Found his water bottle in the preschool's lost-property box this week, next to two others exactly like it. The name I wrote on it had washed off. They want names on the bottle, tiffin box, raincoat and spare clothes, and marker lasts about a week. Is there a shop around Secunderabad that makes stick-on or iron-on name labels, or does everyone order online?
A couple of stationery shops near Paradise used to print sticker labels, but I haven't checked in years, so call before you go. For clothes, a tailor can stitch a small cloth tag with his name. That lasted through my daughter's whole primary school.
Which things are coming back without a name? The bottle and box need one. Spare clothes rarely leave the bag. A laundry marker, not a regular one, lasts much longer on fabric.
We ordered online when our son started preschool. A sheet of small vinyl ones for the bottle and box, iron-on ones for clothes. The vinyl ones survived daily scrubbing for most of a year. The iron-on ones peeled at the corners after a few months but stayed readable. Hope the new term is going well for him.
the vinyl ones are good. son peeled one off and stuck it on my laptop. so that's his now apparently
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