Monday, January 7, 2013

Score! (And Some Links)

Once again I am getting a couple of boxes together to send to an elementary school in the Philippines.  This time I want to send one box of books and one box of school supplies.  In the past I have also wanted to send candy for all of the kids (the school is in a really poor area so these kids have rarely, if ever, even had candy) but there are 500 kids at the school and even if I could somehow find five pieces of candy for $1, that would still be $100 just for candy, not including the cost of books and school supplies.  So, to date, no candy has been sent.  Then the hubby and I were at the grocery store yesterday and saw that they were clearing out their leftover Christmas stuff and we found candy canes for 10 cents per box.  That was a great deal so we hauled 58 boxes of candy canes to the checkout and learned that Christmas stuff was an additional 50% off so that dropped the price of each box of 12 candy canes to 5 cents each!!  So for a grand total of $2.90 we got 600+ candy canes!!!  See photo above!

And some links...(mostly depressing stuff)



5 comments:

  1. that is so neat an the kids will really enjoy it. Well done!

    Gill

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  2. Wow!!! Great find on the candy canes!! Awesome! The kids will be soo delighted!! :) Yummy!!

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  3. That is very nice of you to do! So glad you got them at a great price. Happy New Year!

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  4. I hope someone is there to take pictures when they open the box. They will be thrilled! What a great find/price!

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