THANK YOU-1st Shipment on it's way.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for your generous donations - over $2,500.00 this year! We have been VERY busy sorting and prepping our packages. Thank you to EVERYONE that has contact us. Thank you to our volunteers. Some of us would still be under mounds of slips of paper. We will have a breakdown of our donors value amounts purely for fun and acknowledgement that we appreciated ALL of our donors. Our donors personal commitment is incredibly helpful and allowed O.C.K. to reach our goal. Your assistance means so much to us but even more to Overseas Military families. We look forward to exceeding our goal in the New Year. Thank you from all of us.

Operation-Coupon Prep-Update

We just wanted to send off a quick note. We are very busy with Coupon Prep work for the past 2 weeks. We are very excited to package and tally up to reach our goal and assist those that are fighting for us. Please check back for update next week when we ship. Thanks sooo much for all those that have donated. We are also excited to announce our new sponsor to assist in the mailings. Have a great week.

Operation-AWARE-$90.00 Savings from P&G products

P&G Brand SAVER coupon booklet value of $90.00 will be in these "local" papers on November 29th.

To find out if P&G Product Savings is in your area please go to this website: http://www.pgeverydaysolutions.com/pgeds/brandsaver-coupons.jsp and follow the instructions.

Operation-Coupon Prep

This week we start Coupon Prep which will last until 2nd week of December. We are trimming off excess paper, sorting(by category and value) all the coupons that have been picked up locally and/or received by mail. By the end of the week, we will have a tally towards our goal of $5,000.00 by April 2010. Look for update towards end of the week.

How can I help? Recent email question-

As you are going through your coupons over the weekend and weeding out the ones you don't want and/or are expired, remember our troops and their families that are stationed overseas. They can only accept regular manufacturer's coupons like from the newspaper inserts--no special "in store" coupons or internet printed coupons. Also remember to look at the products that you have purchased for redeemable coupons. Please remember that there is mailing time for these packages, so we try to use expired coupons that less than 3 months old. Spreading the word to your family, friends and co-workers of what your actions are to assist us with Operation Coupon Karma.

Welcome-Operation.Coupon.Karma

If you’re like me and have a ton of expired coupons just taking up room do something better than throw them away. Did you know you can send expired coupons to military families, who can use them for up to 6 months after the expiration date? Either did I, but I loved the idea. I connected with a family overseas about 6 months ago to send my coupons too. Then a couple of my friends and neighbors started adding their unused/expired coupons to my shipments. Well my overseas family is returning to the States yet we want to continue. We came up with Operation.Coupon.Karma and sent out a request for help to our different networks. We have set a goal of $5,000.00 coupon value to be sent overseas by April 2010.

If this sounds like a program you are interested in, but are too busy to sort and add, we would be happy to take care of that for you. Together, we are helping our military families stretch their hard earned money.

This is how we run Operation.Coupon.Karma to ship timely packages to our overseas military families.

-Pickups in local area are monthly scheduled dates. Mailed coupons, which do not need to be sorted, are accepted anytime.

-Coupons prep-volunteers trimmed off excess paper, sort(by category and value).

-Fill out customs forms. Secure proper mailing envelopes for international travel--delivery time varies per Military base location.

-We send to ALL those serving in the Armed Forces…so we can rotate each time, Navy then Army, etc.

The prices in overseas commissaries are significantly higher than those in the States and military families do not always have access to coupons in newspapers and inserts. Military commissaries overseas accept coupons up to six months past the expiration date. We would like expired coupons to be less than 3 months old to allow the military time to use them. We also will take unused current coupons to add to our totals.

Thanks (in advance) for sharing the savings!