**2kool4skool Giveaway is now CLOSED** Winner will be announced 1st Feb 2013.
Sometimes you get asked to do a review and you can’t not say “yes”.
With the oldest OgreBoy apparently returning to school this year to start his senior years again, it means I’ll have six kids in school - I know what you’re thinking aye… and you’re right. I am soooo looking forward to some peace and quiet!
That means lots of books, lots of stationary, lots of bags, lots of shoes… and lots of shopping to get done in the next two weeks week… Honestly I should have bought it all and shoved it in their Santa sacks gave it to them for Christmas!
So I couldn’t say no to reviewing school stuff that could actually be tested out and reviewed properly before school goes back. And have the added bonus of crossing things off the mammoth shopping list I have for school stuff!
My dear bestie collected my parcel from the post office when she collected hers – yep gotta love having a bestie that’s a blogger too. My personal parcel picker-upperer! So we opened our parcels together with majority of the kids hanging off us wanting to look at everything all at once – Note to self: next time the kids are involved in a review, don’t tell them before the parcel arrives!
My bestie’s autistic little son LOVES sparkly stuff, so first off before anything we swapped pencil cases. They took home the sparkly one, and we kept the red one – There was no way I was saying no to the cute autistic six year old who wanted that sparkly gym boot pencil case more than anything in the whole wide world!
We discovered, not only are the gym boot pencil cases good for their purpose as a pencil case… but they can double as an extra shoe if for any reason you need a extra shoe – Gravel whinged all afternoon for me to let her try it on her foot. Remember she’s sixteen… I have no words either *shakes head*
Gravel was in love with the gym boot pencil case, so I told her she could be the one to test it out – I also thought it was completely wrong to subject anyone else to use it after her hoof had been in it – Gravels opinion of the gym boot pencil case/spare shoe is: It’s awesome, she loves it. But it needs to be a bit bigger so you can fit more than just a packet of coloured pencils or a packet of texta’s in it. She’d like it to fit her pens, pencils, white out, rubber, sharpener, scissors etc in it – Yes she is a senior in high school, and yes she uses everything in her pencil case. It’s not there just for show… although I dare say she will be stealing a certain pen and asking everyone she comes in contact with to sniff it.
In hindsight, I should have disinfected it and gave it to the smallest OgreBoy, these gym boot pencil cases are a fabulous learning tool for smaller kids to learn to do up their shoe-laces! PURE GENIUS!
The Sixth on the other hand wanted to smell eeeeeeverything.
Apparently being a sixteen year old girl means that you still love smelly stuff - And smell everything she did – but not the boot that had been on Gravel’s foot. She loved the lolly high lighters, and yes they smelled like orange and strawberry!
Excitement filled the room when these little beauties were opened…
SCRATCH AND SNIFF PEOPLE! There were Scratch and Sniff labels! Even I was excited by these, and made a point of scratch and sniffing as well! – I loved getting scratch and sniff stickers when I went to school. If you got a scratch and sniff sticker on your work you were uber cool and all the other kids hated you! – And yet again the two sixteen year old mature teenagers tried them out. This was their response…
Apparently using stationary that quote: “looks awesome” rather than the boring quote:“normal” stationary I always buy, is way better.
The two little OgreKids were into the drawing and writing as soon I let them at it. TEM10 dived on the strawberry scented pen as soon as I said they could use them. “It smells yummy!” The pizza one on the other hand is a tad woffy, I felt a little guilty as it lay on the table rejected by everyone.
BJ7 really liked the Color Click crayons because he could make the crayon go back up into the cover when he was done… he’s so used to having broken crayon pieces, and this solves that problem.
The Sixth was eyeing off the lipstick USB drive… so I bribed her with it. The Sixth is the one that doesn’t like to study, and had an in-class HSC assignment that needed to be finished and handed in first day back at school. She got the USB when she finished it – Thankyou 2kool4skool! I’d 
been banging my head on a brick wall for a week over that assignment! One lipstick USB drive used for bribery, one HSC assignment done in TWO days!
And the best bit, it stands out. So I told her she is to back-up all of her school assignments on it – she’s terrible for backing up her work – and that way I can grab her Lipstick USB stick to check she’s being doing her assignments!
The slip on book covers are pretty cool. I tested them out to see how long it took to cover a book and label it. Just under three minutes – because I had to write on the label too. We received all three sizes – regular sized exercise book, A4 and scrapbook.
A pouty faced Gravel discovered the A4 size don’t have holes in them, so she can’t use them for her books she uses in her lever arch folder.
I thought it was actually a great suggestion, because I’m pretty sure my older kids aren’t the only ones who use A4 books in their folders at high school.
BJ7 is in luuurve with the huge pencil case that came in our parcel. It’s “totally cool”, and he hopes the “Danger – Keep Out” sign on it will keep the other kids out of his pencil case – which is actually going to be used as his homework/home reader case this year for school… not that *he* knows that yet. I think he’s in for a rude shock, all the little boys in his class are going to think it’s as awesome as he does!
As far as the OgreKids are concerned the 2kool4skool product range we have been trialling for the past week are pretty awesome. Considering I have a range of kids from seven years old to seventeen years old and they all had something catch their eye, I’d say no matter what age your kids are you’ll find something they’ll like in the store – and something to make your life easier, or to use as bribery!
From a Mum point of view, it was good to see the kids keen to get stuck in and cover their own books help cover books. The book covers are a time saver, stress saver, and they’re funky as – I stole the smiley face covers, they’re mine! The USB sticks are awesome for the older kids, because you can designate a specific one for school work that sticks out from all the other plain USB drives laying about the house. And by stalking watching the kids while they used the 2k4s range, they were pretty happy with how everything worked… although apparently the headphones aren’t “bass” enough for a certain teenage boy who likes his doof doof music loud.
So boys and girls, the House of Ogre has unanimously voted we should take 2kool4skool up on their offer of a prize pack worth approx $160 for one Saturday Morning Ogre Mum stalker follower reader!
Prize pack may differ from the one shown, as it will be tailored to the winners family..
All you have to do is answer the following in the comments -
You’re back in high school, you’ve been summoned to the principals office for smoking in the toilets. You’re given three detentions, and you’re banned from going on a class excursion to the premier of the newest movie starring your fave actor at the cinema, which includes a meet and greet!!! Only it wasn’t you, it was your arch-enemy. You can’t dob them in because your arch-enemy happens to be one huge mother of a teenager who’s death stare would make you pee your pants within a second… in front of everyone. How do you pay them back?
The fine print – please read it!
- Giveaway open to Australian residents only – sorry rest of the world.
- Giveaway is open from 12 am Tuesday 22 January 2013, and closes 11.59pm Wednesday 30th January 2013.
- Please use a current email address with your entry.
- Making me laugh is a good thing.
- 2kool4skool prize pack will be sent to the winner directly from 2kool4skool.
- By entering you agree to me forwarding your details to 2kool4skool for delivery.
- Winner will be announce Friday 1st February 2013 via email and Facebook. Please respond within 48hrs or a new winner will be chosen.
- Only one entry per person.
- You don’t have to like SMOM on Facebook to enter. But just in case you want to I’ve linked so you can
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Oh dear… I always had good ones for this. My favourite was to just indicate to my mother that I’d been bullied by said teenager… no one in our school (including the teachers and principals (all 3 of them!) wanted to have to face my mother. As for said teen – my mother would start by contacting her parents… said teen would then avoid me like the plague whilst I smirked. I knew what my mother was like, all too well.
P.S. The school principals all knew me well… I spent so much time in their company.
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I would be extra nice to her, so that I kept her wondering exactly what I had done to get abck at her, and I wouldn’t have to do anything at all!!!!
Like you on facebook too, I think all this stuff would be good for any age, even me at the ripe old age of 38!!
I’ve always been one to stop bullies in their course so I would sneakily plant a rotten apple in their school bag – the smell would be so bad – they would at least have an excuse for their sour face!
I grab my 2kool4skool prize pack, because surely I am going to win and its the most awesome stationary ever (hopefully awesome makes me sound like a school kid too). Make a brilliant flyer advising the excursion location has been changed, surely they would buy it as being real with the brilliant stationary (hehehe).
Little would my arch-enemy know when they turned up to the “new” movie location, it wasn’t actually dress up and hey would be in a theatre full of preschoolers watching the children’s movie.
Although I might now feel sorry for my arch-enemy and leave some 2kool4skool products on their theatre seat so they could entertain the wrestles preschoolers with craft activities.
Detention, not so bad if I had my2kool4skool products to keep me occupied I am sure
I would tell (lie) my mum it was parents responsibility to take us to the premiere, while there and not under teacher control (having to stay with the pack) would make my way to the front of the line for a photos with the hottie(celeb crush). Then return to school following day and brag profusely how I got to kiss the star!!! All while thanking the main culprit!
I’d let it go, she will be punished for years to come for all the cigarettes she smoked, by her body!
As the bullying teenager naturally has to be a boy because sweet, innocent teenage girls never smoke cigarettes under any circumstances, I would make an anonymous tip off the the editor of the school newsletter stating that said bully recently won the local ballet championships and has been selected to play the role of Cinderella in the upcoming cross-dressing ballet/theatre production.
I’d slip a smoldering cigerette in her locker/backpack. The teachers would come running to check where the smoke was coming from. They’d open up her locker/backpack and find………her packet of smokes and lighter and she would be BUSTED! 2 Kool!
If I somehow had access to her things, I would put rotten raw prawns in her locker, slip some dead cockroaches between the pages of her textbooks, and squeeze clear craft glue onto her seat in class.
Or alternatively, I’d start a few rumours between the students: like how she’s so big because she takes steroids Lance-Armstrong-style, or how weak and scaredy-cat she is, because she won’t own up to the smoking on her own.
Or if I was really mad, I’d write up a personal journal and make out it is hers. I’d make up secrets about the teachers and students and friends. Then I’d “find” this journal in the schoolyard and hand it in to the office!
Or if I was supremely mad, I’d put on a fake accent, call her home, and speak to her mum about her “pregnancy” and how she is too young to have a child. I’d berate her mum for not teaching her about sex education and would ask that she arrange for her daughter to visit a family planning clinic!
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Dobbing in my arch-enemy is exactly what I would do – to my Mother!!
They say that the most dangerous creature in the wild is a Mother defending it’s young – they were talking about my Mother.
She is most deceptive you see. A very genteel, well-spoken Lady who would not hesitate to go for the jugular if pushed.
Don’t mess with this Mother hens chicks whatever you do.
I’d approach my arch-enemy in private, advise them of my detention and congratulate them on setting me up and getting off scot free themselves. Arch-enemies can never resist boasting about how clever they have been, so this will result in my arch-enemy gloating and detailing exactly how they set me up. I’ll have my best friend (hidden of course) secretly record this entire exchange on her phone and then save it onto my 2kool4skool lipstick USB drive.
(Note: I’d make sure she only filmed us both from the waist up in case I really did end up peeing my pants!)
Then during my first detention I’d fiddle with my lipstick USB drive and have it confiscated by the principal (as makeup is banned at school). As the principal is a real sticky beak and will be fascinated by my lipstick USB, she will check it out, plug it in, see the only file on it, namely my arch-enemy’s full confession, feel really bad about wrongly accusing me, allow me to go on the excursion, always be reluctant to accuse me of anything again, give me straight A+’s for the rest of my schooling (I can dream can’t I) AND suspend, or better still expel, my arch-enemy – successful pay back completed!
I would fill up a water pistol with red dye and squirt her in the arse…make it look like it was ‘that time of the month’ and she had had an accident..
While she’s doing PE, slip a special little something into her shoes.
I would make one of my special Lamington sponges and have it delivered to the class for all to enjoy ,on the day of the excursion ,they look so yummy so how could they resist , they all arrive at the movie with terrible gastro while I have the last laugh
I would dress up and act like her -same hair, same shoes, same bag. I would walk around acting and speaking like her. Then I would fill her bag with cigarette butts
I’d go find a wannabe ‘tough gal’ from a lower year level, slip her five bucks to claim responsibility for the smoking (she’d wear those detentions like a badge of honour anyway!) So now I’m cleared of any wrong doing and back on the good list BUT that doesn’t mean I’m going to let that NASTY arch-enemy of mine get away without some serious punishment – BECAUSE REVENGE WILL BE ALL MINE!!!!!!.
So my arch-enemy is a bit of a chain smoker and I know that before our class catches the excursion bus to attend the AMAZING movie Premier (and meet & greet the most FABULOUS movie star EVER!!) she’s bound to need a quick fag in the toilets…AGAIN. I was tempted to steal her cigarettes and dip them in Chloroform from the Science lab so she’d pass out in the cubical and land in the loo, but perhaps that might be taking things a little too far? LOL
OK, so instead I’d start a rumour around the school that my arch-enemy was pregnant so that people whispered, pointed and stared at her wherever she went. The teachers would overhear the rumours (as they always seemed to do), contact her parents, who’d insist she be sent home immediately and too bad for her she’d miss the school excursion. (poor thing…NOT!)
Revenge is sweet as I head to the cinema with my 2Kool4Skool.com.au popcorn scented pen for a movie PLUS an autograph from the world’s KOOLEST movie star – YAY!
Oooh I love the thought of revenge, I don’t have the courage for it in real life. I would perform and oldie .. but a goodie. Tie those shoelaces together and watch her fall. The bigger they are the harder they fall I have been told.
Have you seen the ad on TV for the new Samsung smart phone where you can take a photo, then use in-built photo editing software to superimpose other graphics over the main image?
I’d create some funny (read *nasty and embarrassing*) pics of him based on last year’s year book photo and paste them all over Facebook.
If I was a clever teenager I’d first create a fake FB account, as a hot 16 year old female, and get him to “friend” me. Then I could tag him in all the photos too.
Sneak into her bedroom at night and take a photo of her sucking her thumb and cuddling her teddy bear and then have it shown on the cinema screen at the movie premier I don’t get to go to, couldn’t have been me, I wasn’t there
Wearing my tena, for any of that unfortunate bladder leakage that I experience from her gaze, in full view of the Principal, walk up to her and hand her a pack of cigarettes on which I have written her name ( a la Andy style from Toy Story) and say “Yours I believe”. And then stand back and laugh as she receives the same punishment as me!
Make friends with them! Lull them into a sense of security and…bam! Offer them homemade choccies! Delicious! You wont see them for a few days…the toilet will be their new BFF!
Slime her!! hehehehe