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If you're inclined to online-shop at any of the stores listed here (and there's a lot of them!), can I ask you to do so through the portal so the nieces' school gets a small kickback? First time shoppers right now also get an additional 5 Box Tops, which is a lot more paltry than it sounds like when you see it with an exclamation point after it. (It's only 50¢, in fact.) But you know, 50¢ is 50¢.

Additionally, if you habitually buy any of the products listed here and have Box Tops floating around that you end up tossing (the only product I can think of off the top of my head is any cereal by General Mills, but there's a bunch of them), and you'd like to get rid of them by mailing them to me, I'll pay for the stamp. (Well, I'll mail some stamps to you, anyway.)

Poke me if you want information about their school (for shopping the Marketplace, I'll contact you in PMs) or my address (for the physical Box Tops). These little bits of 10¢ here, or 5% there (2% of a computer off of Dell.com, for example, is a lot!) really add up.

Or, if you want to help but do not want to spend money, you can also enter in one of the Sweepstakes. This doesn't require you to sign up for their email, I believe.

I wonder if my sister will buy it?

(For those days when flaming cherries aren't my thing, though I can't imagine having many of those.)

Yeah.

Which is how I found myself browsing The Children's Place. After all, if I want to ensure she has plenty of non-pink/purple clothing, I have to be on top of the situation, right? Right. Their stuff is surprisingly non-expensive (trust me, after you've seen stores seriously selling children's clothes at $50+, your views of what clothing should cost change drastically. I mean, I understand buying for quality, but... children! They don't *need* quality, they just need lots of clothes so that when they stain one outfit, another's waiting!), and, of course, adorable (of course!). Weird thing, though, these people learned a different set of colors than the ones I'm teaching Ana. Energy? Tidal? Mist? Since when is "mist" this shade of blue? Mist is just fancy-woman fog.

If you're curious, and interested in Helping the Cause (clothes that aren't pink!), you can always comment or send over leftover clothes from relatives or whatever. I wouldn't bother, though - we're hardly desperate here. It might be better off sent to charity or something. I'm sure, if you're so determined to give stuff away (riiiiiiight....), Ana'd prefer some toys or books. I've got a massively insane wishlist at amazon that's fairly worthless.

*goes back to browsing the site*

Energy. Pah! If you can't call it red, try scarlet or vermillion. Colors that are, y'know, colors.