I've been collecting coupons for awhile to send to military families overseas. I started thinking about how much we always talk about "supporting the troops"... What exactly does that mean? Yeah, people send care packages to those guys in the desert, but what about their families, or those people in the military that are stationed other places? I think those folks get forgotten... My brother was stationed in Korea for a year, and no, it wasn't "dangerous", but it still sucked, and he still served his country...
Okay, enough about that - back to coupons... So I started wondering what I could do to make some military people's lives a little bit better, and I came across a video online of this lady who mails coupons to military bases. What an awesome idea! I love coupons, and I know every other woman in the world MUST love them, too, so why not help out those army wives a little bit? It can't be fun to be stuck overseas trying to make ends meet with that wonderful, overabundant military paycheck (not!) - especially if your other half is halfway around the globe fighting somewhere! So I looked and found a similar program online at http://www.ocpnet.org/. What you do is collect coupons and mail them to a base that you "adopt" overseas. The families on the bases can get the coupons from the Family Support Center and use them at the commissary and PX on base. They can even use the coupons for up to 6 months after they expire. I picked a base in Korea, since that was where my bro was.
So, for the past month or so I've been collecting coupons, most of which have come from my awesome co-workers and fellow coupons lovers. Finally I had enough to send and today I packaged them all up. I ended up with (drumroll, please) $1515.44 worth! I'm mailing them tomorrow. And now my hands hurt from cutting them out and I don't want to see another coupon for a month.
I can't believe that I just typed that much about coupons...
- Carly
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