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Jan 07 2013

{BACK TO SCHOOL} Getting ready, organising labels + giveaway

Category: Back to School • Giveaway

This post is sponsored by Nuffnang

Now that the rush of Christmas is over its time to start preparing for the kids return back to school.  Even though they don’t start for another few weeks, you will need all this time to cover books, name bookpack items, label everything, prepare the uniforms and so much more, especially if you have more than one child attending school.  Over the next few weeks I will be sharing with you all my tips and ideas for back to school organisation!

The one task that needs to be completed before anything else is ordering labels.  I say this so you can take the delivery time into account as this usually takes 5-7  days. Labelling ‘everything’ is essential so it’s easier for your child to identify their own items, will stop others from taking what isn’t theirs and if it gets lost having it labelled with their name will help it be returned.

When ordering labels take into account everything that you need to label:

  • School uniforms
  • Hats
  • Socks
  • Shoes
  • School bag
  • Lunchbox
  • Drink Bottle
  • Ice Pack
  • Bikes, helmets and scooters
  • Exercise/text books
  • Pens and pencils
  • Book supplies such as glue, rulers etc

With all the above in mind you may need a variety of labels and in this case a school labels value kit maybe your best option.  Look for a pack that will include of what I think are 4 essential labels:

pencil labels for colouring and lead pencils

clothing labels for uniforms

I like to remove the tags from my kids uniforms as they scratch and irritate their skin.  These labels are made from vinyl, so they are smooth and non irritating.  Treated paper is supplied with the pack so you can easily iron labels onto clothing.

Find tips for ironing on labels here

large labels for lunch boxes

smaller labels for drink bottles

Bright Star Kids have a variety of label packs, something to suit everybody

 

view pack varieties here

 

For the purpose of this post I got the labels printed with our surname as I don’t publish my kids first names.  This has saved me from buying  a pack for each child. However, I do recommend if you have more than one child it’s a good idea to order their clothing labels with their first and surname, purely for your benefit so you know who’s uniform belongs to who. I have 2 kids in the same size, easily to confuse who’s uniform belongs to who.

Find more details about Bright Star Kids

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PLEASE NOTE THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

Winners are:  Judith Missen, Simone, Jessie Hay, Amy P and Natalie Cocks.

Five lucky readers will win one $50 Bright Star Kids voucher each.  

For your chance to win leave me a comment below telling me whats the strangest thing you felt you needed to label.

This is not a game of skill, winners will be randomly chosen.

Giveaway ends midnight, Thursday 17th January 2013.

 

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  • Madeleine Driver

    I will have to label my daughters ear phones :-)

  • Daniela

    My sons cars…. All 126 of them. He was taking them to preschool and there were so many I couldn’t tell which ones were actually his anymore!! (But of corse he knew if one went missing!)

  • Rhiannon Guess

    Fruit, my child’s kept going missing, once I wrote his name on it everyday magically it stayed in his bag until it was time for fruito

  • Bec

    I’ve labelled my son…on his arm with a marker when we’ve been out at a fair for the day!

  • Amanda Harding

    Years ago, my sons nappies. The day care he was at would continually use up ours on other children so I named each and every one as I sent the bag in and magically I wasn’t needing to buy more every week!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Cas-Jon-Jaz-Ryder/100000916494635 Cas Jon Jaz Ryder

    I think Labels are essential, I have even used markets to write my phone number on my daughters hand on busy field trips.

  • Natalie Cocks

    My eldest is starting pre-prep this year so we need to start labelling everything. From my teaching experience I have found the things that are hardest to identify for little kids are undies, socks and hair ties/scrunchies etc…always the things that are left with no owners…so they are definitely some of the most important/strangest things to label!

  • Leanne

    Glasses… One for every child in the house-to prevent the school holiday 36 glass sink pileup!

  • Mickey Jenkins

    I was a nanny for a little girl i had to label her underpants so when she went swim lessons they didn’t get lost or mixed up.lol

  • laura swinfield

    lids on everything .. not just containers its the lids too or both wont come home .. so annoying

  • Sonya Holden

    My step-sons beyblades

  • Kirsten

    Probably her tooth fairy box – she had a very wobbly tooth and wanted to put it straight in the bid if it fell out at school!

  • Guest

    Hats and shoes! Daughter can never manage to keep hers on- let alone remember where she put them!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jasminennigel.adams Jasmine N Nigel Adams

    Well where do you start – everything that goes into the school bag needs a label – I’ve found even their food needs a label these days!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/tahlia.weston Tahlia Weston

    the home phone and a clock up up on a wall? dont ask me why….

  • http://happylan.wordpress.com/ Happylan

    I like to label my electrical cords.

  • cass

    my own kids… three running different directions and two not talking… labelling with my number gave a peace of mind for that just incase

  • http://www.facebook.com/michelle.hunt.96343 Michelle Hunt

    Keys – how funny – that we need to label the keys because we have so many of them !!! Also everything that has to go to school, and I a mean EVERYTHING !!!

  • Narelle Rock

    hair ties because my girls argue over which ones are whos, ridiculous!

  • Jenny Lee

    I had to label a bag of ice that was for show & share. Even though I assured the teacher I didn’t want or need it back, they wouldn’t allow me to leave it without a label!

  • http://www.facebook.com/angie.boylan.3 Angie Boylan

    Definitely underwear for school – in my opinion there shouldn’t be a reason my child should have their underwear OFF in order for it to be misplaced??

  • http://www.facebook.com/deborah.barwick.5 Deborah Barwick

    My sons library bag, homemade reversible bag with a gorgeous dinosaur print on it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/amszy Amy Byrne

    Hairclips, they never seem to come home…..

  • Trina

    Socks, at the centre there are always missing socks

  • Megan McCormick

    Flannelette nappies! My son used these as “ruggies” when he was little, labelling reduced confusion at childcare.

  • Shannan

    My daughter got me to label everyone’s plate and cup at her birthday party with a Dymo.. Wasn’t enough to just have placecards! She’s an anal little thing already! :P

  • Susan

    I had to label my son’s teddy bear for daycare. I ended up making a really long label with a label maker and wrapping it around it’s neck like a collar. Worked a treat!

  • Justine

    Last year for prep swimming I labelled my daughters ear rings ! I thought maybe she might take them out and loose them :-)

  • Leona

    The plastic beach toys!

  • Amanda

    MY CHILDREN!!!…..When we go to a large public event I write my mobile number on their arms so they can be returned if lost :-)

  • Natalie sartori

    Every year I label my kids when we head of to the Perth royal show.

  • Melissa Chapman

    Trying to label reading glasses on the cheap.

  • Nicole

    My first child is off to school soon so i will be taking all the above comments on board. I will definitely be labelling her hair clips as they can only wear school coloured hair accessories and her hair clips are always disappearing!

  • http://www.facebook.com/lucy.baker.505 Lucy Baker

    I once labelled my socks in highschool. Not because I lost them but because my five-years-younger brother, he of the enormous feet, kept stealing them then wandering outside on red clay in them.

    (labelling didn’t work, sadly)

  • http://www.facebook.com/amy.robertson.524 Amy Robertson

    piece of ribbion my child took everywhere.

  • Sally

    Undies and socks when my daughter has swimming at school – every sock looks the same!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/bellybaylo Belinda Bayliss

    socks….my hubbie always steals mine (don’t worry they are black!). I sew a little star on them in coloured cotton

  • Debbie

    I have been known to label my daughter for kinder/school excursions.

  • Happy Housewife

    My child’s teddy bear. :-)

  • Jacinta

    I label my children when we go to places that have huge crowds. I write my phone number either on their arm, or if i’ve been organised I write it on a bandaid then put it on their arm

  • Amanda

    Strangest thing would have to be a bottle of nailpolish when we brought in our own each to a party.

  • Kylie Flavel

    EVERYTHING when my son went to Sydney on his own last year for the Australian Gymnastics championships. He was only 9 and in the first day, he lost his phone, room key, event pass AND silver medal!!!

  • Amy P

    Ok so not really strange, but difficult to label – I had to label a fluffy pillow for rest time for my Son in kindy. I used an iron on label on a ribbon then looped the ribbon, opened a small part of the cushion up, stuffed the end of the ribbon in and sewed it shut!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jodie.tawn Jodie Tawn

    Underwear is the thing I found strangest to label, but definitely a necessity when they’re toilet training!

  • Marg P

    Underwear, not so they don’t get lost but so my teenage daughters don’t freak out if I give them the wrong ones….

  • Rach

    I labelled my children with wristbands last year when we took them to the Brisbane Ekka.

  • Sheridon

    My husband! When he went out with his mates I used to write on his arm: If found please call wife ###### (ph number).

  • Lea

    I labelled a bikini when I was younger as my sister kept saying she ‘didn’t realise it was mine’ lol.

  • http://www.lifeatnumber35.blogspot.com Michelle

    My two girls play representative sport so for every trip everything has to be labelled – socks, undies, strapping tape, toiletries!!

  • Tammy

    I once tied a luggage tag with my contact details to my daughter’s ponytail. She was about 18months, we were in an airport and I was 7 months pregnant… It is one of my favourite photos of her still!

    I also labelled mum’s tupperware tumblers in permanent marker with party guests names… the names are still visible a million washes and about 20 years later. OOPS! I guess they don’t make permanent markers like that anymore – I have to constantly relabel things I label in “permanent” marker.

    • Meg

      Metho works really well to get even ancient texta off tupperware :)

  • Mandy

    Probably homemade meat pies. My kids love it when I cut their initials out of pastry and put it on their pie so no one else gets it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/alison.wheway Alison Wheway

    My Daughters!! We went to the Zoo and Miss 5 started to take off with a friend and I was held back with Miss 3 and a friend and stroller, so I wrote my mobile number in pen up her forearm! Fortunately, she stayed close by!

  • http://www.facebook.com/juliechambersbranham Julie Chambers Branham

    Everything! I have two kids (a boy and a girl) who are very close in age. They fight over everything so I have to put their names on all of their stuff!!!

  • Kara

    Knickers! As I was getting my eldest ready for kindy last year, I remember ironing on the labels thinking why??? But yes it seems everything going to school needs a label even knickers :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/emma.watts.9822 Emma Watts

    My daughter wanted to label her guinea pig when we took it to school for a class visit! I had to convince her to compromise by labelling the pet carrier. I don’t think Woffles would have been happy with a sticker on her hairy little body :)

  • Emily

    I need to label my son’s swim gear, including swim fins and a kick board… I wonder if there is one small enough for googles?!

  • Jazzy

    I am definitely a label girl …. I am a casual primary school teacher and I am always lending kids pencils, pens, glue, rubbers etc from my bag just so there are no excuses as why they cannot finish their work…. They always come back now since labelled “MRS SUMMERS” lol

  • SuzieLove

    My son wanted me to label his actual tissues! Made me laugh though.

  • chloe

    Strangest thing would be my husbands lunch. Someone in his office use to like my cooking so much, that they are it every day for a week lol.

    Thanks for such a great site. Love you to bites xx

  • Cath Roberts

    Embarassingly…our CD/DVD collection…it is housed in purpose built pop-out storage and arranged alphabetically by artist/movie title. Sadly my very organised husbands idea – even though I am the one to do the labelling!!!

  • Megsy

    Flannelette Nappies! My second child (C-Man) was a huge fan of “ruggies” when he was a toddler and we found that he was happy with one of the many flanny nappies we had – he did demand they all have his name on them so at Child Care they all knew they were his. Very cute indeed :-)

  • Anne

    As funny as it seems, my identical twins girls often need to be labelled in some way. We usually do this with hair styles, ribbon or earrings. This year they are turning 8 and will be with a different teacher for the first time.

  • Danielle mckenzie

    I’ve had to label each item in my childs lunch box. And his jocks i thought that was odd how is he going to loose them

  • Lisa P.

    Probably my son’s underwear for is extra clothes kept at school.

  • Julie C

    A bone sample that my husband wanted to keep. From 2002. It’s in Keen’s mustard jar with water and labelled.

  • Nadine M

    Kids Mac Donald’s toys. They were fighting over who’s was what….. Can’t argue with a name in black Nikko :) )

  • Jennifer

    I labeled the entire plastic drawer of my babies diaper station with weird phrases and poems.

  • Amanda A

    I’m embarrassed to say I once labelled a labelmaker with “Labelmaker”. In my defence I had just bought it and was desperate to try it out but couldn’t think of anything else to label. I’ve left it on there all these years later for a giggle :)

    • TheMindfulMum

      OMG that is hysterical, I bet you win :)

      • TheMindfulMum

        Oh it’s random – well, you should win ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/jaemerton Jodie Emerton

    I tend to label everything esp my Tupperware I just hate thiings going missing

  • jem

    I have to label my boy’s tennis balls

  • Sharna

    Little notebooks! So my DD6 and DD2 have less arguments over which one belongs to who!

  • Stacey

    I actually labelled my little girl’s teddy today so her sister wouldn’t play with it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=612875711 Bec Sherman

    My son’s blanky (which was a face washer) which he took everywhere!

  • http://www.facebook.com/iamstephyc Stephanie Cotterill

    Haha, some funny responses! Strangest thing I’ve labelled is banana’s. When my boys wanted to make sure that they each got their own. Just used a sharpie on the peel. Definately saved any arguments!

  • Jodie H

    lol when we has baby number 4 i put each outfit into a big zip lock back and labled the size and sex hahah and i even had 4 for the first outfit! 2 for boy and 2 for a girl and 000 and 0000 as we had no idea how big she was (everyone said she was going to be huge)

    i wanted to make sure if hubby had to dress her/him at the time he would know what was what, and then all 000 and 0000 were seperate and it made it easier…

    have been know to write my mobile # on the boys arms in permament marker when we go to big events hehehe

  • Kim M

    Labelling tupperware makes me feel like my mother – especially as it is for my husband! Strange because I never thought I would do it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/sharron.lawton2 Sharron Lawton

    After a long day of getting the boys things ready for the start of the school year I accidently labelled the back outside of my sons school shirt, at first he was so surprised that everyone knew his name on the first day of high school but not so impressed when he realised why. To this day he still has a go at me about it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/sharee.ussher Sharee Ussher

    I label anything & everything possible, my 4yr old & husband lose most things… like father, like son ;)

  • kate

    All of my children have the nude food movers lunchbox sets so i labelled the lids of their snack containers as well as the container as they seem to be really popular since the school has gone ‘wrapper free’.

  • Kirsty

    My kids asked me to label our cats feeding bowls with their names so the cats will know “who’s is who” :)

  • Joni

    Anything that belongs to my husband so that it can make its way home!

  • lainskii

    hmmm, pantry items? Don’t really label much so haven’t done anything strange yet, I’m sure I will as the kids grow up.

  • Alyra Shaw

    LOL – what fantastic responses. Clearly I need to do a lot more labeling besides the pantry containers and kids drink bottles!

  • http://www.facebook.com/danielle.clydesdale Danielle Clydesdale

    My own lunchbox for the staffroom. But lids .. Always seem to be labelling lids, why do they never return!

  • Laura

    My daughters dummies, bottles and for school I label everything in more than one spot incase they fall off.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tracytsedge.sedgewick Tracy Tsedge Sedgewick

    Underwear!

  • Julie Myhill

    I put a label on the Dymo label maker at my work! :) It leaves my office and rarely returns without a hunt!

  • casey

    I labelled the jar on my window sill with pens, pencils, scissors etc in it; ‘pens, pencils, scissors etc’

  • Bev

    Socks my step son use to take mine and the would never come back so i started labeling them and then for some strange reason i ended have way to many socks lol

  • vetstar

    I havent had to label yet but I have 2 little girls within 11 months of each other and a little boy on the way within 18 months of the youngest so I do think that labelling is going to become a very big part of my life in the future just to keep the peace if anything :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/melindadp Melinda Di Palma

    At a recent show we made my son a wrist band out of paper and sticky tape with our number on it. Apart from that, I generally label his clothes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rebecca.zacharias.3 Rebecca Stamp

    My kids both got a buzz lightyear for christmas and I had to label one of them to stop the kids fighting over which buzz lightyear belonged to who!

  • Kim m

    My lunch, people at work take it otherwise…

  • 1nitahaircut

    I label everything- that way there is little to no arguments in my house of 6! The strangest thing I have had to label were elastic hair ties and shoelaces! Into the nitty gritty! I have labelled apples and bananas too!

  • Ying Ying TAN

    Having only one child, never thought labelling my daughter’s room is necessary. Apparently it is because she always end up in my room on my bed!

  • http://www.facebook.com/melinda.drennan Melinda Drennan

    I don’t know what the strangest thing I’ve to label is….The kids toys and games all have a letter on them, every time they get anything that is the same it gets their initial so NO arguments…..other than that I only label stuff for school, and cutlery, plates and cups for camp outs…

  • http://www.facebook.com/saralie.chuckles Saralie Chuckles

    My husband thinks I am a nut, I label everything even my labels are labelled.

  • http://www.facebook.com/andreamunn Andrea Munn

    Nappy Rash Cream for when DD6 was at daycare as a baby….. :)

  • Kirsty Wodson

    The strangest thing> My daughters performance lipstick for dancing – she is allergic to a lot of things so it was better than having to label a new Epipen!

  • Debbie B

    My kids get labelled every year when we go to the show in case they get lost. They have wrist bands with my mobile phone number on

  • SueA

    I label my stapler, hole punch and scissors at work – if I didn’t they would grow legs!!! :)

  • melissa maree

    my daughters knife, fork and spoon on her first girl guide camp.

  • http://www.facebook.com/katie.lovell.319 Katie Lovell

    My pack of labels!

  • Rachel K

    Pencils because they are easily replaced and are cheap to purchase – so why do I label them every year? I guess it’s just habit but it really is stupid when you think about it!

  • Shannon R

    {hangs head in shame} but some days I probably need to label my kids withy their names! As a working parent seeing customers all day and calling them by name, I can often get home and mix up the kids names. Seriously not sure how I can, we only have 2 kids (1 boy 1 girl)……

  • Merryl Chantrell

    I would like a large label I could affix to my husband’s forehead especially when we go to the Hardware Store and he wanders off mumbling ‘I’ll meet you back here’ and his voice trails off :-)

  • http://www.facebook.com/jo.bailey Jo Bailey

    The remaining three quarters of a Kit Kat in my top drawer at work :-P

  • Kristy

    I labelled a knife handle with “Don’t Touch” I was really sick of people moving my knife at work.

  • Katie

    Kids underwear

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1534735973 Leila Matthews

    I am constantly reminded of my need to label at my old work. You would open the freezer to find clip lock bags with two slices of bread labelled bread!

  • http://twitter.com/KazEdwards23 Karen Edwards

    The only weird thing I’ve labelled is underwear :-)

  • Linda Maynard

    The weirdest thing I’ve ever labelled??? Definitely my daughters undies for school. I was using iron on labels and my husband walked in and said “Have you gone insane? Why are you ironing her undies?” I explained that it was a directive from the school. He looked quite puzzled and said “How is she going to lose her undies at school? What are they doing… nudie runs?” I had to remind him that they actually have to take them off when they change for swimming. :)

  • Niamh

    At work Myself and a colleague label our milk in the communal fridge with “Goats Milk containing quick acting laxative. Use at your own risk” Needless to say our milk doesn’t disappear as fast as others!!!

    • Lisa

      Thank you for giving me a giggle – I’m going to try this one @ my work!!

  • WMO2

    The strangest thing I have had to label is my little boy’s nappies when he was going to day care. Even though his things were suppose to be kept in his bag, when he first started going he would always come home with someone elses nappy (I know this because of the brand we buy and the brand he use to come home in)

  • Chris

    A bag of wool in clear packaging that said “wool” .

  • AlisonF

    Shoes, at child care there was 3 children with the same shoes as my daughter and as they would take them off at rest time, staff would often get them confused.

  • Jessie Hay

    When my kids go to school I label everything- down to their sharpeners, scissors and textas. I have ever been known to label their drink bottle lids! When I can’t get a label onto it I burn their names on with a soldering iron lol. It takes a long time when you have 5 or more kids at school!

  • http://www.facebook.com/kelly.glock Kelly N Shawn Glock

    I often feel the need to label my children! I have 4 girls all close in age and I have a bad memory!lol. I often call them by someone else’s name.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705712640 Kathy McMahon

    I too on a couple of occasions labeled my dd. When she was very young, and if we were going out in large crowds, I would write my mobile phone number and name on both of her arms with permanent marker. We never needed it, but I thought it was a great idea if she got lost.

  • Donnelle

    The strangest thing i’ve had to label was my childs banana when he was
    attending preschool as EVERYTHING in lunchboxes had to be labeled. This
    included juice boxes, sandwich bags etc. Needless to say I didn’t use a
    stick on label, just a texta, but still, it seemed pretty stupid.

  • Jennifer

    I’m probably strange – I label everything. Helps me keep things tidy and helps “missing” things find their way home from school. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/tanya.glancy2 Tanya Glancy

    When I worked in Child Care in the Toddler’s room I would label every child’s nappy with their name on it before they went home. If they were back the next day I would know who didn’t get a bath or changed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lynelle.fozard Lynelle Fozard

    The kids fruit for crunch and sip as they always seemed to have their bananas and mandarins go missing….

  • Mel S

    My sons football that he takes to school and i make sure i label it more than once in case the first label falls off lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/kim.french.794 Kim French

    Single pieces of fruit, apple, banana, orange.

  • Cassandra

    my son is about to start pre school and i have labled his underwear

  • Casey

    A tennis ball and a dinosaur… DS loves taking toys to share with friends at school. Branding everything with his name is the only way to ensure there arent any schoolyard disputes over who’s dinosaur is who’s.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mandynico Amanda Nicholson

    My kids shoes and USB sticks for school. Very hard to find a label small enough for the stick !!

  • megan

    i have never bought labels before but after my son lost his $40 school Jacket and $25 school hat last year (named with permanant marker and only worn 3 times) i swore i will label everything!!! at least then it has a slight chance of returning to us. the weirdest thing that i have had to “label in permanant marker” were my boys toy cars (from the movie)…mind you they both had exactly the same ones due to my thinking it wouldn’t cause fights (but apparently these things can be distinguished from each others belongings..never the less they all have little symbols on them) and clear plastic boxes with what was inside them…facepalm moment!

  • Alex S

    As a kid I used to label the little packets of chips that come in the huge variety bags. I did this as my older brother would always come and steal the best flavours. So one day I decided to evenly divide the packets and label. I think this is where my obsession for labelling items came from!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jodie.evans.98 Jodie Evans

    Hubby, as he was going out drinking heavily with the boys, in a strange town, I wanted them to get back to the hotel where we were staying. Mostly a selfish reason as I didn’t want to be driving around in the early hours of the morning looking for the drunks when they had no idea where they were. It worked, they made it back to the hotel thanks to the name of the hotel on hubby’s arm.

  • Kristy

    I want to label my combs and brushes! They seem to disappear into my daughters bathroom and bedroom and it’s irritating!

  • Andreajvb

    As a child i remember i labled allof my clothes drawers!

  • Tamar

    I had to label my expressed milk so no one used it in their coffee at work LOL

  • Emma B

    I have labelled my USB stick…

  • AMG

    I have no idea how you are meant to label socks????

  • Gabby H

    I have labelled my light switches, I have a set of four with half inside lights & half out, weird but so useful :)

  • Megs

    My kids don’t seem to know who they are, they answer for each other or don’t answer at all … think I’ll label them so they know who they are!!

  • Domestic Diva

    I labeled my kid’s underwear before a sleepover.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mary.preston.12 Mary Preston

    We labeled the dog, just until we bought the new collar.

  • Hailey

    I have labelled my daughters headbands, yes it may sound really silly but i wont allow her to wear hair accessories to school that aren’t school colours. They go walk about throughout the year and are not cheap, and the cost adds up. If i could name the hair ties i would lol it drives me batty!

  • http://www.facebook.com/clareanthony81 Clare Anthony

    I have had to label my daughters banana (on the banana peel) at kindy, so the other kids don’t eat hers.

  • http://www.bunchoberries.blogspot.com Jessica Berry

    I really don’t label much. I have a label maker that I use for scrapping. I have used it for labeling the years on my scrapbooks. But labels would be great for teaching supplies. I am a special education teacher that works in the general education classroom with the gen-ed teachers. Every year they buy supplies and write their names on them, this would be great to gift to a few of them. :)

  • Melissa Furmedge

    I have labelled my children. If lost please call…. One day i went out with my twin boys then aged 4 and their cousin 3 with the cousin and one of my boys being “runners”. I stuck on the labels and had forgotten about them. The look of horror on my sisters face when i dropped her home and she saw i had labelled her daughter is priceless!

  • Gillian Larcombe

    My sewing scissors are labelled to differentiate them from household scissors…actually, they are labelled with a threat to anyone who touches them!

  • http://www.facebook.com/Liz.Hollier78 Liz Hollier

    I label most things that need sorting – baskets in the bathroom, cleaning products, etc.

  • Gillian

    The front of my son’s dummy – I was worried about him being given someone else’s at daycare – he did look funny with his name glaring out from the front of his mouth!

  • Amanda A

    Probably the kids dummies

  • http://www.facebook.com/nicole.penning.16 Nicole Penning

    a salad dressing container for work…and it still got pinched out of the fridge :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/nicole.penning.16 Nicole Penning

    Another strange thing i have labelled is my son’s clothing drawers…my partner complains he can never find anything.. now its in black an white

  • http://www.facebook.com/TupperEva Eva Rado

    My girl’s dolls all need to have their owners names written on their bodies, because they have to have the same, but god forbid if ‘she’s got mine!’

  • http://www.facebook.com/skye.hayes Skye Hayes

    The comb and spray bottle I packed for backstage at my daughter’s first dance concert! Also the makeup including lipstick and mascara!

  • Renee

    I actually labelled my new label maker as I was way too excited about getting it!

  • Erin

    At my girls’ childcare they leave their shoes on all day except for rest time, so I didn’t label their shoes – until one of them came home with shoes identical to the ones she’d gone in – except two sizes bigger!!

  • Mel Raff

    The inside dash of my car!! It was a new label machine and I wrote “I love my wife” and stuck it to the dash (to the bewilderment of my husband!!!) and then when we had our first child i added “and child” then when we had the next child I added “ren!” so in the end it read, “i love my wife and children”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=652957217 Richelle Fletcher

    I’ve labelled my daughters headbands for school with a permanent marker (on the side that touches their heads). I used to label my pens at work with the old “sticky tape and a strip of paper” method. And I had to label lunchboxes almost everyday last year with the permanent marker as it kept wearing off in the dishwasher… so much for permanent!

  • http://www.facebook.com/lesleyanne.clegg Lesley-Anne Clegg

    Hiyah Kat – where did you get the water bottles? They look like the bottoms screw off to hold a snack. I’ve been looking for something similar for ages!

    • Teresa M

      Lesley Anne they are tupperware drink bottles.great to hold key in bottom if going to gym

  • http://www.facebook.com/amanda.s.ross.5 Amanda Sharkey Ross

    I don’t like labeling, but know its necessary. Food, is the wierdest thing I label!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=673457978 Jody Jamieson

    well in my house no one has respect enough to ask they just take and dont worry the fights over drinks and food and snacks is ridiculous i even have to label my bourbon cans or they disappear very quickly my wierdest thing would be labeling all the keys in the house so we know wich are whos

  • Liz B

    I labelled ‘the good scissors’ as my fabulously sharp (and expensive) dressmaking scissors were constantly being used for paper and other no-nos. Then of course I had to label all the other scissors in the house as ‘the evil scissors’.

  • Teresa M

    I labelled the dustpan ‘inside’ to stop hubby using them for muck in the garage

  • http://www.facebook.com/jodie.daniel Jodie Daniel

    I labelled my kids undies last year… when he went swimming I was paranoid that he would end up with some other kids undies.
    I also put labels on my linen cupboard shelves… sheets, pillowcases, towels, hand towels, facewashers. After cleaning it all up one day…. I wanted to ensure it stayed that way. (it kind of did)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/carla.n.smith.1 Carla N Tony Smith

    so far the weirdest thing I’ve labelled are my boys undies, as he is off to Kindy this year!

  • sharon graham

    I labeled the vacuum head ‘ carpet only’ as the wheels were scratching the wooden floors – oh and when my daughter went for day surgery I had to label her teddy bear!

  • http://www.facebook.com/rebecca.amadei.7 Rebecca Amadei

    Having two daughters at daycare at some point, I have had to label everything – bags, shoes, drink bottles, clothing (including underwear)… I think the hardest was DD2′s dummy.

  • Aileen

    There is a fair bit of labelling of cables and plugs round this house so someone (me) doesn’t pull out the wrong plug and create an IT nightmare or mess up the DVD recorder when I’m being domestic and vacuuming etc.

  • http://www.facebook.com/gayle.richardson.771 Gayle Richardson

    The lettuce container. Really, what else would be in it!

  • http://twitter.com/beccasta Rebecca

    I’ve labelled my hubands shelves with ‘Work Clothes’ and ‘Fishing Clothes’ and ‘Going out clothes’. Seriously beyond house training when I got him…

  • Stacey Shailer

    My toothbrush – my hubby is a shocker for just grabbing mine and using it, even though his is blue and mine is pink…think he might be colourblind!

  • Krisso

    Both of my daughters got a rainbow unicorn Pillow Pet for Christmas. To avoid the inevitable fights over ownership each unicorn came with a little engraved dog tag saying “I belong to ______” tied on a ribbon around their neck. Too cute! (and the child’s name in permanent marker on the tag on the unicorn’s butt in case the other one was removed!!!) :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/annika.williams2 Annika Williams

    I always find labelling the kids undies for kindly pretty funny!

  • Cass

    I labelled one of hubby’s wardrobe shelves as ‘good for a re-wear’ as I was sick of him leaving jumpers and things laying around our room because they were items you don’t wash after every wear.

  • Mel

    I feel the need to label my lunch in my work fridge – always goes missing- especially my yoghurt!

  • Donna W

    My prescription glasses case, with my name and mobile number. It’s not strange as such, but I never would have thought of it myself if my inlaws didn’t suggest it.

  • Nat Freeman

    Cat food…..one of our cats was very fussy and would only eat a certain type!

  • Kath C

    I have labelled the different attachments for our dyson vacuum so that hubby uses the right one on our wooden floors.

  • http://www.facebook.com/katrina.doyle Katrina Lee Doyle

    My Groceries at one place I worked if you ducked out and grabbed a few groceries and popped them in the fridge you had to label them or they would be thrown out – we had a co worker who was anal over the fridge! Our lunch bags had to be dated so that she knew it was that days luch and not a few days old. We were all terrified of her not to do this :)

  • Irena

    Socks!

  • Meg

    At my girls school a lot of the kids have the same school logoed school bag. As a result the kids use a lot of keyrings etc to tell them apart. Each of my girls keyrings has their initals on the feet as some kids have had theirs go missing. I can’t fit even their full name on the foot so its normally just 1 letter LOL. Its worked though, none have gone missing in 2 years!

  • http://www.facebook.com/kate.tallon Kate Tallon

    I label all the kids possessions that are similar with their initials. Toys, dolls, headbands, handbags, purses, music boxes, snow globes, books, etc. It’s the only way to avoid the squabbles over what belongs to who.

  • Sonia

    I find socks a pain to label.

  • Jolynda

    I labeled my labeler! :)

  • Jen

    underwear! We had to label my daughters spare underwear when she as at kindy!

  • SueSueper

    Labeled a chair so it would not disappear!

  • http://www.facebook.com/vicki.mettam Vicki Mettam

    I label EVERYTHING from drink bottles, to knickers & socks & most recently my girls’ body boards coz they were the same colour. I even have my own labels to put on my tupperware when we go to a party in case I leave it behind!

  • Annie Radcliffe

    I drew labels for my girls (4 & 6 years) drawers with pictures of types of clothes so they can put their own washing away :)

  • Joy

    My Nannys slippers, at the rest home

  • Jasmine

    Chocolates because everyone always seems to eat my secret stash

  • CrystalB

    My own children and niece when they were going out to a concert with Nana

  • Deb K

    My hubby!

  • Linda S

    My dogs ‘stools’. He’d had some issues and the vet wanted to check which days he was doing what!

  • Sabby

    I used to have to label my lunch so that people in the office wouldnt steal it

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emily-K-Keller/758832952 Emily K Keller

    After living in sharehouses for years, I was always tempted to label every single piece of food in the kitchen……never quite went that far, but it was tempting!

  • Kirsten W

    My husband!

  • Melissa Hortin

    My daughter’s dummy for daycare.

  • Julie McCosker

    As a new school mum this yr I have found myself going a little extreme with the labeling – I am hand writing my daughters name on EVERYTHING in case the iron on label comes off!

  • macemesmum

    I label my chocolate and I m not embarrassed to admit it!

  • Kylie B

    My husband labelled my kids with messages for me for Mother’s Day. That was cute ????

  • Jodie Harlow

    My daughter’s underwear. They’re now the same size so labelling makes it easier at sort time, although the pen marks have to be redone every few washes. Permanent markers are not match for my washing machine it seems!

  • Alexandra

    I once labelled my clothes to try to stop my sister from borrowing my clothes. It didn’t really work though, so I just made sure I borrowed hers!

  • http://www.facebook.com/melanie.hargrave.7 Melanie Battistel-Hargrave

    My sister and I both had pet turtles, but would argue who owned which turtle. We decided to label their shells by putting a black spot and a red spot on them. This worked fine for a couple of months until the marker wore off!

  • http://www.facebook.com/joanne.emery.7161 Joanne Emery

    The shelves in the pantry so that everyone puts the kitchen gadgets back in the place they belong!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/psych.griffiths Alma Psych Griffiths

    My sanitary items when living in shared dorms at university!

  • Falon Downing

    I labeled my pets tags with a label maker to avoid getting them engraved!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kristy-Sweeney/1207873548 Kristy Sweeney

    socks, with 3 of my boys and my husband wearing the same size socks and all similar colours, I have had to resort to sewing different coloured thread at the top of each sock.

  • Simone

    My grandmother’s shampoo, conditioner, and toilet rolls whilst she was in a nursing home. The trials of being a patient in the dementure ward!

  • Kristi Renout

    Nothing strange that I can think of. Just my waterbottle I guess, so it wouldn’t get confused with anyone else’s.

  • Kristina

    My mum labelled my underwear when I went away to camp lol she seem to think someone would think mine were theirs

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Crystal-Adams/586569815 Crystal Adams

    labelling food with my name so the kids wouldn’t eat it on me

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002645416625 Linda Hynson

    I labeled my lunch so workmates wouldnt steal!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/insanemonkey81 Nic Taylor

    when i was staying at a backpackers, the fridge is communal, and everyone stole food, so i would write in black permanate marker my name on the meat i would buy, didnt always stop people, but a few cuts of meat were saved!

  • Laura C

    Colourblind hubby has a habit of wearing unmatching socks. I felt like labelling them with their colours so he can match them up!

  • http://www.facebook.com/melissa.work.54 Melissa Work

    my grandad labels everything for the visitors who stay in his unit, including arrows pointing where to turn things on!

  • http://www.facebook.com/sonya.nicole.982 Sonya Nicole

    I labelled my daughter’s banana! I couldn’t find her lunchbox but I needed to label her lunch so I wrote her name on it. I still feel embarrassed about it!

  • Sarah Morrison

    My shopping reciepts…

  • Jodie F

    my bananas, was sick of people eating them at work

  • Luvlee6

    The daily newspaper, so no one else would steal it to read at lunch time!

  • Jeannette Lockett

    I label the grandchildrens drink bottles, so there’s no arguing about which ones theirs.

  • Tess

    My white serving bowls and platters. We have a huge family and lots of gatherings and I find my dishes are ‘lost’ forever. I started putting some of my daughters school labels on the bottom and haven’t ‘lost’ one since.

  • Josie

    The school chickens are looked after at our chicken coop during the school holidays. We paint their toe nails with nail polish so that we know which ones to give back :)

  • TheMindfulMum

    I’d like to label the linen cupboard shelves, which I find disturbing and intend not to do so!!

  • http://twitter.com/sarzhollands Sarah Hollands

    I label my own drink bottles with my kids labels as I don’t have my own! My work mates think its hilarious!

  • Sian

    I worked as a Nanny for many years and I was always nervous of losing the children when at large public events so I used to label the back of every jacket they wore with my contact number and any medical conditions they may have had. I still do this with my own children today but thankfully have not lost a child yet!

  • Indigoo

    I labelled my son at age 3 when we attended an outdoor concert in the city once. The label included our name & mobile numbers. We also attached a similar label to his favourite Ted.

  • chantelle smith

    My cd collection. So much better if I lent them to a friend or they were stolen to identify them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=614526891 Kirsty Bartlett

    My child – her name and my mobile number is always written on her arm when we go to a theme park, show, expo, in case she gets separated from me.

  • Ros

    My toothbrush so nobody else uses it

  • Adele Smith

    I would like to label the goldfish so I know who is who…but of course I wouldn’t. I have labelled most items on my home desk as the kids seem to always claim it as their own.

  • http://www.facebook.com/judith.missen Judith Missen

    My husband, before he went out on the town for a bucks night.

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrea.cameron.90 Andrea Cameron

    My daughers underware,they are roughly the same size and i mix them up,one of them gets very angry,the other doesnt care as long as its clean,very frustrating for me

  • Charlotte

    I actually labelled a box of name tags to sew on clothes in my craft box “name labels” – felt a bit inception-y to be honest!

  • Sue

    We labelled our dog’s bowls to stop them being mixed up as one of them wouldn’t eat from theirs if the other had used it! Such a diva! :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=615841906 Tracey Drescher

    My iphone! All of my friends have the same colour (white) and we are all always picking up the wrong phone. So now I have mine labelled clearly so it stands out.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sim-Lottos-Nelson/100003674366745 Sim Lottos Nelson

    Colouring in pencils not because of mix ups at school more for teh sake of my sanity of them fighting over whos whos pencils …forbid if you end up with the smaller yellow one as Im sure it aint mine!

  • Yvonne V

    My kids school socks, even though they are all white, they vary in size, and kids would just grab a pair from washing basket, sometime stretching one or both socks, youngest child would find that he had no well fitting socks by end of the term!! they would all be stretched

  • http://www.facebook.com/lucy.leland.5 Lucy Leland

    My son – whenever we went anywhere I might lose him – phone number on the belly :)

  • Steph

    My child!!!

  • Kate evans

    My friends cats while I was or sitting. One needed medication and they both looked similar.

  • ACasa

    WII controllers…. 1 & 2. It’s so hard to work out which one is Player 1 when they are both white!

  • Cass Henry

    Hubby keeps stealing my notepads so I’ve bought pink cover ones and labeled them “MINE”!

  • http://www.facebook.com/trina.bassula Trina Bassula

    toothbrushes lol!! My kids always steal my hubby’s – eww – he tried using a pink one and even that didn’t work – I keep mine up out of reach ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tracy-Harris/1005056959 Tracy Harris

    Underwear. Not the kids, my husband’s! He’d leave it behind when he’d use the shower’s at work after being onsite. His excuse – he was used to me picking it up at home!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=750813031 Kerryanne Bourke

    Each and every pen in the office with KA this was due to hubby taking MY pens down the shed and not returning them to where they belong… needless to say it didnt last long as he just started taking off the tags and saying they werent mine…

  • http://www.facebook.com/chell.gray.1 Michelle Gray

    When pregnant I jokingly labelled my husband with his name, I was sure I might forget it otherwise.

  • Jaclyn White

    I’ve labelled treats in the cupboard and freezer so my husband doesn’t eat them! :)

  • chrystal

    fruit for the playgroup fridge.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=642813510 Rebecca Louise

    Hubby is pretty embarrassed about me labeling his lunch

  • Jacinda Callus

    I’m also a fruit labeller at work :-)

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathy.mackenzie.12 Kathy MacKenzie

    Table Tennis Bat (we have a chewer) and nobody whats that bat!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathryn.miller.39501 Kathryn Miller

    Toothbrushes!!

  • Courtney

    My children- they get so angry when I call them the wrong names.

  • Ann

    I labelled a cupboard with “Cleaning Supplies”, thereby turning it into Fort Knox as no-one ever looks in there. At the back I hide illicit things like Tim Tams. Worked so far.

  • Amanda J

    Back in my breastfeeding days, I used to store containers of expressed milk in the fridge – and one of the containers I used was permanently labelled ‘booby juice’ (because that’s what my husband and I used to call it!). One day my husband had a new workmate visiting, and this guy who I hardly knew, was putting beers in the fridge – and jokingly called out to my husband, “This your booby juice mate?!” How embarrassing.

  • Monica

    My sons prescription glasses..of course he refused to wear them then!
    Monzajm@yahoo.com.au

  • http://www.facebook.com/jennifer.dunne.106 Jennifer Dunne

    My scissor with instructions for their use like kitchen, fabric and husband use only.

  • http://www.facebook.com/felicity.harper.39 Felicity Harper

    As all the work mobile phones are the same type I labeled each one with the number and user name – saved a few mix ups over time

  • http://twitter.com/hootylishous melanie whittle

    An eraser

  • nicole

    When I was younger, I labelled everything in sight and wrote my name on each object with a little ditty “Nicole{surname}, if this item should start to roam, smack it’s bottom and send it home. {with home phone number in brackets]. No mobiles back then.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dani.boulton.1 Dani Boulton

    I had my son label his own clothes with a laundry marker when he was going on a 10 day camp. What I found strange was that he wrote, in very large letters, across the whole bottom covering material part of his underwear! No mistaking who they belonged to …

  • http://www.facebook.com/racheldevine Rachel Devine

    When I first heard I was having twins, I panicked thinking I would mix them up as newborns… I considered marking them somehow. Then we found out they were fraternal and boy/girl so nature labeled them for us.

  • Inspired…

    We labelled items around the house to help with reading… to spice it up a bit.. the toilet button is labelled “flushy flush”… it has worked.. she is an awesome reader.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Raedella.Belle Joselle Griffin

    I had to labela container of play rice so I didn’t accidentally cook it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kiara.mansell Kiara Mansell

    The salt and sugar containers….I once mixed those up in a cake and just about vomited when I took a huge bite of the delicious looking cake :) Now I buy brown sugar just to make doubly sure I don’t get them confused ever again!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=544306294 Jonica Riedel

    my problem is I don’t label…..then I have no idea what or whose is in what!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/tracey.m.jorgensen Tracey Marie Jorgensen

    When i got my labeller i went on a bit of a frenzy and did some really random one like my laptop, the remote control, a hair brush, my sewing machine haha but i also did the normal lunch boxes, container in the pantry etc. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/heidimaree.palmerblake Heidi-Maree Blake

    My parents wall unit, I thought it best if I engraved my name in it…. Then when I got in MAJOR trouble, denied it completely.

  • Melissa Jones

    I have to label my keys because it always wastes my time to find the key that I want by trying all of them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Morena-Dobrowolski/648987502 Morena Dobrowolski

    I’m a bit fussy about toothbrushes – the thought of swapping mouth germs just doesn’t appeal to me. My girls insist on getting the same toothbrush – so I’m using their pencil labels for the toothbrushes as well :)

  • Lisa Fitzsimons

    When my daughter was 4 she was obsessed with “Woody” from Toy story. When she received her own Woody doll for Christmas she set about trying to scrub “Andy” off the bottom of his boot so that she could make Woody her own! In the end she had to settle with me labelling Woody’s other boot with her name with a black marker!

  • http://www.facebook.com/tam.bell.16 Tam Bell

    Socks

  • Tracy J

    My son adores dinosaurs and fossils of any type (plant, insect, etc). When he was in Kindy he begged me to allow him to take his Trilobite in for show and tell. I did wonder if this was slightly unusual when I labelled it…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=688271517 Shannon Goodall

    I don’t think it’s actually strange, but when people see the labels on the shelving of my linen cupboard (towels, sheets, fan, esky etc.) they seem to think it’s odd. I just think it makes life easier :)

  • Belinda Baker

    My police officer hubby’s work items, strangely a lot of stuff gets stolen or “misplaced” in a police station

  • Melissa Hills

    I have labeled an old wooden spoon “poop scoop” for de-pooping backyard, a cut up milk container “kitty litter scoop” and the shelves in the pantry.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jocelyn.wieser Jocelyn Wieser

    I had labels made with my name and mobile number to put on things if they got lost. My friend pointed out my daftness when she saw I had put one on my mobile phone! I still chuckle at myself for that one

  • http://www.facebook.com/natasha.andrews.923 Natasha Andrews

    I had to label my daughters shoe laces…she kept taking them out and loosing them!!

  • Mareesa

    Drink bottle lid

  • Julia K

    22 years ago I was the first woman to return to my workplace after having a baby. I was expressing milk for my son and had to label my milk in the fridge as “NOT FOR YOUR COFFEE GUYS”

  • http://www.facebook.com/rose.powell.505 Rose Powell

    my sons bathers as he played underwater hockey he did not like sharing as they all had the same

  • http://www.facebook.com/justtee09 LadyTiffany OfGlencoe

    The dog at the fete we went to…so many people and dogs…would have loved to label him

  • http://www.facebook.com/michelle.cogan.75 Michelle Cogan

    I don’t understand why childcare insist on my labeling my babies dummies. They seem to share them with every other child there and then when you leave it feels like you need the name there to make sure you’re taking home the right kid!

  • Robyn

    I labelled my house broom, I was sick of my husband stealing it for work. He works as a floor coverer so I decorated and labelled it all pink. Needless to say it has stayed at home.

  • Mia

    I’m boring. My eldest is 4 so I just label her lunch box and water bottle for kindy.

  • Renee

    I’ve had to label cloth nappies before!

  • http://www.facebook.com/cherylmckibbin LilMiss Kibby

    my forehead with the name “stupid” so at least when people treat me like i am its no great surprise!

  • MeganH

    The draws in our babies room so hubby could find things. He was repeatedly searching every draw every time he had to dress our son.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jenni.williams.509 Jenni Williams

    My kids are the strangest thing – I used to often write my contact details on their hands when out and about.

  • netty

    I know it may sound strange but I have felt to label all of the pillows in our house. I have nine children and we all have two pillows each (including my husband that is 22 pillows in our home! When all bedding is getting washed and pillows are put out to air it is impossible to make sure eveyone gets their own pillows back.

  • Monique

    everything at child care, but most difficult his socks! Urgh! They’re not big enough for label,s! :)

  • Dorizzi

    My brother-in-law labeled the shelves in my sisters linen cupboard one day when she was at work. She was not impressed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/nadia.rimmer.3 Nadia Rimmer

    Every year I label the kids Easter Eggs – that way there’s no arguing about who’s eaten the most!

  • kathryn pearson

    Dolls, teddys & books so all 3 girls know who is who’s or more to the point I know when they start fighting

  • sharron smith

    I labelled on my front door years ago if not invited you are brave enough to knock it worked

  • http://www.facebook.com/leanne.barker.5 Leanne Barker-Franks

    With Six kids I have now labelled a dinner plate for each of them to stop fights over the coloured plates!

  • MrsHoneyBee

    My salad sandwich! It’s amazing, someone or someone’s actually hoodwink other peoples lunches out of the staff fridge. Who does that?

  • http://www.facebook.com/tania.foster.5 Tania Foster

    Apples in the fridge. Himself used to get confused between the Pink Lady apples and Red Delicious apples. (He only ate Red Delicious and got most upset biting into a Pink Lady)

  • http://www.facebook.com/ford.leeanne Julie Ford

    i labelled my husbands work lunch i know probably not to strange but my tupperware containers kept going missing!! so i had too!!

  • Richelle

    My money tin. …”Say goodbye to that holiday if you open”….. long label but worth it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/cecilia.bell Cecilia Bell

    I labelled the toothbrushes to stop people using mine by mistake!

  • Piachay

    I have to label my water bottle sick of drinking bits of soggy biscuits left behind after my kids guzzle my drink

  • Kristin Santi

    I labelled my stapler at work, not with my name but with the word stapler. You know, in case I couldn’t remember what it was called. Funnily enough it stopped people from taking it, everyone knew my stapler was labelled with the word stapler.

  • Robyn H

    Our saffron cutlery – amazing how much of it goes missing over the course of a year and how many times we need to replace it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nelle-Hamilton/100001688003909 Nelle Hamilton

    Shelves in the linen cupboard. Men can never find anything.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tammie.jones.5 Tammie Jones

    As a school teacher, I’ve had many a pair of underpants lose their owner after swimming lessons/carnivals and, believe me, NO child is going to own up when asked, “Has anyone lost these?”. My daughter starts Prep this year and I will definitely be labelling her underpants so her teacher can discretely return them to her if lost!!

  • Cath Roberts

    Apart from all the kids labelling for school/preschool, many things in our house are labelled with with tactile dots/shapes as hubby is blind…even the salt and pepper grinders!

  • Guest

    I once labelled my name badge for work, I was new and they gave me one with the wrong name until they made up me up a new one, I just didn’t think I looked like a Tracy…

  • Amy P

    Woohoo!! I’m a winner!!! How do I claim my prize??