If you have tons of coupons and cannot use a lot of them give them away. Why not start a coupon exchanges in your community it helps everyone? Money saving coupons are so needed for buying groceries at your local grocery when money is tight.
We all have to buy groceries for our families or ourselves, and each week it seems more expensive. Today when the price of food is soaring we have to so everything we can to save wherever we can. One way we can do this is by exchanging coupons.
Starting a coupon exchange is easier then you think and it will benefit others within your community as well. If you are involved with a community group such as a church or parent group then approach those in charge with a coupon exchange program.
The idea of this coupon exchange program came about because too many of us have access to coupons we cannot use. Think about some of the coupons you have seen, they may have been good value coupons but you could not use them so you did not clip them. They went to waste. There maybe a shopper on the other side of town who could have used it, but it is gone now.
First, you need to have a central point where others can come and sort coupons. In every town, there is a church basement, which is perfect for this event. There are long tables and plenty of chairs to lay out money savings coupons. Once you have, places picked out and have asked the person in charge for their permission to use the facility then you will need to make a notice about the coupon exchange.
Your notice can be hand written or create it on your computer. It needs to say what the event is, such as a coupon exchange for everyone. Make it eye catching and add an email address or phone number. Ask that people bring clipped coupons for exchange so the coupons are ready to go and you will not have excess garbage from the excess paper.
When your notice is finished, you need to hang a few copies in highly visible areas. Some places such as; grocery store, library, or laundry mats have a bulletin board you can hang a notice on. Some places you can freely hang a community notice but not everywhere so use your own judgment. Also, tell your friends and family about this event, perhaps they will help you as well.
You can also call your local cable company and ask them to do PSA, which is a public service announcement. Most cable companies for community events do this free as a community service. The PSA should be simple are very much to the point.
Then you will need to gather as much coupons as you can to have as a starting point and this can be easier then you think. My friend Becky used to deliver the Sunday newspaper, which are crammed with coupons for everything. Some of the subscribers did not want the coupons so they told her to keep them. She got a ton of coupons this way and saved lots of money of items she used for her family and she gave tons of them away to anyone who wanted them. Perhaps your local newspaper has some left over from unsold papers that they will give you, this will reduce their garbage.
On the day of the event, show up a bit earlier then everyone else so you can sort the coupons into piles for organization. Piles do not need to be brand specific, they just need to be item specific so that they can be found easier.
When your visitors bring in coupons, you can place them in the correct piles, this way they can browse, and your piles will stay organized.
This coupon exchange will benefit anyone who participates, and you are more then likely sure to have those who take more then they give that is an unpleasant fact of life. Hang a sign that polity says this is an exchange, bring ten take ten or something to that effect.
With any new event such as this, you learn by trial and error. As time goes one more people will participate in it. The organizer should take unused coupons home and put them in a safe place until next time.
