What would you do ?!

[Willowmartha1]

We found a backpack belonging to a girl in my daughters class on the pavement and took it home for safekeeping until the next day. We let the mum know we had found it. There was a lunchbox in there too (we had to look in the bag to see if there was a name in there). Should I empty the lunchbox of all the rubbish or just give the bag back as we found it. Not sure how the mum would feel ?

Assuming it’s going back to school today, I’d just return it as is. If it was over a weekend or at the start of the holidays in hot weather, clean it.

Return as found. Otherwise they will feel that you've been rifling through their stuff.

What...

Do people really fret about this stuff? Just give it back to her...