A Spring Service Project

Let’s join Highlands Homeschoolers as they collect coupons to send to military families. The first collection will be on Easter Park Day on April 22nd. Have your students help you locate, clip, and organize manufacturer coupons to donate. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Clip all manufacturer coupons that you receive in the mail or in your newspaper or that you find in your grocery store. (Internet coupons are often not accepted due to forgeries)
2. Military families can use expired coupons, but they cannot be over 2months past date when you bring them for collection.
3. Organize coupons into two groups: food and non-food (We will have a box for each)
4. If you are really getting into it, count the amount of savings in the groupings and mark with a slip of paper and wrap with rubber band, or mark the outside of plastic baggie. (Great math activity)

So many of us clip coupons to save for our families, and we can help these precious military families enjoy the same benefits.

“Here at home it’s easy — our papers arrive full of coupons. Overseas, for military families, it doesn’t. But the military stores on their base where they shop accept manufacturer coupons from here – even expired ones. So we can all pitch in to help these amazing man and women and families reduce their grocery bills. Especially when they are living in countries with currency exchange rates off bases that are better than the dollar, meaning their small money does not go as far as it would at home. For example, off base, a military family’s dollar is worth following:

• England: 65¢
• Germany: 72¢
• Japan: 90¢

So every dollar you can help them save in their on-store base store, makes their American dollar worth more to them for things off-base.” – Troopons™