Start a Coupon Swap
If you're a coupon clipper, you know how much money can be saved using coupons. But if you have ever sat with the Sunday paper, you quickly find that there really aren't any coupons for things you actually use. What if you could have more coupons? Coupons for things you do use on a regular basis? Here's a way to increase the number of overall coupons you have by trading the ones you don't use for ones you can use.
Instructions
1. The first thing you need to do is find a few people who are interested in swapping coupons with you. They can be friends, family, neighbors or the moms on the bus stop. The more people you have in your coupon swap, the more coupons you can exchange.
2. Since you are heading the coupon swap, you'll need to start collecting coupons. You want to have a really good amount of coupons to start off with. Try not to have ones that expire too soon. Begin cutting them out of the paper as soon as you are thinking about starting a coupon exchange.
3. Once you have your participants and your coupons ready to go, you need to develop a system for passing the coupons from one person to the next. You can do it by mail, but for this you'll need a list with names and addresses for all of the people in the swap. Or, if it's a neighborhood thing, you can just pass it in person.
4. In addition to a list of who is participating and the coupons, you also need to include some instructions so each person that receives the envelope knows exactly what to do with it. You also need to set a time limit for each person to pass it on.
5. Each person that receives the envelope can take out as many coupons as they want or need. Then they need to replace the same amount of coupons they took out with coupons they have collected. When the envelope leaves each person, it should have at least the same number of coupons it had when they received it. Anyone can add more coupons, but they cannot take out coupons without replacing them. Once they are done, they pass the envelope on to the next person on the list.
6. This is how it works: You collect 100 coupons and find eight people on your block that want to participate. You give the envelope to Mary, who is the first person on your list. Mary looks through the coupons and finds 12 she would like to use. So she removes those 12 and replaces them with 12 other coupons and then passes the envelope to Jill, who is second on the list. Jill takes out 20 coupons, but puts in 25 new ones, then passes the envelope to Meg, who is third on the list and so on until you receive the envelope back. You should be the last person on the list. Then the process starts over again.
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