have been turned into the mall’s lost and found. They have one.

Lost & found would have tossed it. The cleaners would have tossed it. She didn’t toss it. Good on her.

Wrong. I’m actually visited lots of lost and found places. Have you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fellow parents whose kids’ hydroflasks are perennially being stolen like this: if you order directly from hydroflask you can have their names etched on the bottle.

I broke down and did this after my sixth grader’s bottle was stolen for the third time when she left it at swim practice, and went back ten minutes later to find it gone.

I am hoping OP’s kid and the children of some of the PPs will draw the line at stealing a bottle with someone else’s name etched on it. But maybe not.

Kind of silly to have a name etched on a water bottle that’s not exactly valuable. After the second stolen one maybe switch to another brand and write her name in sharpie. Don’t believe the hype that these are miraculous compared to every other water bottle. Starbucks makes water bottles that hold the cold. Just put her name on it in permanent ink.

My daughter has had three iPhones stolen. Now that’s annoying.

Hydroflask does a pretty good job at avoiding lead and other contaminants. Not so much other brands. But thank you for suggesting I buy a different brand so your kid won’t steal it, I guess?

Hydroflasks are thin walled and dent easily. We switched to yeti and the have stayed dent free for a year now

That’s fine. Yetis are stolen too.

They’re overpriced too. Nalgene are BPA free, cost $10 and nobody is stealing them. I’ve had mine for 15 years. If you’re set on an insulated bottle, Walmart and Target have imitation Hydroflask that work just as well for a fraction of the price. If you’re image conscious, slap a Yeti sticker on it. Be warned, the sticker will cost as much as the knockoff bottle, but at least you’ll look cool and be able to announce “I have so much money that I buy $40 water bottles.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

Not everyone in your community is making good choices. How do people make these blanket statements with no embarrassment.

Not everyone? Where did I say everyone was? I have left my phone and purse at places and they have always been turned in. I have turned in others personal items that I have found. Really, you live in a backwards community if people don't do this regularly. I once found a laptop bag and called the number on the business card and the grateful man came to retrieve it, brought his son, and made it a lesson for him that sometimes people do the right thing. He insisted I take $100 as a reward. It says a lot about you and your community that you wouldn't even consider making a good choice and assume nobody else would either.

Telling that this is the conclusion you jumped to. It also seems that your community is rather judgmental.