Latest in Backpacks, Lunchboxes + Bags for Kids

Thursday 15 October

Yubo - The BPA free lunchbox that practically packs itself

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. ...

Thursday 17 September

Lunch totes so cool you'll keep them for your very own

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. ...

Thursday 03 September

Shinzi Katoh bento boxes get me more excited to pack my kids' lunches. And that's saying something.

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. ...

Sunday 30 August

Trifle brings all the prettiest things together in one place (I wish that place were my house, though)

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. ...

Saturday 29 August

The hottest preschool backpacks for back to school

skip hop monkey backpackStill 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. ...

Friday 28 August

Back to Etsy for Back to School

reusable personalized snack bagWe 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 ...

Wednesday 26 August

CMP Does Etsy - Not your everyday pencil cases (But maybe they should be)

Bryce Vinyl Monster Pencil Case 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. ...

Saturday 22 August

Pencil cases for the bookish

handmade pencil caseI was clicking around etsy this past weekend and discovered this adorable handmade girls' pencil case that I love for so many reasons. ...

Thursday 20 August

Packing school lunches gets more fun. And more eco-friendly.

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. ...

Saturday 15 August

Backpacks and lunch boxes and monograms oh my.

robot backpackSo 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 ...

Thursday 06 August

Eco-friendly lunches are in the bag

reusable sandwich bagsI 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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