Sunday, February 13, 2005

Things to put in care packages for our troops

I can add one more item to this list, my cousin Mike served with the Marines in both Gulf Wars and he always asked for packets of Taco Sauce from Taco Bell.
We have been discussing things to put in care packages for our troops, here is a good list from Soldiers Angels a comprehensive site dedicated to troop assistance. If you don't know what you can do to help their site is a great start.


A Local Postcard from your area
A very small toy checkers game
Airheads taffy
Alka Seltzer
Antibacterial Handwash
Anything patriotic
Assorted Crackers
Assorted Packettes of condiments
Baby powder is good in dry hot climates
Bandaids- fun ones
Beef jerky
Brownies
Bubbles
Candy appropriate to season
Candy Bars
Chapstick
Cheese curls
Clothespins
Coffee Paks, instant
Cold & Flu Hot Liquid Pak
Cookies
Cough drops
Crackers & Cheese Packettes
Crakers & Peanut Butter Packettes
Crossword Puzzle books
Crunch & Munch Type of snacks
Cube Games
Deck of Cards reg. and mini
Disposable Camera
Doritos
Butterfly bandaids
Face Powder Sheets
Facial Cleanser
Fizzies
foot powder
Greeting cards appropriate to season
Gum
Hand Lotion
Handy wipes, Wet Ones
Heat Pack
Heavy duty socks
Highlighters
Homebaked items
Hometown newspaper possible subscription here
Hot Chocolate packs
Hot Tamales, the candy
Kleenex
Lifesavers
Lint Roller
Listerine Sheets
Little candle in a tin
Luden's cherry cough drops
M&Ms
Magazines
Mentos
Notepads
Notes of encouragement
Pain Reliever
Paperback Books
Patriotic T-shirt
Pens
Phone Card
Pictures from home, If the kids cannot be there for a holiday take pictures to send to them
Popcorn
Pringles
Ramen Noodles
Razors
Reading material is always good
Refrigerator magnet of American Flag
Salt & Pepper
SASE with notecard
Scented Candles
Shaving Stuff
Silly Putty
Slim Jims
Small box- Russell Stover Candy
Small packages of sugar & Creamer
Snack bags of Chex Mix, Chips, Etc
Snack Pack Cookies
Soap
Socks
Sore Throat Tablets
Stationary, Envelopes, Stamps
Sunday Comics
Sweetened Koolaid Envelopes
Tang
Tape
Tea Bags
The pads or spray of the Avon stuff Skin so soft for bugs
The Sky's the limit
Tic tacs
Tins of Altoids
Tobasco Sauce- small
Toothbrush
Travel size Q-tips
Travelpak of Wipes
Tuna Pouches
Twinkies
Tylenol samples
Unbreakable container of Salsa/Cheese
Videos especially overseas most of us have pay per view tape the movies and send them off they don't get to see them as fast as we do
Vitamin C Drops
Water Blaster Squirt Guns small
Weekly World News
Whitman Samplers
Whoopie Cushion
Wooden airplanes
Word search books
PEANUTBUTTER
DRIED FRUIT
FIG NEWTONS
BREAKFAST BARS
POWER BARS
BUBBLE GUM
SMALL CANS OF TUNA W/CRACKERS
VIENNA SAUSAGES
MOLE-SKIN, FOR BLISTERS OR BLISTER BANDAIDES
NO AIRESOLE CANS
NERF BALL
HACKY SAC
JIGSAW PUZZLES
hygiene products(deoderant, toothpaste, razors, soap, shampoo, toilet paper)
deployment papers have a size limit:

42H x Combined W+L of no more than 72 inches
#7 box, biggest square box they make, is suggested
[American Dinosaur]

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