oops!! I'm one of 'those' mums.

**Phteven** · February 21st, 2011, 08:09 AM

Last year Y's kindy teacher told me to take a quick look through lost property on the last day because anything left is given to charity or the uniform shop.
Lucky I looked because I found his sleeveless puffa. I had a bit of a tut-tut about how grotty it was and how fast it had worn. Then I took it home and washed it and put it away.

Guess what I just found - 2 puffa vests!!

yep - I took someone else's identical puffa home. In my defence it is black and there is nowhere for a label and how many kids would you expect in a school of less than 200 kids to bring the same non-uniform item to school? At least it was worn and grotty because it was someone else's LOL.

I dunno what to do with it. If I sneak it back into lost property they won't find it because it was last years. Can I bear the shame of asking the principal to include it in the news letter?

I was whinging about the Mums who steal clothes just last week and now I'm one of them.

**berrme** · February 21st, 2011, 08:13 AM

I did that with a pair of socks. Figured socks weren't really worth returning by the time I had worked out I had 2 pairs. I think it is too late to bother returning it now. If something of my DS's hasn't been returned within a few weeks then I figure I will never see it again.
Don't beat yourself up, it probably would have been put in the charity bin if you hadn't taken it.

**onthefly** · February 21st, 2011, 08:14 AM

Oh you're terrible Onyx
You could just take it back - it's an honest mistake

**Manhattan** · February 21st, 2011, 08:15 AM

Oopsies! It's only stealing if it's intentional

Maybe you can take it to an op shop???

**Tinks** · February 21st, 2011, 08:25 AM

I've done that before. I kept it because when they say whatever's in lost property is going to the op shop, you know it's been there a while and obviously the other parents have forgotten about it too.

**Party-of-five** · February 21st, 2011, 08:34 AM

welcome to the club

could you just send it to school with Y and get him to loose it?

**~Raven~** · February 21st, 2011, 08:52 AM

I've done that before! Saw a jumper exactly the same as A's laying on the floor at home time and assumed it was ours. The next week A's jumper was in his locker (because it was named...) so I took it home and sure enough I found the other jumper had no name tag. The following week at kinder, there was a note on the board about the missing un-named jumper so I took it back