*Winner winner! We have a wineer! Congratulations to Tori! Commenter #32!!! Thank you all for participating!

I have never been SO excited to finish school supply shopping! Why? Because of Mabel’s Labels and the fact that it was going to as easy as “peel & stick” to label the my kids’ school supplies!

I received an Ultimate Back-to-School Combo pack for each of my 3 children… Each set includes dishwasher-safe labels for small school supplies, waterproof & extra sticky labels for shoes, laundry-safe labels for clothing, and couple metal tags for backpacks and such.

Each child’s label set is distinctly different from the other… so even my youngest (who cannot quite read), knows HERS is pink!

And was it fun to get the kids’ stuffs all organized!!! From backpacks…

To binders, pencil pouches, rulers, scissors…

Highlighters to cups…

Even the shoes!

Watch out winter coats. No more Lost and Found for you! We have Mabel’s Labels! *gives stink eye*

Here’s the deal, friends. Mabel’s Labels is only offering this Ultimate Back-to-School Combo until September 25th. I. Know. The classic line (solids) is valued at $39. The design-ier kind (Label Out Loud) is valued at $44.

I’m kinda thinkin’ you might like a your own combo pack. I see that lust for organization in your eyes! Well, the lovely people at Mabel’s Labels is giving away one of these not-around-forever Ultimate Back-to-School Combos! Here! Just leave a comment about why you think getting organized for back to school is important… or ooze about how cute Mabel’s Lables are

I. Know!!!

Rules:

• No duplicate comments.
• You may receive an additional entry by linking on twitter and leaving a link in the comments.
• You may receive an additional entry by blogging about this contest and leaving a link in the comments.
• This giveaway is open to Residents in Canada and the US.
• Winners will be selected via random draw, and will notified by e-mail.
• You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
• This contest runs from 8/25 to 9/1/2010.

You can visit Mabel’s Labels site here. You can “like” them on Facebook here. And… follow them on Twitter – @mabelhood! I have got me some Mabel fever, and have been plotting the conquest of my pantry… Yes – THE PANTRY!!! I feel all warm inside…

I received labels for my kids’ school stuffs as part of this review/giveaway. The opinions and excitement expressed here are my own.

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*Update! We have our winner! Congrats to Megan on the $100 Visa gift card win! Woohoo!!!

I have a friend named Lisa. We are pretty great individually *ahem*… We each care for and love our children. We each have great husbands worthy of much admiration and swooning. We each shop for groceries. We each do the dishes and laundry. We each crack ourselves up. We each are thankful for unlimited texting packages. We each love us our Facebook – where we treat our pages like our own comedy club. We each have our own friends and many shared friends… due to the vortex of craziness we create. It’s hard to keep from sucking others in… We each appreciate a really good pair of jeans and a really goooood cup of coffee. We also each love to dance and to LOL.

#somuch

We don’t just use Twitter hashtags in Twitter – we use them in emails, texts and conversations with each other – because we “get” each other.  We talk in “text”. Sure, saying the letters “SRSLY” take longer than saying the word “seriously”, but comedy sometimes means you go for that extra syllable. We get that.

Lisa and I are better together. Funnier. Sillier. Joyfulier. Braver. SRSLY. #somuch

photo credit: mark gsellman/photomatopoeia

I’d say we’re like Laurel and Hardy, or Lucy and Ethel, OR Tina Fey and Amy Poehler!!! O.K…. perhaps we are MOST like nitro and glycerin… She makes me laugh until I snort… I make her laugh to the point of peeing… When I snort she pees, when she pees, I snort. It’s a vicious cycle, really. If laughter is the best medicine, then Lisa and I are verrrrry well-medicated…

And there you have it. Just as a splash of raspberry syrup makes the chocolate and coffee in a mocha go *SHAZAM!*, so does a splash of Lisa in the cup of my life.

Just like Lisa and me, Gain laundry detergent and fabric softener make, “perfect scents” together. Tell me who you make perfect sense within the comments below for a chance to win a $100 Visa gift card and a bottle of Gain laundry detergent and fabric softener.

Rules:

• No duplicate comments.
• You may receive an additional entry by linking on twitter and leaving a link in the comments.
• You may receive an additional entry by blogging about this contest and leaving a link in the comments.
• This giveaway is open to US Residents, aged 18 and older
• Winners will be selected via random draw, and will notified by e-mail.
• You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

Contest runs from May 3, 2010 to June 3, 2010. Good luck! Visit the Official rules!

There are NINE other chances to win, AND a GRAND PRIZE of $300 on the BlogHer round-up page! Click here to find out how!

Visit Gain’s official site for more information!

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Update: We have a winner! Commenter #5 – Jesscia won via random draw (random.org). Thank you all for your participation! And congratulations Jessica!

My favorite clothes are new clothes. Why? On account of the fact they are so CLEAN! The whites are white and brights are bright! But a girl can’t only wear NEW clothes – nor can her children.

So what’s a girl to do? What is a MOM to do? Have you seen the things one’s offspring does to their clothes???! Some problem stains I have to deal with are:

• Preschool painting projects, chocolate pudding, chocolate milk, chocolate, dirt, markers, markers, markers, *whu?*, markers, lipstick, lip gloss, muck, grime, ketchup, mustard, lolipop-ness, poop (yes, poop), and even blood. Gotta love body fluids!

Stains are gross. They also often make me feel helpless.

Enter Oxiclean and the beloved “Power Pac”. My heart. I’m talkin’ pink puffy hearts all over for my Oxiclean. Oxiclean sent me a package of the “Power Paks” to test. *my new religion, and I am not kidding* But I didn’t need to test my pacs of awesome. Oxiclean has been a dear friend for many years. She even helped me get Sharpie – yes SHARPIE out of a jean jacket my toddler decided to “bling out”.

But the “Power Pac“… how can complete love become complete-er? PUT IT IN A PAC! Mama don’t have to scoop and pour… now Mama just pops a pac in the washer. Be it a sunrise, be it a power pac – both are beautiful to me. However a sunrise won’t get chocolate out of a 2nd grader’s white shirt. I know, what kind of mother puts her 2nd grader in a white shirt?

I do. Don’t be a hater.

Enter: the Max Force Gel Stick.

This shirt has a chocolate pudding stain. Oxiclean encourages one to immediately start treating the stain. In my world, “immediately” pans out to be 3-4 days later…

I have strategies — the Oxiclean Max Force Gel Stick, yo!

3…2…1…

*BAM!* and *HOLLAH!*

So, there is my testimony and here is the science as I understand it:

The Oxiclean Max Force Power Pac uses oxygen to fight stains… It works WITH your detergent to make whites whiter and brights brights. Oooh, bright brights – me likey! Allz ya gots to do is pop in a Pac in every load!

The Oxiclean Max Force Gel Stick… it’s a pre-treater. It’s applicator helps dig into the fibers to stick to those stains and go to battle… for the sake of the white… or the bright.

Guess what? I have some $100 Visa gift card action for you, thanks to Oxiclean! Just leave a comment and share about your toughest stains. Aaand there are now 7 other chances to win the $100 Visa gift cards PLUS a grand prize $300 sweepstakes — visit the the round-up page!

Rules:

• No duplicate comments.
• You may receive an additional entry by linking on twitter and leaving a link in the comments.
• You may receive an additional entry by blogging about this contest and leaving a link in the comments.
• This giveaway is open to US Residents, aged 18 and older
• Winners will be selected via random draw, and will notified by e-mail.
• You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

Contest runs from March 9, 2010 to March 31, 2010. Good luck! Visit the Official rules!

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