apparently, it's the little things.

Have you ever noticed just how many products you have in your home that have the little Boxtops for Education logo on them? Last summer, I started to take notice of all of the things we were buying that promised to earn money for schools if we would just clip off the boxtop and turn it in. Boxtops can be found on everything from Kleenex Tissues to Old El Paso Tacos to Ziploc Bags. I decided to sign up on their website and start saving them for our local elementary/ middle school here in Locust Point, Francis Scott Key School. For the past year or so, we've been clipping Boxtops and putting them into an envelope. We were starting to gather up quite a bit of them, so I figured it was as good a time as any to turn them in.

Today, Bennet and I took our envelope of Boxtops and walked up to the school to turn them in. The secretary was so appreciative - you would have thought I walked in the door with a check for a million dollars and not an envelope full of cardboard tokens worth ten cents each. She probably thanked me ten times, and told me how kind I was over and over. I was shocked that such a small thing meant to much to the school, and even more shocked that more people aren't participating in the program. I will definitely be starting a new envelope and saving more of them up. It was great to find out that a task so simple as cutting out boxtops from products I already buy for the house anyway was such a big deal to a city school in need.

Want to save Boxtops for Education for a school near you? Visit the Boxtops for Education website to find the school closest to you and to get a complete list of products that are part of the program. It's a little thing that takes hardly any time at all and apparently makes a big difference.