$25 Walmart Gift Card Giveaway to Benefit Box Tops for Education Winner

Thanks to everyone who entered our $25 Walmart gift card giveaway. We had an astounding number of entries and I’m really glad we were given the opportunity by General Mills through MyBlogSpark to help spread the word about how parents and friends can help support children’s education on a local level with Box Tops for Education.

Box Tops for Education is a great way to support your child’s education. Just buy some of your favorite items at the store, like Betty Crocker cake mix, Pillsbury Toaster Strudel Pastries, Yoplait Kids Yogurt, Hamburger Helper and a slew of other delicious items, clip the Box Tops for Education coupon off of the package and send them to your school’s Box Tops coordinator. As if it weren’t already super easy to collect Box Tops for Education, Walmart is making it even easier! From August 3rd to August 31st, head on over to your local Walmart to find 4 Box Tops on participating General Mills products and earn even more cash for the participating school of your choice.

We were super excited to be able to help one family get a head start on collecting their Box Tops for the upcoming school year by giving away a $25 Walmart gift card. And the winner of that gift card is…

Jessie C. who left comment number 52.

Thanks to everyone who entered and congratulations, Jessie C!

Support Your Kids’ Education with Box Tops for Education at Your Local Walmart [$25 Gift Card Giveaway]

This giveaway is now closed.

The back to school season is already in full swing and now that you may have a lot of your kids’ back to school shopping completed, it’s time to start thinking about how you can support their education aside from the new clothes, shoes, backpack, lunch box, pencil cases, folders, notebooks, protractors and the rest of the supplies they need throughout the school year.

Box Tops for Education is a great way to support your child’s education. Just buy some of your favorite items at the store, like Betty Crocker cake mix, Pillsbury Toaster Strudel Pastries, Yoplait Kids Yogurt, Hamburger Helper, among many others, clip the Box Tops for Education coupon off of the package and send them in to your school’s Box Tops coordinator. With over 20 great brands and more than 40 products participating in Box Tops for Education, it won’t be very hard to find items you and your family will love and support education at the same time. Each Box Top coupon is worth 10 cents for your school. It doesn’t take long for those Box Tops to add up and the money collected from them goes towards school field trips, activities and supplies your child’s school needs to continue giving them the best education possible. Don’t have a child currently enrolled in school? That’s okay, collect Box Tops and save them for a friend or family member who does.

As if it weren’t already super easy to collect Box Tops for Education, Walmart is making it even easier! From August 3rd to August 31st, head over to your local Walmart to find 4 Box Tops on participating General Mills products and earn even more cash for the participating school of your choice. Walmart is already helping families save on all of their back to school supplies, so it’s only natural for Walmart to also help you save and earn more with the Box Tops for Education brands you love.

To help families save money on their groceries and earn more cash for the participating school of your choice, General Mills is giving away a $25 gift card to Walmart through the awesome folks at MyBlogSpark.

Mandatory Entry:

To win the $25 Walmart gift card all you have to do is leave a comment telling us what General Mills Box Top item you plan to purchase at Walmart during the month of August. [REQUIRED] For a list of participating General Mills products, click here [PDF]

Extra Entries:

Leave a comment for each additional entry.

• Subscribe to Woman Tribune
• Follow @WomanTribune on Twitter
• “Like” Woman Tribune on Facebook
• Tweet about this giveaway. Feel free to use the following tweet or write your own. [Can be done once per day.]
  

  Win a $25 Walmart gift card and earn money for your school with Box Tops @WomanTribune http://ow.ly/2mlFz ends 8/13

• Leave a comment on any other Woman Tribune post and come back here and leave a comment telling us what post you commented on.
• Blog about this giveaway with a link to this post. [5 entries, so leave 5 comments.]

This giveaway ends Friday, August 13th at 11:59PM EST. This giveaway is open to all US residents over the age of 18 at the time of entry. The winner will be contacted by email and has 48 hours (2 days) to respond to that email or another winner will be chosen.

Full Contest Disclaimer

Disclosure: General Mills provided me with a $25 gift card, information and giveaway through MyBlogSpark. All opinions expressed throughout this post are 100% mine.

Spend Less at the Grocery Store — Eat Before You Shop

I tend to do my grocery shopping very spur of the moment. Being one of those people who is constantly engaging in the vicious cycle of using spare time to figure out when I will again have more spare time to go out and do things that need to get done, like grocery shopping for instance, I tend to run most of my errands very spur of the moment. I’ll finish working a little earlier than I had planned, look at the clock and then go running to my partner saying “Hey look! I’m done working and now we must go run errands because who knows when we will have this time again!” And off we go to the store. Because of this, we often make a very grave mistake before heading out to the grocery store. We don’t eat beforehand.

You can tell when someone goes to the grocery store while they’re starving; their shopping cart is loaded up with things they would love to be eating right that moment and if they’re hungry enough, that means pretty much everything. It has always simply been known that you don’t go to the grocery store hungry, but now there’s some scientific evidence to back that theory up.

Researchers at the University College London recently conducted a study where they put participants on different diets that influenced their metabolism. They then gave the participants options of playing various lotteries, some riskier than others. The researchers found that study participants were more likely to choose riskier options when they were hungry than when they weren’t. As soon as the researchers fed the participants, they began making more conscious and money-saving decisions.

Simply put, eat before you head out to the grocery store. Being hungry and trying to do pretty much anything doesn’t work as well as it would if you were operating on a full stomach; when you’re hungry you are irritable and when your stomach is full, you are a lot more level-headed. You could end up saving quite a bit at the grocery store, or when running any other errands you have, just by heading out of the house right after you eat breakfast or lunch.