Today was our first "group" coupon day. We had a few girls come by and help cut and sort the hundreds of inserts we still had to organize. We worked for about 4 hours (of course, stopping to eat and get snacks for Jack) and got almost all of the coupons we thought we could use for donations.

While we were socializing, we decided that it was probably a good idea to keep track of all of the items, including value, of everything that we donate to Churches in Mission. It would be interesting to know, in a year's time, how much we can contribute to help our community! I took a picture of all of the items I had ready as of a certain date, but I know our first donation had way more items thatn what was in that picture. We've decided to say it was approximately $500 worth of items - but I'd say it was more than that.

We went to Kroger after our "coupon session" at Suni's and I purchased 10 Carefree panty liners, 4 Butterfinger candy bars, 4 Right Guard deodorants, 2 boxes of baby cereal, 3 boxes of breakfast bars and a Cottonelle wet wipe (had a coupon for FREE) and spent $8.41 - a savings of 80%!!

God Bless