take from the lost and found?
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Wondering if it's right to take from the lost and found? I know we will always say what if the owner is lookin for it etc. But what if they are not?
I live near this primary school and somehow the kids are fairly well to do. So you find in their lost and found near he canteen heaps of good water bottles (like over 20 over different colours of Nike, sigg, nalgenes etc), pencil cases filled to the brim with nice stationery to nice branded backpacks, recorders, good dictioneries, branded glasses, branded file holders, etc.It's now nearing the new school term and they all sit there in the lost and found unclaimed. The lost and found is so full that some spill on the floor, some fall behind the shelves and no one seems to care for them. I think the cleaners throw them out before next year and in less than three months, it will all be filled up again! Every few months, the lost and found shelves become so full that they have to be cleared. I suspect many do not claim them and they go to the garbage. I really don't mind changing my water bottle every couple of months really and just washing these nice bottles should be fine! You xan even take your pick on colour too!The kids really don't seem to care for them and probably not even miss them as parents buy them new ones! You can tell they dont trasure their stuff since they Like doodle f words and other rubbish over a 30 dollar pencil cases filled with nice pens inside.... I just saw one where this kid even bite and leave teethmarks on real Mont blanc pens (she has a few mont blanc anyway so she probably dont need to care and her pencil case has the full range of color gel pens) or another seemed to have taken a pen knife and carve out wrongly spelt names of maple characters on a new practically unused Nike $25 straw bottle, to nalgene bottles that have also been doodled with a marker and heaps of used but new looking yamaha recorders while many people in my sisters school have no money to buy even their own recorders and must share the school one.Is it wrong to take them? What do you guys think? Like the world we live, some have so much and dont even treasure what they have while others struggle over ends meat... -
simple... it ain't yours
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eh, are u really dat poor..
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can u sleep well at nite?
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I know it's not mine and so resisting not taking it. But it's probably not going back to the owner and when new year comes the shelves are all cleared again. If it's going to the garbage, then I wouldn't mind having them.
Like even if the cleaners take some, I don't think they can take 30 over waterbottles home? Like what a waste to throw a new looking Nike bottle or an ugly defaced pencil case outside with a few mont blanc inside. (ok the girl chewed her pens but I still don't mind using it) or I could even bring a few recorders and files home if they are to be thrown away. I dont mind used things honestly.And next year by March, I can almost guarantee you see another lot of these nice things.I agree If I take it in March, there is a slim chance a sobbing girl is looking for it. But end of year, I doubt so. Plus if you really treasure something, you won't anyhow bite it or take marker and anyhow draw on them too right?This fact alone will probably help me sleep well. -
again, it is not yours...
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No Tiger?
Those made in Japan ones?
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maybe they went to charity?
and u really poor?
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u are not here to ask if it is right
u ngeh ngeh want to take
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maybe he's hoping someone will agree with him..
rationalisation and denial are very very strong pulls in some people
doesn't make it right... but it helps them lie to their conscience...
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Well I wouldn't say I am very poor but i am thrifty i think.
And poor or not is not the issue. It's the idea of wastage and really reusing what others don't care about. And here you can tell they don't care about their stuff.And charity? I don't think so. Would you buy a $30 pencil case defaced with f words and chewed up pens inside? Or if you are getting free from some organization, is it fair to receive a used Nike bottle with someones name on it?The point is some people don't mind using old stuff(I don't) but I think many others do. And wastage and unfair distribution of wealth is what I am after.Ok. True. You guys are right. I am leaning towards taking them and i am still thinking if i should. I am not hardup but I originally was tempted for the Nike bottles because my sister suffers from SPD. I got for my birthday present one Nike bottle but allowed My sister to have it because she can suck and Spray into her mouth. Its the best way for us to be able to get her to drink water. But because of her SPD, she will also chew the bottle nozzle and the whole thing is chewed and unusable in 3 weeks. :( I can't afford to keep buying new bottles. But on the other hand, here at the lost and found, these kids don't even care if they lost a bottle. If only I could bring 10 home, (even the ugliest defaced one wouldn'tmatter) it would be good to last our family a year which would have otherwise cost us at least 100 bucks.I know the kids at special school have only two recorders for the whole school and shared by all these kids. Maybe for sanity sake of teachers but I know families are so drained financially they need to save at every chance they can. Which of you out there will ever use someone else recorder? Or even lucky enough to not only have your own but change recorder every school year because it looks yucky and smelly liao?I am keen to hear sentiments out there and of course if I can help it, I would love not seeing wastage and also not having to use hand me downs either. (like why would I use a chewed pen mont blanc from a primary school girl)Beta - To be honest I think there was a tiger lunch box too if I am not wrong. -
go ahead.. you've made up your mind no matter what we've said...
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btw, wat sch ah?
i want to inform P got intruder
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Take lor, your karma, not mine. You sure got no Tiger ones? The sahara series are the priciest and the best, I'll take those over dumbass nalgenes, and siggs.
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i think it is sad that so many bottles find their way to a lost and found section. kids have no sense of responsibility these days. lose something, why bother to even go to the lost and found? just buy another one.
if i was the school principal, i would have a 1 week holding period. then donate the items to charity.
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If I were the school principal, I would have a 1 week holding period, then split the bottles up into siggs, nalgenes, tigers, and trash.
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Anyway, all gone. apparently they dumped them all into the garbage. Figured no one wanted them. School auntie complain say every year like this, some more so heavy to carry to garbage. Damn. Should have taken them. Anyway, There are already some fresh new waterbottles, books and stationery again just from this year alone. Hmm. Kids these days too rich, Too careless and don't even care for their things. Saw a girl today on bus, defacing her brand new looking school bag with a marker and her friends all laughing about it. What so funny? Your parents working so hard so that you can be an idiot to draw on your bag. Bet you the bag will end in the garbage only in a couple of months, well before it's end of life. And some poor parent is slogging away.
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If something good is going to be thrown away, but if you take them it might be unethical....then take the donation approach....
Donate it to needy children.
Next time can consider this.
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Originally posted by Veggie Bao:
If something good is going to be thrown away, but if you take them it might be unethical....then take the donation approach....
Donate it to needy children.
Next time can consider this.
TrueYou can offer to bring those new usable stuff to needy kids. Maybe to those in your sister's class.
Either that or you can ask to salvage some items during the year's end when the school aunties are bringing them out to the trash.
No harm taking what's going into the trash. But it's definitely not ok to take them before the holding period is up.