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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.