£35 for a water bottle (and never named of course!)

[Toffeesgirl]

The current craze in the primary school I work in are these Air Up water bottles.

£35 😱- I know it is none of my business what people spend their money on BUT it does become my problem when they go missing and as they are invariably unnamed, I have parents shouting at me that little Jonny cant find his and do I know how expensive they are?

Telling me that it's green/purple/blue or whatever, does not help as there are over 800 children at our school so the chance of there being another green/purple/blue one is quite high!!!

Buy a Sharpie and write the name on it (and while you're doing it, on the jumper, cardi and coat too please!!

And breathe!!

Not necessarily. The naming stickers I bought for my daughters clothes and other belongings are almost impossible to remove.

They're banned at DCs school as are the expensive Smiggle ones. They recommend that no water bottle costs over £5. Mine are perfectly happy with their £1 sistema twist bottles because they both have the same.

Bravo to the person who invested that. Only humans would pay £35 to sniff peach whilst drinking water.

Only humans use money

What a UK size 22?

Not unless you clean it thoroughly

I’ve had this exact conversation too many times! Once I had ‘it not named but smells like my fabric conditioner’. Yes, I was expected to smell all the jumpers to find theirs!

I don't have children so I must be reading this wrong but surely a ladies (and gentleman's?!) size 22 school jumper would be pretty easy to spot?

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Tell the parents to get fucked.

Go on, you know you wanna...

"Tarquin Horatio brought with him today an Airup bottle in special SeaCrystal turquoise, he had it in his Dior Saddlepouch, well he's lost it and even his sister Annunziata can't find it..."

"Oh just go and fuck right off you twat"

Go on.. go on.. go on.. what's the worst that can happen?.. 🤪

Children can identify their jumpers by smell. I did once have to stop a fight between two children because they swore a sock was theirs 'because it smells like mine!'

Fuck me what a waste. Why have squash when you can buy plastic inserts which will end up in landfill to trick you into thinking your water is actually squash.

It's because a lot of schools will only allow children to have plain water, no squash. But a lot of kids won't drink water that doesn't taste of anything

(Not a problem for us as DS is in the SEN unit and has squash as part of his reasonable adjustments for autism)

It's ridiculous isn't it!

DD is desperate for one but there's no chance - especially seen as she's forever leaving her cardigan / lunchbox etc. somewhere.

I've heard quite a few people saying they leak or go mouldy anyway.

Also am presuming it's a 22" cardigan not adult size 22!

And they’re the most rubbish water bottles EVER. Leaky and too big to be useful. If you’re a parent thinking of buying one, don’t!

DD’s school banned them too after a lot of thefts.

The follow on craze was to get the naffest branded bottle from your parents work or some inane company.

I’ve heard that it goes mouldy all too easily. Gross.

"We've lost sight of what a normal-sized school jumper is ..." 😂

What a UK size 22?

Yes. Our kids sizes come in inches for our school uniform. It's the smallest size we do (probably about a 3-4 as she's not a huge child!)

Oh and not a size 22 adults.

The ladies and gentleman's bit was added as I was announcing that that apparently - dear reader - should mean I could locate an unnamed jumper!

I just had a grammar fail 🤦‍♀️🤣

Oh 22 inches !

I wouldn't even know what that looks like

@itsgettingweird
I've had that conversation so many times in my life..
'Yes, it's navy with a red logo'.
(The same as the other 30 in the class. )

It's age 5. (Like the rest of the class's?)

Welllll, I'm a bit annoyed he's lost it in the first week and YOU seem to not be able to find it.

(So annoyed it prevented you form naming it?)
The words in brackets are my thoughts as I breezily explain I'll look for it.

I've never heard of them. My children have never mentioned them..probably because they know it would be a NO from me.

Never heard of these bottles so had to google - jeez that's going to work out expensive with constantly buying the refills 😲

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Surely that can't be healthy inhaling scent??? Shall we give them a reed diffuser instead 😁

Whaaat? £35?

We go through about 2-3 bottles per term so im buying the cheapest i can find