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What We Need

Monthly Snacks & Comfort Items Donations

REMINDER: Please only small individually wrapped packages

And from May to October: Anything that won't melt!

Snacks: Instant oatmeal & soup, instant cocoa & coffee, tea bags, hard candy, small mini chocolate bars, Tootsie Rolls and Tootsie Pops, individually wrapped red licorice, beef jerky, canned or packaged meat/fish, crackers, nuts, energy bars, energy drink mixes, Kool Aid individual packets, small cans of fruit with pull off lids, cough drops, small cans of Pringles, snack crackers, sunflower seeds, trail mix, M&Ms, Ramon noodles, etc.

Comfort Items: Tube socks, emery boards, combs, cotton balls, band aids, boot shoelaces, handiwipes, magazines, calendars, lip balm, hand sanitizers, stationery & envelopes, foot powder, tampax, nail clippers, eye drops, metal silverware, decks of cards

 
 
 
 
Postage Donations
 

Cookies are sent in the large post office Military flat rate boxes 
 at 13.45 per box.
 
Postage donations are gratefully accepted.  For information, please contact Abbie Crawford at:
 
 
 
 
 
 

Holiday Comfort Boxes - Free Stuff

Bet you have some - look around your house - ask your neighbors or friends:

  • Calendars (Any size) - From charitable organizations and businesses
  • Unused Holiday Cards - Deployed troops are not charged postage. We received great feedback that they are able to send holiday greetings back to their loved ones in the states.
  • Unused Stationery, Note Pads and Envelopes - Some of us have received thank you notes from soldiers on what we might consider scratch paper. Many don't have access to a base.
  • Travelers - If you've recently traveled disposable razors, lotions, shampoos, aspirin, etc.
  • Holiday Decorations/CDs, DVDs - Light weight garland to decorate their quarters, tents
  • Letters or cards of support - we always include in our boxes. The ones kids write are great!
 

List of Suggested Items for the 2012 Holiday Boxes

(Watch for sales throughout the year and please only small items)

Board games (Sorry, checkers, Scrabble, etc.)

Unsigned Holiday/Christmas cards (no religious ones) with envelopes for the soldiers to address and send to their loved ones back home.

Wrapped Christmas candy (such as candy canes, etc.) for the stockings.

Holiday paper products - napkins and paper plates

Lightweight garland that could be used to decorate the mess halls or tents - small Christmas decorations

Holiday CDs, Holiday movie DVDs, such as Christmas Vacation, comedies, and those the soldiers might enjoy - new and used

Holiday potpourri (pine and holiday scent)

Card games such as UNO, Phase 10, Rook, Skip Bo

Games like Yahtzee, cribbage, dominos (if they are the light weight sets), puzzle books such as word search, crossword and sudoku. (Reminder: Box is only 12" x 12" x 5 1/2")

Small dart boards, hackie sacks, electronic handheld games, minifans, small flashlights, small foam footballs or basketballs

Batteries (AA, AAA, 3 volt lithium, 9 volt)

Small flashlights

Stationery and envelopes

Small tubes of moisturizing cream, small cans of Febreze, nice bars of soap

Even a Frisbee could be a welcome gift

Baseball hats

Nail polish, disposable razors, shampoo, mouth wash, deodorant, body wash

Anything else that you can think of that would fit into the Christmas stockings or the boxes that might bring a smile to their faces!

2013 calendars - they like to mark off their days until they are home

We cannot send any religious items of any kind or reference to the true meaning of Christmas

We cannot send any suggestive reading material

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