My son inspired this print.  When he was a baby (many moons ago), his head was on a permanent swivel for trucks.  Big trucks, little trucks, and everything in between.  If you have a truck-lover, he’ll love our Blue Trucks Clean Shopper! 

We don’t do it often, so when we do it’s the ideal time to scoop up loads of Clean Shopper shopping cart covers, Clean Burper burp cloths, My Traveling ABCs and more!  That’s because for the entire month of July, we’ll ship your purchases absolutely FREE.  Of course you have to spend $40 or more, but the savings will make you want to grab, grab, grab! You get fabulous, award-winning baby accessories and we pay for the shipping!  But you have to hurry!  The offer is only valid in the US, and it ends on July 31, 2009.

My sons are too old to sit in Clean Shopper shopping cart covers these days, but when my teenager and preteen were babies, we never left the house without one.  I’m certain it saved them countless visits to the doctor, and it definitely gave me peace of mind.  Fast forward 14 years, and I find myself using my Clean Shopper sans babies, so I too can avoid the nasty germs slithering around on those shopping carts.  Here are my top 5 reasons for using a Clean Shopper regardless of your age:

1. The cold & flu season is making its annual unwelcome visit, and that means germy hands touching just about every public surface you can imagine.  Shopping carts?  Yes, a top 10 offender. Cover them up!

2.  Babies love to suck on any thing cold, especially when they are teething, and the cold metal of a shopping cart provides the ideal teething toy.  Research shows that public restrooms are cleaned more often than shopping carts, so if you wouldn’t let your little one suck on a toilet seat, then my guess is, you wouldn’t want them sucking on the shopping cart either!

3.  Some shoppers are minimalists.  They only fill the seating area of the cart when they shop, grabbing a package of chicken, some veggies and a carton of milk.  All of these lovely juices meld together and  linger on their hands.  Their hands grab the handles or the sides of the shopping carts.  You and your baby can avoid those handles and sides by covering them up!

4.  Even if you shop without your baby, you are still likely to bring your purse along for the ride.  It’s also likely that you will use the seating area of the shopping cart to hold your purse while you shop.  Then you’ll come home and place your purse on the clean-looking kitchen counter.  Hmmm.  The chicken juice from the seating area is now on the bottom of your purse which is sitting on your unsuspecting kitchen counter.  If you had used the Clean Shopper shopping cart cover, your purse wouldn’t have been exposed to the chicken juice and potential disease-causing germs.

5.  Assuming you’ve cleaned your shopping cart with an antibacterial wipe prior to using the cart, you still want to place your baby in a comfy Clean Shopper shopping cart cover to keep her happy, comfortable and entertained, so you can shop in peace.

I just finished packing up a scaled-down version of my exhibit for the ABC Spring Conference in Kentucky.  Only a select number of manufacturers were invited to the conference, so I’m excited about the opportunity to showcase our new Chic, Minky and Wee BE Organic lines to these buyers! Now that we offer such a wide variety of Clean Shopper shopping cart covers, we can meet the growing needs of our independent and boutique retailers.  Very exciting!

ABC Show Exhibit