Hey, Footlocker Fans!

The time of summer camp has come to an end and a new school year is now here. Now that summer’s over you have no need for your camp trunk. Pack up your camping gear inside and store it away in the garage until next year, right?

WRONG!

Your C&N Footlocker wasn’t made for summer camp alone! Once summer’s over your trunk becomes an elegant piece of bedroom furniture! It’s sure to compliment your room and add even more of your personality to the atmosphere.

See, at Everything Summer Camp—the home of C&N Footlockers—we manufacture camp trunks that are meant to withstand some pretty rough treatment; but that’s not all. These trunks are attractive as they are strong. Our trunks have a romance to them—a very classical look.

We also enjoy taking that classical look and turning it on its ear with our fun and always exciting ways for you to personalize the look of your trunk. After all, it’s your camp trunk. Express yourself with awesome trunk decorating!

From nameplates to decals to colors and LidSkinz, Everything Summer Camp has awesome accessories to help you make your camp trunk a true work of art and unlike anyone else’s. It’s fun personalizing your own nameplate or LidSkinz!

With LidSkinz, the possibilities are limitless to top your footlocker! You choose from our abundant collection of colors, fonts, icons, backgrounds and even personalized text. We print the full color vinyl decal here in our facility and then cover the trunk with your creation.

If that doesn’t trip your trigger, check out our Create-Your-Own Footlockers! Enjoy total control over the look of these footlockers! Apply any of our 19 colors to any of the 10 trunk panels, and get your footlocker exactly the way you want it!

And remember—enjoy your footlocker year-round. Not just at summer camp!

Hey there, Frenzied Fathers and Mothers!

It’s more than understandable that this time of year can often times become a little overwhelming. Your kids go from lying around the house day in and day out for three months to suddenly having schedules as busy as yours! They have school, after school activities, homework, sporting events, sleepovers, and more. And you’re the one in charge of orchestrating all of it!

Well, here are some very helpful tips to managing everybody’s schedule without losing out on the fun of life!

Calendar

First—and probably most important—is the purchase and use of a large family calendar. You’ll want this calendar to go in a place where everyone will see it: on the refrigerator or hanging on a wall in the hallway where everyone walks through. Write in everything that you know is happening that month like birthdays, sporting events, recitals, appointments, and so on. Don’t forget to write in new events as well.

Planning Ahead

Next up is to plan ahead. Make sure that you don’t leave your planning for the future to the present. Handling things in the last minute increases stress and anxiety.

Share Responsibilities

Divvying up responsibilities is another great tactic to prevent busy schedules from bottlenecking through you. If they’re old enough, you can let your kids handle cutting grass or raking. Maybe your parents want to spend more time with your kids—work something out where your kids go to their grandparents a few times a month.

Prioritize, Prioritize, Prioritize

Prioritizing is very important when it comes to your kid’s life. It’s up to you to know the difference between how much your kids think they can handle and how much they’ll want to handle. You don’t want their lives to become simply going from one appointment to the next!

Have Some Fun

Lastly, fill in a few empty nights with fun things your family can do together. Maybe a game night or watching a movie. Balancing work and fun feels more possible and is more possible if you can stick to these helpful tips.

And thanks for reading, Camp Fans!

- John

Hey, Autumn Aficionados!

Yesterday we talked about the beauty of the Fall season when the leaves change color and the temperature drops to a typically perfect degree. It makes for the best hiking weather. Not only is it a little brisk outside so you don’t get quite so hot, but it’s also visually appealing—everywhere you turn is a picture!

In the Fall you can make your way through a woodsy trail without sweating a gallon and enjoy the lovely view you have completely surrounding you. Look around at the lovely sight of multicolored leaves as they hang loose from tree limbs and blow about in the wind. Breathe in that crisp Autumn air as you go marching on.

Your pair of Trail Shoes that you used for summer camp will come in handy, protecting your feet as you hike the rough terrain of the trails around you. These shoes are just as effective this time of year as they are in the summer. And Everything Summer Camp has a wide variety of footwear from leading brand names like Teva, Columbia, Northside, and Hi-Tec.

These rugged pieces of footwear are specifically designed for hiking, so you can walk with confidence and know for certain that your feet are well-protected. No need to keep your eyes glued to the ground, looking out for sticks, or rocks, or anything else you’d prefer not to step on; you’re free to look all around you at the beautiful colors put on display by the trees.

If you don’t already have a good pair of hiking shoes shop Everything Summer Camp to find a pair that best suits you. You’ll have your pick from over fifteen options that are all made to give your feet the support they need.

Till next time, Readers!

Hello, Fall Friends!

Perhaps you’re unfamiliar with the Fall season (or Autumn if you prefer it’s more formal name) as the climate varies rather dramatically across our lovely country. Everything Summer Camp, the home of C&N Footlockers and all other camping gear, is located in Boyd, WI where the Fall season is very beautiful. As it happens every year, we grow accustomed to it, but never forget what a beautiful part of the cycle this season is! 

We’re starting to see the first signs of fall!

Most people who live in northern Wisconsin revere the Fall season as their favorite of the four. It’s mine. The temperature’s typically in the Goldilock’s Zone of being just right and the trees start putting on their own fireworks shows! Fall means raking enormous leaf piles and jumping into them.

As the temperature continues to drop, the leaves on the trees are no longer getting the sunlight they need to perform processes essential to their life such as photosynthesis. Through this process, they obtain that lively green color. But when they stop getting the amount of sunlight they need, they lose their rich, green hue and fade into beautiful, vibrant shades of yellow, orange, red, and brown.

Unfortunately, these amazing colors indicate that the leaves are dying, as Mother Nature continues to show us the two sides of itself and the beauty that comes from them. They fall off the trees (which is where the Autumn season gets its alternative name) and carpet the ground.

Along with today’s Everything Summer Camp Blog post, we’ll be sharing your pictures and our own of the beautiful, changing environment that surrounds us here in northern Wisconsin. We hope they fill you with as much awe and inspiration as they do us. We truly do live in a beautiful world.

That’s all for today, Readers. Till next time.

Hey, School Kids!

Last week I talked about safety after school. Here’s something you can do to keep yourself safe after school–your homework! While it’s not the only part of school, your homework is one of the more important elements of school.

That’s why I’ve chosen for today’s Everything Summer Camp Blog post to give you some helpful advice on how to go about your homework.

Assignment Notebooks

First of all, you’ll definitely want an assignment notebook. When you have homework from five different classes, it can get pretty cloudy in the old noggin. You have enough to concentrate on with your daily school routine—don’t try to remember what homework you’ve been assigned in each and every class.

Homework After School

My next point of advice—and probably the best that I can give you for your homework—is to get into the habit of doing it immediately after school. Get home and get to your homework! If you don’t Pull out your handy-dandy assignment notebook so you can go over the list of assignments you need to complete for the next day and—as my father always used to say—get crackin’!

Look It Over

Last, but not least, is to ask for a little bit of help. When your work is all done, ask your parents if they would look it over for you. Show them your Assignment Notebook too. If they don’t have time, maybe you have a smart older brother or older sister who would be willing to check over your homework. The point in doing this is to catch any mistakes you may have made before it goes the teacher.

If you stick to these three simple suggestions, you should be getting pretty good grades. You won’t forget about any homework assignments because you’ll have written them all down. You shouldn’t run short on time since you did your homework right after school. And you should get good grades since it’s all been checked over.

Hope this helps, Homeworkers! Now hit the books.

For helpful tips on after school activities check out our Blog post.

- John