Free Admission to Colonial Williamsburg

As part of the tribute, Colonial Williamsburg offers special complimentary admission passes to active duty military, reservists, retirees, veterans and their families from Nov. 7-11, 2008. The Honoring Service to America pass includes admission to Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area and museums, including the Capitol, Governor’s Palace and Bassett Hall, the Williamsburg home of Foundation benefactor [...]

A Few Words of Thanks from our Military Families

Here are some emails I have received lately from people who receive your expired/ unexpired coupons….
Just got the first envelope filled with coupons!  It was like Christmas!  I already separated out those that I would share with my dog owner friends (we have cats).  Can’t wait to use on trip to NEX on Friday.
Thank you [...]

Coupons for Troops

I want to start by thanking all of you who have generously donated your coupons to the Coupons for Troops campaign. I appreciate your willingness to support our troops overseas. I received thousands of coupons each week and am able to send them to bases overseas where the prices are higher and money can be [...]

Attention Military Shoppers

Has anyone ever done a price comparison between the commissary and Aldi? I was in a meeting on Friday and someone was quite certain that Aldi was cheaper than the commissary on most items. I have not shopped at Aldi, so I don’t know it this is true. I plan to make a trip in [...]

For Those Who do the Hard Things…

My mom sent me this video last night. It was made by the wife of a Naval Officer (and family friend) for her husband who has deployed for seven months. My neighbor (and good friend) also left this month for a six month tour in Iraq. These men and women leave behind husbands, wives, sons, [...]

Attention Commissary Shoppers

The commissary deals do not change again until September 10th. I have noticed that over holiday weekends sales last three weeks instead of two. You can find the current commissary deals here.

Maxwell Commissary Labor Day Special

A reader emailed me today to let me know about a special on chicken at the Maxwell AFB commissary. All of
their chicken is on sale – basically averaging about 0.85-1.00 a pound – breasts, split breasts, full birds and drum sticks. The gal said it was their labor day special. They were also adding [...]

Commissary Deals Beginning August 21

Don’t throw away your expired coupons…. military families stationed overseas can use coupons for up to six months after the expiration date. Are you stationed overseas and would like to receive expired coupons? Shoppers around the web want to support our troops by sending you their expired coupons. Email me at coupons4troops@comcast.net for all the [...]

Sacrifice

I thought I didn’t have time for a Gratituesday post this week, but then I realized that I had an obvious reason to be grateful today and I couldn’t pass it up. Today I have the privilege of watching one of my closest friend’s four boys. I am sure many of you are wondering why [...]

More Commissary Deals

Thanks to Rita who emailed me about the following deals. You can view all of her deals at her website.
There are two better-than-free items at the commissary with printable coupons – they are not sale & coupon combinations, so they should work for as long as the coupons don’t expire.
The first is a coupon for [...]