Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 21:52     Subject: Re:Hydroflask
Anonymous wrote:This is bizarre and gross. Why is your daughter so hard up for a water bottle she is using one she found on the street? Why won't you just buy her one like a normal person?


Yep. This. You should made her throw it out / return it / anything. Just to show her that you don’t need to be so into stuff.

Not too late to teach her. Possible to return it to a nearby spot? Or the mall lost and found?

There’s something called an abundance mindset or a scarcity mindset. Your kid is operating on a scarcity mindset. If you have scarcity in your life, that makes sense. If you have no scarcity, teach her to see the world differently.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 21:49     Subject: Hydroflask
Anonymous wrote:Hydro flasks are available at TJ Maxx, Marshall’s and Home goods. Just go buy her a new one.


I posted earlier. My DD’s hydro flask was on clearance at the container store. $20 or maybe less. I noticed it looked like they were re-stocking them in the main area but not in that size.

So I guess we lucked out by finding it cheaper - maybe the last one available and it didn’t fit the new stocked area.

But it was taken within a couple of weeks. So, even though I didn’t invest a lot... It’s annoying.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 21:38     Subject: Hydroflask
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?
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 21:38     Subject: Re:Hydroflask
This is bizarre and gross. Why is your daughter so hard up for a water bottle she is using one she found on the street? Why won't you just buy her one like a normal person?
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 21:21     Subject: Hydroflask
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


My kid saw a kid wearing her sweatshirt. This was after accidently leaving it on class the day prior.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 21:11     Subject: Hydroflask
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 19:47     Subject: Hydroflask
Why not have her bring it back and leave it where she found it? Someone could be looking for it. Or at the very minimum, donate it. It's not hers and she should understand that things she finds don't necessarily just belong to her. If there was a better mechanism for giving it to lost and found, she could have taken that route. Otherwise, help her understand she shouldn't get in the habit of picking things up that don't belong to her and just claiming them.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 19:45     Subject: Hydroflask
Hydro flasks are available at TJ Maxx, Marshall’s and Home goods. Just go buy her a new one.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 19:41     Subject: Hydroflask
I once accidentally sent left my hydroflask while Apple picking. It ilwas expensive ans I wanted it back. Someone tried to do what your daughter did. I happened to see her. I had to confront her. You daughter should not take people's things. If she found it in a lost and found ans it had been there for months that would be one thing.

If someone drops their wallet would you Let your kid keep the wallet and contents? If they dropped their car keys would you let your kid take their car?
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 19:36     Subject: Hydroflask
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.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 19:15     Subject: Hydroflask
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.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 19:08     Subject: Hydroflask
She stole it.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 18:41     Subject: Hydroflask
I am on team OP. Using a Hyrdroflask you found on the street is gross and weird. I would also be concerned that the daughter stole it and just claimed to "find" it.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 18:25     Subject: Hydroflask
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.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 17:24     Subject: Hydroflask
Oh yes. And I am adult and also still chew my bottles. I care for them but that’s how use them. As pp poster said it. It is soothing for me and have always done it to all my bottles as far as I can remember. So it’s not that I don’t care for my things. I do. I just bite my bottles too. It’s the same with scratches that inevitably lands on anything used.