Deals For You, Rewards For Your School!

What if I told you that you could do your usual online Christmas shopping, AND help your local school at the same time? You'd be game, right? Well you CAN do that, at Box Tops For Education Marketplace. Box Tops for Education Marketplace is an online fundraising program that allows you to earn cash for your school when you shop online – up to $20,000 per school every year!

School supporters go to Box Tops For Education and register to support their school of choice. Then, when shopping online simply go to the Box Tops For Education home page and click on the “marketplace” tab and shop at more than 70 online stores. With participating retailers including JCPenney, Wal-Mart, Target, and Lands' End, the Marketplace can serve as the source for all of your Holiday shopping needs and raise money for your school at the same time. Up to 8 percent of every qualifying purchase is donated back to your school of choice at no additional cost to you.

If you click through to the Holly Deals section of Box Tops For Education you can find extra deals and discounts being offered from various Marketplace Merchants. Some of the deals include free shipping codes, good only through Box Tops For Education Marketplace! And while you're there, be sure to enter the 30-Day Giveaway. You can earn a prize pack for yourself and 100 Bonus Box Tops for your school! You can even elect to receive daily e-mail reminders so you can be sure to enter every day!

Shoes.com is one of the Marketplace merchants, and they generously gave me the chance to go on my own little shoe shopping spree! I signed up through Box Tops For Education, and clicked on the Marketplace link for Shoes.com, which directed me straight to the Shoes.com website. From there I browsed and hunted, hunted and browsed. Here's a few of the things I spotted that almost made it in my shopping cart:

There's more than just shoes at Shoes.com! I was seriously about to order my teenage daughter a snowboard bag, or snow boot bag. But then she quickly informed me that she'd rather just lug her own gear. I mean, really...can't have her looking silly with a gear bag on the slopes. Sheesh. So I moved on...

I thought about some shoes for little man. There are TONS of really cute, stylish little boy shoes at Shoes.com. But the frugal mom in me couldn't bring myself to get him such expensive shoes, knowing he'll only wear them a few months, at best. So I moved on.....

I happen to LOVE Roxy shoes. And Shoes.com has an AMAZING selection of Roxy shoes...more than any brick and mortar store I've even been in! One of the great features of Shoes.com is the ability to search by brand name, if you're partial to one or another. Alas, I feared my new Roxy shoes wouldn't fit for very long since I'm pregnant...and we all know what pregnancy can do to a woman's feet. So I moved on....

That left my husband to shop for. He is so very picky about his shoes, but I was able to find about ten styles for him to choose from. He finally settled on this pair of Skechers. Pretty snazzy, no?

Shoes.com has FREE shipping, which can't be beat! I placed my order on Monday and our shoes arrived Friday. Thankfully they fit perfectly, but it's nice to know that if we'd had a problem, Shoes.com offers FREE returns. That's a great service, since online shoe shopping can get tricky at times.

So this Holiday season when you're getting ready to surf online for that perfect gift...make sure you click through Box Tops For Education first! Great deals and discounts for you, great rewards for your school! Everyone wins!