Selling Out in over 400 colors

If you're anything like me you probably have about 15 bazillion broken crayons in your house shrouded with familiar Crayola wrappers. Perhaps you've stepped all over them, perhaps you've spent hours scrubbing their marks off of your walls, perhaps you've even put one through the dryer.

Regardless of how much trouble those little yellow and green wrapped wax sticks have given you in the past, a fresh new box of them still gives you a tingly happy feeling.

I see you smiling just thinking about it.

Did you know you could spend hours perusing all of Crayola's stuff online? And you can even receive a 10% Off discount code when you sign up for email updates at CrayolaStore.com!


I was shocked to see all the stuff they have on that site. Crayola has a lot more than just crayons, peeps. They really have stuff for ALL ages. Seriously.

For preschool aged kids there's an array of sidewalk chalk, Color Wonder finger paints (you know about the Color Wonder stuff, right? It only works on the Color Wonder paper so it CAN'T mess up your furniture!), and triangular crayons that won't roll off the table. I'm going to buy about 12 boxes of those to bring to restaurants. Enough of my four year old going under the table four times to retrieve the yellow crayon that just won't stay on the table!

For more advanced young artists they have oil pastels that aren't as messy as real oil pastels so you can let your child experiment with different tools. There are also specialty crafts to create with your child or let your older child go nutty with.

I was really floored with all the great stuff that Crayola has in their store. From the big box of 64 crayons with a built in sharpener to a Crayola Digital Camera to Crayola Crayon WALLPAPER, you really have to go check it out!

They offer free shipping for any order over $75 and now if you enter code B2SCHOOL at checkout you'll receive a FREE Crayola Mini Twistables Crayons with any Back to School purchase over $15!

While you're all hopped up on crayon glory, why don't you check out Crayola.com? My kids are so happy I did, because you can go there and print out coloring pages and other crafts. If you register with their site, you'll be able to generate award certificates for your kids (homeschooling moms, these are for you!) and make cards! Also, when you register at Crayola.com, you'll receive a 15% discount code to use at CrayolaStore.com. What's stopping you?

Click over there, you know you want to. :)

Sellout Sunday on Saturday

It's Sunday in Australia, right?

Welcome to our 2nd edition of Sellout Sunday! It's coming to you early this week (should I call it Sellout Saturday?) because one of the promotions that I really think y'all might LOVE is expiring Sunday night and I want y'all to get a chance to use it. But read this first, peeps!

This week I'll be talking about something we're all familiar with. However, I won't get paid if you click on all those little links. I already got mine, suckas! But remember, I will never never promote anything I don't think is fantabulous, so read on! I'm not that much of a sellout. :)

So I'm sure y'all have seen the little Box Tops for Education coupons on all types of products. I've seen them, I've clipped them, I've sent them off to school with the monsters. Last year my kids loved them because our school awarded a pizza party to the class that collected the most Box Tops every month. It was kind of a big thing.

If you haven't noticed them, they're found on like fifty kajillion products and therefore you must be living under a rock or in Tanzania (where is Tanzania, anyway?) or maybe you don't actually have eyes or perhaps you're one of those rare people who actually makes everything you eat and that's why you've never seen them. But you'd still have to buy Kotex... and you can find them on there. Wouldn't you have to buy Kotex? What the heck did people do before Kotex?!

Oh my, I've digressed, haven't I?

Well if you haven't seen them before they look like this:

and you should be clipping them! Even if you're one of those wonderful mommies that home schools their kids (you absolutely are a saint), send them in for your niece, your cousin, I'm sure someone you know attends a school, right?

See, I always knew that clipping the box tops was a great idea. It earns money for my child's school which means less money begging newsletters coming home to me (in triplicate) and more educational goodies for my kids. What I didn't know was that there was a whole online marketplace of retailers that I already shop at that were willing to donate a portion of my spending to my kids school as well!

I was lovingly awarded a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card courtesy of RocketXL (which looks like maybe the coolest marketing agency ever and I would totally love to work there... I almost completed a marketing degree... call me, guys!) to check out the Box Tops Marketplace (*suhweet! free stuff!*) and it came in the mail on Friday. Being the shopping addict that I am, I logged on faster than a fourteen year old geek with a brand new WoW upgrade.

It might take you a few minutes more, though. :) First you'll need to register with the Marketplace. I know, what a pain! But seriously, how are they supposed to give $MONEY$ to your kid's school if they don't know who you are? So it's worth it, and it only take a few seconds and then you're IN. You'll even get a groovy little report card that will tell you how well your school is doing with the Box Tops program!

Now whenever you want to shop, you'll just log in and click the Marketplace tab and you'll see all the retailers you can purchase from! Office Max, Target, Circuit City, Disney, there are way too many to list! They all tell you right there how much of a percentage they will donate to your school. It's simple to just click and be redirected to the retailer of choice and start shopping, just like you've always done. Heck, you can even send flowers with 1-800-Flowers through the Marketplace.

I bought my kids school supplies from Office Max through the Box Tops Marketplace and it was easy peasy! I even paid with PayPal and should be receiving a 20% credit back from Office Max for it. Money back to the school, money back to me, can't beat that.

So give it a shot! You're going to buy stuff anyway, you might as well give some duckets back to the school.

**Now, one more thing before I sign off from this Sellout Sunday, and the reason that this post was posted a day early. That wonderful Restaurant site that I've talked about before is offering an 80% off coupon code but it ends Sunday, August 10th!

You'll be able to buy a $25 gift certificate to local restaurants of your choice for only $2.00! That's just CRAZY, don't you think? I'm heading over there to stock up before they sell out! The promotion code to enter when you check out is "FIRST".

Go save some money, peeps!

I'm Selling Out!

I'm starting something new here on the blog and I hope y'all will like it and come back for more. :) Every Sunday I plan to feature some stuff that I believe in and I'm calling it Sellout Sunday. That's right, I'm selling out. Yes, I will get paid if you click on these links and buy something. I promise you, though, I will never promote anything I don't believe in.

I've got to keep my little darlings up to their ears in Transformers and Hannah Montana stuff somehow!

Pimping Myself

First of all, I've put my eBay store on a 40% off sale through the 5th of August, so please go check it out! I sell mostly women's clothing but there are a few mens items and accessories in the bunch as well. There are mostly items in excellent used condition but I have a great selection of new cocktail dresses as well. Got a party to go to? I'm your girl. I also offer free shipping if you spend over $100 and are shipping to a US address and I have a money back guarantee return policy.

Preschoolians Children's Shoes – Where Bare Foot is Best

If you haven't heard of Preschoolians, please check them out. I just recently learned about them and unfortunately for me, all of my kids are too big to wear them. I wish I had known about them before. I had heard a billion times from my pediatrician that it was best for my children to learn to walk barefoot and it was best for the development of their feet if they were barefoot. Unfortunately, I felt I needed to protect my kids little feet from things that would hurt them if they stepped on it and from cold weather and all of that. Had I known I could have purchased the world's most flexible shoe for the same price I was dishing out for their Stride Rites, I would have jumped on it.

Not only are the Preschoolians shoes so flexible you can squish them into a ball, but they have this amazing sole that allows you to see right away whether the shoe is too tight. How many times have you asked your toddler if their shoe was too tight and gotten a blank stare or gummy grin back? Then you poke at the shoe and try to feel for a toe and you're never quite sure. With these shoes you can just look at the bottom of their feet and know right away if their toes are getting way too close to the end of those shoes. How cool is that?!?

If you sign up for their mailing list as a first time customer, you'll get 15% off your order, too!

Think Geek

ThinkGeek sells all kinds of toys and gadgets for the inner geek in all of us. Our favorite was this Baby Tux tee shirt that Goober used to wear, though.

Who doesn't want to dress their kids up in geeky tee shirts and proclaim to the world that this child is the product of two geeks? Please... it's adorable. They have shirts for big people, too, and they're pretty funny.

Overnight Prints

Last, but not least, I'd like to recommend the company I've been getting my business cards printed at for years. Overnight Prints is awesome. Their cards are absolutely beautiful and you can upload your own full color design. The prices are some of the best on the web and I think you'd be hard pressed to find the same quality for the price. I've used then for every business I've ever printed cards for and they've ALWAYS impressed me. They're super high quality paper so the cards are thick and glossy, not at all flimsy like some cards. The colors are absolutely vivid, too. They also print postcards and letterhead and all kinds of goodies. I even printed up some cards to pimp my blog (and you should, too!)

Not only do I love Overnight Prints and think y'all should just click over there and buy some cards, BUT I happen to be privy to some deals they have going on right now. Until August 11th you can use one of these three offers:

For 10 FREE Greeting Cards enter the code SUMMERGC at checkout. You could make up some birthday party invitations, birth announcements, or thank you cards for free with this code! Totally personalized!

For 100 FREE Business Cards (don't you need some for your blog?) enter the code SUMMERBC at checkout. I can't say enough about how awesome the cards are. You are simply going to love them.

For a self inking stamp for only $1.99 enter code SUMMERSIS at checkout. You can even upgrade it and get a larger stamp for $5.99 with this offer.

This concludes my very first Sellout Sunday. Next Sunday I'll keep selling out and talk about some more stuff that makes me money if you buy it. Cha ching!