I don’t know about you, but every month, I have TONS of expired coupons that I typically throw away. I did some research online and found that I can send my expired coupons to military families overseas and they will use the coupons at their commissary and PX or BX (these are basically department stores that sell all non-food items).
Since I started saving money using coupons over a year ago now, I have been blessed ten-fold. My spending on groceries has decreased drastically and I now have more food, toiletries, etc than I would have ever imagined. I want to bless others now. So, instead of throwing away my expired coupons, I will send them to an overseas military base once a month. Would you like to help? If you are interested in participating with me, I would love for you to send me your expired coupons. Every month I will post a reminder and will give all of you 7 days to gather your expireds and mail them to me. Then, once I receive all of your coupons, I will ship them out to a military base. Below are the requirements if you are interested in helping:
1) Email me for my address. Because of privacy issues and because thousands see this website every day, I’m not going to post my address on this blog. So, email me and I will respond quickly with my mailing address.
2) Send me all coupons that expired ON or AFTER May 1st. (Commissaries will accept older expireds, but I’m only going to send one month old coupons since I will do this 1x a month)
3) Do not send me printable coupons and do not send store coupons (i.e. Target, Publix, Walgreens etc) because commissaries overseas will not accept them.
4) Separate your coupons into two categories Food & Nonfood. If you mail all of your coupons to me in one envelope, use an elastic or paperclip to keep the two categories separated. Food is considered anything eaten by humans.. Food is also considered gum. Nonfood is toiletries, dogfood or catfood (since it’s not consumed by humans), vitamins, medicine, etc.
That’s it! I will do the rest of the work! I need all of your coupons in my hand by Tuesday, June 8th!
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My name is Liza and I began my money-saving journey in the Spring of 2009 as a way to stretch a limited household income. I had lost my job and my hubby was self-employed. I launched Addicted to Saving in November of 2009 and it has grown by leaps and bounds. Since then, my hubby and I have struggled with the ups and downs of two failed adoptions and are now LOVING being parents to our little man Asher who we brought home from Ethiopia in August of 2013. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to help you save money. My goal is that you will have FUN and become empowered to save more and more money each week..
That is a great idea. Thanks so much for doing this!!
Liza – count me in!!!
oh man, I literally just threw away all my expired coupons this morning. I will definitely be participating next month though. What an awesome thing!
Don’t worry Tanya! Thanks for participating in the future! 🙂 Going forward, I will remind all of you the last week of the month and will then post the official send me your coupons request on the last day/first day of the next month!
What an awesome thing you are doing! I am a military wife soon to be stationed in Italy and I am saddened that I will be out of the world of couponing. Hopefully, some of your expired coupons make it over my way:)
Shelley – I actually chose a base in Italy! When do you go to Italy? If you want to email me your info and future base info, I will see if we can adopt your base to send to!
That is so great that you are doing this. I a military wife who just got back to the states after being overseas. I wanted to let you know that the BX /NEX/PX is actually not run by the same people as the commissary. So they do not take expired just the commissary. The commissary does have non food items. Just so you know!
Hi Marie! Thank you for the info! The organization I am working with gave different info so I’m so glad you are giving me first hand tips!
Count me in Liza and do any of the commissaries in the US take them??
What a wonderful, giving thing you’re doing Liza! You can count me in! I also just threw out a ton of expired coupons, but will hold on to them from now on!! As the mother of a veteran….thank you!!
Commissaries in the states don’t allow you to use expireds! Believe me I have tried (:
I can’t believe I threw all of my expired coupons away over the weekend. will save from now on and tell all my neighbors and friends to give them to me and I’ll send them your way. what a great idea, never even thought about sending them overseas
I was going to send mine to another blogger but I like your site so much better so I am sending them to you. I have a pile that I saved this month! Please send me your mailing address. Thanks!
Just got all my May coupon’s out of my book. Plz send me you add and I will mail to you.
I need address too and I will send! Thanks!
Liza, Please e-mail me so i can send you coupons.
Hi Liza, please e-mail me also and will send you coupons for next month. Thanks
I’d love to participate, could you email your address and I can get them sent off tomorrow. Thanks!