Donate Your Expired Coupons and Help Military Families

By frugalisfab · Jul 24

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EDIT: Effective February 22nd, Tammy is no longer accepting coupons.

When I first started couponing, I kept hearing that you could donate your expired coupons to military families serving overseas. Military families serving overseas can use expired coupons up to 6 months after the expiration date at their local commissary’s. I looked into it and it seemed like a really complicated process that I just could not figure out. A few weeks ago I attended a blogging business meeting on Skype and *met* Tammy of Army Household6.

She writes a fantastic blog all about her life as a military wife. As I was checking out her blog, I noticed that she has simplified this whole expired coupon donation process. You can simply mail your expired coupons to her and she will get them where they need to go. Here are all of the details:

Gather up your expired coupons (no more than 3 months past the expiration date). Your coupons need to be clipped already (you will want to do so to cut down on shipping costs anyhow). They can only accept manufacturer’s coupons from the newspaper or magazines. They can not accept internet printables or store coupons. Send them to Tammy at this address:

Overseas Coupon Program
c/o ArmyHousehold6
5804 Harr Ave Unit D
Colorado Springs, CO 80902

What a great way to be able to support our troops! Please take a little of your time and help a military family out instead of throwing your coupons in the trash.

Categories : Coupons, Frugal Tips

27 Comments

Bridgette
July 24th, 2009 at 8:38 am

this is sooo awesome!!

Alicia Bradley
July 24th, 2009 at 8:40 am

Thank you so much for passing this info on! Pulling mine out right now!

Candace
July 24th, 2009 at 10:57 am

Thanks so much for sharing this info! I grew up a military brat, as did both my parents, and am excited to help out in this way.

KIMBERLY
July 24th, 2009 at 11:30 am

so do military familys get to use expired coupons? How does it exactly help them? I am happy to help.

frugalisfab
July 24th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

Kimberly,

Yes overseas military family can used expired coupons at the commmissary.

Jessica
July 24th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

What a great program! I HATE throwing away expired coupons, it’s like throwing away money!

Michele
July 24th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

Great idea! I am going to mail some out tommorow!

Lindsey
July 24th, 2009 at 6:03 pm

http://www.couponstotroops.com has some great information on sending coupons overseas. They even have a project directory where you can look to see if there’s a coupon group in your area to donate coupons to but they suggest that if you’re going to mail and spend money on postage anyways, you should send directly overseas since the postage is the same amount to get them overseas as it is to mail to a group in the US. otherwise postage is being paid twice on the same coupons.

I’ve got a bunch ready to mail out right now!!

Lindy
July 24th, 2009 at 10:41 pm

Thanks to the PP (Lindsey) for posting this info. I looked into sending my coupons overseas a few weeks ago, and now with the link you’ve posted, there is a few drop off areas in my state, but not near me. However the overseas address is listed, simple instructions for mailing and I will finally not feel bad for all those expired q’s I didn’t use!

CJ
July 26th, 2009 at 5:30 am

Thanks, I’ve been looking for an easy way to donate my expireds!

Charlene@MyFrugalAdventures
July 27th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Nicole, I have been wanting to do this exact post for ages and I am so glad you found an address we can send them too. I am going to link to you– thanks so much!

Dawn
August 1st, 2009 at 6:59 am

I’ve read about this before but it seemed a bit complicated so I never sent any. I’m now sending my July expireds off to Tammy thanks!!!

Lani
August 1st, 2009 at 3:01 pm

Thanks for the information…I am glad that I can be a part.

Victoria
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:35 am

Thank you for posting this information!

ashleyd
August 4th, 2009 at 12:21 pm

thank you so much for posting this information! i found it to be complicated so i just threw them away.

but! i just printed a sheet of address labels, this will certainly be my route to sharing my expire coupons. thanks again!

Lindzie
August 5th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

I was about to throw a stack of coupons out…but I’m faithfully cutting right now!

Kristen
August 8th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

I’m sending some Monday! I’ve been looking for an address for a very long time.

Tawnya
August 9th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

Thanks so much for the information. I hate wasting these coupons and now I have a use for them.

Sarah
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:29 pm

This is such a great thing to be a part of. It also gives me something to do while I am waiting for my baby to be born. I am starting to like clipping coupons.

Marena
September 13th, 2009 at 10:05 am

This is such an awesome idea! Do they need all types of manufacturer’s coupons? (i.e. dairy, cereal, personal items, etc) I’m clipping all the coupons from the paper right now, making a stack of the ones I use for my family and a separate stack with all the others for the military. I’m going to check with HR tomorrow at work to see if I can get my entire company involved in this. What a simple way to give back to the brave members of our military!

frugalisfab
September 13th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

Marena,

Yes they need all types! The only thing they can’t use is store specific coupons, but they can use most any manufacturer’s coupon. Thanks for your participation!

spoutsle3
November 8th, 2009 at 11:37 am

I thought that I read that they can use internet printed coupons, but here it states they can’t. Do you know if they can?

frugalisfab
November 10th, 2009 at 11:54 am

You know, when I first wrote this post they said no internet printables, but since then I have seen others say that they can accept them, so possibly they have recently changed the rules.

gail
January 13th, 2010 at 8:33 am

i sent mine off to this address but did not know if they were received and did not want to overwhelm so have not been sending; if i should please send a private email to scouter68@yahoo.com and let me know where and i will send them and not keep throwing them away