Deals are sometimes very hard to find. Always looking around is the best way to find them, but sometimes a little bit of help is a welcome surprise. This deal alert is for notebooks, pencils, and rulers. The first part is notebooks. They are one cent each, limit 3, and you have to spend five dollars before that. You can also combine this deal with the other one cent deals. These are excellent to send, especially for older kids, so that the recipient has something for school. Next is 2 packs of pencils. They follow the same rules as the notebooks and are one cent each. I will break up these into smaller packs to make sure that all of my boxes get pencils. Lastly is rulers. There are two types and you can have 3 each. Half are pink and the other half are wooden. They fit in GO boxes if you stand them up diagonally.
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I just got back from a rather long vacation to Orlando and Boston for my cousin's wedding and some end-of-summer fun! It was so fun! I stayed in three hotels and was gone for about two weeks, so in that time I managed to collect quite a lot of things for OCC. Here is what I got. I got 5 packs of crayons from various restaurants that my family and I visited. I am very excited to have Crayolas! I got a lot of bars of soap because my family and I always use the liquid soap. These 8 are just the ones from one hotel. These 5 are from the other hotels. They are kind of small, so if I have enough, I might double them up. We went to a street fair in Boston and won this cute little elephant. He might just be the start of a safari themed box! I have been wanting blankets for my boxes for a while and I was very happy to get this one. I have heard that many families can only afford one blanket so the whole family sleeps together to stay warm. This might be the opportunity for a child to sleep on their own! I picked up the pens in our rooms and got nine. The other three are somewhere in my stockpile. Lastly, I got 6 notepads. The small one have a lot of pages but the larger one only has a few. They will likely both be used as extra paper. That is all that I collected on this trip. Do you save anything for OCC while on vacation?
Recently, I went into Party City to see their party favors section. I know that they sell party favors individually for very low prices and I thought that it might be a good way to pick up a few small toys. I was right! Party City was great for getting a few small toys and trinkets for OCC and I am definitely planning on going back. Here are the two things I got at this trip. The first thing that I got was this notepad. My brother is making some Disney themed boxes and the one for a 2-4 girl needed paper. I picked this up because it is great for a little girl. It has Minnie Mouse on the front and it was only 40 cents! The other thing that I got is this tambourine. I have heard from people who have distributed boxes that the kids live toys that make music. This tambourine is the perfect size for a shoebox and was on sale for only 30 cents. Can't beat that! My total with tax came out to be only 75 cents. I save all of the change that I find on the floor in a jar and use it for small purchases like this. Have you ever shopped for boxes at Party City?
Michael's is on of my favorite places to shop for OCC deals. I already did a post about a deal alert here, but during that same shopping trip I found a pencil set that happens to be excellent if you are packing multiple boxes. It is called the pencil party pack and it is sold for $5. I was able to use a 40% off coupon from their website, making it only $3 for the whole set. The set includes 48 pieces: 12 #2 pencils, 12 colored pencils, and 24 erasers. The colored pencils come unsharpened and are all different colors. The #2 pencils come unsharpened and without erasers attached. They have a swirly rainbow design on them. The erasers are my favorite part of this set. They are perfect for themed boxes! These four are a butterfly, a rabbit, a ladybug, and a rainbow swirl. These erasers are a watermelon, a cat, a elephant, and a rainbow. Here are the fish, panda, heart, and frog erasers. These are some of my favorites: the pig, toucan, cupcake, and fox. There is a flower, another butterfly, a lion, and a donut. The last four are the ice cream, monkey, star, and strawberry. All of the erasers have a hole in them so that they can be placed on the back of the pencils. Overall, I think that this is an excellent deal for only $3. The colored pencils are great for older kids and can be held together with a rubber band. The pencils are great to include with an eraser on the back in boxes for the kids to use at school. The erasers are all adorable and fairly good in size. I think that the kids will really appreciate receiving these even if they do have access to school supplies because they are cute and fun. What do you think of the pencil party pack?
I am constantly adding to my OCC stockpile. Between deals, freebies, and finding new yet unwanted things in my home, I can accumulate quite a collection in a month. Here are the items that I have collected in the moth of July. During a quick Dollar Tree run this month, I grabbed this cute color-your-own dino bag. The bag's quality isn't the greatest, but I do think that it will hold up for a while. During that same trip to the Dollar Tree, I found this cute dino. He will go in my second dino box. Target had these cute lego sets for only $1 in the dollar section. Each has 72 bricks and they are actually great quality! I moved them from their original packaging into these bags so that the kids have somewhere to store them. I got these pencils and pens from clearing out my office. Brand new! This little paddle ball was an arcade prize. I double knotted the string in the back to make sure it stays on. I found these three Chick-fil-a toys in the car and they are too old to trade for ice cream. I know that the book is going to OCC because it has lots of pictures. However, the table topics are all in English so I think that they will only go if I need to fill a crack in a box. I collected some crayons from restaurants. I have a few more sets not pictured. All of these sets are melt proof as well. They were left in the car for a few days. I got some stickers. The dog is from the doctor that my brother got as a reward for not crying during shots. The roll is from Trader Joe's. My brother and I always ask for stickers and we save the few that they give us for OCC. This time, my mom told the man that we do save them for OCC and the man offered us the whole roll. Now all of the girl's boxes can get a set of flower stickers. I stayed at a hotel for a volleyball camp and I picked up these two bars of soap. I got two (one pictured) of these Christmas shirts from Marshalls. Each was only 50 cents and they are size 4 toddler. They are perfect for 2-4 boxes! This price shows just how much you can save if you check for deals everywhere. I never would have expected to find 50 cent shirts from Christmas time in July, but I did and I couldn't be happier! I got two shirts for the price of one Dollar Tree shirt, so two kids can now have something nice to wear. That is what I have for July. Other things were posted in other hauls this month, and I will have a vacation haul coming soon!
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