Why do manufacturers.....

[annie0000]

Make everything you want to buy for a child in a choice of Blue or Pink????

What happened to Green, Yellow, Purple, Red, Orange????

It's a pain in the behind when you have 2 boys - you either need to buy both the same colour or buy completely different things...and you always wish that you had two the same as one is invariably better than the other!!!

All I want is two fecking lunch boxes!!!

[ELVIS68]

lol

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.amazon.co....ie=UTF8&node=11714901

lots of variety here.

[douglas9401]

Have you considered paper bags? :)

[annie0000]

Thanks mamya - they will be 11 and 10 when they go back to school so I was looking at the more adult ones - the Thermos ones are ideal but come in a choice of ....blue or pink!!!! The black ones only come in black and aren't as good a style for my purposes. I am sure that there is something out there - just get bored looking after a while :o)

[annie0000]

douglas, lol would be fine if they didn't have to chuck their lunch onto the trolly along with about another 100 kids - lunch would a scattered mess at the bottom of the trolly by the time they came to eat it I think!!

[sophie_1003]

Do they like football and like different clubs? There's an Arsenal one on Amazon and can bet you can get other clubs ones as well?

[annie0000]

Hi Sophie thanks, they don't like football but the schools here don't allow any kind of football club branded stuff anyway as it can end in fights!! It's safer to stick with something plain after they grow out of Thomas the Tank engine and stuff like that. I'll resume the trawl later - need one big enough to take one of these banana protector things as 1 son has an issue with bruised fruit!

[razza]

Why not get 2 plain ones.

[sophie_1003]

Ah; I see! TKMaxx sometimes have those coolbag type things.

[rowanwitch]

get plain ones and let them personalise them with stickers

[annie0000]

it's plain ones I am looking for, want two the same style but in different colours, the problem seems to be that they either come in one colour only or in a choice of blue or pink.

Don't mind me, I was just having a bit of a rant after spending an hour on what I thought was a simple job :o) I like to be organised in advance of them going back to school so only have the lunchbags and shoes to get.

Will just buy them in a light-ish plain colour so that I can write their name on them - don't know why it hasn't been such a problem before - maybe I am just too early this year and there will be a choice in the supermarkets etc in the next few weeks.

Good idea Rowan younger boy might like that - eldest is considered probably borderline for High Functioning Aspergers so will freak about stickers (or sticker residue!!)

[rowanwitch]

He might like one of the ones that has a little see through pocket in the front he can put his name on a neat label with a picture and it can be sealed up and stay clean ...

Have you tried camping shops last year I think it was Milletts had red and grey stiff sided coolbags suitable for one person

[annie0000]

Thanks Rowan - we have a Millets so I'll try them next time i'm in town. This is when you really miss Woolies!!!