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Page 1: Primary school preparedness. Pencils, crayons, notebooks, and tissue everything to start out school life. It also includes a great coupon for school supplies.
Page 2: Elementary school supplies more than just pens, pencils, and backpacks. We talk bike safety and hydration. We also help prepare for pre-teen and junior high kids with a handy checklist to make school and life that much easier.
Pg 3/4 Be the Dorm Hero! Everything you need to set up your dorm room right. We have tips on cleaning products like Method, and Oxo. We talk you through basic necessities like duct tape and power cords. We make sure you have the right school supplies like notebooks, and staplers. We talk you through a little de-stressing with dynamo labels, saint candles, and earplugs. Finally we tell you how to get some extra credit using dry erase markers.
Pg 5: High school supplies are so much more than notebooks and pens. We talk about high schooler’s love of freedom. We advise on transportation options like clipper cards and extra car keys with Duracell. We talk about the importance of communication including the need for power banks and emergency chargers to keep parents from worrying, and we discuss our online shopping and special order process.
Pg 6: Adulting and Cooking dominate this page. We walk you through how to set up your desk with Poppin accessories. We discuss the importance of the right pen. We assure you about mailing your manuscript and any other mailings that need to be done. We talk the importance of fun quirky coffee cups and we take a small (but fun-spirited) jab at one of our co-workers in the candy section. In the cooking part we talk why Le Creuset is the cookware that you want. We introduce you to our favorite tool for grating everything from nutmeg to lemon zest (the Microplane grating line). We remind you to pick up your onion goggles to stop crying as you cut onions and we discuss what kind of knife you want to cut various items of food. There is also a link to our not so secret kitchen blog.