Last package until next year!!
Today I mailed two boxes .. One 12X12 and one Medium Flat rate box. I picked up enough extra filler to fill the medium size box. LOL
Box #1 .. 12X12:
40 packages hot chocolate mix
40 individual packages Spiced Apple Cider drink mix
30 candy canes
12 1.4oz bags cornnuts (mixed flavors)
3 pkgs snowman Peeps (9 per pkg)
Box #2 ...medium flat rate box:
24 Nature Valley Granola Bars (Sweet and Salty Nut)
48 .8oz bags cornnuts ... 24 ranch; 24 barbecue
I tried to get a Christmas card in each box ... I’m sure I missed a couple. I sent 3 in these two boxes.
I sent a few extra candy canes ... I hope they make it there without breaking.
Merry Christmas.
Nominations are in for JustAmy for care package packer of the year.
Our crazy troop supporter had some candy canes left over and so she went out and bought more stuff and packed two more boxes just to have something for “fillers” to send to Kandahar with the candy canes.
LOL!
Check out her post above, post 643.
Trying to keep up but failing, I tried to rectify a mistake in buying accidentally two boxes of sugar free cocoa mix, and finding they had only 8 envelops per box. So I was 4 short.
So, I bought two more boxes of regular cocoa mix, stuffed them in the already packed other boxes of cocoa, and added another 12 candy canes, snuggled between the little bags of corn nuts. And in the supermarket parking lot I finished packing and then taping up the box.
Mailed December 7, 2011, to FOB Joyce, 1 box 12x12
Box 8, (actually 7, but couldn’t remember sitting in the parking lot without my note pad), insured $71.98, postage $15.25
6 DVD movies:
Independence Day (Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum)
Rio Bravo (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson)
The Replacements (Gene Hackman, Keanu Reeves)
Trouble Along the Way (John Wayne, Donna Reed)
Mystery, Alaska (Russell Crowe)
The Rookie (Dennis Quaid)
6 boxes 10 regular cocoa mix
2 boxes 8 no sugar added cocoa mix
12 peppermint candy canes
18 bags BBQ corn nuts
1 magazine: Sports Illustrated, sportsman and woman of the year
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740 cocoa and 743 plus candy canes to Kandahar. 116 cocoa and 112 candy canes to adopted unit at FOB Joyce.
Now, we are really finished for the year! (Unless mathluv wants to send a package for New Years.)
Merry! Merry! everyone!