Now that school’s back in session, the focus has shifted to helping our schools raise money to afford new supplies, equipment and programs to provide better education for our kids! This year, Avery Dennison has partnered with Box Tops for Education, and Avery school supplies now include coupons to clip and turn in to your school to be redeemed for cash.
Avery Dennison sent me this great gift basket of products so I can share my thoughts on them, plus I get to give the same basket away to one of my readers! I wish I could say I’m an organized person, but I subscribe more to the organized chaos theory. However, products like these inspire me to file things away in a more orderly manner. I enjoyed sorting and filing and labeling my papers with Avery’s easy-to-use systems. Now if only I could keep them that way!
And who could resist the handy tote it was all packaged in? I have baskets and totes like these all over the house to corral all of our stuff. We have far more “stuff” than we actually need, but that’s a project best tackled when I give these crutches the boot. Anyone want to help?
One lucky Deal Seeking Mom reader will win a back-to-school prize package (worth over $50!) full of Avery Dennison school and office supplies, including: Hi-Liters, labels, GlueStics, binders, dividers, sheet protectors, Marks-a-Lot permanent markers, and t-shirt transfers!
To enter, share your favorite way to get involved at your kids’ schools! Do you volunteer in the classroom? Coordinate the bookfair? Help with fundraising?
Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, three, or four for up to a total of 4 entries!!!
Methods of entry:
1. Leave a comment. Tell me how you are involved at your kids’ schools. What is your favorite volunteer activity?
2. Add Deal Seeking Mom to your blogroll or add my badge to your sidebar. Make sure to come back and leave the link to your site in a separate comment!
3. Join the new Deal Seeking Mom Forums to chat about your great finds, special coupon codes, and chances to win exclusive giveaways. Leave a separate comment letting me know you’ve joined or that you’re already a registered user!
4. Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry! Leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so. If you’re already a subscriber, simply leave a separate comment letting me know you’re already subscribed. Lovin’ my subscribers! You guys make this all possible.
Prize:
(1) Avery Dennison School and Office Supply Package, as described above
This giveaway ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on 9/22. I’ll use Random.org to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email on and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Good luck!
While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!
Dana Durwin
I’m an e-mail subscriber.
Debbie
I am a Grandmother but, I tole paint items for my grandkids yearly auction.
Deborah
I am a homeroom Mom!!
Deborah
I am a registered user of the forum.
Deborah
I am an email subscriber
Laura
My son isn’t in school yet, but I do volunteer at his school already with hot lunch on Wednesdays (it’s a really small school that only has hot lunch once a week).
Laura
I am a registered user of the DSM forums.
Laura
I subscribe via RSS.
beverly
I love to do parent work days. Teachers leave some of their items to copy, cut out, or laminate and the parents who come do it for them. It gives them more time to plan, be with the kids, or just leave work a little early.
Corrie at "Cents"able Momma
I wish that I could be more involved in my oldest son’s kindergarten class, but it’s difficult with my 3 year old still at home. I do plan on helping this year in my 3 year old’s class, though, and there will still be time to volunteer when they are both in school.
Corrie at "Cents"able Momma
I am a subscriber.
Kristina
I am very invovled with my daighters class being that this is her first year. I am asst. classroom mom, I help out in the classroom whenever they go projects/crafts that need a few extra hands, I donated supplies to her class at beginning of the year, and I have been given the opportunity to go on all their feild trips this year as a chaperon.
Corrie at "Cents"able Momma
You are also on my blogroll.
Kristina
I am on yoour facebook and fanpage and your e-mail listing through fireburner. I love your site it has help my budgetting family immensely.
Linda Kish
I no longer have kids in school but when I did I helped out with organization and paper products. In middle school I mostly did pizza parties for the kids.
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lisa
I personally don’t have children of my own. However i have several nieces & nephews that i will always help with fundraisers.
Melissa
I’m new to school momming but I signed up to help distribute the weekly pizza lunch.
Melissa
I’m a subscriber!
Melanie
I help when the kids have parties and I am part of the PTA.
Melanie
I am a subscriber
Elise
I am very involved with PTA (I currently sit on two boards).
molly
I go in on Wed. to get the weekly folders ready for the teachers to send home to parents.
Bonnie W
I donate baked goods for the Preschool’s cookouts, donate and attend my 1st graders class parties, and sell all the fundraisers I can.
Bonnie W
i’m a subscriber.
kristin
I have 3 boys with the oldest in 1st grade. I can’t volunteer so I carry a list of supplies his teacher needs and when I find them on sale I purchase them for her. I would love to win this for her!!!
Karla
I like to tutor students.
Karla
I subscribe to the email.
Vanessa M.
I volunteer to be a field trip chaperone.
Stacey Meyer
I have been very involved as parent group President or Treasurer for eight years! I am the Box Tops Coordinator at the school that I work at and love it!