Today I put together the second coupon train I have conducted. I am a part of 2 different coupon train groups and am really enjoying it.
Don't know what a coupon train is? Well.... Have you ever gotten a paper, or a magazine and noticed that it's full of coupons you can't or won't use? There are probably a few of the coupons that you would love to have 10 copies of, but the rest you could do without? As it turns out, there are a lot of people out there that don't want the coupons you would love to have and are desperately searching for those coupons that you don't want. So....
A coupon train is a group of usually 4-5 people. The "conductor" on a train (the person who creates the train or at least is the first passenger and thus responsible for filling it with the initial set of coupons) fills the train up with coupons they can't/won't use and sends it on to the next passenger on the list. On and on it goes, until the last passenger sends it back to the conductor. Some trains only go around once and some are never-ending.
Personally, I prefer to ride and conduct ISO/Wishlist trains. ISO stands for In Search Of. Passengers on the trains have to make a list that they send to the group of the coupons that have come out in the paper the past 2 weeks that they are looking for. When you don't have enough ISO coupons to send to the next person you can fill in with Wishlist coupons. These aren't specific, but a general list of products you use and could use coupons on.... Tyson chicken, Pillsbury biscuits, etc.