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The reminds me of the red Tupperware one with handles I had as a kid. One lid, many compartments.

This is very cute and looks practical.

I started sending my kids to school with very cute Bento boxes this year, but 2 of 3 went missing. Unfortunately a $30 price tag is a bit steep for us since there's a risk of the cute box never coming back home :(

Regardless, its a sweet little box for lunch - i like it!

It's really neat, and I was almost sold until I saw it's 30 bucks. I second suewanda, don't they realize how often these don't make it home!?!

I looked at it on their website and it seems a little big for kids to carry around. And yeah, losing it often would make replacing it at that price sting a bit.

Brilliant... until the 30 dollar price tag. You can't just have one... and I don't see paying 60 plus for lunch boxes.

It's not practical to expect someone to shell out $30 for a lunchbox that basically needs to be washed everyday. Also, I, too, was enamored of the idea of one lid/many compartments until I tried a similar lunchkit with my son this year. Perhaps Goodbyn has perfected this type of system, but with our similar lunchkit, the food never really stayed in its intended compartment and we ended up with soggy crackers covered in strawberry goo, etc. In other words, a lot of wasted food.

Looking at the pic, I am not sure a conventional sized sandwich would fit in any of the compartments.

I don't think washing it every day is the problem here.

Someone needs to test this lunchbox to see if the food stays put in the compartments!

man, i was sold till i saw the comments complaining about the price. we have laptop lunchboxes here and i think they're comparably priced. when i think about the amount of trash that we save by using the laptop lunches and containers like the goodbyn, it is worth it to me. then again, we've never had lunchbox pieces go missing, so they've been long-lasting thus far.

looks like a great idea (i HATE tracking down the pieces to the latop lunchboxes, though i love the boxes!) and fun. i like that the drink is contained. i had to sew a handle onto the latop lunch case and our kids carry a klean kanteen separately. this is much more streamlined.

have no fear ladies, i pre-ordered it! :D will blog about it once it arrives and my 5 year old son tests it out. he absolutely LOVES having little compartments in his lunch. i'm so sick of plastic bags and little containers. this looks like it will be perfect. and being the little creative monster he is he will love decorating it :D

I would bring my lunch to work in this...

Just a tip on the food-mingling in the bento box thing, try those silicone muffin baking cups. We use those, little tiny rubbermaid containers, the plastic sushi grass from the Japanese market, and even just a little parchment, if needed. :)

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I don't know how good it is, but Tupperware has a divided lunch container with one lid for $7.50.

I was very excited about this lunchbox because I love the whole concept. My son and I had a great time decorating it with all the stickers the night before school. Unfortunately it is VERY tricky to close. It actually has directions on how to close it and you have to snap it shut in multiple locations. It is easy to think it is shut only to realize it isn't shut all the way. We practiced opening and closing it. He mastered opening it, but there is no way a small child can close it himself. Ultimately the Goodbyn lunchbox was actually rejected by my sons teacher after the first day of school and I was told to find another one! Such a shame they couldn't design it with an easy way to close. I like it so I will keep it for family outings, but not good for young school children.