End of Year Lost & Found 📦 - "My Favorite Things" Parody

So, that's where all my spoons went 🥄🥄🥄 #parody #endofschool #lostandfound
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[@dianasheppard105]

I taught middle school and the annual end-of-the-year locker clean out was this times 100!!! I would just walk around handing out bags telling them they could NOT leave anything in the locker. Many missing assignments were also found with the predictable line " can I still get credit for this?"😂

[@joevans2901]

Yep! 34 years in middle school for me.

[@Keshlynne]

Yes! I'm just standing there going, "that was due eight months ago."

[@kevantruman6743]

As a 3rd grade teacher for 30 years, I have given MANY students garbage bags to carry locker loot home.The one missing boot always baffles me...

[@Tavieme]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@mholtebeck]

@Kevan Truman, that sounds like you speak from experience. There has to be a story with the boot.

[@jenner81]

My friends son came home from school (in the Canadian winter!!) with only one boot on!! They never found the other boot and still have no idea how it even happened! 🤣

[@mrgmsrd]

I've seen underwear in the lost and found at my son's school 😵

[@richardmahn7589]

They hopped home on one foot.

[@thetoysofchildhood]

Your son's laughter is the best! It's so contagious 😂. Thanks for the smiles today!🥰

[@jamiematson6233]

Not lost and found but reminded my of one of my most embarrassing moments of middle school! When I was in the 6th grade I would walk to school and would feed a horse that was in a pasture on my way to school. One day I grabbed a handful of raisins to feed the horse and decided to save half in the back pocket of my white jeans to feed it on the way home. A few hours into school and a teacher quietly came up to me and asked if I needed to go see the nurse. I realized the raisins were all squished in my back pocket and the teacher thought I started my womanly friend. Talk about mortifying! I kept trying to explain it was raisins and she just kept repeating that everything will be fine. 😂

[@Wendy60000]

I am a teacher. I was showing my student the lost and found. I was telling them to check it out and I found my lunch box. 😊 oh and one of my gloves. 😂

[@mbyerly9680]

The smarter we are, the more stuff falls out of our brain when the knowledge fills its place. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.

[@Megz1794]

@mybyerly9680 :well i mean to be fair i dont think kids are given enough to clean out their lockers espeically at the end of the school year When you have almost everything you have in your locker and remeber how to get home from school with everything

[@AB-zr8pu]

Lol. So true. I'm a middle school teacher and we did locker cleanout yesterday. Some kids did not follow instructions. In addition to clothes, water bottles, nasty old food, and books... today i found a bible, a purse with no ID and a giant stuffed bunny.

[@ellenm4513]

I’m a college professor the stuff that ends up at the teachers desk from class after class is wild! iPads, hydro flasks, yoga mats, skateboards! My favorite from a few years ago-two sleeves of saltine crackers appeared mid semester and remained until exam week when one disappeared!

[@tinaperez7393]

🤣😂🤣

[@carolynlunel9382]

Hahaha!!!

[@spaci-1701]

I'm a Scouter and the things that end up lost at camp are mind boggling. One kid spent an entire weekend claiming to have no gear at all only to claim their untouched bag from the lost and found on the last day. Another two went home accidentally wearing each other's underwear- and they were at least two sizes apart.

[@tinaperez7393]

THE SHEER VOLUME AND RANGE OF ITEMS!!! This video is right up there with the Hallmark parodies. Beyond hilarious. 😂🤣😂 Great lyrics.

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

YES, personally I’d love some more Hallmark movies, I absolutely cried laughing. (Lola, thank you for sharing your observations with Penn, just brilliant).

[@karenclark5002]

It’s all true!😂😂😂

[@katieblomquist1540]

It is not even a exaggeration! I have taught middle school for 17 yrs. At the end of the year, when the kids clean out their lockers… I am always surprised what is actually in there! I often ask if how they made it home fully clothed…. They have whole outfits, basically their closets, in their lockers! 😂

[@yvettewijma1481]

😂 this reminds me when my children where at primary school. At the end of the year I check if my son left something.....and I found my sunglasses!

[@cindydavis1443]

I found 2 of my sweatshirts that my daughter had taken to school in the lost and found box.

[@elisastuart-wilkins3808]

This takes me back to those last days in middle school . U pulled Ev-v-v-verything out of your locker & honestly felt a little like an archeologist on a dig .Wow look... 5 Bonnie Bell lip smackers crushed by 3 majorly overdue school library books , who knew 🙃😂

[@cindyb9052]

As a middle school librarian, I always roamed the halls during locker cleanout and collected TONS of books.

[@bksavs]

Love it! Your son is adorable. I got a kick out of his reactions as Kim pulled each item out. My eldest lost a brand new coat 3 days after we'd bought it. We searched the school, and ultimately I had to buy him a new coat-again. The coat mysteriously showed up a year later in the school's lost and found.

[@jessg3476]

Pants. The number of times I found my own pants in the lost and found. How the heck did I walk out of the school without my pants?!?!?!

[@RebeccaChekeleleeBrambila]

Props for the rhythmic rhyming of "prescription athletic goggles" 😂

[@AnnieNYC1]

This was my sister's life with my niece (and before her, my nephew, and before that ... who knows...) :) This is SO TRUE! And, your son's giggles undid me. WHAT A CUTIE! :) As for odd things found - One student had lost THREE retainers, two pairs of glasses (??) and, oddly enough, one slipper,, left from "pajama day", though how he managed to only lose one when he'd supposedly came to school wearing them on his feet remains a mystery. A teacher I knew found in HER desk, a handful of reading glasses, all apparently lost, and her wedding ring (true story) that she took off one day when her fingers were swollen. She was SURE she'd lost it on vacation. Nope. Just waited in the desk drawer that she'd opened every single day.

[@kimclarke8879]

I've been an elementary teacher for 13 years now, and the things we find are crazy. My favorite is when I find a random sweatshirt in my classroom and ask every student, but it doesn't belong to any of them! Our lost and found is overflowing by the end of the year.

[@mykijiji1958]

It really is a good demonstration of how kids have too much stuff these days. If they lose an Adidas hoodie, they have 5 more to wear. As a teacher, I am always astonished at the number of expensive items left behind. As a parent, I grill my kids, “Where’s your hoodie?? What do you mean you can’t remember?? Where did you look? Did you have gym indoors? Or out? It better not be sitting out on the field somewhere!!” 😂😂😂

[@SRose-vp6ew]

Your son is so funny in this and such a good sport. We all need to learn to laugh about this kind of stuff and truly check the Lost and Found.

[@leslie.fromthevault.]

So true! Especially the spoon part. My family loses like 10, over exaggerating, spoons each year. They just disappear at school.

[@artfuldodger870]

Mine are forks and spoons.

[@colleenveneziale4332]

My oldest loses spoons at school too. That and hoodies go missing all the time. I've found like 10 of his hoodies throughout this year

[@KwispyZ]

This is why I give my kid unused to go forks and spoons to take to school because I know he'll end up throwing our good spoons/forks away.

[@briahnadeanda5574]

My family always loses forks, but we don't take them anywhere so I think the house is just eating them lol

[@audramckinney1504]

So it's not just me. Right now we are down to 1 regular spoon 🥄.

[@RobertM125]

Thank you Holderness family for giving us a laugh in a world that just isn't very funny anymore. I appreciate you guys and all that you do!

[@tinaperez7393]

It can definitely feel that way these days. But the world is still funny. If you look hard enough, and in the right places. Like the lost and found! 😂🤣🤪. And of course, the Holderness channel. 😁🤗

[@aconsultingfangirl1258]

@@tinaperez7393 yup

[@upendaglover2559]

yes they are fantastic and hilarious

[@aconsultingfangirl1258]

@@upendaglover2559 i know right?

[@basgetti]

the number of prescription glasses in a school's lost and found is astounding. and heavy winter coats.

[@michelleminstrell9723]

Donate Rx glasses at Lion's Club collection!

[@RockerH2526]

It really makes you wonder doesn’t it? I guess everyone has glasses insurance. Just get new ones without ever taking the time to actually look for them. Sheesh!

[@mariaskabardonis8353]

I am not surprised I once left my glasses at a restaurant and when I came to pick them up like a few days later I had to look through a whole box to find mine lol

[@lindseymiller8165]

Soooo many coats. How do they just leave them? I make my kids go back and find them.

[@jtbizzle3692]

Just last week we went to a PTA meeting/choir concert at the Elementary school. I left MY water bottle at the event and was too embarrassed to go ask for it back! On the last day my daughter came home with it! She said she noticed it with the lost & found items they had set out for students to look at before they left for the summer. She didn't want it to stay there all summer.😂 Love you all's songs so much!!

[@joevans2901]

Ohhhhhh boy! I’ve been retired 4 years now but the end of year locker clean out was always a BIG part of closing her down! One of my brightest and most talented students EVER (will probably be on Broadway some day) had what I referred to as a debris field surrounding him daily. 😂 End of year locker clean out for him was ….. impressive.

[@maryellenerikson1397]

My kids are homeschooled or we would be facing that situation but my sister got called into the school to pick up all of her daughter's stuff. Filled the back hatch of her minivan. She was glad to get all of her own scarves, hats and gloves back because when her daughter lost all of her own things, she started in on her mom's. Also had three lunchboxes.

[@kapiliere]

we had a single car headrest in our lost and found for a year before we tossed it lol

[@belindahugheslifestyle]

Love how both Penns own the habit. 🤣

[@mtaylor6720]

Taught school for 31 years. The amount of stuff in lost and never found at the end of the year was always amazing. 40-50 water bottles, 10-20 lunch boxes, $500 designer coats, enough clothing items to fill the back of a pick up. All the left overs after school was out would be donated either to our clothing bank or Goodwill. 31 years, never had to buy a water bottle:)

[@txbluesguy]

Thank you for being a teacher.

[@candicereeves6247]

Thank you! Enjoy your retirement! I drive a school bus, and all of what you said is true. Yesterday was our last day of school. One of my coworkers was bagging up the lost & found for donation.

[@dmc826]

PC is such a good sport! I loved that he needed us to know that he doesn't wear a retainer. 💕

[@panammaniac]

I own a spa. We find all sorts of interesting things that get left behind in our massage rooms. Toe rings, knee braces, hair brushes, even underwear sometimes. Like who forgets to put their underwear back on after a massage?

[@nikegagtindy]

True story. Summer of my freshmen year of high school, I took driver's Ed as summer school thru my high school. One day I left my wallet in the car which really only contained a couple of dollars and my social security card. Of course my wallet was nowhere to be found. On the last day of my senior year of high school, I got sent to the office for flipping a pen. I was looking thru the lost and found and found my Sociial security card there. It had been there since that summer of my freshmen year.

[@Bethany_Sue]

Our middle son is so like this! I had to send him to school without a winter coat. I told him you have 3 see if you left one there. He comes home with all 3. Water bottles and socks are also always on the missing list. He takes his socks off everywhere and then comes home with just shoes on.🤦‍♀️

[@natashaw401]

Lolll great story

[@passportquinn.c5435]

I'm reminded of the ice cream bar I left in my locker in 1st grade. I was, apparently, too young to understand that the whole locker would stink forever. 😂

[@Kathysvlogchannel]

Lots of the same stuff! Coats, retainers, moldy lunch boxes, and prescription eye glasses.

[@amandagrayson389]

I taught special ed for about twenty years. We kept extra clothes in our bathroom and one day, one of my TAs decided to go through the school’s Lost and Found to replenish our supply. (This was a middle school.) Not only did we turn up the expected- hoodies and jackets- but t-shirts and shorts and pants! The TA said, ‘There are naked children running around this school!’ 🤪😜

[@voiceojane]

You should see all the things my daughter nabbed from discard piles at the end of a college year: perfect suitcases, lamps, storage containers of all kinds, expensive clothing, stuffed animals, like-new blankets-it was wild!

[@sarbah77]

Right? I nabbed a Helly Hansen jacket for my husband one year. That thing is indestructable.

[@claireritterhoff5440]

The amount of stuff local college students abandon is astounding! It is collected, sorted, and sold at a massive yard sale with the proceeds going to charity.

[@petediscenza2407]

The U of Minnesota Twin Cities has a warehouse for usable stuff which gets scooped up (by fraternities, I think) from dorms at the end of the year. Amazing, sometimes expensive, things just dumped by lazy or brain-dead younguns, then sold again in September. Maybe to the same kids?

[@doublej82]

To be fair, that coffee cup is topologically equivalent to a koala bear

[@carolynlunel9382]

Both my daughters are teachers.. didn't we ALL need this funny video this week?? 😂Thanks Holderness family for spreading laughter and love! 💞

[@bonyworm]

Okay. Somehow, my school never emptied its lost and found. My dad told a story of when he lost his retainer and he thought his teeth would all disintegrate when he was younger. He described the retainer in great detail- and I looked in my school's lost and found. And I found that retainer. And took it home. And showed him.

[@neresq]

I had to wear headgear, too. Ugh. After a short time of wearing it to school, I drew the line and told my folks I would only wear it at home. And I did once lose my retainer - at a luncheonette below my orthodontist's office after a check-up. I put it on a napkin and they cleared it away. When we realized what happened, we drove back there and they let my mom dig through the food-filled garbage cans until she found it.

[@randb7179]

I work at a middle & high school. We tried HARD to get kids to look through & take things home - even had a table out on the last day during carpool so parents could hop out & look. But, honestly, there was some seriously high quality scavenging once they left for the year. Before the admins donate the leftovers, the staff grabbed what we could use. There's GOOD STUFF in there! I brought home a few hoodies, a pair of shorts, a t-shirt . . . All washed and good as new.

[@tinaperez7393]

Love the koala cup art class ceramic! 😂. BTW congrats on PC's straight A's! 🤗

[@phonologyisbeautiful]

At the back of my classroom I currently have two shelves dedicated to lost items. Multiple lunchboxes and about four of the school's expensive uniform sweaters have been there for over a month. Any lost pop-it toys, on the other hand, are claimed within a few hours.

[@katwitanruna]

Yes! Yes! My children did this!

[@rivkahselmon967]

I’ve got 1 lost and found item that’s really out there. My sibling and I went to the same school for a while as kids and we both always forget stuff so I always checked last week of school and 1 year, I found my sibling’s PANTS in the lost in found. We have a couple theories but to this day we still aren’t sure how it happened, since they always had bottoms on

[@tinaperez7393]

?!?! 🤔😳😲😂🤣😂

[@rivkahselmon967]

@@tinaperez7393 I still make fun of my sibling for it whenever it comes up, and it’s been at least 9 years, probably more. It’s just that impressively ridiculous after the shock of finding pants goes away

[@tinaperez7393]

@@rivkahselmon967 it's very impressive! 😂🤣😂 But I'm wondering if there was some other, additional accompanying shock those 9 years ago when / during how they were lost in the first place. 😁 (I'm sure there was some logical explanation. It's funny not to know it though. And, with not recollection, it's possible there isn't a logical explanation either!) 😁

[@rivkahselmon967]

@@tinaperez7393 the rest was the usual water bottles, some jackets, lunchboxes, a swimsuit. There may have been a shirt too actually, but since the school had a few times a year where we would do water themed activities and my sibling went to dance afterwards, it wasn’t that weird. And honestly those two things and the fact that we had to dress nice on Fridays and therefore bring appropriate clothes if we had PE (at least bottoms because any biologically female student had to wear a skirt or dress but frequently shirts as well) there’s likely a logical reason and everyone in the family knows it, but it’s still fun because it’s so weird. After a certain point our mom made sure that my sibling’s pants were put back on after getting ready for dance in the school bathroom before they came out to the pick up area, probably after the pants got lost but possibly because of how much skin a leotard and ballet skirt show and the school had a strict dress code if we didn’t have water based activities planned and it’s not entirely appropriate for running around in

[@tinaperez7393]

@@rivkahselmon967 omg! I forgot how many clothing changes school life could require. It could so complicated. 😂 But yeah, still I great story! Thanks for sharing. 😁

[@02rgallivan]

My son had adhd(he grew out of it) and the volume of items he lost over the years was monumental. We’re talking two bicycles, 4 iPhones, 6 or 7 winter coats, and the amount of shoes he lost was in the 20’s. He was an expensive young kid, but a really pretty good 22yr old. He’s still costing me $20every couple weeks. The question was asked how could get home from school without any of these items, and you know the answer of course…. “I don’t know”.

[@kristenmae6761]

I don’t think it’s possible to grow out of adhd. It’s a neurological disorder that you are born with. It may look different as an adult compared to when you’re a child, but it’s still there. I say this as an adult with adhd who was diagnosed as a child.

[@02rgallivan]

@@kristenmae6761, perhaps because he moved out when he was 18 and I don’t see him everyday, but when I do he’s so calm is why I would think that. I appreciate the correction.

[@jenniferhubbs7293]

I used to work at a private school, where uniforms were a must. When my niece enrolled for the following year, I waited until the day AFTER the last day of school then checked out the lost and found. I ended up with four blazers in different sizes, at least a dozen shirts, two ties, and even a couple of kilts for her. The only thing she had to buy for the school year was socks and a tie pin.

[@christianpitman5185]

Genius!

[@shopperchung]

Our west many schools do not have lockers. My kids’ backpacks are as wide as they are tall.

[@JanineMiiller]

I am so grateful my son’s elementary school sends out a google album with photos of tables of found items each month! Each item has a number in the photo, just send a note to school with the item number(s) and you’ve got your stuff back. Anything left over the next month gets donated to charity. Somehow our ADHD son has managed to mostly keep track of his stuff or snagged it before the monthly photos.

[@ahgriffin7684]

As a teacher, I always love going through lockers after the last day. I stock up on classroom supplies for the next year. I've not had to buy notebook paper in years. But I am always floored by what gets left behind... Like expensive jeans, jackets, and shoes

[@felisfelidae6113]

When I worked at a middle school & upper elementary, I would have the students clean their lockers, desks & go through their binders & backpacks. Then it helped them organize & get credit for homework they did a couple days ago. It took some time, but it prevented the horrors that could happen at the end of the year.

[@felisfelidae6113]

I’m a Special Needs & Gifted Needs teacher, so you can imagine when some of the kids’ lockers. Sometimes, a student would open their locker, books, toys, clothes & food would spill out! One of my students (upper elementary), had weekly backpack & desk organizing on Friday mornings. I’d help him create 4 piles: 1.Keep at school 2. Bring home 3. Recycle 4. Throw away And when there was a big project, the in-progress project & materials separate from the rest of the piles. Plus, the “bring home” would also have a “keep it home” which included expensive electronics & toys. One time, he had peanut butter cups-we had some students who had severe (& 1 kid could go into anaphylactic shock by touching something that had tree nut & peanut oil residue). It really helped him. 🤩 And it made me feel better that I’m not the most disorganized person. 😸

[@goeagles25]

Sooooo many sweaters/sweatshirts/jackets left in my classroom every year! Umbrellas, water bottles/hydra flasks, instruments, chromebooks, charging cords, phones, fidget spinners, lunch boxes, jewelry, bowls, baking dishes, … sometimes they come back for it…sometimes they don’t. I teach 8th grade by the way…😂

[@briahnadeanda5574]

My students have left 4 hoodies/sweatshirts in my classroom over the last couple of months, and they take FOREVER to be claimed! I still have two on display that none of my students have claimed. They got one more week to take it home, or I'm keeping them to cover up dress code violations next year lol

[@Helen247]

It is UNREAL, I never would have believed it had I not had a child in elementary school. I don't know how these kids go home without these coats and shirts and socks and costumes and books and lunch boxes and art items and belts and hair things and water bottles and gloves and mittens and scarves and hats and toys and..... And some of it is really good stuff! I am horrified that halfway through the school year they have to donate it all because they would not be able to use the room that all the stuff blocks once it overflows the designated space...

[@Tracysop1]

I relate to this as a parent. Raised 3 boys with levels of ADHD. I checked with coaches, Lost and Found, as well as their lockers, every 6 weeks. We still came home with more than we could carry at the end of each year. It was like a mildewed treasure hunt.

[@plove523]

I think all my towels migrated to the YMCA one summer. I sent my husband into the locker room to retrieve them. He came out shaking his head and said ‘Just go buy some new towels, you don’t want those.’

[@chloej.r.2296]

I admit to being the person that goes through the lost and found after everything is up for grabs. There are some real gems in there.

[@EamonWill]

I basically came here to write this. One of my parents worked at a middle school and would take the end of year lost and found clothes that no one claimed. We would all go through it and find some awesome stuff! Then we donated whatever didn't fit.

[@spokenwordpoetries]

Up for grabs = thrift store shopping but free!

[@mykijiji1958]

Ha ha ha! My dad was a teacher, and we NEVER bought plastic storage containers. Once it was all about to be shipped off, he would find several every year. Wash them up. Good as new. We did NOT have a ton of money with only one parent working & 4 kids (in the 80s). Oooh, and office stuff, like almost brand new pencil cases, mini-staplers, cute erasers, etc. As kids, we thought this was great!! He taught one district over, so it wasn’t like the kid who left it behind was around to point out (the following September) we got it from lost & found. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@toddseales8222]

This is stuff we find in our teenagers messy bedroom. Nevermind school.

[@ClareB78]

Penn Charles totally has Kim's mannerisms!

[@organicskating]

Such a cute young man! 🤗

[@marydildine1937]

On the last day of his senior year, my son brought home an entire clothes basket full of workout clothes kids had left in the locker room that were never claimed!

[@Elyse_With_A_Y]

It's always fun to look in the lost and found and see something you didn't even know you were missing

[@sobermomma544]

We found my Mother's Day card in my son's locker!

[@icedog1123]

I lost so much stuff in elementary school. It wasn't even fun

[@Nurichiri]

Timing! Today is my kid's last day of school. Yesterday her backpack was full of drawings, a t-shirt I'm pretty sure doesn't fit anymore and spare pair of underwear. I can't wait to see what comes home with her today.

[@copiouscareerist]

"I found a way"....hysterical! xo

[@Nan-59]

Good one! ...an actual garbage bag! Well, I don't know what else he would've brought it all home in!😆🤷‍♀️

[@PaigrRoo]

.... for a second I thought this was a song about my Gr 7 locker 😂. 32 yrs old now, but boy does the memory of liquefied rattle apple stick with you...

[@busymama7903]

My Tupperware and other food storage containers, my word! How many I have found in my kids’ school’s lost and found over the years! Also past due assignments and actual library books at the end of year locker clean-out 😖 Also the usual single gloves 🧤 and mittens which we had already replaced with new pairs…

[@teenwriter89]

Not going to lie, this is hilarious because it is so true. I manage a restaurant and the majority of my night staff are high schoolers. I literally just walked around Sunday, filled a box full of 'missing' clothes and put on the break table with a sign on it. I do this TWICE a year, once before summer and once at Christmas break. I had six coats, four shirts, a pair of shorts, and a shoe. From where my high schoolers come in and change in the employee bathroom after school and forget their clothes. That was after we loaded one kid up with a bag of clothes. Our rule is they have a week to get it once it goes in the box and then everything else gets donated. It rarely takes a week.

[@thealextrifier]

Koala? Cat? i thought it was a TEA MUG!

[@susannewman6912]

Thank you! This video was perfect timing. I didn’t think to have my middle schooler check the front office lost and found for the glasses he lost last week until I saw this, and of course that’s where they were.

[@wolfwings1693]

Today is my last day of school! I’m watching this while walking to the bus stop

[@exinilda]

😂🤣😂🤣can we just say how precious and adorable Penn Charles is? He took this in stride. Penn and Kim as always you make our days bright with humor. Thank you so much! We love you guys! ❤️🙏💕 Penn we loved the lyrics!!😄

[@cant_seem_to_get_a_handle]

You guys are such fun parents

[@strangegiraffe]

My brother is exactly like this; a smart kid, but has a million things in the lost and found😂

[@SRose-vp6ew]

Logician (INTP) my son was helping teach AP biology at 13, but literally would forget to put his shoes on before leaving the house to go to the store or on a field trip. I am not joking! His mind is always working to understand science and even as a child he would "play" with cancer data looking for a cure and had a hard time being interrupted to properly do daily tasks "WELL." It's the absent-minded professor type, and yes, unmedicated ADD. My son is happier and more productive that way, even if the adults around him need to help teach him and remind him of the importance of non-academic routines so he has time to hyper focus on his very important thoughts that we can't always see. : ) I am not saying my son will be Newton or Einstein(other INTPs), but he does have the same personality and passion and I am more than okay with that even if he has to set alarms and task alerts on his phone to remember things. It did take me time to accept it as a way to be "normal" and not push my ideas of normal or what's an easy/hard task onto him. We are all meant to be different and help each other out.

[@SRose-vp6ew]

Makes me think of this- kzbin.info/www/bejne/npC0d6yeZsaZbpI

[@lindseydickey9282]

This is cute and funny vs. Shaming the kid for being forgetful, "stupid" and abusing them like my fam did. Love this family

[@Reallifeamusings]

I work at a preschool and the amount of mismatched socks you end up with by the end of the year is insane. Also sometimes parents won't claim their kids clothes. We had a nice pair a nike tennis shoes sit in the lost and found bins for several years and plenty of times parents went through our lost and found and no one claimed the nikes belonged to their child. Which also means at some point a child went home without the right shoes and no one noticed. Another time a little boy came to school in these hideous oversized velour pants with a little dinosaur on them (they looked like they were made in the 80s). The child ended up switching clothes and we sent the ugly pants home just to have the parents send them back and say they didn't belong to their child and had never seen them before. I guess they were embarrassed by how ugly they were. We still have them in our classroom and love to put them on tiny humans for extra warmth when we go outside in the winter.

[@emilyake9689]

My mom worked at school and could take home all the unclaimed items once school let out for the summer. I remember one time I scored an awesome umbrella that way.

[@bawesome5039]

I know one mom bought her son 5 coats, 5 jackets 5 sweaters and would go every Friday and pick them all up for the week... Know your kid I guess...

[@maryporod9367]

OMG! This is so funny because it’s so true. 40 years in education in the Midwest and I still don’t understand the winter coats in the lost and found. And then there was the year a kid left a carton of milk in his locker for about 6 weeks and then I think it may have exploded? Luckily not my classroom but the hallway reeked!😁 Love this and know that all my fellow educators are laughing and nodding because we’ve all seen it!!!

[@saschalevi6486]

Kim, trying to be a supportive mom: It looks cute! PC, Gen Z: does it?

[@oliviag3578]

this was me in first grade, i always left my water bottles everywhere although now i've only lost my scissors which is impressive EDIT: the funniest thing was that at the end of school, the admin sent out the list of what was in the lost and found and for the ENTIRE SCHOOL there were only 2 hoodies and my scissors

[@karenmartin842]

I guess leaving a partially consumed tiny carton of milk in my locker because I couldn’t handle drinking it during our mandatory milk break, and leaving it there till it got stinky, feeds into my inability to drink milk, 53 years later!!!😝I can still see myself standing in front of my locker trying to figure out how to get rid of it, but I don’t remember how I did! And of course, my mother blamed my bad teeth on my aversion to calcium in most forms. I, too, had to wear headgear, and a retainer! Why didn’t I think to just slip them into the lost and found?!?!?

[@cairacramer-walter3622]

My daughter also has ADHD and this was totally her in elementary school. I used to go through the lost and found whenever parents had to go to school for parent night, or art night, etc. I always found her missing glove, lunch box, scarf, snow pants, glasses. Once she lost her brand new softball jacket. I went to the lost and found and found a softball jacket (the same size). I brought it home…she wore it for weeks, but kept saying I’m not sure it’s mine b/c I think you wrote my name on the tag. One day she found her jacket in the corner of her technology classroom, so we washed the one she was wearing and dropped it back off at lost and found. Thank you for providing such relatable content and helping our family know it’s not just us!!!!

[@candicereeves6247]

If your kid rides the bus, be sure and check the lost & found at the Transportation Department. We have all that stuff there, too! Along with phone chargers and AirPods.

[@tamaramink1587]

It isn''t just teachers who find things! My husband is a head custodian at an elementary school, over the almost 30 years he has been there, he sometimes brings home things after the end of school year that either students and even teachers have lost or thown out.

[@canadagirl408]

It was always such a great feeling on the last day of school (jr high/high school) to walk in and see the hallways with rolley trashcans all the way down, knowing everyone was just going to be throwing all of their papers/binders away between classes

[@billtanguay8905]

Holderness Family, this parody gave me a chuckle. I just did a "Favorite Things" parody video over this past weekend to turn down a teaching gig! My content was about teaching math and family being my fav things. It's a cool song in that you have to get the syllables to fit in that 11-11-10-10 sequence in the verses! Your version was awesome! I played it on my accordion while singing the parody to make it memorable. The principal said I let her down in a "gentle" way! Parodies are great, which is why I respect your awesome work!

[@harrisontu264]

The only question is, where can I hear this parody?

[@fanbender9844]

Hahaha! Loved this!! This is SO my son. His AP English teacher used to joke that he never had to pack a lunch bc Jesse left his lunchbox in his class every. single. day. We went on a trip out west for 6 weeks in the summer of 2002; Jesse left articles of clothing all over the western part of the U.S.

[@emildakorkis]

Once my daughter left her jacket in the gym. Nothing much, just a little mistake. She and her class went through the lost and found to look for stuff they’ed lost. In her jacket there was a pair of socks that stuck out of the pockets.

[@angelsumrall7899]

Found on my last day of school in the fifth grade my English riding boots and crop. Lol

[@nicolemcneely385]

Penn Charles is THE CUTEST!!! He is hilarious!🥰 LOVED this video. Perfect song choice.

[@elizabethpane3444]

Our school emptied the entire lost and found half way through the school year. It over flowing again. And we just had an art show, hoped the parents would look while they were there. Nope. It’s crazy just how much stuff is just left there.

[@erinroberts4378]

Spot on! At least he knew what was his! I’m always holding the socks, sweater, and one boot up in front of my class and they act like the items just materialized from space right in front of their lockers 😂

[@TheCoolCookieKitchen]

My mom used to got hunting for her spoons and forks!

[@rachelcrossen8136]

It’s the ADD. My son too. Sending this to him now.

[@saintpearl5429]

This reminds me of one time in High School where all the laptops that teachers thought were stolen and were given multiple classes detention until somebody confessed to taking them were found in the school's lost and found. Come to think of it might have been actually stolen but the person returned it to the lost-and-found instead because they didn't want to confess

[@georgeherod4252]

I was a highschool janitor. When I would clean the locker rooms each night I would throw the lost stuff in a closet. At the end of the year I would drag it out and it would be a pile 3 feet wide two feet deep and 10 feet long of backpacks, gym outfits, socks, gym shoes, brand new cleats, binders, pen bags, sweat shirts, water bottles, inhalers. I would have to bag it and take it to the budget center. Something like 5 our 6 large bags full

[@violascrafttherapy9390]

I just love PC. Gosh he’s grown, I’ll always love his laugh. He used to laugh like crazy. Oh, good times

[@theunspecifiedshow]

Heck of a video! Great music! The weirdest thing I ever found in the lost and found was a dirty baby diaper in a Ziploc bag!