“Trash to Treasure”.<\/a><\/p>\nEvery month, on the last school day of the month, each class turns in their accumulated “Trash” and the totals are tabulated. The class with the most labels\/caps earns an incentive of some sort.<\/p>\n
Jake’s class won for September, whoo hoo, with 534 items turned in.<\/p>\n
Anyway, this week I picked up my sack of labels to clean up and organize. My task is to trim the Box Tops for Education (less excess around the label = less postage weight) and bag them in groups of 100. The sack I picked up was a gallon-sized Ziploc bag filled to the brim with labels. Whoa.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I set Timmy at our kitchen table with Play Doh and other crafts while I sat with him and trimmed labels. You can see the untrimmed on the left, the trimmed on the right.<\/p>\n
So I ended up with 813 labels trimmed and bagged. They range in size from 2″ x 3″ (like on a box of Toaster Streudel) to smaller than a fingernail (Pillsbury Crescent Rolls). My hands will be paying me back for this come wintertime — my hand pain has been a 24-hour cold front forecast for the past 3 years.<\/p>\n
Trimming the labels I learned about the wide variety of products that have the labels, from Huggies to Caribou Coffee granola bars.<\/p>\n
And I have to admit, today at the grocery store I was keeping an eye out for products with the labels…<\/p>\n
…which is a corollary benefit to this program, huh? General Mills, Pillsbury, Kimberly Clark and Betty Crocker are steering us Moms-of-kids-in-school to their products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“What a strange number…” Yep. I’m one of the Box Top assistants for my son’s elementary school PTA. Aren’t I Little Miss Involved, huh? This was a good program to get involved in since I have a deployment in early 2009 that would mess up my being a room Mom or a PTA officer. 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