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Win It: Back-to-School Prize Packs from Sharpie and Paper Mate
August 22nd, 2011
As we near the end of August, it’s tough to say goodbye to summer. But, along with losing the carefree, laid-back feel of the season comes all of that great back-to-school shopping! Going up and down the aisles and choosing new backpacks and lunch bags, notebooks, pencils and markers is always fun and seems to get everyone excited about the first day of school. Thanks to Sharpie and Paper Mate, students can turn ordinary writing instruments into something fashionable that shows off their style.
This year, Sharpie has introduced a set of chic ’80s Glam limited edition markers in bright and flashy new colors. Inspired by the funky feel of the 1980s, the colours were chosen by Sharpie’s Facebook fans—Argyle Green, Leg Warmer Orange, Jellie Pink, Banana Clip Yellow and Valley Girl Violet.
Looking for more cool pencil case finds? Paper Mate introduces the Profile: The World’s Smoothest Pen™. It combines Paper Mate’s extra-smooth writing system with a soft, comfort grip that provides an effortless writing experience. The quick drying, super bold ink is available in black, blue, red, purple, green, orange, turquoise, and magenta. Plus, the grip matches the ink colour for a super fun look.
Sharpie’s ’80s Glam limited edition markers, $5, available at Walmart, Staples and Loblaws. Paper Mate’s Profile pens, prices vary by quantity, available at Staples, Grand & Toy, Zellers and Walmart.
WIN IT!
We want to give you a chance to win one of four great back-to-school prize packs! We’re giving away two $50 prize packs featuring an assortment of Sharpie products and two $50 prize packs featuring an assortment of Paper Mate products. Leave a comment below and tell us what your favourite back-to-school gear is and you will automatically be entered to win one of these great prize packs.
The contest closes next Monday, August 29th at 5 p.m. Good luck!
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my favourite gear would have to be notebooks and sharpies
My favourite gear would be a backpack! They have such neat ones out there for kids!
My favorite is definitely the chic 80′s inspired sharpies and the super cute penguin USB.
I love the notebooks. So brightly coloured.
My favorite is definitely the customizable binder. My son draws/doodles all over his binders and notebooks so might as well get him one that is meant to be coloured and let him have a bit of fun :)
Binder, paper and dividers! Anything that required organization!
I have to have a good pen and of course a new lunch box and day planner to keep everything straight
My favourite back to school gear has to be the packages of pens, pencils, crayons and, of course, Sharpies – nothing says “school” like that smell!
love the brand new backpacks and matching lunch bag :)
My kids love everything their backpack, new sharpies supplies!
For my kids they love getting new pens, highlighters, notepads, paper, binders…. me I like the cute USB sticks!
i love back to school
I love markers
Love smelly markers – especially the blue ones!
I love just about all back to school supplies. Fresh notebooks, boxes of crayons and markers, it all just makes me happy :)
I still love buying a brand new box of crayons and that brief moment when they are all still intact, with wrappers and points!
Sharpies!!! Crayons, backpack and fancy cool lunch gear!
my favorite back to school gear is new pencil crayons, markers, and lunch bags!
My kids both love the cool backpacks and I adore the 80′s glam sharpies. Can’t wait to win me some of them! fingers crossed! thanks Canadian Family!
Our favorite back to school supplies would have to be everything including our new colourful markers and our awesome new gym shoes, thank goodness there’s a Sharpie to label it all!
I like the sleek look of the water bottles and the creative lunch punches you reviewed; which will surely add pizzaz to any lunch kit!
My favorite thing has always been new pens. I still get sucked in for myself!!
I like folders with superheroes on them.
my boys love to doodle so the doodle binder an lots of coloured makers is the best for them !!!…
my face as a kid was a swanky new back pack ! I especially love now searching for back packs for my kids !! it’s such a personal piece
I really enjoy all the different colours that shaprie markers come in these days! No more boring black!!
Definitely a fun backpack that really stands out.
I love new lunchbags – all fresh and clean to start a new year!
Love Papermate pens. I love back-to-school — everything’s so fresh and new.
My family loves the sharpee markers we use them all year round for all our craft and business needs all the different styles and colors we love to use them.
I LOVE new hi-lighters! Yellow! And a new lunch box. Thanks for the chance!
a backpack & a steel waterbottle
My favourite is new pens, pencils, markers and pencil crayons! Hurray for back to school and new stuff!
My 16 year old is addicted to sharpies every time i go to use one they are gone i know to look in his bedroom he creates the most beautiful art and only will use sharpies because the color is so brilliant. I love how they are permanent. I enjoy new styles of notebooks, binders and the new sharpie fine tip retractable pens.
A new backpack and new lunch bag are among the favourites to pick out!
It’s so hard to choose! All the products are great but I do love the back packs! Very cool.
I want to get the Valley Girl Violet 80′s Glam Sharpies and a new binder.
Most favourite back to school item has got to be the brand-spanking new, right out of the plastic, still perfectly squared corners of that pristine white eraser. Aaahhhh, perfection!
My favourites are a newback and markers.(especially the smelly kind)
Should have been new backpack and markers(especially the smelly kind) but a new back would be nice also LOL.
LOVE Sharpies and notebooks – I’m a total notebook hoarder!!
my favorite back to school gear are the sharpies. I love using them to doodle while i am in class!
My fav things for school are crayons, pens and markers!
My favorite back to school gear is anything with color that writes. The ink must be bright and smooth. Like Sharpie markers, pens, and other products.
My favourite would be a new backpack
As a kid, I ALWAYS loved back to school shopping. I would say my personal fave was to fill my pencil case with new pencils, pens, sharpies, erasers etc. I also loved buying stickie notes!! I’m rubbing off on my kids…they love shopping for BTS stuff too!!
THe best back to school gear are a new backpack and running shoes.
The school supply love that I had as a child has blossomed into a full-blown office supply obsession as an adult!
My kids don’t really get involved – but I LOVE fresh new notebooks. I also love having a pencil case full of fun and unique pens/markers/pencils in all kinds of colours and thicknesses.
new lunch bags; our bags from last year are decrepit by now!
I like all the back to school gear
I love new box of crayons. Even to today I can’t help but wanna get down and colour when we get new boxes of crayons. I like fresh notebook, a good pen, white out and thermos.
My favourite would be pencil crayons or regular crayons – love them!
love getting new sneakers, but really love it all ,that feeling of starting fresh, a new notebook is like a blank canvas just waiting to be written on!
love lunch bags
Hi I asked my granddaughter what her favorite items for back to school were and in this order she said ; markers, crayons, pencils and the container to hold all her treasures. She is just starting Grade 1.
My favourite is a stack of wonderful, clean, lined, fresh, paper!
Every year I buy a new set of pencil crayons so that my children have a complete set. By the time school is finished they have managed to break or lose half of them. A new set always inspires them to start drawing and colouring, they just love new pencil crayons.
I specially love shopping for backpacks and lunch boxes! There are so many adorable options! Kinda makes me wish I was younger….
My favourite “Back to School…” is the shopping for new clothes. Who doesn’t love new clothes. And it gets the kids excited as well.
I always loved crayons, pencil crayons, and markers…anything to colour and draw with.
I always like the search for a really good backpack that has lots of pockets to keep you organized – unfortunately that does not always work for my kids!
love breaking open new packs of markers, crayons, pens, etc. and the new clothes….
My favorite is multicolor permanent marker from Sharpie.
There’s something wonderful about new, pre-sharpened colored pencils and crisp, new notebooks! My kids are younger, so they go through lots of glue and crayons. I love Sharpies for labeling the kids’ belongings from backpacks and shoes, to lunch containers and winter coats.
favourite back to school must have this year is a flexible keyboard for my 13 yr old
what your favourite back-to-school gear is
New clothes, shoes and backpack!!! That is what my kids look forward to every year.
i love the backpacks and clothes i love the different styles they have each year and when everything goes on sale its just THAT much better!! =)
I love the markers
My favorite is Zwipes binders. They keep my daughter’s work organized & she can doodle or write assignments on the cover.
New daytimer/planner
A fancy lunch bag and white out tape.
I love gettinga new day planner but my daughter says new pencils are the best!
Picking out fun binders and backpacks!
My ultimate back to school item is writing instruments! Anything new and colourful gets my eyes and fingers moving.
I’ve always loved, fresh, clean, paper!
I love the specialty items… like pens or binders that are glittery or full of cartoons.
My favorite is the Star Wars cold pack. Great way to keep lunches at the proper temperature!
I am so impressed with the World’s Smoothest Pen, I love smooth writing, especially for doodling which I do a lot.
The snack sacks are a brilliant idea, and a lot better for the environment. Also love the crayon dry erase board.
My fav back to school gear is a new funky backpack that I hope no one else has!
The new Products and colours and designs…I haven’t changed one bit!
And the joy in organizing it all and taking the new supplies out of the packages and looking at them. Back to school is the best time of the year.
New sharpened coloured pencils. Lots of ‘em!
I love pens, pencils, markers….all different colours!
i love funky notebooks & pens!
I love new paper – notebooks, blank, lined paper, journals . . . and a brand new pen to use with it!
Getting everything new is always fun. I love filling a pencil case with all new pens, pencils, erasers, markers etc. Everything is just so new!
I love the snackTAXI food pouches featured in the Back to School Gear article. Even healthy snacks look fun and appetizing in these colourful and ecofriendly pouches.
I love cracking open the spine of a new notebook. And of course a fancy new pen to go with it.
A brand new set of sharpies when the points are still pointy :)
and new scribblers :)
Hmmm my favourite back to school gear. I would probably have to say lunch bags & back packs! I love getting new cute things. Also reusable lunch accesories like sandwhich bags & thermos containers :) I love other things too… but this is my fav :)
my all time favorite: sharpies!!!!!! notebooks….and start writting!
My favourite thing about back to school is all the pens, pencils, markers, pencil crayons and anything that has to do with being creative. Mr. Sketch markers were always my fav of favourites.
my favourite is scented markers
I am the program supervisor of a before and after school program. Ever since I bought a 16 piece Sharpies set a few years back, they are now the first things in my cart every September; the pastel ones and the primary colours.I have not run across these new ones but I will be finishing up my shopping soon and I will look for them.
Favourite gear is a new lunch box.
My favorite was always getting my binders loaded with paper and organized with dividers. Pens and pencils already in their pockets. Ahh, I loved that part….I still organize my binders that way when I am about to begin a new project!
Buying my son his matching backpack and lunch box. And filling pencil case with his pencils and fancy erasers.
Has to be new pens.
my favorite back to school gear is
backpack and lunch box
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My favourite back to school shopping would be for pens! – ballpoint, gel, fancy colours, the multi-pen, etc!
My son’s favorite back to school item is his agenda. He likes to stay organized like his mom ;)