Kimberly Gager, who lives in San Antonio, Texas, has been collecting coupons for five years, so when Hurricane Harvey ripped through Houston she thought she’d put her skills to good use
A woman with a knack for couponing is putting her skills to good use by using her knowledge of deals to help Hurricane Harvey victims in need of food and necessities.
Kimberly Gager, who lives in San Antonio, Texas, has been collecting coupons for five years, so when Hurricane Harvey ripped through Houston she thought she’d put her skills to good use.
She said that she saw please online for diapers, wipes, formula and other supplies and decided to take action.
‘I said you know what? I can put these coupons to good use,’ she told ABC News.
‘I don’t have babies, so I usually throw those away. But I can go buy this stuff for them and put it to good use.’
Gager reached out through Facebook to ask her friends and family members to for donations, which immediately started pouring in.
She told ABC News that she saw please online for diapers, wipes, formula and other supplies and decided to take action. ‘I said you know what? I can put these coupons to good use.’
Gager reached out through Facebook to ask her friends and family members to for donations, which immediately started pouring in
She then used that money to buy the goods, which were then distributed to the hurricane’s victims.
The mother-of-three said it was a mix of people coming to her home to pick up the supplies and her delivering them by hand, and that she thinks she has so far helped over 30 groups and families.
She posted about her trips to various stores on her Facebook, sharing photos and videos of the vast stacks of supplies she was able to buy.
Pictures showed stacks of diapers, baby food, baby wipes, shampoo, toilet paper, toothpaste and other hygiene supplies lining her shopping carts, the trunk of her car and the floor of her home.
She posted about her trips to various stores on her Facebook, sharing photos and videos of the vast stacks of supplies she was able to buy
Pictures showed stacks of diapers, baby food, baby wipes, shampoo, toilet paper, toothpaste and other hygiene supplies lining the trunk of her car
Gager told ABC that she was inspired to offer up her services because she can empathize with Harvey’s victims, having lost her entire home in Newport News, Virginia when Floyd hit in 1999. A photo show piles of diapers lining the floor of her home in San Antonio
Gager thanked people for giving on Facebook, and said many of the people who gave were people she has never met.
‘I’m sitting here in amazement. WOW!! I’m just a little country girl with a loud mouth and a big heart!,’ she wrote in an excited Facebook post.
‘I had a vision and all of YOU helped make that vision a reality.’
She also said that as long as the donations keep coming in, she will keep buying and sending supplies.
‘I don’t plan to cut it off until I know that people are OK,’ Gager told ABC News.
‘Something as small as a bottle of body wash, stick of deodorant or a tube of toothpaste, I know how that felt during hurricane Floyd, and people are so grateful for that.’
Gager thanked people for giving on Facebook, and said many of the people who gave were people she has never met
Gager told ABC that she was inspired to offer up her services because she can empathize with Harvey’s victims, having lost her entire home in Newport News, Virginia when Floyd hit in 1999.
‘It was horrific. I lost everything in the flood. I was living in military housing at the time because I was in the Navy,’ she said.
‘The entire apartment complex was flooded. I was looking at all the stories and pictures of houses and everything under water in Harvey and knew I had to do something.’