4wks in & the curse has began!

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The curse of missing school uniform and other school related bitz'n'bobz has began. There was me hitting week 3 all smug, thinking last few yrs were just a very long learning curve and me telling the DCs a million times to remember their crap had finally sunk in.

NO!
HELL NO!

I'm once again the crazy lady leaping in and out of the lost and found box, discovering shirts lost over 2 yrs ago!
So far the tally is a missing football boot (how can 1 go missing! They're a pair!!!), two polo shirts, a pair of trousers!?, socks, a school jumper, a tie and pens...its like last wk was 'well we did look after our stuff for 3 wks! Now sod it!! Lets chuck it all in the bin before she picks us up!'
Would I be unreasonable to spend a silly amount of money placing trackers on all my DCs belongings they take to school just to save my sanity?!
Obviously I'm saying this in jest, I could never afford to do that! Mind you replacing things is costing more than a small fortune😭.
Hopefully I'm not the only sufferer of this curse (although at my DCs school I'm the only one who's ever seen near the bloody lost property box!)

😭Just me then!

I posted in a similar thread last week
My grandson has started reception class in September. He’s been fine
However, they have PE on Mondays and last week his friend went into school,
School sweatshirt with school logo, came out with no sweatshirt
School polo shirt with logo, came out with plain white sweatshirt
He is only small and still in age 3 trousers, he came out in a pair age 5/6 which were dragging over his shoes
On the plus side, he had his own pants, socks and shoes
His mother was livid and on Friday there was still no sign of the child’s correct clothing. She had sewn in name labels so everything was as it should have been

I don't know the answer for your DC's, but I had some success when I made missing items more of a pita for them than it was for me; eg, my stock of spare pencils was fleabitten/pink (boys school) and not good street cred; another nice new pencil on tap was too easy, only issued pens on loan in return for a deposit of a shoe, making missing item a problem for the whole form (useful during spate of "hidden for a joke" - just let the class know beforehand we're all going to help Sam find his book at breaktime because we're all so lovely - amazing what turns up....) but maybe making them go through Lost Property themselves when they are itching to get home might spur them on a bit......
But it's amazing what was left in there - beautiful warm expensive coats, trainers, jumpers, once a cheese sandwich which had crept away to die, not pleasant. As I've said before, we used to have regular end of term trawls through the stuff, and if named we returned it to rightful owners, but it always worried me that there was usually an assortment of undercrackers. How can you go home commando without noticing?

Twosheds...I'm also amazed at the very lovely expensive stuff just left to rot, a Cath Kidson gorgoues floral lunch bag (I was very envious as mine a a very old tatty sandwich box held together with an elastic band lol). Also the cutest pair of panda earmuffs!
Nanasue...yes! O God yes! Why do they allow the little one's to walk out in over sized garments! This happened to one of my DCs when they first started, poor little 3 yr old in a size 6-7 jumper and you're in too much of a rush understand what's happened until you get home and think 'well that's not right is it!'

Nothing lost here so far, though in the past my two have been a nightmare for losing things. However, in the second week my eldest managed to break his brother’s new lunchbox and I think by the end of the first week every one of his three school jumpers was permanently marked by ink. Every day he seems to come out with more pen marks on his jumpers. I’ve told him I’m not buying new ones and if he carries on at this rate by July his jumpers will be more ink than jumper!

I like to get kids to search for their lost stuff during their break. Amazingly, they often start to look after their stuff more carefully. I think it helps that clothes taken off for PE are expected to be folded and left on the child's seat with their shoes under their chair. Less chance of things going astray. Also, if cloakroom areas are kept tidy, there's more chance that coats will be in the correct place. There's a big trug in there as well for anything that ends up on the floor so gloves/scarves, etc. are usually found in there.

My son loses items of clothing on a daily basis. Isn't in lost property and no one has returned it.

Why anyone would want one of his socks is beyond me.

My Eldest son is the opposite not only does he always bring home his own things (although I've jinxed it now!) he seems to scoop up everyone else's stuff too. So far he's come home with a girl's summer dress, a recorder (he doesn't play the recorder), an extra sock on each foot. In reception he came home after PE wearing a cardigan (I was impressed he'd managed to soup the buttons!).

I think he's a kleptomaniac. I do make sure all the stuff is returned the next day though.

😂O that's brilliant HundredsandThousands! That's gold