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Blessings –  Thank you for your support, the 2011/2012 Blessings year is now over.

The summer schedule and beginning of the 2012/2013 year is as follows:

·         June 18 cutoff for June 21 delivery and pickup

·         July 16 cutoff off for July 19 delivery and pickup

·         August 6 cutoff for August 19 delivery and pickup

Earn it, save it, buy it on sale, and earn cash back too. Financial literacy is every bit as important to teach your children as is reading and writing. Moreover, if you would like to do better than the 1.5% (or less) the bank pays you to loyally use their cards, try Blessings. It will pay you closer to 4% and the Home and School Association will make money too. Blessings is easy to use, good at thousands of retailers and restaurants including downtown Naperville, pays you better than your credit card loyalty program, and enriches your life while helping others. Please join and participate in Blessings. 

 As always, Downtown Naperville gift cards are available in increments up to $500 dollars. With so many stores and restaurants it’s a great way to support Blessings over the holidays.

 Blessings is easy to use, good at thousands of retailers and restaurants including downtown Naperville, pays you better than your credit card loyalty program, and enriches your life while helping others. Please join and participate in Blessings.

 The Groupon Gift Card is available in a $25 denomination with a 7% non-profit contribution.  To redeem the gift card, the card holder must be a Groupon account holder or create an account on Groupon.com.  There is no cost to become a Groupon member.  You can download their free app. on your smartphone or sign-up on line from your computer.

Groupon features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy.  But, they know that great price is only half the battle - it's also got to be a great product or service. Between their top-rated business partners and unbeatable prices, you should feel comfortable venturing out and trying something new - just because it's featured on Groupon.

 Blessings is easy to use, good at thousands of retailers and restaurants including downtown Naperville, pays you better than your credit card loyalty program, and enriches your life while helping others. Please join and participate in Blessings.

 Did you know you can easily find all of your account activity anytime you choose by going to the shopwithscrip.com web page? Once there, the Account Activity tab lets you view all activity for the current program year and see your rebate amount too; a choice of viewing each Blessings order by summary or detail is also offered. The Reports tab has three different reports, allows you to enter any date range preferred, and has three different output formats so if you want to export your data to Quicken or Excel, you can.

Probably all of us know Blessings to be a fundraiser for SSPP.  Last year it raised over $30,000 in rebates from Shop with Scrips vendors.  It works that way because it functions like a group purchasing program.  Retailers are recruited by Shop with Scrips (the front-end of the Blessings program) to be a participating vendor, offering a discount back on gift cards purchased through Blessings.  Our group purchasing power makes it attractive to retailers to do so.  And because Blessings is structured in a way that also provides a rebate back to families, it is also a money saver which adds up to big differences when aggregated over a year’s worth of spending.  Here’s one family’s comparison to some other reward programs:

• American Express has the worst return at only 1%, plus they charge a $50 yearly fee to be in their rewards program
• Visa does better; although their return is communicated to be 1%, they waived the yearly fee and gave so many bonus points that the return nets 1.9%
• But Blessings does the best, with a better than 3% return.  That’s the net, average amount that goes to the family; in addition SSPP on average receives 2+%.  Talk about a win, win scenario.

To order Blessings register at “shopwithscrip.com” with the school code of 8F18354B4L86. Orders can be placed through this website at any time. The deadline is Monday at 7:00 am. After you place an order, print a copy of the order confirmation for your records. Payment can be made with PrestoPay or a check written out to Blessings and turned in on Monday’s. Orders will be forwarded to the Blessings office for further processing. On Thursday’s your order will be sent home in your red bag with your gift cards inside. Please use this bag for the full year. If you don’t have an order for the week, keep your bag for when you do.

Just a reminder that Blessings can be ordered anytime during the week, so do it whenever it works for you. How about right now http://www.shopwithscrip.com/

Did you know you can use your iPhone or Blackberry to check the balance on your Naperville gift cards? Just go to http://www.getmybalance.com and enter the numbers on the card. Of course you can check it on the home computer too.