To ask you all to reassure me that no one noticed?

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Ds just got back from a three day residential school trip. I was unpacking his bag, putting away his wash things, when I noticed that the hastily emptied washbag, hadn't been properly emptied before I put his things in it

Yes, I sent my 9 year old ds on a school trip with condoms.

They were still there which suggests that they weren't spotted by anyone, but were in a string pockety bit, so fully visible.

Ds is not the most observant of children. I'm hoping I've got away with it.

It's not that bad, is it? Is it?! Some of you must have sent your dcs with worse? Gin maybe?! Class A drugs?!

Girlsmum, excellent :)

I'm sure this is a perfectly normal thing that every parent has done. Honest.

Any adult investigating a small boy's washbag would be more afraid of the consequences than you should be. Def agree with KitKat and put this in your 'hilarious family moments' folder

If it makes you feel better I once took our first aid kit on a school trip. The one with the little bottle of "medicinal" whisky in it. My mum was mortified but the teachers thought it was hysterical.

I was going to say I doubt anyone looked at the washbag... not a child or a teacher
I used to send DD1 off to things like that and camps with soap still in its wrapper in a plastic soap box. I'd asked her if she washed and she'd say yes - then find the soap still in its wrapper...
She also at 10 went away for 5 days and came back with no socks on and wearing someone else's pants. When questioned she said she thought we'd forgotten to pack any....we'd done it together, underwear was in a carrier bag and had slipped in an inside pocket in her rucksack...
She'd spent the week with one pair of pants and socks - after 2 days she thought her pants were too dirty so she stopped wearing them but her trousers were rubbing so another girl had lent her a pair of pants for the last two days Socks - had worn most days - they got wet but they dried - she did have to spend a day midweek without any (as well as the last day)
(She didn't think to mention no clean underwear to the teacher - who could have phoned me and I would have assured her that she did...but also the teacher must not have noticed she was sockless either ...)

Alexa! That's great! I could do with some medicinal whisky about now.

Dh thinks it's hilarious I will in twenty years time.

Unlucky, xpost, that sounds like what ds would do. Blooming children!

they'd definitely have confiscated them if they'd seen them. You're in the clear.

I've sent knickers to nursery before. Embarrassingly big knickers that had seen better days. It was noticed. I was mortified.

Rest assured that washing is not on the average 9 years list of to-do things.

When DD1 went on her residential aged 10, they went Monday to Thursday. On their return most of us were presented with a case full of manky, muddy clothing mostly thrown straight in the bin except for one child who gave his mum an immaculately packed case full of clean clothing. He'd been in the same stuff since the Monday and hadn't washed or changed at all. They had been mountain biking, kayaking, climbing and playing in water. I'm not sure if he'd had to be cut out of his clothing on arrival home which were subsequently burned

I reckon you got away with it.

My nearly the same age would have discovered them, opened them, worked out how to blow them up as balloons, and a full on Daily Mail style racket would have ensued.

All this despite still probably not washing.

You got away with it trust me!

Now let you always be aware!

I also doubt the wash bag even got opened. DS1 came back from his week long residential trip and all but 1 pair of pants were laundry fresh and still naicely folded

I think is is really funny! If it's any consolation my ds went to a sleepover at a posh friends house, when he unzipped his sleeping bag he found a paid of skanky skiddy undies his sister has had an accident in at a sleepover months before left in the bottom of the bag whilst she changed under cover. He had to wrap them up and hide them at the bottom of his friends kitchen bin. He was 13 at time and still mentions it.

And another time I sent him to an adventure holiday with 8 pairs of his sisters ironed knickers instead of undies, no idea how, don't think he changed for a week.

DSD (aged6) came here with a bag of her mums underware and supply of Tampax instead of her own pants. Think her mum would have been mortified.

They definately didn't see them. They would have been blown up as balloons by nine year old boys if they had

Sorry just seen tatty beat me to it

Unlucky that made me snort aloud with laughter! Kids are oddly ingenious when they have to be!

I've taken brownies and guides away for the weekend and never looked in anyone's wash bag (another leader insisted on checking that all wash bags were in the bathroom... But not the contents). The only reason I can think of for looking would be if a child claimed to be unable to find something in it... But given the kids on this thread, I think that's most unlikely!

At a week long camp, one kid had to be treated for an infected in growing toenail and the notes from the nurse mentioned that she'd had to give them a talk about maintaining personal hygiene at camp because his foot was so grubby. Gross.

At the same camp, even among adults, frequency of showering was only about every two or three days on average (it was much discussed!) I strongly suspect there were kids who didn't shower all week long. Often at weekend camps there isn't the opportunity to shower anyway!

Love this OP! They never wash so the wash bag wouldn't have been opened. When DD was 7 she went on Brownie Camp Monday to Friday. Her and her best friend jumped off the bus on the Friday and I swear you could smell them before you saw them. When asked if they'd washed at all (and why their towels were bone dry) their reply? 'Well we went to the showers once and they were full, so we didn't go again'!!
Now she's 19 I can't get her out the bloody thing.

I was once supervising a group of y6 boys packing to come home at the end of a week long residential. One boy found a pair of very lacy, very racy knickers left in a pocket on his bag. He couldn't decide where he thought it was hilarious or horrifying but he couldn't help but tell me. We buried them at the bottom of his bag and never spoke of it again

My DD me, really neglected to send any knickers with her on her residential trip. Her lovely teacher took a trip to the local village and bought her a multipack He said it wasn't awkward at all

Knickers hate me. I've told this before on here, but once a colleague (I swear) asked me to drop off her bag of dry cleaning at the dry cleaners on my way to the bank. I duly waited at the counter whilst they tipped everything out so it could go on the receipt. When he held the trousers up, a pair of (worn) knickers fell out of the leg into the counter. I automatically said "they're not mine" and he gave me a yeah, right look

I've taken several residential trips and been on scout camps, I've never looked in the children's wash bags. I consider stuff like "are all the kids I brought here on the bus, going home on the bus?", not "who has their mum's condoms in their bag?". I'll keep a closer eye out next time.

Onto the counter

You'll know next parents evening- teacher wont be able to look you in the eye.

( Not that I want to prolong your agony or anything.............!)

Chinks123, a child at a school I taught at years ago actually brought his mother's vibrator to school in his book bag.

My DS went away and the pocket on the bag I sent still had a stash of tampons in it..

he also came back with half his clothes missing and Im still pissed off about it after I spent ages writing his name into every single one!