Making money for schools while shopping
If I can avoid going to a store, and instead shop at home and have it arrive at my house, on my porch? Yes, please! If that purchase can also send money to my kids’ school (where there always seems to be a need for money), double, triple, yes please!
Recently, I was sent a giftcard to go shopping online to experience the Box Tops for Education Marketplace. I popped onto their site, knowing I wanted to get a Roku Box. I searched for it, found that several stores had it for the exact same price (yes, they do comparison shopping for me), and I found that Best Buy offered the best percentage (at that time, 3%), so I went with them.
The order goes through whatever stores’s site you decide to shop with, and then you immediately get an alert letting you know that the school you registered for earned some money with your shopping.
When you check out the Marketplace, you will see that there are more than 300 online retailers that participate (like Target, Toys R Us, Wal-mart and Macy’s, for example). You shop, your school of choice gets money. Easy as that.
Since BTFE has started in conjunction with the Marketplace, they have helped nearly 90,000 schools across the country earn over $525 million just since it started in 1996. So, in addition to your shopping online, make sure you also cut out those little box tops. Every one counts. Those $0.10 little rectangles are unrestricted dollars that schools can use for whatever they wish. Some use them for textbooks and laptops and some use them for playground equipment, field trips and even basic classroom school supplies. Whatever they fancy.
So, remember, if you have shopping to do online, head over to the Box Tops for Education Marketplace and help out a school, too!
BTFE sent me a gift card to use on the BTFE Marketplace site and asked me to write about my shopping experience.Â
I’ll definitely be checking out the box tops education marketplace
Such a good and easy idea!
I also love buying online (including my groceries) with two babies is super difficult go to the shops. Box Tops is a great program. I will definitely try Box Tops for Education Marketplace. It looks awesome!! Thanks for sharing.
Groceries…so smart! Because kids to make it harder to get to the store, for sure!
What a great idea! If your shopping anyways why not support a cause you believe in too. I actually am looking at Roku players too.
We are really liking the Roku…especially with Netflix:)
I honestly did not know about that site. I have collected and turned in the box tops, but I didn’t know you could shop online and get the rewards for your school. That is very good information to have.
(Oh, and we love our Roku)
We are really liking ours, too!
Thats awesome! Its very cool that you can redeem them for cool products. I’ve never been there before i’ll have to check it out!
Oh, not quite. You can spend money the school gets a percentage..not quite the same.
I regularly collect & turn in our BTFE but i hadn’t heard that you could shop through them to earn schools even more $ – i’ll have to remember to use it when shopping online.
I had learned about it at the BTFE University last year…and then totally forgot!
I haven’t done this. I do save the box tops for school but we need to check into doing this since we order so many things online.
I wasn’t aware that you could shop with the BTFE. We buy Fiber One cereal by the case when it is on sale and never know what to,do,with the points on top. I am not familiar with Roku. I have heard of it, but not sure what it is for
I guess I made that confusing. You purchase things online with cash and then schools get money from those purchases.
As far as your tops you have, take them to a local school or church or a neighborhood kid, I’m sure they’ll know what to do with them.
Roku is a little box/computer that you attach to your TV that allows you to watch Netflix/Amazon movies, and other channels (some with subscriptions) right on your TV.
thanks for the information…
was not aware of that site 😉
This is great, I do most of my back to school shopping online now.
If you can buy something and help schools in the process, why the heck not, right? Love it!
Thanks for the info!
This is such a great idea.
I keep forgetting to go through the Box Tops website..
OH I LOVE THIS!!!! I can never remember to clip Box Tops, but I COULD do this!