Anonymous wrote:This thread is so entertaining! Following for fun.

+1 and new poster. Such drama over water bottles in a post and behind the scenes I never knew could exist!

We have our story for those that want to be entertained. Hahahaha.

My daughter, tween or maybe young teen a few years back is also hard on her insulated Klean kanteen. She chews the sport spout and her tooth marks are everywhere all over the spout. Looks awful but that’s the way she likes it. One day when I was taking it out of the dishwasher, I found the spout was totally free of tooth marks. So I asked if she got a new spout or something and she said no. She says it’s her friend’s!

So apparently they had something at the gym. She left her bottle there and went back to get it after but all the left behind items and water bottles have been put to the side and would nearly have been disposed end of the week. So she picked up one that she thought was hers and brought it back to class but only realized it wasn’t actually hers when looking at the spout. It wasn’t chewed. She had no stickers and the sharpie she wrote at the bottom has probably worn off.

At the end of the day she saw one of her school mates waiting out at the driveway with the same bottle and she stared at the spout. She says it seemed like hers. I was like wow. How could you tell and my daughter giggled and said she recognized the two deep tooth scratches she knew she made on it when she was bored at gym class and was biting away and twisting the spout around her mouth. she had just lost a tooth then so the other tooth was really sharp and so made a few deep tooth gashes on the spout that was really distinct! Wow. That’s one sure way to recognize your own water bottle!

Anyway, the girl said no. Insisted the bottle in her hand was hers, claimed she also chewed her bottle and was sure it was hers. She also didn’t want to entertain the exchange back for a nicer looking bottle spout.

Whatever the case, it didn’t take longer than a week and more tooth marks are now all over this bottle. We let it be and if she likes chewing it. So be it. She should be old enough to handle these things. We were not going to fight her or around the lost and found or helicopter a snowflake like someone else spout will make you sick etc and force order something on her etc. she lost it, got it mixed up and she will learn to deal with it. The L&f was also probably all done with the bottles too and I know our school dumps them or send them to the thrift every Friday.

My daughter, now 17, is still a water bottle biter and still has this bottle. Her other bottles (hydroflask included) have her tooth marks on them too and she claims she can always still recognize her own. She can also always tell if her sister is using her spout mistakenly too. They have the same color and the younger chews her bottle too but maybe not as much! My bottle has NO tooth marks and I can tell mine!

So lost and found, stickers, names or not. She knows her chewed spout! She might even recognize if it was ever OPs scenario if she ever lost a lost bottle in the mall!

Haha hope this keeps you guys entertained.

This thread is so entertaining! Following for fun.

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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.

No they wouldn’t. I have found my kids’ water bottles in most and found.

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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?

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.”

Drinking out of plastic is so gross at this point, even if it is bpa free.

Not really. Also, unless you’re getting your water from a spring, most of it comes out of a PVC pipe, which is made of plastic.

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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?

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.”

Drinking out of plastic is so gross at this point, even if it is bpa free.

I am annoyed the schools send stuff to lost and found so frequently, and don’t really publicize it.
If you see a hoodie at the playground, maybe leave it. The kid will find it tomorrow.

I say this a little bit tongue in cheek. But really, kids will find misplaced stuff at school within 24 hours. Just leave it in the classroom for a day.

This is beside the point—re: the OP

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Anonymous wrote:So this is why my kids hydrpflssk(and Costco bottles) never ended up in lost and found.

SAME! Not to mention her two sweatshirts and long winter coat that were stolen! How can a parent not see their child is wearing a coat they didn’t purchase for them. If your kid brings home something that wasn’t purchased on their behalf can you please send it back. Finding it in the playground is not the same as finding it in the woods.

My old volunteer assignment at school was lost & found. It was a vile job. We switched to a policy of throwing away water bottles that weren’t claimed weekly after a brave volunteer decided to empty them but encountered the one that contained milk. You’d be surprised how rarely even the nicest hoodies or jackets were claimed- our Girl Scouts ran a no-effort coat drive every year just using the previous year’s unclaimed jackets. And the sweatshirts that get left on the playground in the mulch in the rain on a Friday? If they are sopping wet, no way is our janitor allowing them in the building. He’ll bag a few if he has clear bags, but if they’re mildewed they’re going straight in the trash.

It’s more likely your daughter didn’t claim her stuff on time or left it in a gross spot rather than someone stealing it.

Yeah, no. She was playing on the playground, put her stuff down and came back and it was gone. She and I both went to the lost and found after school, nothing. She leaves her stuff in a particular spot so she knows where to find it. Ther is at least one other kid stealing her stuff. Ad I said, if your kid comes home with something not specifically purchased by or for them, send it back to whence it came.

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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.

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.

None of this is relevant. We're talking about water bottles with no contact info or name on them, not a purse with valuables and ID, a phone whose owner could likely be identified (and is essentially useless to anyone but the owner anyway), or a laptop with a business card. An anonymous water bottle can't be returned, will likely be trashed, so it's better to keep it out of the landfill IMO. I would keep a nice water bottle that I found in the street. I have and would always return a wallet, purse, or phone to its rightful owner. In fact once I turned in a $100 bill to customer service at Target. A wallet, laptop, or keys etc where I couldn't identify the owner or if I just didn't trust the lost and found I would take to the police station. Nobody is going to the police station to recover their water bottle, but they might end up there for something important/valuable.

I guess I'm the only one aware of the fact that if you ask at a lost and found at your gym, library, store, school, mall, after school activity, and many other places they often have a "Lost & Found" and there are water bottles in them. Now you know. If you forget one somewhere next time, ask and you may get it back.

These policies are all over the place if you cared to look. Many lost & founds have a policy that's effectively "if it touches your lips, we're not taking it." Now you know.

"For sanitary reasons, DEN Lost and Found does not keep water bottles, hats, pillows or blankets."

https://www.flydenver.com/app/uploads/2023/09/21-60-Lost-and-Found-1.pdf

"What We DO NOT Hold
Water bottles"

https://lostandfound.byu.edu/

"Campus Safety does not take the following items in as found property; water bottles, hats and gloves, cables and chargers, paper notebooks, perishiable items, other items of low monetary value."

https://www.luc.edu/safety/lost_and_found.html

I'll remember to keep my water bottle next to me at all times when in those places. Luckily many other places have their own rules.

Why "luckily"? Lost & founds that have less sanitary rules are now more virtuous? Because they may hold on to the fabled water bottle?

It's lucky for the person who lost the item, is it not?

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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.

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.

None of this is relevant. We're talking about water bottles with no contact info or name on them, not a purse with valuables and ID, a phone whose owner could likely be identified (and is essentially useless to anyone but the owner anyway), or a laptop with a business card. An anonymous water bottle can't be returned, will likely be trashed, so it's better to keep it out of the landfill IMO. I would keep a nice water bottle that I found in the street. I have and would always return a wallet, purse, or phone to its rightful owner. In fact once I turned in a $100 bill to customer service at Target. A wallet, laptop, or keys etc where I couldn't identify the owner or if I just didn't trust the lost and found I would take to the police station. Nobody is going to the police station to recover their water bottle, but they might end up there for something important/valuable.

I guess I'm the only one aware of the fact that if you ask at a lost and found at your gym, library, store, school, mall, after school activity, and many other places they often have a "Lost & Found" and there are water bottles in them. Now you know. If you forget one somewhere next time, ask and you may get it back.

These policies are all over the place if you cared to look. Many lost & founds have a policy that's effectively "if it touches your lips, we're not taking it." Now you know.

"For sanitary reasons, DEN Lost and Found does not keep water bottles, hats, pillows or blankets."

https://www.flydenver.com/app/uploads/2023/09/21-60-Lost-and-Found-1.pdf

"What We DO NOT Hold
Water bottles"

https://lostandfound.byu.edu/

"Campus Safety does not take the following items in as found property; water bottles, hats and gloves, cables and chargers, paper notebooks, perishiable items, other items of low monetary value."

https://www.luc.edu/safety/lost_and_found.html

I'll remember to keep my water bottle next to me at all times when in those places. Luckily many other places have their own rules.

Why "luckily"? Lost & founds that have less sanitary rules are now more virtuous? Because they may hold on to the fabled water bottle?

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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.

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.

None of this is relevant. We're talking about water bottles with no contact info or name on them, not a purse with valuables and ID, a phone whose owner could likely be identified (and is essentially useless to anyone but the owner anyway), or a laptop with a business card. An anonymous water bottle can't be returned, will likely be trashed, so it's better to keep it out of the landfill IMO. I would keep a nice water bottle that I found in the street. I have and would always return a wallet, purse, or phone to its rightful owner. In fact once I turned in a $100 bill to customer service at Target. A wallet, laptop, or keys etc where I couldn't identify the owner or if I just didn't trust the lost and found I would take to the police station. Nobody is going to the police station to recover their water bottle, but they might end up there for something important/valuable.

I guess I'm the only one aware of the fact that if you ask at a lost and found at your gym, library, store, school, mall, after school activity, and many other places they often have a "Lost & Found" and there are water bottles in them. Now you know. If you forget one somewhere next time, ask and you may get it back.

These policies are all over the place if you cared to look. Many lost & founds have a policy that's effectively "if it touches your lips, we're not taking it." Now you know.

"For sanitary reasons, DEN Lost and Found does not keep water bottles, hats, pillows or blankets."

https://www.flydenver.com/app/uploads/2023/09/21-60-Lost-and-Found-1.pdf

"What We DO NOT Hold
Water bottles"

https://lostandfound.byu.edu/

"Campus Safety does not take the following items in as found property; water bottles, hats and gloves, cables and chargers, paper notebooks, perishiable items, other items of low monetary value."

https://www.luc.edu/safety/lost_and_found.html

I'll remember to keep my water bottle next to me at all times when in those places. Luckily many other places have their own rules.

It seems you have some research to do since you were speaking on behalf of all lost & founds.

I said if you ask, they may have it. Still true.

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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.

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.

None of this is relevant. We're talking about water bottles with no contact info or name on them, not a purse with valuables and ID, a phone whose owner could likely be identified (and is essentially useless to anyone but the owner anyway), or a laptop with a business card. An anonymous water bottle can't be returned, will likely be trashed, so it's better to keep it out of the landfill IMO. I would keep a nice water bottle that I found in the street. I have and would always return a wallet, purse, or phone to its rightful owner. In fact once I turned in a $100 bill to customer service at Target. A wallet, laptop, or keys etc where I couldn't identify the owner or if I just didn't trust the lost and found I would take to the police station. Nobody is going to the police station to recover their water bottle, but they might end up there for something important/valuable.

I guess I'm the only one aware of the fact that if you ask at a lost and found at your gym, library, store, school, mall, after school activity, and many other places they often have a "Lost & Found" and there are water bottles in them. Now you know. If you forget one somewhere next time, ask and you may get it back.

These policies are all over the place if you cared to look. Many lost & founds have a policy that's effectively "if it touches your lips, we're not taking it." Now you know.

"For sanitary reasons, DEN Lost and Found does not keep water bottles, hats, pillows or blankets."

https://www.flydenver.com/app/uploads/2023/09/21-60-Lost-and-Found-1.pdf

"What We DO NOT Hold
Water bottles"

https://lostandfound.byu.edu/

"Campus Safety does not take the following items in as found property; water bottles, hats and gloves, cables and chargers, paper notebooks, perishiable items, other items of low monetary value."

https://www.luc.edu/safety/lost_and_found.html

I'll remember to keep my water bottle next to me at all times when in those places. Luckily many other places have their own rules.

It seems you have some research to do since you were speaking on behalf of all lost & founds.

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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.

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.

None of this is relevant. We're talking about water bottles with no contact info or name on them, not a purse with valuables and ID, a phone whose owner could likely be identified (and is essentially useless to anyone but the owner anyway), or a laptop with a business card. An anonymous water bottle can't be returned, will likely be trashed, so it's better to keep it out of the landfill IMO. I would keep a nice water bottle that I found in the street. I have and would always return a wallet, purse, or phone to its rightful owner. In fact once I turned in a $100 bill to customer service at Target. A wallet, laptop, or keys etc where I couldn't identify the owner or if I just didn't trust the lost and found I would take to the police station. Nobody is going to the police station to recover their water bottle, but they might end up there for something important/valuable.

I guess I'm the only one aware of the fact that if you ask at a lost and found at your gym, library, store, school, mall, after school activity, and many other places they often have a "Lost & Found" and there are water bottles in them. Now you know. If you forget one somewhere next time, ask and you may get it back.

These policies are all over the place if you cared to look. Many lost & founds have a policy that's effectively "if it touches your lips, we're not taking it." Now you know.

"For sanitary reasons, DEN Lost and Found does not keep water bottles, hats, pillows or blankets."

https://www.flydenver.com/app/uploads/2023/09/21-60-Lost-and-Found-1.pdf

"What We DO NOT Hold
Water bottles"

https://lostandfound.byu.edu/

"Campus Safety does not take the following items in as found property; water bottles, hats and gloves, cables and chargers, paper notebooks, perishiable items, other items of low monetary value."

https://www.luc.edu/safety/lost_and_found.html

I'll remember to keep my water bottle next to me at all times when in those places. Luckily many other places have their own rules.

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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.

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.

Read your last question. What type of community are you talking about anyway? A commune? A town? The mall?

Me personally I would have left it there. I also couldn’t imagine someone returning to the mall looking for it. I don’t know what other people would do. I don’t speak for a whole community

All I know is this discussion is about a water bottle. People’s water bottles are all eventually lost or recycled. We aren’t talking about someone leaving their $1,200 phone. Get a grip

Yep, there it is in a nutshell.

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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.

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.

Read your last question. What type of community are you talking about anyway? A commune? A town? The mall?

Me personally I would have left it there. I also couldn’t imagine someone returning to the mall looking for it. I don’t know what other people would do. I don’t speak for a whole community

All I know is this discussion is about a water bottle. People’s water bottles are all eventually lost or recycled. We aren’t talking about someone leaving their $1,200 phone. Get a grip

Meh. If you come and go out of a place often it doesn't hurt to ask if someone turned in your missing item. And it's a reminder that there are nice people out there because someone turned it in whether it be a water bottle or something else. It doesn't matter that you think someone wouldn't bother to do that or their item was meaningless.

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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.

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.

None of this is relevant. We're talking about water bottles with no contact info or name on them, not a purse with valuables and ID, a phone whose owner could likely be identified (and is essentially useless to anyone but the owner anyway), or a laptop with a business card. An anonymous water bottle can't be returned, will likely be trashed, so it's better to keep it out of the landfill IMO. I would keep a nice water bottle that I found in the street. I have and would always return a wallet, purse, or phone to its rightful owner. In fact once I turned in a $100 bill to customer service at Target. A wallet, laptop, or keys etc where I couldn't identify the owner or if I just didn't trust the lost and found I would take to the police station. Nobody is going to the police station to recover their water bottle, but they might end up there for something important/valuable.

I guess I'm the only one aware of the fact that if you ask at a lost and found at your gym, library, store, school, mall, after school activity, and many other places they often have a "Lost & Found" and there are water bottles in them. Now you know. If you forget one somewhere next time, ask and you may get it back.

These policies are all over the place if you cared to look. Many lost & founds have a policy that's effectively "if it touches your lips, we're not taking it." Now you know.

"For sanitary reasons, DEN Lost and Found does not keep water bottles, hats, pillows or blankets."

https://www.flydenver.com/app/uploads/2023/09/21-60-Lost-and-Found-1.pdf

"What We DO NOT Hold
Water bottles"

https://lostandfound.byu.edu/

"Campus Safety does not take the following items in as found property; water bottles, hats and gloves, cables and chargers, paper notebooks, perishiable items, other items of low monetary value."

https://www.luc.edu/safety/lost_and_found.html