Hey, Camp Fans!

Gather ‘round! Last week, on behalf of Everything Summer Camp for Valentine’s Day, I expressed our love for our customers. And since we love our customers so much, I told you to stay tuned in the next following weeks to hear some of our great new enhancements we’re making to our customer service.

Here’s the first enhancement.

We’re updating the Everything Summer Camp return policy. We like to think that we’ve always had a fairly fair return policy—after all, we understand that sometimes, when you’re shopping for camp in advance, you don’t always realize that you need to return something until a month or two after the fact—but we have news that makes it even better!

Our return policy will remain just as flexible to customers as it always has. In fact, we aren’t changing our policy at all. We’re just making it easier. See, in the past our return policy has been hassle-free as far as what the requirements are for returning a product; people DID, however, need to call us in order to go through the returning process.

Now you can do it all online.

We call it our No Sweat Returns for two reasons. First, we don’t want you to sweat being able to return something and, secondly, because it’s so incredibly easy to do. You don’t even have to call us!—not that we don’t want to talk to you! You can certainly still call us if you prefer, we love hearing from our customers; we just feel that it shouldn’t be your only option.

Now you can call if you want, live chat, email, or simply click here.

To our knowledge, we are the first summer camp outfitter to do online returns, which gives us the most flexible return policy of any summer camp outfitter! Isn’t the camp life great? As always, thanks for reading!

- John

Hey, Romantics!

Nobody should be surprised—today, of all days—if you so happen to receive some kind of note, card, candy, or other small gift from someone along with a request that you be their Valentine. Sometimes it can be very clear as to just WHO this special someone is; other times, however, they might hide behind anonymity as a secret admirer, too shy to just come out and express their feelings.

Well, we aren’t shy whatsoever here at Everything Summer Camp. We’ll say it loud and say it proud. We LIKE you. We like you A LOT! When it comes to our customers, we’re pretty much head-over-heels and ready to bend over backwards, forwards, sideways—whichever way it is that’s sure to make you happy. So, on behalf of Everything Summer Camp, I ask you: Will You Be Mine?

Our feelings toward our customers should come as no surprise to you since we’re always trying to demonstrate our love through our jaw-dropping discounts, excellent service, incredible construction, and lickety-split speed.

Some people like to write their Valentines a love poem. Others go for romantic walks together and some plan on dining out for a special dinner tonight. We have a different way of showing our love, but it should reassure you, nonetheless, that our feelings our true.

At Everything Summer Camp we want every sale to last forever and, while we can’t make that happen, we can just continue to run sale after sale after sale, which is essentially what we’ve been doing since before the holiday season in December. We had sales all throughout December, January, and we had one sale at the beginning of this month.

Stay tuned throughout the next couple of weeks to learn what we’re doing to enhance our customer service and, as always, thanks for reading!

- John

Hey there, Cookie Cravers!

It’s that time of year again when we get the chill out of the house by heating up the oven and baking cookies! This season, in particular, is meant for baking cookies. In fact, today happens to be National Bake Cookies Day! Put your talent as a baker to use today and make up a fresh batch of your favorite kind of cookie. 

There’s no better feeling than warming yourself up from the inside out by enjoying a chewy, gooey cookie fresh out of the oven. Whether you go with Gingerbread Men, Sugar Cookie Cutouts, Chocolate-Covered Oreos, Oatmeal Raisin, Snickerdoodles, classic Chocolate Chip Cookies, or some other holiday favorite, your sweet tooth is sure to thank you.

I remember a zillion winters ago when my siblings and I would keep the kitchen nice and toasty with batch after batch of cookie dough baking away inside the roasting oven. We loved frosting and decorating our Gingerbread Men and Sugar Cookie cutouts with frosting, Red Hots, and sprinkles.

Cutout Cookies make an excellent cookie choice since they offer the most variety and fun in decorating afterward. You can go with traditional Gingerbread Men, or you can make cookies in all sorts of wintry shapes like snowflakes, snowmen, mittens, boots, stars, and evergreens. Your kids will be sure to enjoy frosting and decorating them just as much as they’ll enjoy eating them!

Baking makes for a great activity to do with your kids. It’s fun, crafty, and it keeps the house warm! Kids may struggle to keep the kitchen clean, but with the proper supervision, baking is a great way for them to spend a day of their winter vacation. With the fast-approaching holidays, it’s nice to have some treats around the house for welcome guests and visiting relatives.

Have fun with your baking this year and, as always, thanks for reading.

- John

Hey, Holiday Preppers!

People give gifts for lots of occasions: birthdays, weddings, graduations, housewarming parties…. This time of year, however, gifting is typically taken to a whole other level. We like to have our bundle of presents beautifully wrapped with colorful ribbons and bows and festive tags that designate who shall receive each one.

We’ve been doing things this way for a surprisingly long time too. It’s no shocker to learn that gift-giving is an age-old tradition carried out through endless generations, but what IS surprising is just HOW LONG we’ve been wrapping our gifts for one another. It’s been practiced since the invention of paper, some time around 100 A.D.!

People in England used wallpaper for a while in the 1700s, though it didn’t work well as it tore easily when it was folded. By the early 1900s, gifts were typically wrapped in brown paper or tissue. But soon after, as the Second Industrial Revolution (also known as the Technological Revolution) yielded amazing advancements, the mass production of gift wrap was made possible.

The finishing touch on the perfectly wrapped present is always the gift tag: the element of the wrapping that reveals who the gift came FROM and who it’s going TO. But don’t bother wasting your money on some store-bought gift tags. You can get them for free right here at Everything Summer Camp.

Yep. That’s right. We’re emailing out free, downloadable gift tags. Subscribe to receive email from Everything Summer Camp and you’ll receive these great gift tags you can print out on your printer at home. Signing up for Everything Summer Camp email has multiple benefits. You can get access to great gift ideas, exclusive deals, free gift tags, and more.

Take our help for the final touch on your wrapping this season and, as always, thanks for reading!

- John

Hey, Holiday Shoppers!

So much effort goes into gift-giving this time of year; when the time finally comes for your loved ones to open their gifts from you, you want that moment to be perfect. Unfortunately, when you order online, this moment’s perfection depends on more than just the role that you play, but the role played by the company from which you ordered as well.

We, here at Everything Summer Camp, understand the importance of gift-giving and want to help make sure that your gifting goes just the way you want it to this year. We know there’s nothing more irritating than making sure that you’ve placed your online order well-enough in advance and not receiving it until after it’s too late!

Make sure that this doesn’t happen to you. Order from Everything Summer Camp!

To ensure that there is no confusion, I’d like to guide your attention to the handy-dandy holiday map that we refer to this time of year. Thanks to this little, color-coded map, there won’t be any confusion about how early you need to place your order at Everything Summer Camp to receive your items by the time you need them.

While delivery times will certainly vary based on where you live in the country, we like the old adage, ‘Better Safe Than Sorry’. That’s why I’m giving you the magic numbers of 1:00pm CST on December 17. That’s the date that everybody in the contiguous United States can use for guaranteed delivery by December 24.

December 17 may be early for some of you. Everything Summer Camp is based in northwestern Wisconsin, so if you live in Wisconsin, most parts of Minnesota, or other neighboring areas, you can get away with placing your order as late as 1:00pm CST on December 21.

Happy holidays, Everyone. Thanks for reading!

- John