Helping Your Community: Part II

Yesterday I posted about helping with food drives in your neighborhood. This next way to help your community isn’t event-driven or time sensitive. For me, it’s a new way of living. I’m always wishing I had more time/money/opportunities/ideas to help people. I usually come up short but this time God gave me an idea that is easy to do, costs me fractions of a penny and doesn’t take much time at all. It’s like coupon swapping, but without getting anything in return. I guess we can call it coupon blessing.

I love couponing. I often visit websites that you can print coupons for free (just the cost of paper and ink for your printer) and ocassionally find coupons in magazines. So my collection of coupons is growing. But there are so many times that I see coupons I don’t need or find that a coupon is about to expire that I’ve already printed but won’t end up using. So this is what I’m doing. I’m taking those coupons and as I’m shopping, I put them next to the item. Not hard to do, not timely to do and definitely not costly to do. But imagine how happy someone will be when they go to buy that item and find a coupon sitting there just waiting for them. It’s like putting money in your neighbor’s pocket.

I know some places have bins for coupon swapping but that takes time to go through and sometimes I feel weird taking a coupon or 5 (lol) when I haven’t contributed anything. But this…this idea I like. I challenge you to do the same. Imagine how awesome it would be if a lot of people started doing this? So many people would be blessed.

Want an even CHEAPER way of doing this? I have 1 question for you: Do you get the Sunday newspaper? The newspaper is loaded with coupons and I’m sure you just end up throwing out the ones you don’t need. How about clipping them and bringing them along next time you go grocery shopping or to a pharmacy? CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Walmart, Supermarkets…so many places take coupons.

Have kids? Bonus! You can make a game of it AND teach them about giving and blessing others.

Anyway, I’ll be doing this and I hope you’ll join me.  As with all things, a little can go a long way.