26 Aug, 2010
Giveaway alert: school supplies from Hilroy
Posted by andrea tomkins in: Giveaways and product reviews
If you’re anything like me, this is the time of year you start salivating at the thought of school supplies.
I love school supplies. I truly do.
When I was in school it was my favourite time of the year. Something about clean ruled paper, new binders, pencils and pencil cases just made me giddy. And you know what? It still makes me feel giddy. I remember asking (and receiving) a pencil sharpener for my birthday one year. THAT is how much I like paper goods and school supplies.
Brand new school supplies hold so much promise, don’t they? There is so much potential to be unleashed in all those papers and pens.
Hilroy approached me awhile back and asked me if I’d like a box of Hilroy products. How could I say no? Hilroy is as Canadian as beaver tails. Seeing their logo on all those excercise books just makes my heart pitter patter.
And they are graciously offering to send a duplicate box to one lucky (Canadian) winner.
Here’s where it gets tricky. The winner will be getting the same box I did. My box is here beside me but the girls have already pillaged its contents so I don’t know exactly what was in it. :) I can tell you (a) it’s about $70 worth of Hilroy product, and (b) that I’m an office supply snob and it’s pretty nice and (c) it WILL MAKE YOU FEEL GIDDY AGAIN.
Sarah claimed the 1 1/2″ colour-your-own binder as soon as she saw it. I would have loved this at her age. (Heck, I doodled on my binders no matter what was on them. This is license to doodle!) The front and back is like a colouring book. Check it:
Hilroy Zwipes stuff is pretty cool too. Zwipes are also doodle-friendly. It’s like someone took a white board and made school supplies out of them. You use a special pen (it’s supplied) to draw your picture, your to-do list, or the initials of your latest crush … and when it’s time to change it (like when you realized the boy you thought was really nice turned out to be a total jerk) you just use the other side of the pen to erase it.
I know there’s a Zwipes binder and pencil case in this box too. Emma had a Zwipes binder last year and really liked it.
There’ll be a number of recycled products in there too … which I think is pretty cool. There’s a sweet blue/yellow binder made out of 100% recycled chipboard. And pencil cases are made out of 50% recycled PET materials. (Correct me if I’m wrong but I think that’s old pop bottles and food containers, right?) Here’s a pink version.
I would link directly to items within their site but the way their site is set up I can’t link to individual products. (Hilroy – I would be happy to give you some advice on site design and usability! Call me.)
Anyway, yes, SCHOOL SUPPLIES. Who wants ’em?
What you need to know:
1) You need to have a Canadian mailing address to qualify.
2) You need to (a) leave a comment below and (b) subscribe to my Extra Helping. There’ll be giveaways over there too in the near future!
3) I will do a random draw using Random.org at noon on August 31, 2010. Please make sure you leave a valid email address. You can’t win if I can’t reach you.
4) Hilroy will ship the goods right to your doorstep. The winner will need to give me their addy.
Over to you!
