Packing Operation Christmas Child Filler🎄$.01 Journals, $.01 Jumbo Erasers, Stuffies, Pencil Packs
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Packing up “filler” for Operation Christmas Child. These items will be sent off to the OCC processing center to help fill shoeboxes which are received partially full or to replace any disallowed items that must be removed from shoebox gifts. Check the link below for items on the OCC “do not send” list.
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great fillers! beautiful stuffies too, reminded me of your stuffie haul videos, i really enjoy those. happy collection week! another beautiful shoebox season for you Trish, thank you for all your efforts this year, you have blessed not only the kids, but us your viewers too! thank you for the inspiration! 💖💖💖
Oh, thank you so much, Niki. I appreciate that. Thank you, too, for sharing your exceptional talent for crafting and packing beautiful and unique boxes to bless these kids 🥰
Your filler items are great. I like the way you packaged & labeled. I have 14 boxes of filler packed up. A good amount are Pencil Granny pencil packs, then dresses our church ladies made, and odds & ends that need using. Our boxes go to Charlotte. I never did find those deal journals or erasers.
That’s awesome, Deborah!! 🥰
Awesome filler, Trish! I’d love to see some of that at my station 🙂. I have 14 boxes of filler of different sizes. I am Taking half to collection site (which will probably be going to Charlotte) and taking half to Aurora PC when we go for volunteering.
FOURTEEN!! WOWZA!! You cleaned house, girlfriend!!! God bless you!!! I only have 3 cartons, so I think I’m going to cart mine along with me to Aurora. I wish there was a way for me to get it to them early enough so that we could see it during our shift 🙂
@@byrdfeed9071 I know me too! I was packing filler all year long too. 300 pencil packs in various forms 🤓 ✏️ ✏️ 🖊️ 🖍️
Those are some great filler items! Thanks for the sticker packs idea. I’ve ordered a lot of stickers this year for shoeboxes but hadn’t thought about filler packs with any leftovers we might have. ❤❤❤❤❤
Yes, those stickers will be great filler items. Anything that you would typically pack in a shoebox that is left over always makes for great filler. 👍😊
This is the first year I did a filler box. Today I turned in my 22 boxes for this year and I really enjoy your videos.
Thank you! I appreciate that. So glad you are enjoying them. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. 🥰
Hi Trish, Thank-you for sharing how you pack fillers and prepare them for drop off. I love the cups with the plush toys and other little treasures. These will not only fill a box but provide some much needed inspiration on how to pack a "WoW" item at minimal cost .... And here I sit, after watching this Vid hours ago, ohh! I got cups and stuffies and pencils and sharpners maybe I should pack a Trish Cup. 🤪
Soz, but I am a little weary after working at the PC on Saturday. I was promoted to from Processing Shoeboxes to preparing the Filler Tubs. These 50 Litre Tubs were emptied as quickly as they were filled. My PC currently has an abundance of hand-crafted and store purchased plush. So, I may ask if my PC if they would like me to pack Trish cups. TFS!
You are welcome, Fiona! And thank you for all you do for this ministry. Already working at the PC? Wow, our processing centers don’t start until November 22. I wish I had a closer PC location. I have to drive a little over 4 hrs to the closest one, so I’m only working one day, driving up at the crack of dawn, working 5 hours, then driving home. I expect to be wiped out at the end of that day 😵💫. If I lived closer, I would volunteer every day they were processing. Last year I stayed over a night, but it’s just too costly. Too bad they don’t provide free hotel room stays for their volunteers 😲😆😂
@byrdfeed9071 Would you believe my PC is a 15-minute drive. I had a situation last Wednesday where I had to go home mid-morning. So, I did and hsd a nap, then returned mid-afternoon to finish the day!
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I love watching videos on a variety of filler ideas. Thank you so very much for sharing! Please keep these coming!
Thanks Marie. I definitely will 🥰
Great filler Trish! Thanks for the shoutout! Times a tickin! Trying to recover from my trip but I gotta get my car packed up for drop off!! Woo hoo! Another great year! You did a wonderful job inspiring packers from all over! Thanks for sharing your boxes, shopping and filler all year long! ❤
Thanks so much, Denise. And, thank Y😍U for all you do for this ministry, the kiddos and viewers! Y😍U are an inspiration and I’m so thankful for your friendship. I hope you had a wonderful time on your European vacation! Enjoy your time volunteering at the PC and take lots of great pics! Now on to 2024 😄
Great filler, Trish! So awesome you were able to find so many 1 penny notebooks and erasers. The filler are so fun and colorful. I hope they come to my processing center table! Those filler is very much needed at the processing center. Those are great zipbloc bags for the price! I need to check out Aldi. Love the additional fun filler you added in the end too. The filled cups are great. And those lunch bags will be very useful. My favorite are the fluffy heart keychains. The 2 TY bears are so adorable! Gorgeous pink bear. Thanks for sharing your filler, Trish!
Thanks Sharon! Have fun at the processing center! 😘
Your fillers are as beautiful as your boxes. I'm going to get all my boxes dropped off and out of the way, then concentrate on finishing filler. ❤️
Smart girl! I’m turning in my boxes tomorrow. I opened one up, arbitrarily, and realized it didn’t have my letter/photo from me, so I got paranoid and decided to open up every single box to make sure it was in there. Good thing I did, bc I missed 4 boxes 🤦🏻♀️. It wasn’t too hard, though, bc I always slip the card down the side or lay it on top. I never put it on the bottom. Too hard for the PC to find it and I don’t want them tearing up my boxes looking for it, L O L. It was kind of nice to see what’s inside each box one last time. I got a big smile across my face with each box that I opened, which makes me confident it will bring a smile to each of the children, as well 🥰
Great job using what you already have.
Those journals are so cute! Wonderful fillers you packed Trish and you packed them so nicely as well.😊
Beautiful cup fillers as well. 🤍
I have that same insulated lunch bag and I have it in a shoebox but I donated the backpack this year as a filler...so I did the opposite of you. Yay for t shirt fillers.
Really great job Trish...I know the PC will love getting these!
Thank you, Diana. I’m not surprised you are sending the backpacks as filler. They really are a bear to pack. 😉
YOU FOUND SO MANY GREAT DEALS! What a blessing!!!
I did! I found many great deals this year. They were harder to come by than in years past, but I still found plenty to bless some kiddos.
Wonderful fillers! The clock is ticking! Lol. I am still working on my filler. 😊 Thanks for sharing! ❤
Thank you, Kim. Yep, pack ‘em up!! 😄
Great filler! I love to see what other people do for filler items, so thanks for sharing! My filler packs tend to snowball as well! 🤣. If I put a coloring book in I need crayons or colored pencils, then I need a sharpener, etc. etc.!! 💕
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Spectacular shoebox filler products!! I will have to keep those in mind for next year!! Thanx for the inspiration!! I am done for this year & have already passed my boxes into the church...😊😊
Thank you, Anne, for blessing, each child who will receive one of your shoeboxes 🥰
I just finished my last shoe boxes this afternoon, I packed sixteen shoe boxes for OCC, that was do to the fact that the eight boxes I packed were too full and falling apart, so my mom and I went to our church and picked some of the OCC boxes, and repacked them. I still have a lot of stuff left over that I won’t be using in the boxes. I think I over bought. So for the next round of shoe boxes I will be taking more time to research and reorganize how I go about this. Such has putting all the themes together in different storage badges so I see what have and what I still need. Also only buying one item a month for each themed box. And one filler or fun item for each box per month. Also I finally found the prayer cards at our dollar tree, they were up front by the cash register, I bought two boxes and I used up one box just putting one in each f my boxes along with note and my picture and a cross necklace for each child, I ordered a pack of fifty wooden crosses o. Amazon. And found some nice colored craft cord at Walmart to string them with.
Wow, you’ve been busy, Ursula! I love your organization ideas to keep yourself in check. Sounds like a plan! So glad you finally found the prayer cards. I find them in different places in different stores. Thanks for taking the time to comment 🥰
Love a good filler video! I’m working on my filler box as I watch this! TFS. :)
Thanks, Morgan. Pack those babies up! 😆
Great video. Such an assortment of filler. Thank you Trish.
Thank you, Dale, for always being so supportive. 🥰
Such wonderful filler and you found such good deals!
Thanks, AnnaBeth. Now, on to 2024!!
One year I dropped off a few cartons of filler at collection site and the workers had no idea what filler was.
😯 I think donating filler has only become more popular within the last couple of years. Maybe they just weren’t accustomed to seeing it. I didn’t drop off my filler to the collection site this year (or last). I’m taking it with me to the Aurora PC when I volunteer at the end of the month. Thanks for watching, Joyce 🥰
Thank you for doing these shoebox videos! I enjoy watching them and have gotten good ideas for shoeboxes I’ve packed in the past. For next year I will be sewing flannel blankets and small quilts and also sewing string backpacks and tote bags…all to send as filler. I’ve never sent filler before and I’m wondering if it’s better to roll up the items I sew and label them for a specific age group ( all of my items will probably be for 2-4 age group) or just send flat (sometimes easier to pack in the bottom of a box if it’s flat). I’ve never been to the processing center so I’m not sure how they would be easiest to use
Thank you so much, Nancy. I know what you mean about being able to pack them easier if they’re flat, but if you send them flat, I would fold them to fit into a Ziploc baggie, then label the baggie as to what it is and the age group it’s best for. Rolling them up is another good option. Whichever works for you. Just to give you an idea, filler gets handled a lot. Inspectors will go through the filler before they put it into the filler bins which are BIG bins. Then smaller bins will be filled with an assortment of filler from the big bins and brought to each workstation. There are six people at each workstation, who will continually dig through the filler bins for what they need for a specific box. So, make sure tags are securely fastened. God bless you for making filler! Merry Christmas!
Thank you for the great advice! Merry Christmas! @@byrdfeed9071
I love watching your videos!! You have such a pleasant and soothing demeanor and such a heart for this ministry. This is my first year doing shoeboxes on a large scale and I’m still learning. I have decided not to use the pencils with the animal eraser tops for 2-4 year-olds because some of the erasers came off and I thought they would be a choking hazard-the same with the smaller pencil sharpeners. Your thoughts? Thank you.
Oh, thank you Denise. I appreciate that. The choking hazard question for the 2-4-year-olds is a tough one. It’s pretty much the 2-year olds to be concerned about, but not all two-year-olds put things in their mouth. Pretty much all toys have an age 3+ disclaimer on them and most 3 and 4-year-olds play with those toys. I started feeling bad that I was depriving the 3 and 4-year-olds of fantastic toys that were perfect for them, so I’ve relaxed a little bit about packing small items or toys with small parts, because a 2-year-old will always have a parent, guardian or caregiver of some sort who is going to go through the items in the shoebox. I leave it up to them. That said, I do pack differently for the 2-4 year olds than I do for the older age groups. I avoid packing cap erasers, pens (due to caps and other small parts on a pen), the mini bounce balls, marbles, small magnets…the obvious that really aren’t necessary for a 2-4-year-old anyway. I used the word avoid, because I don’t want to say never. I don’t make myself crazy over it. Like I said, I leave it up to the parent or guardian. However, you should definitely pack how you feel led and are most comfortable. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment 🥰
It would been so much cuter to use the nicer bears and rabbit lovey in the cups
Except the bigger bears wouldn’t fit in the cups with the hat and/or t-shirt and other things I put in them, and I wanted to use up the little bears, so they really worked perfectly 🥰
I am new to your channel. How do you get one cent deals? I live in the South and I have never even seen Walmart one dollar area.
Welcome, Lisa! One cent deals at Dollar Tree are few and far between and they are not physically marked, so I feel like I need to explain why there is occasionally 1 cent merchandise at DT. Every so often DT corporate clears an item out of stock, usually due to age, by marking it to “salvage” by reducing the price on record to 1 cent. (They take it to 1 cent in order to keep it on record for tracking purposes.) This merchandise is not physically marked to 1 cent. It is “supposed” to be removed from the sales floor by the store managers and disposed of, but that doesn’t always happen as it should. If a customer tries to purchase that merchandise, it will ring up as 1 cent, so that is one way to find it, by accident. FYI, if a cashier notices that it rings up for 1 cent, they may not sell it. Some will and some won’t. The best way to find this merchandise is to stay connected to others who find it by accident and then share it on social media (DT haulers and OCC shoebox shoppers on Instagram, Facebook and CZcams). That is the only way to actually see a visual picture of what the merchandise looks like in order to know what you are looking for. The same holds true for Dollar General 1 cent merchandise and Walmart, except that Walmart reduces their salvaged merchandise to 3 cents. I know, long answer to a short question but I hope it is helpful. 😊
I was wondering if the filler packs get placed into the shoeboxes as is or are they opened up to have the items pulled out and placed in several other boxes as needed?
Good question. I think it depends on how you’ve packaged it. It is my understanding, the integrity of the gift will stay as you meant it to be. If it’s packaged as a small gift, as in this video, such as with the little stuffy in a cup inside an organza bag, it will stay together. If it’s loose in the carton, it will be used as needed. If you’ve packaged 12 stuffed bunnies in a gallon Ziploc, however, I doubt they will put 12 stuffed bunnies into one shoebox. They will use their discretion and assume you meant to send 12 bunnies for 12 shoeboxes. The OCC volunteers will abide by your wishes, so if it is not obvious as to what you want done with your filler, you should specify with a note in the box or a sticker on separate plastic bags, etc.
Someone once gave the name of someone who sells beanie babies at very good prices-$1-$3 dollars. I can’t find that post now. Does anyone have the contact info? Thanks.
Sorry, Doug. I am unaware of any one specific person who sells beanie babies at that price. Try Facebook marketplace in your area or eBay. I typically find mine at thrift stores with the tags still intact.
What is your favorite age to make boxes for ?
That’s a tough one. I love packing for all ages, but I have to say 2-4 is probably the most fun. They are the easiest and least expensive to pack. Everything for toddlers is so darn cute and the ideas for themes are endless. That being said I find the 10-14 age group the most rewarding to pack. Maybe because they are the most challenging, but I get excited when I come up with great items and ideas for that age group, and I always love how the boxes turn out in the end.