As the school year wraps up, I thought it was a good time to encourage everyone out there to support their local school's participation in the Campbell's Labels For Education and the General Mills Box Tops 4 Education programs.
Most of us probably remember saving soup can labels when we were schoolchildren, but a lot of us were mostly interested in the competitive angle (i.e.; the trip or pizza party that the top-raising classrooms). As adults, we can much more clearly understand the need for our educational institutions to take advantage of every avenue for free educational equipment, and it's incredibly easy for all of us to pitch in (even if you're a childless bachelor such as myself)!
Every General Mills box top is worth a dime, while Campbell's has switched from their old nickel-per-label model to a point system that's a little harder to figure out monetarily, but which makes certain premium products add up to more bucks for your school. I handed off my annual haul to my friends' son Lukas last week, so he could turn them in at PS58 here in Brooklyn. Surprisingly, in the past year, I accumulated $12.50 worth of box tops and what I reckon adds up to about $7 to $10 worth of Campbell's points. Imagine if every household in every school district turned in the equivalent of $20 per person each year!
It only takes a second or two to rip or clip the appropriate part of the packaging, and the whole kit and kaboodle fit in a small baggy tacked to my kitchen cork board. It's just that easy to get free money for your our kids' classrooms! Even if you don't know any students, you can mail them to a participating school for proper routing, so I hope you'll make a habit of it and help ease the burden on your local school!
By the way, in the past three days alone, I've found another 47 cents, bringing the Found Fund for charity to $20.96 so far this year!
