To keep this school cardigan - even though I know it isn't mine?

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Looked everywhere online for suitable cardigans for DD2 (not the official ones - she has one and won't wear it ).
Eventually 3 weeks ago I found some suitable ones in an Asda store...I bought 2...
As things have been coming out of the tumble I've been naming them with biro on the label...(I bought lots of new bits for both DCs)
Came across one of the new cardigans with no name on - named it thinking a bit odd cos I thought I'd done them both at same time. It is exactly the same as the ones I bought for DD2 - new, same size etc...
DD2 has a habit of leaving them at school - I get a pile home every few days off the back of her chair...but now she is on holiday and they are all here I realise she now 3 of these cardigans - one of them isn't mine!
I know a first world problem ...but ...

Part of me thinks it will be a real hassle and fuss to find who out who it belongs to, apologise for labelling it as DD2s etc, etc . It was only about £5. And it wasn't named.

Part of me feels guilty because it was such a struggle to get them (all usual places were out of stock in her size and colour). And it is stealing really not to return it

And I'm worried I'll have a reputation anyway - as I was sorting out the old cardigans I found one that looked small and worn out - checked the label to find it was named as a classmate's - class they were in 2 yrs ago -don't know how long I'd had it - did return it with an apology...not directly to the mother though (doesn't do school run) ...

I'm thinking keep it - to avoid hassle and embarrassment - AIBU?

I have a jumper out of senior school lost property, but DD says it had been there for weeks and was destined for the charity shop.

She borrowed it because she got soaked in some mischief or another, probably involving paint - most things do!

All of these goodys on here... I would keep it but I am bad.it was a misunderstanding and u have it now.

YABU although you probably already know that by now! Please hand it in at the office and explain what has happened with the name on the label.

And am I the only one who thinks it is wrong that some schools are doing donating unclaimed lost property to charity shops? Surely there are parents at most schools who would happily buy a good condition second hand jumper or PE top etc., for a couple of quid, given the chance? Y'know, since we're all getting uniform stolen all the time!? I can't believe schools would get more money from textile recycling than by selling it

I've already said I'll bite the bullet and try and find out who it belongs too and if I can't hand it in to the office - been given some good tips how I might be able to get the name off the label...
If it was named I'd have sent it straight back - even unnamed I would have - fact that I have labelled it makes it more hassle ...
Paw - 'only £5' as opposed to the school logo ones at £13-£14 (of which DD1 has lost several at secondary - though they are labelled - some even with my mobile no)
star don't know why she won't wear the official ones - they are a sweatshirt type material with pockets - she has her sisters old sweatshirts with logos and will wear those -but said she really wanted a cardigan, after I paid £13 for it and had to make 2 journeys to order and collect it - she won't wear it! Not that bothered - she wears it for special things - like singing in the choir - so at least it is clean - unlike every other logoed item of primary school wear I have bought which have ended up with whiteboard pen/paint/glue on them on the first or second wear (reason she couldn't just wear the sweatshirts)!

I did this once. Washed DS's jumper, noticed the name had come off so wrote it back in. The next day he came back with his named jumper which a classmate have him. They must have got mixed up at PE or something.

I caught the girls mum and gave her the jumper apologising for DS's name written in it. It was embarrassing but I couldn't have kept the jumper knowing whose it was.

Saying that I have taken an unnamed jumper that has been in lost property for weeks after checking there constantly for a missing one. Like other schools they send unclaimed stuff to charity.

YABU. My son's school jumpers are forever being taken home by other pupils. Sometimes we get them back when they see his name written in them and sometimes not. I'm sick of it as it costs a fortune to replace. He has also had his PE kit stolen. It's infuriating.

At our school we offer lost items for sale (after numerous attempts to reunite it with its owners) then send the remainder for textile recycling. There is a limit to the amount of time volunteers are prepared to give to sort out/sell/store lost property and once you put staff time into it you lose more money than you make.

Of course if people just labelled the bloody stuff it could be returned really quickly (bitter? Oh yes)

YABU. Someone once robbed one of DD1's cardies once. I only got it back six months later as DD2's teacher found it in the playground and gave it back to me at hometime as the dicksplash who'd stolen it hadn't bothered to write their own spawn of hell child's name over ours.

Really annoying thing is that it's a small school and DD1 has a very unusual name, so there's no way they couldn't have known it was her cardigan they'd stolen.

In my head, I garotted them.

We are a huge secondary school with a very dispersed catchment, it's very unlikely many parents would come to a sale at school.

However, some of our poorest parents might well snap up a logo'd jumper from the nearest charity shop.

One of my dd's school overall was stolen in school. Teaching assistant gave me the head's up. I got it back. Other child had a pink overall, my dd's was blue. The mother must have known. Posh private pre- school. They lived in a much bigger house, posh area.
I see that woman sometimes. She doesn't know me but I know her as the 'overall thief'

Someone from nursery once took my Dd's coat (same type of coat, but bigger size and clearly named) and f'd off to Norway. I felt like hunting them down and getting the coat back. Luckily we aren't poor and could afford to replace the ill fitting coat but still. I was mightily pissed off. Arseholes take others belongings and don't give them back. Arseholes.