Hey, Eager Shoppers!

As we edge closer to the holiday season, Black Friday Sales get closer and closer. Well, the wait is over as of today here at Everything Summer Camp! Our Black Friday sales have arrived to kick this week off with a bang! This sale encompasses not just Black Friday, but Cyber Monday and our Holiday Discounts as well—we’re running it from now until December 17^th (but don’t dally! The discounts are only effective as supplies last).

So what’s our sale looking like this year? In the past, I’ve informed you about great discounts we put on trunks and trunk accessories. This year, however, we’re still working to fill and maintain our trunk inventory as supply challenges had us running short earlier this year in the summer season. Unfortunately,

we’re not offering any discounts on our Designer Trunks, Steel Trunks, Pop Up Soft Trunks, or Trunk Accessories.

But that doesn’t mean we don’t have deals! Check out some of the great deals we got:

Take a Seat
Get the best seat in the house for the best price available! We’re taking $5.00 off our Crazy Creek Chairs!

Rest Your Head
This pillowcase is all about pals! We’ve slashed $4 off our Autograph Pillowcases. They’re usually $14.99. Get one for $10.99.!

Make it Personal
Peruse our Personalized Products. We’ve got Laundry Bags, Toiletry Pouches, Fleece Blankets, LidSkinz, and a bunch more! They’ve all taken a dip in price—as much as 15% off on certain products!

Ready and Label
We offer a handful of different name labels for you to choose from. Pick some up now with 15% off from all Name Label products!

Sign Me Up
We offer awesome assorted signs such as our Signature Signs and our Dog Tags. Pick up any of them at 20% off throughout this sale! 

Just a note—we are putting plenty of new designs out for our Designer Trunks, Floormats, and Pillowcases. So keep a lookout!

Also, as we’ve done in past years, we’ll have our Deal of the Day part of our sale in which we have a new product that gets highlighted for the day. The Deal of the Day spans the week of Thanksgiving, starting on Sunday, November 21 and lasting through to Cyber Monday, November 29. Tune in each day of the sale to find out what the deal is!

So start right now! Hop on over to our online store and start loading up your cart! Happy shopping and happy holiday season! As always, thanks for reading!

- John

Hey, Camp Fans!

We were happy to get the turnout that we did this year for our annual Everything Summer Camp ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest! Your camp stories were great! I had such a fun time reading through them and we’ve been having a blast publishing them here on the Blog to share them with all our readers online! We’re posting each submission with their own individual post right here on the Blog!

Since I’ve finished announcing our ten lucky winners who took larger prizes in September, I’ve moved on to the rest of your submissions. The following post is from Jessica B. who wrote in to tell us about her summer stay at Camp Hillel. Check it out:

I always packed tons and tons of nail polish to go to camp in every color of the rainbow—and this was before it was considered mainstream to have colors other than the regular old pink and red etc.  Somehow, word got out to other bunks and staff that I was good with nail art and one day, out of the blue, one of the camp mothers showed up in my bunk for me to do her hands and feet!

Jessica’s submission is a little light for our contest, but I still thought we could share the submission. It’s pretty cool when your hobby and talent draws a ‘crowd’ at summer camp! How cool that you got so many customers (campers and adults alike) coming to you for your artistic touch in making their nails beautiful. I hope you got to participate in other camp fun and didn’t paint nails your ENTIRE time away at camp! Haha. Thanks for writing us, Jessica. For everyone else, you can give Camp Hillel a closer look by clicking right here and, as always, thanks for reading!

- John

Hey, Camp Fans!

The camp stories we received for our ‘Share your Camp Story’ Contest here at Everything Summer Camp were so great! It was a wonderful time reading through them all and now I’m excited to share them with all our followers on the Blog and post each submission right here on its own day!

After our ten lucky prize winners, I’ve moved on to the rest of your submissions. The following post is from Rachelle W. who wrote in to tell us about her daughter’s camp experience at Camp Longhorn Indian Springs. Here’s her submission:

My daughter Leighton attended Camp Longhorn fourth term at Indian Springs. This was her first year. She had the best time and made the most wonderful memories. Thank you for providing her a wonderful trunk and accessories. She actually cried when we picked her up from camp after two weeks. She loved being there so much.

The best thing about camp was horseback riding and the blob. Campfire was also amazing we sang songs and did skits. I learned how to kayak and shot a rifle. The food was so good. We ate a lot, laughed a lot and I made some amazing friends. I can’t wait to return next summer. I had the time of my life. My cabin had 12 girls total. 2 were from California. And everyone else was from Texas. I made friends that will last a lifetime. I can’t wait to write them letters. My brother will be attending CLH in two years. He’s very excited. He can’t wait.

Awesome, Rachelle! Sounds like Leighton had a great summer. Your daughter’s tearful response to Closing Day of camp isn’t uncommon. Many campers are so touched by the experience of summer camp by the end that they begin to cry. We’re glad to hear that our trunk and gear worked well and that Leighton had a fun, well-rounded camp experience full of new people, new places, and new experiences! Here’s to many more fun summers at camp for Leighton and her brother!  

For everyone else, you can give Camp Longhorn a closer look by clicking right here and, as always, thanks for reading!

- John

Happy All Hallows’ Day!

As we covered in the post from yesterday—today, November 1^st, is All Hallows’ Day, also known as All Saints’ Day. A much brighter celebration than the typical Halloween festivities the night before, learn what All Saints’ Day is all about. This holiday is meant for us to recognize all the Saints who have been hand-selected by God throughout the past. Let’s take a look at the history behind this holy day.

To Begin With
In today’s world, we all know All Saints’ Day to be set on the first of November, but it in the very beginning, the day took place on the 13^th of May. It was Pope Boniface IV who dedicated the Roman Pantheon as a church in honor of the Virgin Mary and all martyrs who are deemed to have been welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven. This day was initially put forward in the year 609 AD.

Let’s Make it Official
Roughly 130 years after Pope Boniface IV started this day to honor the saints, Pope Gregory III rescheduled the date of observance to the familiar November 1^st when he dedicated a Roman chapel in honor of all saints. At this point, the celebration was only in Rome. But in another hundred years or so, Pope Gregory IV extended the celebration of All Saints’ Day to the entire Church.

Marching In
While many recognized saints have their own, individual feast days and other days of celebration (such as St. Patrick’s Day, the Feast of St. Stephen, St. Nick’s Day, etc.), not every saint has their own special day. All Saints’ Day is a way to make sure that literally ALL Saints are commemorated on this day of honor.

Enjoy this wonderful holiday and appreciate the saintly figures of our past. If you missed yesterday’s post, you can learn why it’s called Halloween and what it has to do with All Saints’ Day when you click right here. Thanks for joining us today. And, as always, thanks for reading!

- John

Happy Halloween, Everybody!

The time has come once again to parade ourselves in costumes to pretend we are who we are not. It’s Halloween. From Trick-or-Treating to haunted houses, you can’t go wrong with this holiday! But where does its name come from? Sort of spooky sounding and unique, you might wonder what it means and why we’ve called it by this name for the last 2000 years. 

The celebration of Halloween is even older than its name. It was initially a Celtic celebration called Samhain (pronounced sow-ain) that began on October 31 and lasted until November first—a bit like the modern day New Year’s Eve celebration. In fact that’s exactly what it was for the Celts—it marked the end of the summer season and the beginning of winter, so they made it their New Year’s celebration.

Pagan traditions saw people lighting bonfires and donning costumes in the hopes of warding off ghosts. But as Christianity spread across the world these Pagan traditions were still incorporated in a new holiday announced by Pope Gregory III in the 8th century: All Saint’s Day, November 1^st—a day to honor all the saints in heaven.

‘Hallow’, being another word for ‘holy’ or ‘saintly’ was commonly used back then. So another way of saying ‘All Saint’s Day’ was ‘All Hallows’ Day’. This designates the night before November 1^st, All Hallows’ Eve which means ‘hallowed evening’. You’ll still see Halloween spelled with an apostrophe in it from time to time (Hallowe’en) which was to show the joining of two words: ‘Hallow’ and ‘Even’ (short for evening).

Thanks for joining us on this hallowed night full of excitement and fun fright. From everybody here at Everything Summer Camp, Happy Halloween! And, as always, thanks for reading!

- John