 Man, that's a lot of coupons. A million dollars worth to be exact. UPDATE - make that 3 Million!!
I'm very excited by this, so I have to brag for a minute.
Back in January 2005, I approached dh's vets organization looking for help in $ for postage for sending expired coupons overseas to a base in Japan for our military families, and they loved the idea. The project just keeps growing and growing. We're now sending to 6 different bases with more people on this end contributing coupons and some small fundraising attempts to help with even more postage. I usually put together a bag or two of free stuff to raffle off at all of their meetings and I have a donation can down at the Vets Club too.
Anyways, I mailed off a 16 lb. box this morning to Japan, and with the total face value amount in that box, we've hit the million dollar's worth of coupons total. 
The project has grown so much over the past few months that I can't even guess how quickly before we get to the 2 million dollar mark, but I know for sure it won't take us another 3 years to get there.
Just to give you an idea, our totals for the entire year of 2007 was 26 boxes totalling $404,461.23 and so far for 2008, we're at 8 boxes totalling $149,532.76.
So yay for us!! And yay for all the military families that we are helping to save money!! Oak Ridge Detachment Coupon Project : Home
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re: Man, that's a lot of coupons. A million dollars worth to be exact. UPDATE - make that 2 Million!! 
Jenny
Daughters, ages 5 and 2, and our son, age 1. Back home with us August 2011 after an attempted adoption August 2010. So thankful!
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