Hydroflask

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also she’s a little old for being so into hydroflasks. They are a middle school thing. So she effectively stole it from a littler kid.

Really? What else do older teens use then? I think older teens do use hydroflasks too? Even many adults?

Yes, they do. Weird post by PP designed to take a dig at the daughter.

Why should we spare the feelings of a thief? Most kids would have left it there in case someone went back to find it. Or turned it into a lost and found. We have lost several water bottles and recovered some from lost and founds that were ours (stickers ir our name on it so we know it’s ours). Never would we just take one that wasn’t ours to stick it to the greedy rich.

I will guarantee you that most people do not make a trip back to the mall for a water bottle. Our middle school probably has 50 water bottles on a table unclaimed. When I’m at the mall I carry a bottled water all the time because I get hiccups easily. I always end up leaving it at a cash register.

It’s a used water bottle not a handbag with valuables. She saved another waste of plastic going to the dump. Good for her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a good find. Your daughter sounds resourceful. Hydroflasks and Stanley Cups are really popular at that age and do a great job facilitating hydration.. I don't know why you'd fight her on this.

Eh, deep down she will always know she’s drinking out of someone else’s cup. Gross.

Deep down? This can’t be an adult. You drink from someone else’s cup every time you go to a restaurant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also she’s a little old for being so into hydroflasks. They are a middle school thing. So she effectively stole it from a littler kid.

Really? What else do older teens use then? I think older teens do use hydroflasks too? Even many adults?

Yes, they do. Weird post by PP designed to take a dig at the daughter.

Why should we spare the feelings of a thief? Most kids would have left it there in case someone went back to find it. Or turned it into a lost and found. We have lost several water bottles and recovered some from lost and founds that were ours (stickers ir our name on it so we know it’s ours). Never would we just take one that wasn’t ours to stick it to the greedy rich.

I will guarantee you that most people do not make a trip back to the mall for a water bottle. Our middle school probably has 50 water bottles on a table unclaimed. When I’m at the mall I carry a bottled water all the time because I get hiccups easily. I always end up leaving it at a cash register.

It’s a used water bottle not a handbag with valuables. She saved another waste of plastic going to the dump. Good for her.

She should just snatch it the next time someone puts it down for a moment. She’s doing them a favor! Surely she can afford her own water bottle but why not just help herself whenever she feels like it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a good find. Your daughter sounds resourceful. Hydroflasks and Stanley Cups are really popular at that age and do a great job facilitating hydration.. I don't know why you'd fight her on this.

Eh, deep down she will always know she’s drinking out of someone else’s cup. Gross.

Deep down? This can’t be an adult. You drink from someone else’s cup every time you go to a restaurant.

She knows it’s not hers every time she takes a sip and feels the indentations from other teeth or looks at the dents, she knows she got that off the street.

And clean straws come with the restaurant cups. I don’t go thru the trash to find an already used one. Maybe you do though.

[Anonymous]

To the PP regarding unclaimed water bottles at the middle school. Bet most of the great (or seemingly great from a MS perspective) brands are NOT there.

Those get stolen. It’s so weird.

Again, my dd saw someone take hers at school. It had very specific stickers on it. I guess that girl liked the stickers too.

I told her to speak up next time. Like just straight up call the girl out. If she was going to be bold enough to steal that water bottle, my dd should speak up. Dd is *not* shy, but wouldn’t. Lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t read the whole thread. Here are my takeaways.

Picking up a used water bottle is gross. I guess you can sanitize it, but still????

I refuse to buy my kid a Hydroflask, Stanley mug, or Yeti tumbler. Thankfully, my kids have never asked for one. They’re all way overpriced and the way my kids lose and misplace things, you better bet my kids are getting the Walmart knockoff of the Hydroflask or they can use a Nalgene. I don’t scoff all name brands, but the $40 water bottle craze seems a little nuts IMHO.

Nalgene is so nasty. Why would you want your kids to be drinking out of plastic all day long?

Nalgene is awesome and BPA free.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a good find. Your daughter sounds resourceful. Hydroflasks and Stanley Cups are really popular at that age and do a great job facilitating hydration.. I don't know why you'd fight her on this.

Eh, deep down she will always know she’s drinking out of someone else’s cup. Gross.

Deep down? This can’t be an adult. You drink from someone else’s cup every time you go to a restaurant.

Open cups being put through an industrial sanitation dishwasher is very different from a water bottle with chewed plastic straw going through home dishwasher. It needs a bottle and straw brush and hot water bleach soak. Doubt OP’s daughter put much effort into cleansing it

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

It was stolen.

She found it in the street, but some rich kid threw it in a planter at the mall? Huh? The story isn’t even straight.

The best way to learn a lesson is to have her go to the mall with you and drop it off at the info desk or lost and found.

And for those who claim most people won’t be coming back for it, that’s not the standard of morality. If anyone might go back for it, return it.i guarantee you we’d have gone back for it - and we’re wealthy.

[Anonymous]

Well I'm poor and my DD has a hydro flask I bought on Amazon for 20 or 25 dollars, can't remember.

This whole thing is gross in addition to being wrong. Teeth marks?

OP step up your parenting please. The fact that she took this and justifies it is... not good.

[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?

[Anonymous]

Hopefully OP ignores insane posters telling her to take it back to lost & found. The depth of how weird it would be to have her daughter do that knows no bounds. Kid found a bottle, kid is drinking from the bottle...good on her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also she’s a little old for being so into hydroflasks. They are a middle school thing. So she effectively stole it from a littler kid.

Really? What else do older teens use then? I think older teens do use hydroflasks too? Even many adults?

Yes, they do. Weird post by PP designed to take a dig at the daughter.

Why should we spare the feelings of a thief? Most kids would have left it there in case someone went back to find it. Or turned it into a lost and found. We have lost several water bottles and recovered some from lost and founds that were ours (stickers ir our name on it so we know it’s ours). Never would we just take one that wasn’t ours to stick it to the greedy rich.

The lost and found... on the street? I don't know where you live, PP, but there aren't lost and found boxes on the corner in my neighborhood. If it had been lost at school, sure. But an unlabeled water bottle in the street is the quintessential "finders keepers, losers weepers" dynamic. There's nowhere to return it to!

If you can't afford to lose it, take better care of it. Label it with your phone number if you expect to leave it behind and get it back.

Good on the kid for washing and using what someone left behind instead of calling it trash.

She said the street and then later said it was hidden in a planter at the mall. Where there is a lost and found. Which doesn’t toss items every night!?!

To the PP saying it was a dig to point out she’s pretty old for hydroflask - most 9th graders wouldn’t be caught dead with one anymore. They have moved on to Stanley. It is a weird thing to steal.

You're speaking on behalf of all ninth graders now? Since you're trafficking in bullying and being judgmental, what else is weird for this age group? It could be helpful for this board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully OP ignores insane posters telling her to take it back to lost & found. The depth of how weird it would be to have her daughter do that knows no bounds. Kid found a bottle, kid is drinking from the bottle...good on her.

She had two different stories about how a bottle was abandoned. IME, that means someone is lying.

In any event- in your opinion, if a kid went to the lost and found and selected a Hydroflask to keep (which wasn’t his), would that be okay?