I am partnering with Sam’s Club again this year to support their Back to School Event. This giveaway is something I completely believe in because it gives you the chance to GIVE BACK TO SCHOOLS by simply buying the things you use every day. We all have family, friends and people close to us who can use Box Tops! There are so many Box Tops out there, you can see the entire list HERE.
Visit your local Sam’s Club during August and earn more cash for your school.
At the Sam’s Club Back-to-School event, you can get a head start on your collection and find 6 Box Tops on participating General Mills products such as Honey Nut Cheerios, Nature Valley Oats ‘N Honey Crunchy Granola Bars and all of your favorite Box Tops for Education brands at a great value
For more information on how you can take advantage of the Back-to-School event at Sam’s Club, visit www.samsclub.com today!
Over $320 Million has been raised for schools so far and you can help your school earn more. Each box top is worth 10¢ for your school!
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ONE LUCKY READER WILL WIN:
ONE YEAR BASIC SAM’S CLUB MEMBERSHIP & a $25 GIFT SAM’S GIFT CARD (to use on Box Tops !)
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HOW TO ENTER:
1) Leave your FIRST comment telling me what your favorite back to school item to buy was growing up.
BONUS ENTRIES
2) Feel free to TWEET or Facebook about this giveaway. “@danicasdaily is giving away a Sam’s Club Membership & Gift Card to support education enter here “ Be sure to leave a SECOND comment to let me know you did.
3) If you have a blog, LINK back to this contest and leave a THIRD comment letting me know you did.
If you don’t have a blog, just leave a comment below telling me someone you told about this giveaway
The FINE Print ~ Thanks to Sam´s Club, General Mills and MyBlogSpark for providing this $25 gift card for my readers. I am providing the Membership with my own funds. This contest is open to US Residents only.
ONE LUCKY WINNER will be randomly drawn and announced on Wednesday, August 10, 2011!.
Pretty cool, right? Good Luck everyone!!!!
Jessica P says
I LOVED (and still do) buying new pens….especially the good inky ones 🙂
Kathy McD says
I loved all of it especially the markers!!’
JenG says
Folders were my favorite because they could show your personality!
Daunne Bruni says
I liked buying the first day of school outfit 🙂 and of course pens!!!
Laura says
Mechanical Pencils. I still love school supplies.
Leianna says
New shoes for sure! I always had to have the latest style! Love Sam’s Club!
Denise says
I’ve always had a special place in my heart for paperclips. I now have an endless supply, haha.
Patricia Wallace says
Crayons!!!!
Melanie says
I loved colored gel pens!
Jamie J. says
Definitely the folders and notebooks!
Katherine says
I loved getting a new pencil box! : )
Lisa G. says
Loved buying new clothes.
Lisa G. says
I tweeted about your giveaway.
Abby S says
Notebooks! Nothing like a new notebook to represent a fresh new year!
Lisa G. says
I don’t have a blog but I just told Lauren about your giveaway.
Audrey K. says
a new backpack! 🙂
Allison says
Always notebooks and pens. I still love buying pens.
Laura says
I loved markers and crayons! I loved lining them up in order of color and reading all the names!
Trisha says
I always liked picking out a new backpack. That was a big decision! 🙂
Trisha says
Told my hubby about your giveaway!
Erin says
Pens & pencils! Especially if they were colored…I would line them up in rainbow order!
Jessie C. says
It was backpack.
Jessie C. says
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Jessie C. says
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Jerrod says
My favorite thing was getting new shoes.
Lauren says
I loved getting a new backpack!
lynda says
love love love the spirals. they were my fav as a kid, and i still love collecting fun ones with cool covers. i have no idea what to do with all of the blank ones, but i’m sure i’ll find a good use for them.
Pat says
The best was a new box of Crayola Crayons, 64 of them!!
sarah b. says
CRAYONS when i was little. as i got older, mechanical pencils and notebooks.
Megan says
I loved picking out a new bookbag!
Karen says
I loved picking out new pens – I still do! And when I was in junior high, picking out a trapper keeper was the pinacle of back to school shopping.
Sara says
Crayons! I loved to beg my mom for the 64 count so in could have all the colors-nothing like new crayons 🙂
Rachel says
When I was younger I loved trapper keepers. They were so cool! When I was in college I always bought a binder for each class and color coded them.
Shari says
A new lunch box for the start of school.
Pat says
My favorite back to school purchase was a new lunch box! Even then it was all about the FOOD!
Pat says
I told my daughter, Amy, about this!
Michelle says
I loved buying all school supplies..going back to school was my favorite!
Pam says
Loved Crayons! Big boxes – even though you were only supposed to bring a 24 pack. The smell of a newly opened box brings me back to 1st grade. I got my first box of 64 from my Grandpa – its the only true memory I have of him. I thought I won the lottery that day. I buy them for my kids now and we take turns sniffing the box and coloring. Favorite colors? Violet and Cornflower Blue!!!
Theresa Chatelain says
It is too hard to pick just one favorite back to school item – but I think probably binders were my favorite. I always had to have the expensive, pretty ones!
Lesli A says
I loved, loved, loved new pens and still do. Especially when they could be any color. Glitter, gel pens made my heart go pitter patter!
Mo says
I loved choosing a new lunchbox each year – my all-time favorite was a red plaid creation that clashed horribly with my maroon and gray plaid uniform skirt!!!
Cathy O. says
I’m showing my age, but it was picking out the new Trapper Keeper. 🙂
Mami2jcn says
I always liked getting a new lunchbox.
Mami2jcn says
I found out about the giveaway because I subscribe to your emails.
Mami2jcn says
tweet-http://twitter.com/#!/mami2jcn/status/100566894758731776
Laura L says
I don’t know if I had a favorite thing to buy when back to school shopping. I think I loved it all!
Tiffany says
I loved getting new clothes!!!
Tiffany says
I told my friend Cristina!
Leslie says
For me back to school was all about the notebook, like Trapper Keepers!
Kayla says
I always liked to pick out the binders or Trapper Keepers!
Kristen A. says
I loved buying new pens and pencils.
Kristen A. says
I posted about this giveaway on Facebook:)
Kristen A. says
I told the girls at work about this giveaway…thanks Danica!!
Kristel says
I loved buying a new backpack 🙂
Kristel says
posted on facebook!
Kristel says
told my coworkers!
Aucoale says
Now come on…who didn’t like getting a Trapper Keeper? That was my favorite! 🙂
Toni says
Getting a new box of
Crayons in the early years. Opening the box with the never used sharp points and 64 beautiful colors to choose from! …What excitement it was!!! …A new 3 ring binder when in middle/high school years.
Aucoale says
I facebooked this giveaway 🙂
Aucoale says
I told my sister about your giveaway 🙂
Michelle says
I love the fresh, clean notebooks!
Michelle says
I told my sister about the giveaway!
Aimee says
Every year, I looked forward to getting a new Trapper Keeper and organizing it by my class schedule.
Linda says
Crayons……such a treat to get a box of 64!
Johannah B says
I always liked the fountain pens we had to have for our private school.
I love to write and having new pens was great!
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Johannah B says
Tweeted here: http://twitter.com/#!/1prizewinner/status/100588070746861568
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Johannah B says
I was told about this by someone – and I am telling my sister Ann.
Stacie M says
I always loved picking out my new “Trapper Keeper”! LOL – Remember those!
jordan says
any type of school supplies, especially new pens!
Shira says
Erasers. The colorful ones that smell good. I had a large collection of them 🙂
Jewell says
Favorite thing to buy was new art supplies!
Dee says
I loved all of my school supplies; the smell & the brightness. School supplies represented all of the excitement & friendship of a new school year.
Quadmama says
I always looked forward to picking out a lunch box.
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Lynda@Me and My Pink Mixer says
A new lunch box was my fav! Over the years I had the Brady Bunch, Partridge Family and Barbie 🙂
Lynda@Me and My Pink Mixer says
I tweeted about the giveaway @mypinkmixerblog
Ann B says
I couldn’t wait to pick out my new lunch box!
Susan says
I loved my Lisa Frank Stickers, and covering my notebooks in them!
Kim @ Imperfectly Perfect says
Oh my, what didn’t I like to get before going back to school?! New packs of crayons/markers, a new planner (I still like getting these), notebooks, binders, folders……I loved it all! I remember crying once because my dad rushed me through the experience. 😉 I really enjoyed taking my time and picking everything out. Being in Staples reminds me of those days….
Kim @ Imperfectly Perfect says
Sent my tweet out. 🙂
Lindsey says
My favorite back to school item growing up was picking out a new backpack. We always got a new one every year.
Lindsey says
I dont have a blog, but I told my sister about this one, She has 4 little kids and I know she would love a membership!
Ivori says
The back pack / book bag was always the best. I only got a new one every other year so it was a huge treat!
Lindsey says
Some days I miss the excitment that went with back to school time! I always loved getting new retractable lead pencils and notebooks.
Lynda M says
I loved the note books. I loved to decorate them!
Thanks. I save my boxtops for my Daughter for her class.
Lisa T says
I always loved picking out a new trapper keeper!
Nhung says
I love getting notebooks. I actually still do now. [:
Becky Martinez says
I love school supplies, and office supplies too…pens, rulers, calulators, paper clips…My 7 year old has inherited my love of these things too! I am on her school’s PTA, and I am happy to say we have made alot of money on box tops. I wish more parents would take a few extra minutes to cut them and turn them in! This year we are working on more incentives to encourage the kids to help too!
Leslie says
I told several of my friends about your awesome blog and this giveaway!
doreen says
pencils and pens!!! i still love back to school time at the stores!! i always wanted a trapper keeper!!! thanks for the chance!
Michele says
I loved picking out Trapper Keeper…of course that tells how long ago I picked out school things. Now I am buying school supplies for my kids, and like picking out the backpacks. My daughter said…what is a Trapper Keeper?
Sherrie says
I was the box tops coordinator for my kids grade school for over 8 years.
I was able to by supplies for the computer lab and art room and library with the funds I raised. I would love to be able to contribute again on a different level.
Thank you!
Lyndsay Daniel says
I loved getting new gym shoes! I couldn’t wait to wear them. Otherwise, I have to second the Trapper Keeper! LOL
Lyndsay Daniel says
Shared on FB http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1085614036&ref=ts#!/lyndsaymdaniel
Kate says
For some reason lunch boxes were my favorite thing to buy. My sister and I would scope them out all summer, trying to find the perfect one!
Kate says
I tweeted!
https://twitter.com/#!/kstrembel/status/100674699096363009
Kate says
My mom JUST gave up her Sam’s membership due to the cost, so I told her about your giveaway! (I don’t have a blog)
Melanie says
Notebooks………….in all cool designs and colors of course!!!!
Karen E says
Pens and pencils!
Karen E says
Posted to facebook!
Karen E says
I told my daughter!
Andrea roberts says
My favorite thing to buy was a new lunch box!
sarah shah says
Sarah. I loved picking out a bookbag I thought was awesome that year – I remeber one year it was a jansport bag and another it was a jeep brand bag. Lol and then there was when the trapper keepers were very popular. Had to have one of those.
Lenise says
I loved getting a new lunch box!
Lenise says
I tweeted.
Lenise says
I told my mom about your blog!
Lee says
Crayons, crayons, crayons. The big box, the little box, any size, I loved crayons
Lee says
I posted this on twitter!!!!!
Lee says
I also told all of my facebook friends.
Lynn says
I loved buying tablets!
Michelle S. says
First day outfit was always a favorite; now that I’m a teacher, I always look forward to getting new pens, pencils and notebooks!! 🙂
Michelle S. says
I just told my mom about your site and giveaway. Yeah Boxtops for Education!!
Sheila Arth says
I loved getting new crayons!
Dana says
Trapper Keeper! Oh how I miss those things. I remember getting all my dividers (with little paper folded tags) and pencil pouch all organized and full of pencils, pens, erasers, etc. Ahhh… Those were the days!
Natalie says
I loved 5 star notebooks and highlighters of all colors!
Nancy says
I love back to school supplies! Perhaps because I’m a teacher. 😉
Brand new notebooks are always my favorite. All those blank pages offer so many opportunities and options!
Nancy says
I linked to your give-away on my teaching blog!
http://teachingmyfriends.blogspot.com/2011/08/treat.html
However, my blog is pretty new and doesn’t have much (any!) visitors yet. Sorry!
Tina M says
new backpack
Tina M says
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Claire says
I love restocking my supply of index cards. i just find them so handy. i still make flashcards for memorization to this day 🙂
Brandy says
Oh I loved buying Paste and the glue in the brown glass bottle with the top that looked like a lipgloss top….Guess I was a glue girl 🙂
Judi says
My favorite thing to buy for back to school was a new lunchbox.
Caitlin says
My favorite back to school buy had to be the binder/ trapper keeper or my backpack
Caitlin says
I also told my coworkers to come on and enter!
Caitlin says
I facebooked about your giveaway!
Tiffany says
I always loved to get new notebooks and then draw on the cover the subject name.
Tiffany says
I just told my friend Christina about your Sam’s Club giveaway! If she wins she better take me shopping.
Staci says
When I was an older school kid, I just loved getting new pens and notebooks. I would write my name all fancy shmancy in the front cover in a million different pen colors. 🙂 Never had a Sam’s Club membership before! This would be so neat!
sarah@spinach and spice says
new tennis shoes! that was always such a life or death decision 😉
kayla says
i loved picking out a new backpack!
Jess says
i loved buying all school supplies, but especially nice, clean notebooks and matching folders.
Jess says
i shared this contest with my sis!
Jennifer says
Loved buying my backpack and lunch box when back to school shopping.
Jennifer says
Put facbook post out there about the contest
Sheila Arth says
I shared this link on Facebook!
Sheila Arth says
I told a co-worker about this blog!
Leigh says
My favorite thing to get was a new pencil box! Back when I was a kid, our pencil boxes had all kinds of compartments in them. They were so fun!
jen says
My favorite, then and now, is mechanical pencils. I prefer pencil to pen, and hate dull points and sharpening!
Suzanne says
My favorite back to school item growing up was of course…my first day of school outfit. Every year my Mom would take us shopping and we would get to pick out an outft for our first day of school so we would look extra special after not seeing our friends for so long.
And of course, there was choosing what Trapper Keeper to get 😉
Bethie says
Pens and markers!
Lori says
Trapper Keepers! Loved picking a new one out each year!
Lori says
Tweeted!
angela says
Picking out new sneakers was my favorite!
Jill says
My favorite is still new notebooks!! I can’t stop buying them when they’re on sale!!!
Heidi says
I always looked forward to buying my new clear-front binder so that I could fill it with photos!
Heidi says
Facebooked!
Michelle says
I loved picking notebooks! I loved getting different styles, different pictures on the front, and as I got older I loved the FiveStar multi subject notebooks, so all of my class notes were in one place.
Dorothy says
Loved clothes shopping!
Lyta says
The Trapper Keeper of course! And notebooks, backpack, etc. All with a plan to be more organized that year…. which never happened.
Dina says
As a teacher I love buying new pens. As a kid I loved the big box of Crayola with the built in sharpener!!
Katie says
I’m such a nerd, my favorite thing to buy growing up were school supplies. I’d get out the list of what I needed (pens, pencils, folders) and scour the ads.
kati says
I loved anything to organize with. especially TRAPPER KEEPERS and pencil boxes. I still find randon pencil boxes with whatever treasure I thought was important at the time! Yay back to school shopping!
ErinK. says
I love back to school time…but I am a big nerd. I am no longer in school and my boys aren’t yet old enough for school…but I still love all the school stuff…my fav was a new binder with all the tabs and folders!
Thanks for a chance to win!
Jessica says
I used to love buying markers!! Lots of colors! Until they got all of my hands…
Jessica says
I told my mom about this giveaway – we both love sam’s club!
Mari says
I loved a brand new box of crayons.
Mari says
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Kara says
Don’t know if you’ve drawn a winner or not, but my favorite items always had to do with organizing school supplies, especially pretty folders. 🙂
Laurie says
I always loved getting a special folder for each subject, and of course, back to school shoes!~
Lisa says
I used to love getting the binder because then you got to decorate them with pictures!!