Our friends over at OfficeMax have been kind enough to offer up another $100 gift card just in time for back to school season! You will have 4 chances to enter and win this $100 OfficeMax gift card, so read below for the official rules, and please keep in mind that this contest is open to US residents only.

Before we get to the contest rules though, I wanted to share a quick tip that I learned from a recent study that OfficeMax conducted about back to school shopping for parents this season.  In the study, they discuss different aspects of when people like to start shopping for school supplies, and what thought process is behind the purchase decisions, but my favorite part was the part that looked at who was spending what on school supplies.  They discovered that on average parents will spend $126 on school supplies this year, but here comes the tip…when they drilled deeper into that statistic, they found that on average, Moms expect to spend $102, while Dads expect to spend an average of $152 on school supplies.  So to all of you kids out there, definitely see if you can get Dad to head down to OfficeMax with you when its time to pick up those school supplies.

So now for the reason you are all here, the $100 OfficeMax gift card.  There will be one winner, but you will have the chance to enter up to 4 times as follows:

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Win a Pack of Sharpie Pen Grips in Orange Purple and Green

I had a cool post planned for today that was not a review, but some news about an innovative office supply, but for reasons out of my control I had to hold off on that.  With that in mind, and seeing as how people are having a hard time finding the new Orange, Purple, and Green Sharpie Pen Grip at their local stores, or online, I figured I would give away the stash of them that I picked up recently.  Read the instructions carefully, as you can have up to 3 separate chances to be randomly selected to win a pack.  Here is all you need to do:

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OfficeSupplyGeek Monthly Giveaway Package

In addition to being automatically entered in the monthly giveaway of this awesome package of office supplies, you will also be signed up receive the OfficeSupplyGeek newsletter with special offers and site updates.  We promise not to clutter up your inbox with pointless emails, however you can unsubscribe at any time, this will remove you from the contest as well.  Starting at the end of July, one winner will be announced at the end of each month for the gift pack pictured above.  Best of luck, and as always thanks for checking out the site.

If you are impatient, unlucky, or just dont want to sign up for the contest and newsletter, you can always find all of these items and many other cool hand picked office supplies in the OfficeSupplyGeek.com Amazon store.

Time to announce the two lucky winners of the OfficeMax $100 Gift Cards, Rhonda and Victoria.  Great stories from each of you about your Supply Jacking experiences.  To claim  your prizes, just shoot me an email using my contact form and leave a comment here so everyone knows you are claiming your prize, then I’ll get the ball rolling to have your gift cards mailed out to you.

Rhonda says:

I used to work a concert venue and musicians kept swiping my Sharpies for autographs – and taking them on the road with them. I mentioned this to a musician friend (now with a major band on a major tour) when he was in town as I loaned him a Sharpie. We both realized the next day – me in Texas, him on another gig in another state – that my Sharpie had gone with him. He thought I was going to kill him – and apologized profusely. I, on the other hand, sent him a box of his own for Christmas.

victoria lester says:

I hope a “keyboard” qualifies as a supply. A Supply-Jacker was loose in my office one day when after 5 years of above average work with great reviews from my manager a new manager entered our office. She wasn’t a fan of mine I suspect as she plotted against me (as I seen it). I was an Administrative Coordinator and performed all the purchasing duties for 15 buildings on top of managing the entire computer system, which I had taken them through a major conversion and assisted with the transfer of data. So anyways, she took my keyboard and switched it with a girl that had some eye infection and the keyboard didn’t work well as the keys stuck. I got an eye infection on my eye lids that NEVER went away. I eventually gave my notice as things progressively went sour and before I left that position she ended up in the hospital with pnemonia and incidentally came back to work and sat across from me at a meeting and I had one week left of work – she gave me pnemonia. The new Legal Secretary position that I was to start didn’t occur due to me picking up pnemonia for 3 months. UGH! All in all, I became a stronger person from the events of my past and went on to become a Sales Rep. for a well-known company and also a Office Furniture Consultant. I’m now an Editor. The only drawback to my office experience is that I can’t get rid of that nasty eye lid fungus that was transmitted from that keyboard. (Sigh)

And just for the record, here are the screenshots from Random.org.

Two lucky winners will each get a $100 OfficeMax Gift Card

In a post last week I talked about the recent study that OfficeMax did to look into what they call “supply-jacking” or simply stealing office supplies.  Well, I think most of us have some experience with that phenomenon so when OfficeMax offered to sponsor a contest with a theme on stealing office supplies, I jumped at the chance to be able to offer this up to all of my wonderful readers.

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IdeaPaint Dry Erase Paint

Time to announce the winner of the IdeaPaint Dry Erase Paint giveaway.  The random number selection tool at Random.org selected comment #7 below from Lisa.

Lisa Bocchino says:

March 24, 2010 at 1:11 PM

This would be very cool for Mathnasium. Math on every wall, and erase the mistakes!

All you need to do in order to claim your prize Lisa is to leave a comment here on this post so we know you saw it, and send an email to me using the “About/Contact” link on the top of the site.  Congratulations!

The AT&T TL6710 Cordless Headset

Congratulations to Howler, the winner of the AT & T TL7610 Cordless Headset.  I’ve sent you an email using the email address that you provided when you left your winning comment below:

Howler says:

Would love to win one of these headsets!

Just reply to that email by the end of day next Thursday with your shipping info, and I will forward it on to the folks at AT&T who will ship you your new AT & T TL7610 Cordless Headset.

If you are really upset that you didnt win, Amazon has a great deal on the AT&T TL7610 Cordless Headset right now, so check it out.  Thanks to everyone that entered the contest and spread the word, I’ve got another contest coming up soon for a really unique and cool home office supply that you wont want to miss, so keep checking back, or at least sign up for the RSS feed or use the email subscription form above to get OfficeSupplyGeek delivered to your in box.

Thanks so much to everyone who entered and spread the word on this contest, there was a huge turn out for this one.  Congratulations to grace and Patricia Merry.  I just need each of you to leave a comment on this thread, and then use the “About / Contact” tab above to send me an email to let me know where I can send your Sharpie Pens. As with all contests, winners have 1 week from the day that they are announced to claim their prizes.

For those of you who didn’t win, no worries, I’ve still got a few other giveaways to come, and you can always pick up a pack from Amazon here.  So here are the two comments that won:

grace says: January 15, 2010 at 7:55 PM

“Who doesn’t love Sharpies? I’d love to win these.”

Patricia Merry says: January 16, 2010 at 7:51 AM

“Really great pens! We love them.”

I hope you both enjoy your Purple and Orange Sharpie pens, along with the other colors, and thanks again to everyone else who participated and continues to visit the site.

Well, to be honest I wasnt planning an office supplies giveaway today, but things happen and I couldnt get my review that I was planning written up in a satisfactory way, so I figured I’d end the week with a giveaway, because who doesnt like free stuff?

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Time to announce the winner of the Utility Task Clips that my friends over at Knock Knock sent over to review and give to one of my lucky readers.  Using the random number generator at Ramdom.org, comment #14 out of 33 was selected as the winner:

“Kelly Seltzer says:

I retweeted but how do you get that status update? http://twitter.com/KellySeltzer”

So Kelly, all I need you to do is leave a comment on this post so we all know you are claiming your prize, and then just send me your mailing address using the “About / Contact” page.

Here is the visual proof from Random.org:

Thanks to Kelly and everyone else that participated in this giveaway!  If you have not yet won any of the office supply giveaways, dont worry, there are plenty more to come!

Normally I would be on schedule to post a new review today, but with the end of the year coming up, I wanted to get this giveaway out there since it includes a 2010 planner.  There will be two winners for this contest, one will win the pink lined ecosystem journal, and the other will win the small black weekly planner from ecosystem.

One winner will get the pink ecosystem journal, and one winner will get the black ecosystem planner

I reviewed these journals and planners from ecosystem recently, and they are really great products that I think anyone would enjoy using, with the added benefit that they are green office supplies, so you can feel good about using them.

The rules are pretty simple:

1. Leave a comment on this post – one comment per person

2. Comments must be left by Monday, December 14th at 11:59 PM Eastern

3. On Tuesday December 15th TWO winners will be posted, selected at random by using the random # generator from random.org

4. The two winners need to post a comment on the thread announcing the winner, and email me their contact information

5. When you post your comment, let me know which of the two items you are claiming, first person to post their comment gets first choice for their prize

6. I will ship internationally