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Here’s Hopping for the Perfect Easter Gift
Read more →Easter is a vexing time for gifts. Like all holidays, it requires planning. You need to come up with candy and gifts, and not just any gifts, but small gifts that fit inside an Easter basket. You can get bigger gifts, of course. You can go the scavenger hunt route and plant an elaborate series of clues that lead to the big-ticket item hidden in the broom closet (a plan which will be foiled if your clues get discovered during the egg-hunt). You can also wrap the bigger presents and put the basket next to them or on top. But...
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For spring break: Get us to ship all your installments at once
Read more →Normally when you order a Mail Order Mystery we send the installments out once a week for six weeks. But for spring break we can send all of your installments out at once in a single box. Then when the kids say “I’m bored”, or you say “get off those screens and find something to do”, you can slip another clue into the mailbox. And your Junior Agents, Treasure-Hunters and Noble Oath-Swearers can spend their spring break putting their heads together to solve ciphers and clues, catching the plotting villains and joining forces with dragons and trolls. Just place your...
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So What’s the Plan for Spring Break?
Read more →Like a lot of parents, we like to give advice. Like a lot of parents, we don’t like to take advice. So maybe that’s why we never take our own advice when it comes to spring break. Every year our advice goes like this: “Spring break is coming! Make a plan or you’ll be sorry!” And then spring break comes around, we don’t have a plan and we are plenty sorry.We are not sure why that is. We have learned our lesson when it comes to summer camps. It only took one year of trying to book camps too late...
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Love and Mystery
Read more →Valentine’s Day is nearly here! Are you feeling the love? We are feeling the love. Ok, we are mostly feeling the love. Actually we are not feeling so much love for the courier company that lost the shipment of precious necklaces that we need to get our Enchanted Slumber mystery back on sale.The Enchanted Slumber is all about love. It’s about loving our friends, loving the earth and sticking together through tough times. Fortunately, there are more necklaces on the way, and unless the courier company loses that shipment too, the Enchanted Slumber should be back on sale next week. We...
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Important information on holiday ship dates
Read more →Due to extremely high demand, we have now filled all of our available ship dates through the end of December. You can still order a Mail Order Mystery, but the earliest available date for us to mail out the first installment is January 11. If you’d still like to give a Mail Order Mystery as a holiday gift, you can download the printable gift note from our website and give it to the child receiving the mystery. Their first installment will then be mailed on January 11th. Just remember, January 11th is the date the first installment will be mailed, not the date...
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Need a Gift Idea to Go With Your Mystery?
Read more →We all have our own, personal, fraught relationships with stuff. Most of us feel we have too much stuff, and yet we keep on buying it for our kids and then we freak out because the house is such a mess.Mail Order Mysteries are an elegant solution: high on intrigue, low on shelf space and six weeks long on entertainment value. But for some people, there’s still not quite enough stuff for kids to open during the holidays. People have been emailing us to ask for gift ideas that tie in to our Mail Order Mysteries.So if you are looking...