What to Know
Not all little girls are the same, but my son was never the absolute pack rat, followed by a trail of scraps of craft paper and stickers, that my daughter is. I’ll just leave it at that. And if you have a little girl who refuses to throw things away, leaves crumbs on her side of the backseat in your car only, and can be found gluing things together most evenings, you will understand what me and a mom on TikTok, Valerie, are talking about.
For Valerie, though, her daughter’s backpack looks like something a junior hoarder might come home with from school. From a stray fake fingernail to a balled up Cheetos bag and guitar picks wrapped in aluminum foil, Valerie’s daughter apparently has a hard time throwing things away. And the parents who might have found strange things in their own kids’ backpacks were quick to call her out for what they see as poor lessons at home. Yikes.
The mom was basically on the hunt for a terrible smell coming from the backpack.
@valerie.kay.88 This was brave…. What are some things you’ve found in your kids backpack? #fyp #kidsbackpack #foryou #funnyvideos #contentcreator ♬ Chopin Nocturne No. 2 Piano Mono – moshimo sound design
Valerie says right away that there is a “certain smell” coming from the backpack. Of course, it doesn’t help that her daughter’s school bookbag has tons of compartments for her to go through to locate the cause of the apparently offensive smell. Valerie finds a fake nail, some rings, a piece of a geode, and some craft supplies, including lots of pipe cleaners. So far so good.
Then, she starts to find actual trash. There are empty chip bags, empty wrappers, and yes, that random fake nail that Valerie says she plans to toss in the garbage can.
As she goes through more compartments and finds LEGO pieces and other items she puts back, the smell is still there.
“I don’t know what it is, but it smells like a dead animal,” she says. “Please don’t be a dead animal.”
She promises to finish going through the bag in a second part, but the comments on the first part of the backpack search are enough to tell you how people feel about this offending backpack and its random contents that a child saved up throughout the first half of the school year.
“Uhh yeah get her a cartoon backpack cuz she does not need this many pockets,” someone commented. That’s fair.
Another person advised Valerie, “Teach her to empty her backpack everyday? She’s old enough to know when things need to be thrown away.”
Other people told Valerie to regularly wash the backpack.
I might not do that as often as I probably should, but then again, I don’t have a kid who stuffed bags of edamame beans in there. Oh yeah, that’s what the second video reveals. Valerie’s daughter had a rotting bag of edamame beans in her backpack.
@valerie.kay.88 Part 2! Yall are killing me with these comments 🤣 sorry to keep you waiting. #fyp #kidsbackpack #foryou #funnyvideos #contentcreator ♬ Chopin Nocturne No. 2 Piano Mono – moshimo sound design
“How can she see things in her daughter’s backpack that she never knew about before and still laugh,” someone commented, “Like, she’s clearly stealing things.”
Other people commented to agree that they think the daughter must be swiping some things at school when the teacher isn’t looking.
Then, another person asked, “Was she a crow in her past life?” And others followed suit with the same question about Valerie’s daughter.
There were some people who chimed in with their own stories of wild things found in their backpacks when they were younger. But the “once alive worms” aren’t quite on par with the plethora of items this mom found.
After Valerie posted the second video to follow up with the grand finale, the edamame beans, people were quick to come for her once again in the comments.
“What kind of parenting is this if you don’t check your child’s backpack until you get a bad smell from it??” Someone wrote. “Your schedule is not too busy for your own child, bro. Your kid is your responsibility and should be your top priority.”
