I just found this out: many kids’ vinyl lunchboxes are contaminated with lead.

I happened to have a lead-testing kit at home, so I tested the vinyl lunchboxes my kids had been using, and sure enough, the results were positive for lead.

Don’t eat lead! Throw out your vinyl lunchboxes! Good ol’ fashioned paper bags and aluminum lunchboxes will be back in vogue very soon, I’m sure.

Just so happens, I have a couple of aluminum lunchboxes:

I was thinking that maybe I could make some money selling those things on EBay someday, but instead, my kids start using them tomorrow.