Get Organized For Back-To-School With Office Max & Peter Walsh Product Review & Giveaway
And the winner is….
Aimee W.!
Thank you to everyone who participated!
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“People hold onto stuff like their kids’ old clothing as a way of holding onto the past. Or they keep things they think they might need someday as a way to control the future.” – Peter Walsh
I’m notoriously unorganized. Unfortunately, my 11-year-old suffers from the same affliction. His backpack and desk at school have always been a disaster. All of the paperwork that comes home from school pile up on my counter-top because I simply don’t know what to do with it all. Now he’s headed into middle school. He’ll have an entire locker in which to throw all sorts of important items to most likely be lost forever and even more *stuff* to bring home!
When Office Max set up this webcast to discuss back to school organization, I was thrilled. I need all the help I can get and so does my son. When they sent me products from their Scoolio-Von-Hoolio kid-centric product line to review, I was even more thrilled!
Obviously, these products are way too cute and girly for my tween son. Lucky me! That meant I got to try them all in my home office. My favorites are the expanding file for all those papers that are about to start coming home from school and the adorable, tiny notebook that fits in my purse so I can scribble my random ideas for blog posts as they come so I don’t forget.
Office Max was also generous enough to send me a 2nd set of all these items to give away to one lucky reader!
The Prizes:
- 7-Pocket expanding file
- Owl and Cupcake Binders
- Purple Heart Clipboard and Mini Notebook
- Drawstring Backsack
- Cupcake Notebook
- Cupcake 2-Pocket Folder
- Birds and Leaves Composition Books
- Pencil Set and Box
How to enter:
- Watch the webcast and comment here telling me what you found to be Peter’s most inspiring or helpful organizational tip.
Additoinal Entries Available:
- Link to this giveaway on your site and post the link here.
- Tweet this giveaway on twitter and post the link here (From your Twitter Profile page, click on the “about 1 hour ago” link under the tweet. That will take you to the permalink for that tweet. Copy and paste the permalink here).
- Subscribe to this blog via e-mail here.
- Join this blog’s Facebook fan page here.
Details:
- Available to U.S. residents only
- My personal friends and family are not eligible to win (sorry!)
- I will choose the winner via random drawing (up to 5 entries per person as described above)
- Contest ends at midnight (CDT) on Monday, August 31st 2009.
- Winner will be announced here on Tuesday, September 1st 2009.
Feel free to connect with the blogcast host and panelists online:
- Peter Walsh: Twitter.com/Peter_Walsh and Peter’s Facebook Page
- OfficeMax: Twitter.com/OfficeMax and School Supplies Deals
- Heather Wolpert-Gawron: Tween Teacher blog
- Ana Picazo: Finding Bonggamom
Good luck and thanks for stopping by!
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Keep supplies in one place
Make organization a family value
find vision you have for a space
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the keep in one place is a great idea- I need to get a space back and claim it because husband loses things
My favorite tip: Make organization a family value. My family NEVER helps clean up the house, so maybe I’ll try to get them more involved from now on.
I subscribed, and am a fan on Facebook.
great for organizers..
My fav tip is: Make organization a family thing!!!! Love this!
I already try to keep things in one place and have found that it is the easiest way to keep things especially if you can train your kids to do the same thing.
set a timer and clean up as much as possible as a family in that time!
My favorite tip is to keep all of my school supplies in one place. When you put things back where they belong it becomes so much easier to find them later!
Keeping supplies all in one place is a great way to be able to find them! I try to do this already with art supplies.
Make organization a family value good one!!!
Making organization a family value is the tip that resonated with me.
make organization a family value
Organize for optimum learning
to make organizing a family thing
we so need to practice this
Making organization a family value…somthing that I have tried to do, and has worked well with my son….I just need to internalize this with my daughter as well!
this could be sooo helpful
To organize for optimum learning.
I like the setting the timer and everybody pitches in to clean for that time! Thank you for the contest!
I like the idea of keeping all the supplies in one place. I can’t tell you how many times i have to get the stapler out of my daughter’s room and then get scissors from my sons room to work on something when it would be nice if everything was in our office area.
Make organization a family thing! I like that, I don’t want it all to fall on my shoulders.
Peter Walsh suggest a clear open space for children to study, and the use of expandable files to keep everything organized.
get the family involved
Give yourself the time and tools (like pencil/supply bags) to organize your school stuff.