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\n“What a strange number…”<\/p>\n
\n“What a strange number…”<\/p>\n
Yep.<\/p>\n
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. Maybe next year.<\/p>\n
Actually the group of us does a lot more than just the Box Tops for Education Program<\/a> ($0.10 per label). We also help with the Campbell’s Soup Labels for Education<\/a> (earn points, use points to buy supplies for the school), Tyson’s Project A+<\/a> ($0.24 per label), and Land O Lake’s Save Five for Schools<\/a> ($0.05 per milk cap).<\/p>\n The school calls the entire program “Trash to Treasure”.<\/a><\/p>\n Every 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. Maybe … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-parenting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t