I have a confession to make. I have issues. I have sock issues. The boys, when they wear them, leave them hidden all over the house. When I find dirty socks under the couch, behind toy boxes or in the driveway; the response is always the same. “I didn’t do it!” they say in unison. When asked to match the socks they sigh and say they can’t tell who has what anymore.
Now sure there are bigger issues in life than our family sock drama, but the great sock battles of 2009 have us frazzled.
Then a little magic came in the mail.
Now, sure, most of you would create very cool crafts with this stash of sharpies. But I have issues to tackle first!
With the help of my trusty three year old, the Sharpies were put to work.
We gave each boy in the family a specific color and number (#1 – #5). Mark and I use the first letter of our names simply to mark our territory.
From this moment on, every time I find dirty socks stuffed between couch cushions, tossed under bathroom sink, or thrown behind shower curtains; I know just who is the sock-abuser at fault.
Mwahahahahaha, I am victorious! (pumps well manicured fist in the air)
(*ahem* smooths down hair with hands daintily and regains composure)
Now, the part you will love. I asked the wonderful people at Sharpie if I could share these fun gifts with you and they are happy to spread the sharpie love.
To win one of these (boy not included)
Simply leave a comment. Here are some ideas:
- Share a fun story about sharpies,
- family life,
- how you would use your ornament o’ Sharpies.
Then you are entered to win. Easy peasy lemon squeezy
For an extra entry be sure to post a tweet with #Sharpie and leave the link to you tweet here.
Winner will be announced Monday December 14th.
Starting Monday, Blissfully Domestic will host a fun contest where readers can enter to win a $250 gift card. We are grateful to Sharpies for donating our fun prizes this year.
Our readers will get to show off their Sharpie inspired creations to win. Metallic sharpies and paper turned to beautiful snowflake decorations, white wrapping paper decorated with love from the kids, and organized labeling bliss will all be on display.
Blissfully Domestic readers can upload a picture of, or write a post about, how they use Sharpies to enter to win the $250 giftcard. We will post ideas for Sharpie uses on the contest page on Monday. The winner will be drawn by random number, but the masses of Sharpie fans will finally get to prove their Sharpie skills! 
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i tweeted!
@ mamahall: I would have a big, messy fit of excitement to get this in the mail: http://is.gd/5bKav
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@mamahall: I love #Sharpies! http://is.gd/5bKav
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Oh! I LOVE Sharpies. I use them for EVERYTHING, including note-taking. They’re the BEST!
I love Sharpies…I am always drawn to the little ones in cute colors. I use Sharpie paint pens to decorate Christmas ornaments – they are great! My regular Sharpie black was used to make my white 3M hook on my front door black to match the door and not stick out like a sore thumb.
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My daughter, Bailey, found a black Sharpie when she was about 4 years old. I caught her writing her name on the back of one of our kitchen chairs. (Apparently she’d never heard of traditional place cards). I was mad at the time, but years later I found it hard to part with that chair…the chair that read BAI (I caught her mid-way through writing her name). Not only was the ink permanent…. but my memory of my daughter at that age now is too. Thanks, Sharpie! =-)
I love, love, love Sharpies! I always (well, unless one of my children haven taken one, or I’ve recently had my purse fall over in the car) have a Super Sharpie marker AND a super fine-point Sharpie in my purse with me. And I have every color of Sharpie ever made, including several silver ones (perfect for writing on black casts, ya’ know). A giant assortment in an ornament container would be just PERFECT!
I color my few gray hairs with a black sharpie because it costs too much to have my hair done professionally for 2 grey hairs.
I big puffy heart Sharpies! I have one in every kitchen drawer and *two* in my car because REALLY – you never know when you may need to Sharpie & Drive at the same time. Sharpies are a great stocking stuffer! I hope I win!
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Not to overstate it, but Sharpies are one of the greatest advancements of modern civilization.
I love sharpies! That’s a great idea for socks. I have 4 boys and it’s amazing to me how socks can just magically disappear and how quickly little boys can wear holes in them. I use sharpies for labeling tons of stuff freezer meals, snack bags, jackets and backpacks…it’s so nice that they come it lots of colors.
I have 4 kids 3 of which are girls. We do a lot of hand-me-downs but I have a hard time remembering what has been passed down. In comes the help of sharpies. On the tag of their pants I put 1 line to mark it for my oldest daughter, 2 lines for middle daughter and 3 lines for youngest daughter. Tada! No more wondering whose pile it should go in.
Smiles!
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I left my house earlier for a half hour to have a little “me-time.” I went to the office supply store and bought some Sharpies. They make me smile.
Love Sharpies – I would definitely have to hide them from my four year old who thinks he should write on everything but paper (walls, chairs, shelves, tile, you name it).
You are totally brilliant! My boys shed socks like a tree sheds leaves. I don’t get it. I never take my socks before I go to bed. Fortunately, my boys are BIG and little, so I can tell their socks apart pretty easily. But my oldest boy would love the sharpies. He uses them to draw temporary tattoos on all his friends. I like it because of the “temporary” aspect. He’s a pretty good artist.
My most recent sharpie use is to draw Frosty the Snowman on the milk jug so my 2 year old is more enthusiastic about drinking Frosty Milk.
I usually carry a sharpie with me in my diaper bag. I use them for addressing mail, labeling whose cup is whose and tons of other things. A girl can never have too many sharpies!
I, like everyone else LOVE sharpies. My problem is I seem to buy them and they disappear – especially the little cute ones. Then I find “evidence” of the sharpies in all sorts of places (Large black writing on my son’s race car bed for one). Sharpies are a blessing and a curse but I would love the ornament full of them for sure!!!
These sharpies would most certainly cause all manner of permanent disfigurement in various locations around the house once the kids found them. But oh! The colors! I am a sucker for colored markers like you wouldn’t believe. i’m like a little kid, could happily color all day. Pick me! Pick me!
That’s genius! I don’t know how I never thought of writing our initials on our socks with sharpies. On the other hand, maybe it’s because the party most ofen guilty here is hubs, and his socks are all black, damn it.
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Sharpies make the world a better place!
My heart goes all pitter patter when I see a new package…and that display of Sharpie lovin has me giddy!
My teenager’s love them as well.
When my middle child was little….she would choose a Sharpie for all her artwork. I still have the kitchen table with many marks left on it from her masterpiece’s!
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Sharpies are great for marking clothing, books or baby items before you loan them out … so they eventually come back!
I’d be half tempted to throw this thing up on the tree. It.is.that.beautiful. However, Sharpies are meant to be used. I think I’d let my daughter go crazy on some giant pieces of white paper and then we’d use that to wrap her uncle’s Christmas gifts. He recently moved across the country and would appreciate the special touch.
We love sharpies! We use ‘em for drawing fun pictures, for labeling freezer meals and leftovers, for taking notes. And, of course, for writing names on gift tags. The nice, clear printing shows up so much better with sharpie colors. Thanks for the chance to win.
I think having a memory book for the holidays would be a great memory keeper – and what better thing to have hanging nearby than a sharpie filled ornament!
Our family uses sharpie markers for everything and now we’re addicted to the sharpie pens too.
thanks for the chance
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I am addicted to Sharpies. The click-up ones are amazing. I use them everywhere — on my scrapbooking supplies — so when you’re at a crop, you don’t steal other people’s supplies. I label food bags and tuppertainers with them. I label all of my kids school clothes with them. I use the fine tip ones to write on my calendar — they’re great on glossy surfaces. I label photos with them. I’ve colored trim and hardwood floors in my house with them. I used one once on my leather sofa (ssshhh…don’t tell the hubs….)
AND Alli, like you, I have used them MANY, MANY times on socks! Cause like you, I have the same problem at my house — “IT WASN’T ME!” ….boys, you gotta love them!
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I would definitely use them to make my own wrapping paper
Love the sock idea, but what do you do when the main offender is your husband? Can I use the sharpie on him? like some sort of scarlet letter? I think that is what I would do with my sharpie, label my husband with a scarlet S, for sock.
We use sharpies to color on glass ornaments for the tree and also to label gifts in the fun colors of sharpies
Sharpies are my pens of choice. Right now I am using one of the ultra-fine points to do a watercolor wash of our son’s antique home–to be framed and given to him at Christmas.
Ooooh – Just saw this on Twitter. Be still my beating heart.!
Daughter & I are Sharpie addicts
Tweeted!
http://twitter.com/LuckyCat7/status/6722109120
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