The Samaritan’s Purse Bloggers submitted a challenge! We were challenged to think ahead and shop for our Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes now, while shopping the back to school sales!
Details of the Back to School Challenge:
~ Commit to devoting $10 of your back-to-school shopping for your Operation Christmas Child shoebox?
~ Shop, save, and store up all of your back-to-school shoebox goodies!
~ Write up a blog post sharing your finds and link up on August 28th to show how you were able to stretch your $10.
Our OCC Back to School Purchases:
We accepted the challenge and here are some of the items that my family purchased to add to our OCC boxes! I snagged boxes of 24 count pencils from Target for $1.24 each.
After searching around ToysRus, we were able to find Crayola 24 count crayons for only a quarter a box!
We even cashed in on 10 count packs of pens from Office Depot for 10 cents a pack!
We also found a few more goodies from the Dollar Tree (not pictured) to round out our $10 challenge!
Did you participate in the challenge?
Don’t forget to link up your post below!
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Disclosure: As a member of the iHomeschool Network’s Samaritan’s Purse Blogger Team, I write about the ministry on a volunteer basis. All posts are my own thoughts and do not necessarily reflect the views of Samaritan’s Purse. I am not on employee, agent, or contractor of Samaritan’s Purse.
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Maureen
I never would have thought to go to Toys R Us for school supplies! The cheapest crayons got around here this year was .50 for Crayola.
Mama Jenn
Normally I wouldn’t have thought to get supplies from there either! But, my boys had saved up their money to buy some Lego sets. While I was there I saw the sale and snagged as many boxes as I could!!