Kohl's Trip + Ebay

About a week ago, I received a promotional $10 gift card to Kohl's for the "grand opening" of the store in my city. I was a little bit confused because I've been living here for about eight months and the store has been around since before my change in residency. But hey, I'm not going to complain about ten free bucks. I also had a 15% off my total purchase coupon. I was a bit unsure if I could use both of them together since there did seem to be some restrictions. Luckily, stacking them was totally fine. I bought two scented candles (pumpkin and Asian apple/ginger). The total cost would have been close to thirty dollars on regular price, but it was half off today, which doesn't surprise me because they're always having "sales". I only ended up paying $2.74 out of pocket, but after I left the store I thought that perhaps I could have paid even less for it. I gave the cashier the gift card first and then I gave her the coupon. I probably should have given her the coupon first now that I think about it. I guess that's all part of the learning process. I was happy about my 25 dollar savings regardless.

I had heard about people actually buying coupons online. At first, I thought it was absolutely crazy...until I saw some pretty great deals. I was tempted to purchase a couple of things yesterday, but funding is kind of low at the moment. I had so many coupons left over from the Sunday paper that I had an idea that I could also sell coupons online. I started the process by clipping everything I had left (which took several hours), organized clipped coupons, put them into envelopes, and set up an Ebay account. The closer I was getting to putting up a listing, the more I started to wonder if it was worth it all. Most people seemed to only buy coupons where you would get items for completely free or with multiples of the same product. I didn't have either one of those. I put about 25 coupons in each envelope and grouped them into categories, so one envelope was kitchen supplies, toiletries, another was beverages and snacks, etc. etc. I was going to list it for 99 cents per envelope at auction. I realized because the coupons were not multiples that I probably wasn't going to have many takers, nor would anyone want to pay more than a couple of bucks for a variety. I wasn't expecting to make actual money off of it, but if I could make a few bucks here and there, it seemed like the thing to do. I was at the very last page to set up the listing on Ebay...and chickened out. I became a bit intimidated and scared when I kept seeing the word "fees" on every page. I'm computer savvy, but not Ebay savvy. I might still go through with it if I'm satisfied with the way Ebay works with sellers, but for now, I'm just not sure spending five hours on something as mind-numbing as clipping coupons. What about you? Would you do it?