Going on a train ride!!!

WHOO HOOO !!!
At Smart Canucks site there are these coupon trains, people send coupons to trade. It is very involved lots of rules and I think there might even be a secret decoder ring needed.

Trains normally require a good trade rating, which because I am new I don't have, but this train is different it is a Learning Train, I wonder if Thomas the tank, or the Little Red Engine pulls it. We are all new except for the conductor.

From what I have been able to piece together trains are started by the conductor then each person on the train adds to and removes coupons at agreed amounts but on this learning train, instead of sending the coupons from one person onto the next and so on, the coupons get sent to the conductor then she sends them out to who they are meant to go to.

Then everyone rates everyone else..... still unsure of how to do that, so if we don't mess up our trade rating goes up.

I use to love those surprise bags when I was a kid, my Daughter did to, and this has that same felling to it, you just know there is something good inside, but not entirely sure what.

Fun when shopping.

Today hubby and I went out and picked up a few things at Save on Foods, we took the transit to and from the store. By the time we had dropped off library books, picked up a paper at the corner store and finished putting into our cart the things we needed from Save on Foods, we realized we had 45 mins to wait till the next transit, even accounting for getting our five items through the cash we knew we had a bit of a wait so, we went on a scavenger hunt.

We hunted down coupons, it was fun, hubby has a pretty good eye for finding them and once the whole concept was changed from gathering coupons to hunting them down and capturing them, he was really on board.

Lots of times in stores I think I've walked right by the coupons sticking out from the shelves not even noticing them. I bet there are a lot of people who are the same way, funny how a bit of new knowledge will change how we perceive the world we live in.