One of my underlying beliefs about organizing is that the more we love an organizing solution, the more likely we are to use it (and the happier we’ll be in the process.) The same holds true for our kids and back-to-school supplies. Fun school supplies make opening up the backpack each and every day a notch more fun. Wouldn’t you agree?

If so you can imagine my glee when a box chock-full of super fun back-to-school products arrived on my doorstep courtesy of Office Max. Check these out:

School supplies

(Photo courtesy of Office Max.)

Aren’t those so cute? The true test was my daughter’s reaction. She was soooo excited when I showed her the supplies…I had to hide them and put them into safe keeping until I finished up this post! The Schoolio Von Hoolio line includes all sorts of fun back-to-school essentials like notebooks, a pencil box, a pencil set complete with pencils, erasers, and a pencil sharpener, three-ring binders, a 7 pocket expanding file, composition books, a decorative clipboard, and a drawstring backsack. I especially love the clipboards and the composition books…but then again, you know I have a thing for clipboards and composition books. But these are of the super cute variety. 😉

If you haven’t done your back to school shopping yet, give the Schoolio Von Hoolio collection a look. Office Max has great back-to-school savings going on right now. If you’ve already done your back-to-school shopping, consider stashing a few of these items away for a mid-school-year supply perk-up.

Updated Info: The Schoolio-Von-Hoolio line is available at OfficeMax stores nationwide. You can find a nearby store at www.officemax.com/storelocator/storeLocatorHome.jsp. This line isn’t offered online due to the various in-store shopping deals OfficeMax offers during back-to-school season, which you can view at http://officemax.com/penny. The deals change weekly with some products offered for the cost of one penny. (I’ve experienced this firsthand…I got crayons for a penny a few weeks ago!)

To kick off the back to school season, Office Max also hosted a web cast with Peter Walsh and a panel that included an award-wining teacher, a mom and two students. The web cast showed real world back-to-school challenges from the perspective of teacher, mom and student—and showed organizing solutions. You can watch the blog cast online for even more back-to-school organizing ideas. Hope you enjoy!

Last but not least, before I wrap up the back-to-school-organizing-ideas-extravaganza, I’d like to point you to the article Back To School Planning on the RachaelRay.com website. This article features a few of my favorite back to school organizing ideas, along with ideas of other professional organizer Moms.

Alright…I’d say back-to-school is a wrap! (Well…for this school year anyway.)