Want to win a BuyOnlineNow personalized Red Swingline Stapler?

In lieu of a trivia question and Friday contest, we're going to try our hardest to give away another stapler to one lucky winner - but we need your help.

Right now we're at 152 Likes on the BuyOnlineNow Facebook Page.  By Monday at 3:30 pm, we would like to be at 200 fans. Think you can help us do that by sharing our page with your friends on Facebook?

There's something in it for you too!  If we reachour goal, everyone who comments on the picture posted on BON's Facebook Page with your favorite office product will be entered into a drawing to win a BuyOnlineNow personalized Red Swingline Stapler!

So what are you waiting for? Head over to Facebook and Like our page if you don't already. Then, on the right side of the BuyOnlineNow Facebook page, there's a link that says "Invite your friends". Jst click that and invite away. Also, feel free to share the picture on your own wall with all of your friends! You never know who might have a secret love for office products!

Thank you - and good luck to everyone!

BuyOnlineNow has a tradition of taking some time in the summer to celebrate what we do here - to celebrate our hard work and commitment to our customers. In order to do this, we got together a few weeks ago to have a big summer party - filled with swimming, eating, socializing and competing.

I'll share a few photos on here with you, courtesy of Cory Chuchna, one of our very own employees and fanatic photographer. But if you want to see more, you'll have to "Like" us on Facebook and check out the full photo album on there! 

CEO Bob Herman and his wife Sonja enjoying a drink at the bar.


The employees' children (and even some employees) loved their time in the pool!


New this year was the Minute to Win It competition. It was fun to see how competitive some of the employees can get, but it's understandable because the prizes were fantastic!


Special thanks to our bartenders for the evening - you guys were great!

As much as I’ve surprisingly LOVED the extreme heat we’ve had this summer (the heat… not the humidity-I hated the humidity), the past couple of days have been much cooler. I’m talking high 60’s-low 70’s. That weather just boosted my desire for it to be fall. That is my favorite time of year – I love walking around and hearing the crunching of leaves under my feet. It also gives me a slight desire to go back to school, even though my last first day of school was two years ago (YIKES-I feel old!)

This weather also gets me in the mood for shopping. Not just for buying cute fall clothing, but for school supplies – regardless of whether or not I need them.

My favorite thing to get for school was either getting a new planner or refills for my current planner. The Day Runner Windsor QuickView Organizer is a purchase on which I definitely would have splurged. I love planners that have storage compartments and also a place that you can store your pen. The address book sections are great – especially when I was in college and my friends were constantly moving – so it was nice to update it yearly. Of course the page marker was probably the most convenient feature, and came in handy when I wanted to draw a replica of the classroom in my notes.

Another thing I enjoyed was color coding my binders, folders and notebooks for different courses. Can you tell yet that I have a slight case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? I enjoyed getting the bright colored binders for my fun classes and any type of view binder for classes that weren’t as much fun – so I could create a fun design to put in the cover and change it up when I got bored.

As much as I like mechanical pencils, I usually find many wood pencils sitting around my house, so why not use them? Except at times I would find that I didn’t have a pencil sharpener, which can be a problem. Of course you can always whittle away to the lead with a knife, but I’m not great at that, so I prefer electric sharpeners.

And of course, no matter how many pens I had left over from previous years, I would always want to stock up on brand new pens. My favorite pens were always the Papermate FlexGrip Elite Retractable Ballpoint Pen. Ever since that fateful day my freshman year of college when I forgot to bring a pen to art class to take notes and my roommate lent me one of hers, these pens have been my favorite for taking notes. I love the grip barrel and how smooth it writes with the Lubriglide ink system.

Well, if any of these items seem appealing to you as you’re hunting for back to school items either for yourself or your kids, have no fear. BuyOnlineNow’s Back to School Sale is your one stop shop for great discounted school supplies. Get your shopping done early and enjoy the last few weeks of summer!

Happy Wednesday everyone! You're over half done with your work week - yay! Take a break from all your hard work and try to answer this week's trivia question to win a $5 coupon code to BuyOnlineNow! In order to answer, either e-mail your response to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or comment on this blog post!

Question: BuyOnlineNow has a YouTube page. There are a couple of ways to get to it - what is one of those ways? In order to make sure you actually found it, please copy the link to the YouTube page in with your answer.

Good luck! You have until Tuesday, August 16 at 3:30 pm.

How does a filing cabinet make its way into the American History Museum?  It does so when it’s part of “...the beginning of the process that undermines Nixon.”   For those who may not remember the Watergate scandal which lead to his resignation; it began with the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, a covert group called the Plumbers, and this filing cabinet. 

For more on the filing cabinet and its story, check out this article from the Smithsonian magazine blog.

In case I need to remind you, I love Sharpie writing utensils. I especially love when Sharpie gives me such awesome ideas of what to do WITH my Sharpie markers, pens and highlighters - other than doodling on paper in a meeting (I never do that).

Recently, Sharpie markers were featured in a new tie-dye process. But now there's a new list of 100 Ways To Start Something With Sharpie.

In case you don't have time to read the entire list, I'll highlight some of my favorites.

6. Keep your drinks cool in your customized koozies.
11. Design your TOMS shoes with Sharpie Markers.
17.Label CDs so everyone knows how awesome your taste in music is. (I've already been doing this for years, but now I want to make a new CD just so I can do it again!)
24. Touch up those scuffs on your black shoes with the original Sharpie black marker . (Guilty of this as well.)
28. Decorate a picture frame.
69. Label your underwear with a Sharpie marker, maybe the dryer won't eat it.
76. Make your yoga mat stand out while you zen out.
99. Draw over old Polaroids with Sharpie markers and give them new life.

Thanks for the tips, Sharpie!