One of my underlying beliefs about organizing is that the more we love an organizing solution, the more likely we are to use it (and the happier we’ll be in the process.) The same holds true for our kids and back-to-school supplies. Fun school supplies make opening up the backpack each and every day a notch more fun. Wouldn’t you agree?
If so you can imagine my glee when a box chock-full of super fun back-to-school products arrived on my doorstep courtesy of Office Max. Check these out:
(Photo courtesy of Office Max.)
Aren’t those so cute? The true test was my daughter’s reaction. She was soooo excited when I showed her the supplies…I had to hide them and put them into safe keeping until I finished up this post! The Schoolio Von Hoolio line includes all sorts of fun back-to-school essentials like notebooks, a pencil box, a pencil set complete with pencils, erasers, and a pencil sharpener, three-ring binders, a 7 pocket expanding file, composition books, a decorative clipboard, and a drawstring backsack. I especially love the clipboards and the composition books…but then again, you know I have a thing for clipboards and composition books. But these are of the super cute variety. 😉
If you haven’t done your back to school shopping yet, give the Schoolio Von Hoolio collection a look. Office Max has great back-to-school savings going on right now. If you’ve already done your back-to-school shopping, consider stashing a few of these items away for a mid-school-year supply perk-up.
Updated Info: The Schoolio-Von-Hoolio line is available at OfficeMax stores nationwide. You can find a nearby store at www.officemax.com/storelocator/storeLocatorHome.jsp. This line isn’t offered online due to the various in-store shopping deals OfficeMax offers during back-to-school season, which you can view at http://officemax.com/penny. The deals change weekly with some products offered for the cost of one penny. (I’ve experienced this firsthand…I got crayons for a penny a few weeks ago!)
To kick off the back to school season, Office Max also hosted a web cast with Peter Walsh and a panel that included an award-wining teacher, a mom and two students. The web cast showed real world back-to-school challenges from the perspective of teacher, mom and student—and showed organizing solutions. You can watch the blog cast online for even more back-to-school organizing ideas. Hope you enjoy!
Last but not least, before I wrap up the back-to-school-organizing-ideas-extravaganza, I’d like to point you to the article Back To School Planning on the RachaelRay.com website. This article features a few of my favorite back to school organizing ideas, along with ideas of other professional organizer Moms.
Alright…I’d say back-to-school is a wrap! (Well…for this school year anyway.)
Hey Aby! :0)
Can’t find the School-Von-Hoolio stuff at Office-Max. :0( Maybe it’s all sold out??
rachel
I searched on line and couldn’t find those notebooks. sob sob.
Maybe I didn’t search well enough, could you provide a link?
Congrats on the Rachel ray article,off to read it now!
Take Care!
I have seen it in the stores…but I’ll see if I can find out if it is / was available online.
Thanks!
Aby
Okay…I updated the post. This product line is only available in-store, not online.
Aby 🙂
Love the line! Too bad my boys just wouldn’t appreciate it like your daughter. Maybe I need to sign up for a continuing ed course just to have an excuse to buy a notebook.
Makes me want to go back to school! I use some of these in my office just to make the day more fun.
Sara
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Offic Max doesn’t ship to Canada either. That’s been my biggest disappointment with the paper clutter workshop is a lot of the resources aren’t availabe. I’m starting to think the internet doesn’t bring us that much closer after all…. and I wanted the divoga line so much!! I just want to keep trying and keep smiling,
Going back to school surely is an exciting phase especially for the kids. They will see their friends again and get to learn new things. Of course they will need new school supplies but they can still make use of some of their old things – if their notebooks still have remaining unwritten pages, you can collect and use them. It is important to value practicality and thriftiness especially for kids so that when they get older, they will become responsible citizens.