'Tis the Season to Share the Rewards

I had an epiphany this morning...

It was somewhere between seeing a donate to charity thing on my coffee creamer and a Box Tops when I was making Dylan’s breakfast that I realized how I take the time to enter rewards points online when it benefits me and my family, but I don’t when it’s for charity. What is wrong with me? Am I SO busy every single day that I can’t cut Box Tops or enter a number code online? Well, that stops today. While Dylan was eating breakfast, I searched my kitchen for all of the “donate” stuff I could find.

My Rewards
My main rewards website that I visit regularly is the Pampers Gifts to Grow. I’m buying diapers anyway, so I may as well be getting rewards for them! I tend to use my reward points for Shutterfly.com stuff. And when I buy diapers at Sam’s Club, I get extra points! I highly recommend this to my other Mommy friends!

I also enter my reward codes on the Huggies Enjoy the Ride website, but I always seem to get discouraged about the ratio of points I receive verses how many points it takes to redeem any prizes. So I tend to just donate those points instead. Have you heard to the Huggies Every Little Bottom campaign? Apparently 1 out of 3 American families struggle to provide enough diapers for their children. If I donate my points, it takes 16 reward points to diaper a child for one day. Today, I donated 245 points. That’s 15 days of diapers! Woo-hoo!

While I was on the Huggies website, I noticed something about Camo Cards and supporting Military families. I obviously wanted to take a closer look. If you create 1 virtual card of Military support, Huggies will donate a diaper to a Military Family in need to diapers for their children.

Are you kidding me? It’s completely free to me, I get to send an encouraging message to a military family, and give a free diaper? I think everyone can come up with 2 minutes of time and 200 characters. I challenge you to click on this link and do it right now!

Back to this morning…What else did I find in my kitchen?

I LOVE my coffee creamer. On my International Delight Vanilla Spiced Rum Seasonal coffee creamer, I found Share Your Delight. When I went online and entered my UPC code, they let me choose between “Toys for Tots” or “Coats for Kids” to donate $0.50. I know that might not seem like a lot, but it’s more than I had donated when I woke up this morning. (I chose Coats for Kids)

I also found 8 Box Tops, and 1 Yoplait’s “Save Lids to Save Lives” that I am going to hold onto and send in later.

I challenge anyone who stuck around this entire blog entry long enough to get to this point to use this Holiday season to follow my lead. I know I won’t always enter every code I find in my kitchen, but I’m going to try. If corporations are going to make the effort to really make a difference, why shouldn’t I…and why shouldn‘t you? After all, ‘Tis the Season!