Dd lost something name at school. Found with names tags cut off

[IncessantNameChanger]

My aibu is to think if you have double named tagged something, put a plea out on the class WhatsApp and it turns up after a week with both tags cut off, that one of the kids nicked it? Maybe I'm getting too cynical but my dd put her object on the rable but it was no where to be found in class.

Yes, someone nicked it.

The parents nick it. Kids aren't bothered. Parents are the ones who cut the tags out. They laugh about it quite openly.

Put any tags you have on something that can't be cut out, like directly on to the garment if you can. But you'll still hear them encouraging their kids to 'go find one inside and I'll cut the name out ha ha ha'.

YANBU.
Which is why you should sometimes 'double label' things, one in an obvious place, and once a bit more discrete.
(we owned a handed on coat for about 6 years before I turned it inside out to discover the name of the previous owner written large down the inside of a sleeve.)

It was a comfort item for my child with ASD. I did suspect it was taken deliberately when the teacher, ta and a parent searched the class for it. I'm hoping a parent wouldn't have cut the labels out as it's got zero monetary worth. But who knows.

It clearly wasn't lost though was it? You don't loose something and it turns up without your name label still on but cut off. Twice. I'm pissed off.

We had this when DD was in reception. One of her tops went missing after PE and the teacher returned it to us a couple of weeks later saying she found it in 'Alice's' bag and it must have got put in there by mistake. I happily accepted this explanation until I went to put the top in the wash and saw that someone had had a really good go at trying to remove the iron on name label I'd put in it. Made things a bit awkward with the parents for a while.

Always use sharpie to write inside the garment. T shirt-round the inside of the collar, ditto a shirt, waistbands, shoes….

My DS once had his scooter nicked from outside school when he was about 7. Cue a tearful little boy and an angry mum. Anyway, after the school confirmed it definitely wasn’t in the grounds I replaced it, it was £80 and this was 12 years ago. About a month later, my mum saw a boy riding the original scooter in the park (it had my son’s name engraved on it). The boy came over and bizarrely tried to sell it to her for a tenner and then rode off. You can’t make these things up.

Please can I recommend getting a stamptastic stamp. You can stamp on just about anything and it doesn't wash off.

Can't stop thieving bastards though !

Always label at least twice, and with a massive sharpie down the inside of a sleeve/across the body/along the waistband/somewhere unexpected.

People are jerks.

How old is she? Maybe it one of the kids if it's happened more than once.

Yes, I think someone nicked it and cut the name tags out. Could have been a kid or a parent - I doubt a kid would bother if it was a school uniform item, but if it was something else they definitely might. When I was at primary school another girl stole my watch and wrote her own name on the inside of the strap.

I'm afraid I've gone for the nuclear option of ironing on initials on the outside of sports kit. Funnily enough, nothing goes missing now.

I do it in places that won't cause a problem for team photos (sleeve, back leg of shorts etc). Our head of sports wanted to know where I'd had it done as he thought he'd do the same (erm, eBay). I feel slightly guilty that it's not great for donating kit to our second hand uniform shop but my kids have so many compulsory school sports items that I've made my peace with it.

Shockingly, it happens. Well, I was shocked. Apparently it’s common.

Yes, I would think someone nicked it

Ky DD has sensory issues with clothes and labels are a big problem for her, so I would sew name labels in all sorts of places so she couldn’t feel them - usually a cardigan waistband, or the turn up on a pair of trousers or somewhere like that.

I’d regularly get uniform returned to me by the teacher who had “found it in X’s bag/peg/locker”. When I’d check, there would always be a new name added where they clearly hadn’t noticed DD’s name tape

Why do people do this! Do they have no shame?

I had this years ago. Child with ASD. Two swim towels, one light green, one dark green and both labelled with name tags. Dark green one goes missing, Threadbare brown hand towel comes back in its place. We send this back – washed – together with the swimsuit which also wasn't ours, and ask for ours to be returned. Cannot be found. So we start sending in the light green one… Weeks later, that one goes missing, but the original dark green one is returned with the labels cut out.

Thing is, if people are that hard up for towels, I would happily donate some.

I buy most of the kids uniform and coats second hand now as when the eldest was at school he lost a brand new jumper. I found it a bin bag of wet uniform in the changing room that had fallen on the floor and then sat in the bin bag rotting all term.

I got a lovely Next coat for £2.50 but as its immaculate I'd lay bets that will never be seen again.

This was two name tapes I had sown on. Both Cut off where I had sewn it. So deliberately cut bot of them off with scissors

I also buy second hand, then just write the name or my mobile number directly on the inside of the item with a permanent marker - can't be cut off then.

People just don't care. Our next door neighbours daughter even nicked dd's bikini top and her mum cut the labels out and they wrote her name on the inside of the bikini. They were very confused when we nicked it back and I managed to use a pen eraser to get rid of her name. It was about 15 years ago now and dd and I still laugh about it.

Shockingly, it happens.

I’ve mentioned on here before when my new coat was stolen in primary. My mum doesn’t take any shit and confronted the girls parents who furiously denied it and were very offended by the accusation. The next day I looked on the peg and found my name still sewn into the pocket so I took it home with me.

more recently, someone on holiday stole a bunch of my DS’s toys and said they had just bought them from the shop. Funny that as half of them were bought from home. I didn’t recover everything but I did point out that the my son had borrowed his playmobil boat and we would like it back, she grudgingly handed it over.

I remember once, one of my twins sweatshirts went missing. I had bought iron on labels and had ironed it onto the label, really well.

It was found being worn by another child, with their name on it, OVER THE TOP OF THE LABEL. The mother accused my son of pinching it

This happened to one of my daughters years ago. My other daughter stole it back I couldn't believe it. The label had been cut out with only a bit showing so we knew it was ours. Unbelievable!

When I was at school - a long time ago - we had to embroider our names on tje outside of all P.E kit and our initials on our plimsolls and hockey boots (which were cancas back then). The only exception was our swimming costume.

Actually that's brought back a bad memory of my dreadful embroidery skills! I'm guessing the boys didn't have to get out their needles though....

If it's got an embroidered logo, I write the name on the back of the embroidery. I learnt this trick from a primary school receptionist!