Super-Couponing Swaps in Chicagoland
The Super-Couponing Swap is your local coupon club – a place to drop in, trade coupons, spend time with other coupon lovers, and share stories of great deals!
The following Illinois locations are currently participating:
NEW Huntley Swap!
Huntley Area Public Library
11000 Ruth Rd., Huntley, IL
Beginning Wed. March 30th, 2011 at 7pm, and continuing each month, on the last Wednesday of the month.
Round Lake Area Public Library
906 Hart Rd. Round Lake, IL 60073
Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Joy Community Presbyterian Church
108 S. Lakewood Road, Lake In The Hills, IL. 60156
Wednesdays 7-9pm
Indian Trails Public Library - Wheeling, IL
2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month, 7:00pm-8:00pm
Gail Borden Public Library - Elgin, IL
1st Wednesday of every month, 6:45pm-8:00pm
Any of these still active,
Any of these still active, particularly in the NW suburbs?? I wasn't able to make the Elgin Library last year, and it looks like they stopped after a few months.
Huntley
Huntley's begins March 30th at the Huntley Area Public Library - I posted a note about it in the Forum last week, but I should probably put it here as well. I believe it's from 7-8pm, and the library has been saving all of their back inserts from the paper for months in anticipation of this -- participants will have access to all of their inserts to clip from too :)
Swap Info
I'm considering Elgin since it's next week. Which coupons do you typically bring to a swap? How does the swap work? What were the best coupons you found at a swap?
Round Lake Area coupon swap
I'm very interested in attending the Round Lake swap. Do I need to register to attend on April 3rd? Is it open to anyone?
Drop in
It's drop in and open to anyone :)
next meeting is tomorrow
Our Next Swap is tomorrow night, Wed March 3rd from 7-9 at Joy Community Church. Anyone is welcome!!
Joy Community Link
If anyone is interested in the one at Joy Community the link is www.joycommunity.org for a map and more info. Thanks so much Jill for posting.
Joy community Coupon swap
This is really close to my house. Thanks!
Huntley Library - March 30th
I need to add this to the list, but the Huntley Area Public Library (Ruth Rd., Huntley) is also holding them on the last Wednesday of the month. The next one is March 30th at 7pm.
Really interested
I am really interested in going to the one in Wheeling...What do I need to know going in? How should I separate my coupons? Can I bring expireds? Can I bring Cats I won't use?
If you have gone before, let me know what the expectations are...I would appreciate it!
This made me realize I forgot
This made me realize I forgot about tonight's swap! OOPS! hehe life got in the way, as usual... But the folks at the Wheeling swap are wonderful!
My biggest suggestion, to make things go faster while you're there is to bring a pair of scissors with you and try to clip the Qs you won't be using and separate them into envelopes or baggies or something (even paperclips could do the trick) - anyway, separate them by categories similar to Jill's suggestions for folder categories (pet, baby, grocery, paper goods, etc). Then you can just drop them in the right box, very quickly.
Also, try to have a list handy of what Qs you really want and which inserts to look in. Some of the folks bring folders filled with full inserts, so that's nice. IF you wanted to, you could take your inserts and let the other leaf through them (could get hairy if a lot of inserts end up spread out on the table, but that's your call. I sometimes bring my inserts and tell folks I will clip whatever they want out of them FOR them, to keep things in order...)
HTH and hope to see you at the next swap :o)