The CATALOG CANCELING CHALLENGE

I’m thrilled to welcome Girl Scouts of the USA to our project! According to their mission, “Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.” By helping save trees, water, energy, and our climate when canceling catalogs, they are definitely helping make our world a better place because they are saving natural resources and slowing global warming.

Use this website to start a “Catalog Canceling Challenge” with your troop. It’s pretty simple, just cancel as many unwanted sales catalogs as you can! Be sure to email in your results - the number of catalogs canceled, number of Girl Scouts, Troop Number, location, and a photo of your pile - to tedwellscatablog@gmail.com.

Troop leader Marni Suliin reports that six Girl Scouts from Troop 315 in Iron River, Michigan (above) put a box in their school to collect catalogs for one week. Then they canceled the 150 catalogs in only two hours using www.CatalogChoice.org! Great work Troop 315!

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I love how the Hutchison Farm Elementary School in South Riding, Virgina displays their canceled catalogs in reused copy paper boxes! If you’d like to download “100s” posters like theirs, click here.

272 Hutchison Huskies canceled 1,710 catalogs! Teacher Caroline Kuhfahl asked me if we’ll be having this “Challenge” again next year. YES! This year is the test drive. Next November we’re hoping to get hundreds of schools, community centers, scout troops, etc. to join in. So please spread the word and get ready for a November 1, 2008 start. Or cancel a pile this summer! (A dream of mine is to one day get 1,000 groups to cancel 1,000 catalogs each … or … drum role … 1 MILLION catalogs canceled, saving 10,000 trees, lakes of water, and heaps of energy which will all help slow global warming.)

To the left is a cool graph the Hutchison kids were using to chart their progress as they worked towards their goal of 1,600 catalogs. Work it Huskies!!

Our total so far: 4,125 (Park) + 625 (St.Leo) + 2,300 (Eliot) + 1,652 (Hutchison) = 8,702 kid canceled catalogs!

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