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Get Organized for Back to School with Office Max

August 19, 2009 By 1 Comment

Today was Lily’s very first day of Preschool!  She got up at 5:30 am and begged to get dressed in her uniform even though she wasn’t leaving the house for 3 more hours!  I want to make sure she has the best possible start to her school years and I think organization is definitely key to success in school! Fortunately, I was invited to attend a blogcast with Office Max and Peter Walsh to discuss getting organized for back to school!

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This informative webcast discussed great tips, suggestions and advice from the experts (Peter Walsh, a teacher, a mom and two students) on how to best organize your home, kids and classroom this Fall.  Some of my favorite tips included:

Show your children that you value organization. Your child will follow suit.

Color code each child’s belongings. For example, have a red folder, red basket, and red pencil holder for one child while using blue items for another.  This will make it easy to grab the correct papers for activities and assignments.

Once you have purchased organizational items, show your child how to use them!  All too often, a child carries a huge backpack and only uses the large section intended for textbooks!  Show them how to effectively use ALL sections of the great backpack your purchased!

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Office Max also carries a HUGE variety of all the organizational products you need to start off the school year.  It is your one stop shop for that school supply list!  In addition to Peter Walsh’s IN PLACE system, Office Max also carries a kid-centric line of school products called Scoolio-Von-Hoolio which I was fortunate enough to receive from Office Max.  I adore the design of these items!  Lily immediately grabbed the pencils and a notebook and began doing her “homework.”  From expanding file folders to binders, backsacks to composition books, this line has it ALL!

If you need tips on how to organize your family before the school year begins, check out this webcast and make sure you hit Office Max for all your school supply needs!  You can also follow Peter Walsh and Office Max on Twitter to make sure you don’t miss a thing!

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Get Cool for School #7: College Prize Pack

August 6, 2009 By 10 Comments

This is a great prize pack for the college kids! With rigorous coursework and homework overload they can take notes in style!

Prize #1: HipFusion Designs

hipfusion_logoHipFusion Designs offers unique handcrafted designer sterling silver jewelry for both women and men. Every piece offered by the artist reflects her eye for style. You can find HipFusion designer jewelry online at HipFusion.com or locally at select jewelry boutiques on the East coast. Custom orders for personalized silver jewelry are welcome!

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The winner of this prize pack receives a gift card to HipFusion Designs, Inc.!

Check out Louise’s review of HipFusion Designs!

Prize #2:  DiVoga Home Office Products from Office Max

divoga_modnature Office Max is your go to store, not only for office items for the workplace, but for home office equipment, school supplies, computers and accessories, digital imaging products, custom printing services, and more.  In changing with the times, the selection has come to include collections for the home office such as Peter Walsh’s [In]Place System and the designer DiVoga home office products.  Office Max offers Free Shipping on orders $50 or more within their delivery area.

The winner of this prize pack will receive the DiVoga Mod Nature Collection inlcuding: Portable File Tote, Seven Pocket Expanding File, Faux Leather Document Envelope, 1 inch Binder, 2 sets of 5 Tab Dividers, and one rubberband ball from OfficeMax (ARV $44.00).

One winner will receive  BOTH prizes!

How to enter:

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Mandatory entries (you MUST complete these tasks in order to enter):
1. Sign up for the HipFusion Newsletter.  Then leave a comment telling us what email you used to sign up.
2. Take a look at some of the other DiVoga products offered at Office Max.  Then tell us what one item you would like to own.
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1. Subscribe to my blog.
2. Follow me on Twitter (@BridgetteLA) and tweet this giveaway.
3. Become a Fan of The Not-So-Blog on Facebook.
4. Favorite me in Technorati.
Make sure you visit the other participating blogs and enter there as well! Entries from all 8 blogs will be combined to pull a winner randomly.
Contest ends at 11:59 CST on August 24, 2009. Open to U.S. Residents only.

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Review: In Place System by Peter Walsh and Office Max

April 18, 2009 By 5 Comments

When I was younger (many moons ago!), I was the little girl that could not wait to receive her school supply list.  Crisp notebooks, fresh daily planner, pretty folders and pencils with a sharp point completely motivated me to start a new school year.  As an adult, I still love these things!  I am ALL about organizational products!  My daily planner and I are *like this*!! LOL!

So, when I was allowed to take a sneak peek at the new In Place system, a partnership between Peter Walsh (remember him from Clean Sweep?) and Office Max, I was elated!  A huge box showed up on my front porch containing several items from the system and I felt like it was the first day of school!  I wanted to immediately start organizing my blogging materials….but where do I begin?

officemaxlogoLucky for me, Office Max thought of everything and set up a 40 minute interview with Peter Walsh to introduce the In Place system, share organizational tips, and answer questions from fellow Mom bloggers. After watching the Office Max webcast and digging through my box of fabulous products, I thought I would share a few highlights:

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1.  I love the transparency of the items.  This allows you to be able to change your office decor without having to replace outdated file folders.  You are not tied down to any one style in your office.

2.  The portability of the system is very convenient.  Peter thought of it all!  File folders easily slip in larger organizers that can be carried to meetings or placed on home office shelves.

3.  A dry erase marker is included in the starter kit.  The files can be written on with the marker and easily labeled again and again.  The In Place system is completely reusable.

4.  The journal from DiVoga is so nice!  Peter suggests in the webcast to rid yourself of the Post-It notes on your computer monitor and jot notes in a journal instead.  I will definitely be using this tip!

5.  Peter introduced the rolling case file which allows for maximum portability perfect for sales positions or Realtors.   Mom, I know you read my blog….you NEED this!!

If you are living in “office hell” and the clutter is causing chaos, make sure you check out the In Place products at Office Max to transform your life into “organizational bliss!”

Off to organize!!

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