In a comment on my post about trashing old coupons a reader sent me this link. It is to a blog post about a program that helps overseas military families by sending them expired coupons.
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.
The nice lady that runs the blog and the program is a military wife who spent time …

I hate to throw away free money, but it’s hard to figure out what coupons you’ll need and which ones you won’t.  But don’t let this deter you from one of the BASIC steps of couponing…CLIP ALL COUPONS!!!.
Every couple of weeks, after clipping all the coupons from the Sunday paper and planning the menu for the week, I’ll go through all my envelopes and discard the expired coupons.  It’s just one of the steps to go through to keep your coupons updated and organized.  Eventually this will become part of …