Now's the time in the school year where moms are figuring out whether that cool lunchbox you bought for your kid actually does the trick, or whether it was more cute than functional. ... [More]
There are all sorts of good reasons to pack a lunch instead of grabbing one on the go. The downside, of course, is the packaging; paper bags are wasteful but most reusable lunch bags are, well, ugly. Or designed for third graders. Or both.
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I know every week one of us shows up here saying OMG I found the cutest lunchbox EVE but I think I may have just topped them all with the Shinzi Katoh Japanese bento boxes for kids.
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When my boys were babies, I spent a lot of time looking for cool, original things for them -- clothes and bedding and accent pieces for their rooms. But in a strip mall world, that meant a lot of shopping, and no mama has time for that.
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Still looking for the perfect backpack for your preschooler? You're in luck. Because recently, CMP editor Liz Gumbinner taped a segment for Better.TV on some of the cutest backpacks for younger kids headed to preschool and kindergarten.
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We love looking for fun, off-the-beaten-path back to school items so much, we're not just doing it for our own readers, we're doing it this week for our friends at Indie Fixx
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Everyone knows that when you go back to school, it is IMPERATIVE to have the coolest stuff. (Although I believe I had Holly Hobby materials three years in a row). One option is to grab some handmade school supplies from Etsy, like this selection of pencil cases which caught my eye.
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I was clicking around etsy this past weekend and discovered this adorable handmade girls' pencil case that I love for so many reasons.
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I pack school lunches for my kids every day. I don't mind actually making the lunches; it's the packaging that gets me, all those little plastic bags bound for the trash, stored in a garish character tie-in lunchbox. That part is depressing.
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So okay, we've been fawning over Dante Beatrix way too much lately. First it was their fabulous eco-backpacks made out of 100% recycled bottles
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I don't even want to think about how many plastic sandwich bags I go through a month. Every day my son takes at least two or three in his lunch bag, and I've felt it's either that or buy the much more expensive pre-packaged bags of snacks
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