Anonymous wrote:Buy a new straw and lid. Honestly, I’d be happy she is ok with using someone’s old water bottle. There was no lost and found to turn it into and it is way more likely that it would have ended up in a landfill. At least it’s being used.

At our elem school, the amount of North Face and Patagonia fleeces and jackets in the lost and found are staggering. And despite the office constantly asking parents to look at the lost and found, very few people do. All that stuff (as well as Hydroflasks) just get donated or worse, thrown away.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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? :roll: 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.

Oh sure. On the street. I mean if you believe that story in the first place.

So it sounds like you're okay if it was found on the street. No reason to not believe the kid. At least you finally came around.

If it was on the street likely someone else could have used it more. But no. I don't believe it was on the street why would I? And who lets their kids pick up trash in the street and drink from it? You are nasty.

So your advice is that OP tell her kid that she's a liar and rip the bottle away from her. You sound delightful.

I'll take that over letting my daughter pick up street trash and put her mouth on it. God knows where it's been.

She thoroughly washed it. Just the way glasses, forks, spoons are washed in restaurants. It's amazing how soap has worked for millennia.

Do you often eat off forks and plates found in the street after a quick wash? At least the OP can shell out and buy the kid a clean straw.

Per OP, it wasn't a quick wash.

Nothing is going to take the bite marks out of a used straw. If you and your kid regularly dumpster dive this may seem normal to you.

Okay? Did you win a point?

Do you let your kids bite their water bottle straws? Or do you get grossed out by it? My kids do that to their water bottles and but I will still drink from it!

Of course. Chewing is a form of stress relief. The inability to effectively chew is also associated with cognitive decline. I think this, in part, explains the poster strangely obsessed with the chewed straw.

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/hippocampus/story/2023/can-chewing-help-manage-stress

My own chewed straw is not equal to a straw found on the street that I would never put in my mouth. What other filth do you put in your mouth? Do you have any standards?

The straw was cleaned per OP. Not everybody is as wasteful as you.

You're the only one who would enjoy this used straw.

OP said her daughter did as well. So you’re wrong again…yeah?

A kid gets a pass b/c they don't know any better. They're also known to eat their own boogers. What's your excuse?

So you admit you were wrong. That’s progress.

What are you talking about? Kids need their parents to teach them better. It's pretty clear you're just trolling.

Kid did nothing wrong. Your insistence that she did, while calling her a thief and a liar, is the problem.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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? :roll: 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.

Oh sure. On the street. I mean if you believe that story in the first place.

So it sounds like you're okay if it was found on the street. No reason to not believe the kid. At least you finally came around.

If it was on the street likely someone else could have used it more. But no. I don't believe it was on the street why would I? And who lets their kids pick up trash in the street and drink from it? You are nasty.

So your advice is that OP tell her kid that she's a liar and rip the bottle away from her. You sound delightful.

I'll take that over letting my daughter pick up street trash and put her mouth on it. God knows where it's been.

She thoroughly washed it. Just the way glasses, forks, spoons are washed in restaurants. It's amazing how soap has worked for millennia.

Do you often eat off forks and plates found in the street after a quick wash? At least the OP can shell out and buy the kid a clean straw.

Per OP, it wasn't a quick wash.

Nothing is going to take the bite marks out of a used straw. If you and your kid regularly dumpster dive this may seem normal to you.

Okay? Did you win a point?

Do you let your kids bite their water bottle straws? Or do you get grossed out by it? My kids do that to their water bottles and but I will still drink from it!

Of course. Chewing is a form of stress relief. The inability to effectively chew is also associated with cognitive decline. I think this, in part, explains the poster strangely obsessed with the chewed straw.

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/hippocampus/story/2023/can-chewing-help-manage-stress

My own chewed straw is not equal to a straw found on the street that I would never put in my mouth. What other filth do you put in your mouth? Do you have any standards?

The straw was cleaned per OP. Not everybody is as wasteful as you.

You're the only one who would enjoy this used straw.

OP said her daughter did as well. So you’re wrong again…yeah?

A kid gets a pass b/c they don't know any better. They're also known to eat their own boogers. What's your excuse?

So you admit you were wrong. That’s progress.

What are you talking about? Kids need their parents to teach them better. It's pretty clear you're just trolling.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Oh sure. On the street. I mean if you believe that story in the first place.

So it sounds like you're okay if it was found on the street. No reason to not believe the kid. At least you finally came around.

If it was on the street likely someone else could have used it more. But no. I don't believe it was on the street why would I? And who lets their kids pick up trash in the street and drink from it? You are nasty.

So your advice is that OP tell her kid that she's a liar and rip the bottle away from her. You sound delightful.

I'll take that over letting my daughter pick up street trash and put her mouth on it. God knows where it's been.

She thoroughly washed it. Just the way glasses, forks, spoons are washed in restaurants. It's amazing how soap has worked for millennia.

Do you often eat off forks and plates found in the street after a quick wash? At least the OP can shell out and buy the kid a clean straw.

Per OP, it wasn't a quick wash.

Nothing is going to take the bite marks out of a used straw. If you and your kid regularly dumpster dive this may seem normal to you.

Okay? Did you win a point?

Do you let your kids bite their water bottle straws? Or do you get grossed out by it? My kids do that to their water bottles and but I will still drink from it!

Of course. Chewing is a form of stress relief. The inability to effectively chew is also associated with cognitive decline. I think this, in part, explains the poster strangely obsessed with the chewed straw.

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/hippocampus/story/2023/can-chewing-help-manage-stress

My own chewed straw is not equal to a straw found on the street that I would never put in my mouth. What other filth do you put in your mouth? Do you have any standards?

The straw was cleaned per OP. Not everybody is as wasteful as you.

You're the only one who would enjoy this used straw.

OP said her daughter did as well. So you’re wrong again…yeah?

A kid gets a pass b/c they don't know any better. They're also known to eat their own boogers. What's your excuse?

So you admit you were wrong. That’s progress.

Anonymous wrote:Hmmm….did she find it on the street or at the mall? You say on the street, but then reference the mall closing. And why would a cleaning crew look at planters on the street?

My concern would be that a kid put it in the planter to hide it and was coming back for it. Maybe they wanted to go into a store and the store would not let them bring it in. Maybe they got tired of carrying it. Or went to use the restroom and did not want to carry it on.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Oh sure. On the street. I mean if you believe that story in the first place.

So it sounds like you're okay if it was found on the street. No reason to not believe the kid. At least you finally came around.

If it was on the street likely someone else could have used it more. But no. I don't believe it was on the street why would I? And who lets their kids pick up trash in the street and drink from it? You are nasty.

So your advice is that OP tell her kid that she's a liar and rip the bottle away from her. You sound delightful.

I'll take that over letting my daughter pick up street trash and put her mouth on it. God knows where it's been.

She thoroughly washed it. Just the way glasses, forks, spoons are washed in restaurants. It's amazing how soap has worked for millennia.

Do you often eat off forks and plates found in the street after a quick wash? At least the OP can shell out and buy the kid a clean straw.

Per OP, it wasn't a quick wash.

Nothing is going to take the bite marks out of a used straw. If you and your kid regularly dumpster dive this may seem normal to you.

Okay? Did you win a point?

Do you let your kids bite their water bottle straws? Or do you get grossed out by it? My kids do that to their water bottles and but I will still drink from it!

Of course. Chewing is a form of stress relief. The inability to effectively chew is also associated with cognitive decline. I think this, in part, explains the poster strangely obsessed with the chewed straw.

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/hippocampus/story/2023/can-chewing-help-manage-stress

My own chewed straw is not equal to a straw found on the street that I would never put in my mouth. What other filth do you put in your mouth? Do you have any standards?

The straw was cleaned per OP. Not everybody is as wasteful as you.

You're the only one who would enjoy this used straw.

OP said her daughter did as well. So you’re wrong again…yeah?

A kid gets a pass b/c they don't know any better. They're also known to eat their own boogers. What's your excuse?

Anonymous wrote:This is really odd and gross to me. You don’t pick up someone’s used water bottle off the “street” and start using it as your own. My kids would never do that. Are you raising a wild animal?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Oh sure. On the street. I mean if you believe that story in the first place.

So it sounds like you're okay if it was found on the street. No reason to not believe the kid. At least you finally came around.

If it was on the street likely someone else could have used it more. But no. I don't believe it was on the street why would I? And who lets their kids pick up trash in the street and drink from it? You are nasty.

So your advice is that OP tell her kid that she's a liar and rip the bottle away from her. You sound delightful.

I'll take that over letting my daughter pick up street trash and put her mouth on it. God knows where it's been.

She thoroughly washed it. Just the way glasses, forks, spoons are washed in restaurants. It's amazing how soap has worked for millennia.

Do you often eat off forks and plates found in the street after a quick wash? At least the OP can shell out and buy the kid a clean straw.

Per OP, it wasn't a quick wash.

Nothing is going to take the bite marks out of a used straw. If you and your kid regularly dumpster dive this may seem normal to you.

Okay? Did you win a point?

Do you let your kids bite their water bottle straws? Or do you get grossed out by it? My kids do that to their water bottles and but I will still drink from it!

Of course. Chewing is a form of stress relief. The inability to effectively chew is also associated with cognitive decline. I think this, in part, explains the poster strangely obsessed with the chewed straw.

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/hippocampus/story/2023/can-chewing-help-manage-stress

My own chewed straw is not equal to a straw found on the street that I would never put in my mouth. What other filth do you put in your mouth? Do you have any standards?

The straw was cleaned per OP. Not everybody is as wasteful as you.

You're the only one who would enjoy this used straw.

OP said her daughter did as well. So you’re wrong again…yeah?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Oh sure. On the street. I mean if you believe that story in the first place.

So it sounds like you're okay if it was found on the street. No reason to not believe the kid. At least you finally came around.

If it was on the street likely someone else could have used it more. But no. I don't believe it was on the street why would I? And who lets their kids pick up trash in the street and drink from it? You are nasty.

So your advice is that OP tell her kid that she's a liar and rip the bottle away from her. You sound delightful.

I'll take that over letting my daughter pick up street trash and put her mouth on it. God knows where it's been.

She thoroughly washed it. Just the way glasses, forks, spoons are washed in restaurants. It's amazing how soap has worked for millennia.

Do you often eat off forks and plates found in the street after a quick wash? At least the OP can shell out and buy the kid a clean straw.

Per OP, it wasn't a quick wash.

Nothing is going to take the bite marks out of a used straw. If you and your kid regularly dumpster dive this may seem normal to you.

Okay? Did you win a point?

Do you let your kids bite their water bottle straws? Or do you get grossed out by it? My kids do that to their water bottles and but I will still drink from it!

Of course. Chewing is a form of stress relief. The inability to effectively chew is also associated with cognitive decline. I think this, in part, explains the poster strangely obsessed with the chewed straw.

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/hippocampus/story/2023/can-chewing-help-manage-stress

My own chewed straw is not equal to a straw found on the street that I would never put in my mouth. What other filth do you put in your mouth? Do you have any standards?

The straw was cleaned per OP. Not everybody is as wasteful as you.

You're the only one who would enjoy this used straw.

Anonymous wrote:

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

And dd straight up saw someone using one of her stickered non-branded bottle last year. Gross.

Anonymous wrote:My only question is would she have kept it if it wasn’t a HF?

my DD had a large 40oz HF she used for her outdoor sport but sfterwardd she wanted a smaller one in a new color to fit in the bottle holder on her backpack. I was able to buy a new top and matching silicon “boot” for it from Amazon and started using it myself

I probably spent $15 on a new lid and boot. But I did this, not because it was a Hydro flask, but because I didn’t want to throw away a dented, but otherwise useful water bottle. (I prob would have spent that on a generic non insulated one anyway)

I’ll add that, I do think my daughter requested aHF because of the namebrand. But I’m OK with that. It helps her drink only water during the day, and it’s a relatively small price for her to feel cool and like she “belongs”,