Frugal Shoppers: Spread the Coupon Love to Military Families Living Overseas

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Coupon clipping isn't new for me, but with my recent forays into serious money saving I find myself with extra supplements and coupons that I don't use (or worse, let expire!). Going through my neighbors' recycle bins has proved very rewarding! Between the circulars and all the coupons I've started getting in the mail I'm overflowing.


I posted on the military commissary section of AFullCup.com offering up my extra circulars and got responses right away. Military families living overseas can use coupons up to six months after they expire (but it's best to send ones that aren't more than 3 months expired to account for overseas delivery). They can go regular postal mail to an FPO/APE address. I crammed as much as I could into a flat rate priority mail envelope and paid $4.95.

If you have access to lots of coupon circulars please consider sending anything you don't use overseas to a military family. There's a really big need and the families are so grateful.This would be a great community service, church or scout badge program. Let me know if you'd like to help and I'll walk you through it.

*Not a sponsored post, just passing along goodwill toward men.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for this info. I'm not a member of A Full Cup but I have a bunch of coupons to send, most expired/ing in the last week. Do you have an address to send them to?

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  2. I have heard our local commissary does this as well. I am not sure. So just in case you can not get the over seas as fast.

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