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104 days of summer vacation???
Read more →Where exactly do Phineas and Ferb live that they get 104 days of summer vacation?According to my calculations, we get 68. Sixty eight days for the kids to spend building a rocket, fighting a mummy, finding a dodo bird and giving a monkey a shower. Sounds good, right? It does sound good. But what will actually happen is that they will watch someone do that stuff on TV, play a lot of video games, bicker, complain about any family activity we plan and pester us for things we do not want to give them. All of a sudden 68 days...
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They grow up so fast!
Read more →We are excited and proud that we made it onto our first list: Mail Order Mystery is one of Working Mother Magazine’s 10 Great Gifts for Gradeschoolers. This list includes several “tween approved” gifts for grade-schoolers who are making the transition to middle school. If we do say so ourselves, we think a Mail Order Mystery makes great end-of-school gift. So congratulations to us and congratulations to all of you who have a not-so-little little one about to graduate from elementary school. It seems like just yesterday they were still in diapers, doesn’t it? Screaming with snot all over their faces, making you turn...
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This Easter skip the candy and feed your child's imagination
Read more →Get your kids hopping to the mailbox in search of puzzles, clues and pirate treasure. Downsize the giant chocolate bunny that will end up in the garbage with only its ears gnawed off and get your kids a Mail Order Mystery instead. It’s not too late for the Easter basket! Order today and download a printable gift note to let the kids know that a mystery is on the way. We’ll mail the first installment either this Tuesday or the Tuesday after Easter, it's your choice. You’ll trade six weeks of candy begging for six weeks of curiosity, imagination and...
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The perfect solution to March Break boredom
Read more →Attention grown-ups! Are you, like us, caught short every single year by March Break? We know it's coming. It's on the calendar. But every year we are shocked and outraged by its sudden arrival. And the onset of bored kids begging to be amused. We will do what we can to save ourselves, but for you we offer a helping hand: the amazing, ongoing, screen-free benefits of a Mail Order Mystery experience. Order now to begin a six week adventure - clues, codes, keys, maps, treasure and intrigue delivered right to your door.And to our fellow grown-ups in those places...
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News from Mail Order Mystery
Read more →Here we are, a month into 2016. January is already over, the resolutions are broken and winter is not messing around. But we here at Mail Order Mystery start each new day like it is the best day ever. We are astonished, delighted and immensely grateful for all of the positive feedback and support we are getting from you. A huge thank you to all of you who bought a mystery for your kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews and friends’ kids. Thank you for sending us emails telling us how much your kids are loving the mystery and for sending pictures...
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The Mail Order Mystery machine is up and running
Read more →After months of turning cranks, stoking fires, pushing buttons and pulling levers, the Mail Order Mystery Machine is up and running. We are nervous and so very excited. And while the machine bangs and clatters in the background we would like to take a moment to answer a few of the questions that we most often hear: 1) what is a Mail Order Mystery? and 2) where did we get the idea? A Mail Order Mystery is a story for kids, eight or nine and up, that unfolds through a series of installments that come in the mail. The envelopes...