Box Tops Coordinator

I am the Box Top Coordinator at the kids elementary school. The last Friday of the month I go to their school during lunch and open a store to exchange box tops for little prizes. Melanie loves when I come and sits up on the stage with me to eat her lunch and help out. Brandon is a little more shy so he'll come up and give me a hug and sit for a min but then goes back to join his friends.

Once I get all the box tops the fun has only just begun! I take them home and trim them and get them ready to count.

After counting them into groups of 50, I put them in bags fill out the submission form and ship them off.

It is an extremely time consuming project. The last submission I did was for about $150 which honestly, for the work involved does not seem worth it. However, it makes me feel good to know that I'm helping to earn some money for the school so I don't feel so bad when I don't contribute to the other fundraisers. They are trying to switch the program to scanning receipts and do away with the physical box top and right now it's in the in between stage, by 2022 all box tops will be digital but until then I'll be collecting, cutting and sorting!

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