Oh, hey, listen!
Feb. 5th, 2009 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Ana's school is participating in Box Tops for Education.
When we first got the list of eligible products, I glanced down it, realized that nobody in this house uses any of that stuff - not even the Kotex since Jenn and I both switched to reusable products! - and felt an odd mixture of condescension and chagrin over it.
But today I saw that we had indeed bought a single product that has the correct box top. A box of baggies. Yay! (Come to think, I guess Hefty bags apply as well, now that I look at the list in more detail. Whatever.)
So I'm asking, any of you with these box tops and no use for them? If you want to send them our way, it'd be much appreciated. They're only $.10 per top, so only if you collect them is it worth it, I suppose. Alternatively, suggest it to your school. I know it's primarily a way to increase sales and cultivate a sense of brand loyalty among the youngest consumers, but can schools really turn their noses up at any cash right now?
They also seem to have a program where, if you purchase items off the B&N website, you can send some of the money to the school of your choice. We *do* have a membership card....
(If you want Ana's school name, you'd have to contact my sister,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gingembre, about that. Not me for the obvious reason.)
When we first got the list of eligible products, I glanced down it, realized that nobody in this house uses any of that stuff - not even the Kotex since Jenn and I both switched to reusable products! - and felt an odd mixture of condescension and chagrin over it.
But today I saw that we had indeed bought a single product that has the correct box top. A box of baggies. Yay! (Come to think, I guess Hefty bags apply as well, now that I look at the list in more detail. Whatever.)
So I'm asking, any of you with these box tops and no use for them? If you want to send them our way, it'd be much appreciated. They're only $.10 per top, so only if you collect them is it worth it, I suppose. Alternatively, suggest it to your school. I know it's primarily a way to increase sales and cultivate a sense of brand loyalty among the youngest consumers, but can schools really turn their noses up at any cash right now?
They also seem to have a program where, if you purchase items off the B&N website, you can send some of the money to the school of your choice. We *do* have a membership card....
(If you want Ana's school name, you'd have to contact my sister,
gingembre, about that. Not me for the obvious reason.)
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Date: 2009-02-06 08:20 am (UTC)Which reason would that be?
"The obvious reason" to me would be that you don't know it, but I would have expected you to know where your niecelings go.
And I can't think of any other obvious reason.
(Having your sister tell you "I'll kill you if you tell anyone" is *a* reason but not particularly obvious or plausible to me, for example.)
Unless it's "this is sensitive information and I'd like to decide for myself who gets to know it, rather than trusting your judgement on who is OK to know it and who isn't" ?
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Date: 2009-02-06 05:53 pm (UTC)Not you, because a. it's not like you (I do believe) and b. it'd be damned inconvenient for you to hop a plane to harm my family, y'know?
At any rate, I don't mind handing out my address to every fool out there, so clearly I'm being a bit weird about it. Whatever.
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Date: 2009-02-06 08:20 am (UTC)Which reason would that be?
"The obvious reason" to me would be that you don't know it, but I would have expected you to know where your niecelings go.
And I can't think of any other obvious reason.
(Having your sister tell you "I'll kill you if you tell anyone" is *a* reason but not particularly obvious or plausible to me, for example.)
Unless it's "this is sensitive information and I'd like to decide for myself who gets to know it, rather than trusting your judgement on who is OK to know it and who isn't" ?
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Date: 2009-02-06 05:53 pm (UTC)Not you, because a. it's not like you (I do believe) and b. it'd be damned inconvenient for you to hop a plane to harm my family, y'know?
At any rate, I don't mind handing out my address to every fool out there, so clearly I'm being a bit weird about it. Whatever.