Anonymous wrote:i work at a public high school. We keep water bottles for a week or two. But anyone with liquids in it other than water is thrown out. We don't care what brand it is and I have known teachers to take a few bottles on the day of dumping it. They are fine with milk or whatever is it and have heard too of commenting to one another that a chewed spout can either be replaced with a new one from amazon.

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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

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

Per this thread, there are several problems with your story.

"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."

There are people in this thread who are expert in lost and founds. They're indicating that we're simply wrong to suggest that bottles get thrown away. I'm sure one of these experts will be along shortly to tell you so.

"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."

Chewing on the straw is indicative of...something? Also, this other girl insisted on keeping a straw chewed on my somebody else. There's a lot to unpack here for the anti-chewing crowd. Again, I'm sure they'll be along shortly.

"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. "

Your daughter is 17 and is still in possession of a hydroflask. A poster earlier indicated that this speaks to her level of maturity and she should have already graduated to a Stanley's Cup. Hopefully, they'll be along shortly to weigh in on what water bottles are appropriate at what age level.

Thank you for your story! Per this thread, there are plenty of experts who will be standing on their soapboxes constructed from hydroflasks and judging you shortly.

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Anonymous wrote:The hydroflask was on the street, not in a planter at the mall. Per the OP.

How did the water bottle get from the mall to the street?

Asking because the Lost & Found seems to be such a critical part of the conversation.

Anonymous wrote:The hydroflask was on the street, not in a planter at the mall. Per the OP.

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