Lost & Found

My son had this really amazing lunchbox to start the year. It was insulated and when you put it in the freezer, the sidewalls would become frozen blocks - no inserts needed. It was really cool. Even he said it was cool. 

 

I mean, it was no superhero's tin sidewall lunchbox like I used to have but, it was cool to him. 

He lost it. First week of school. He tells me he stops by the Lost & Found daily looking for it. He eagle-eyes the other kids in school to see if they have somehow started using HIS lunch box as their own. He is sort of distraught about this lunch box!
 
I don't really remember picking out my own Super Friends lunchbox or thinking it was all that cool. I remember having it. I remember being defined by the new lunchbox I had or the new backpack or the new coat. 

I can recall making the trip to the mall (or to the BIG City when we lived in Steamboat we would make the three-hour drive to Denver) to get school supplies and clothes in the fall. This usually meant that my mom would put what seemed like a boat-load of clothes on lay-away in early August and we would finally get them out some time in September. It was kind of like a second Christmas. But, my sister and I knew that whatever we chose would have to last for a whole year. But, I digress.

Clothes or lunchbox when you add it up is not a significant spend (or at least it doesn't have to be). But these items so define a kid in school. So...Do I buy my son another lunchbox? Or let him deal with the horror of being seen with one that is sooo last year (in fact it IS last year - we bought it then and it somehow didn't get lost in the first week of school - we had it all year plus the summer)? Does anyone know where I can get him a Super Friends lunch tin? I think I must have lost it.