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From http://www.irs.gov

You cannot take a deduction for clothing or household items you donate unless the clothing or household items are in good used condition or better.

Exception. You can take a deduction for a contribution of an item of clothing or a household item that is not in good used condition or better if you deduct more than $500 for it and include a qualified appraisal of it with your return.

Household items. Household items include:
* Furniture and furnishings,
* Electronics,
* Appliances,
* Linens, and
* Other similar items.

Household items do not include:
* Food,
* Paintings, antiques, and other objects of art,
* Jewelry and gems, and
* Collections.

Plus something on donating food:
Food Inventory Special rules apply to certain donations of food inventory to a qualified organization. These rules apply if all the following conditions are met.

1. You made a contribution of apparently wholesome food from your trade or business. Apparently wholesome food is food intended for human consumption that meets all quality and labeling standards imposed by federal, state, and local laws and regulations even though the food may not be readily marketable due to appearance, age, freshness, grade, size, surplus, or other conditions.
2. The food is to be used only for the care of the ill, the needy, or infants.
3. The use of the food is related to the organization's exempt purpose or function.
4. The organization does not transfer the food for money, other property, or services.
5. You receive a written statement from the organization stating it will comply with requirements (2), (3), and (4).
6. The organization is not a private nonoperating foundation.
7. The food satisfies any applicable requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and regulations on the date of transfer and for the previous 180 days.

If all the conditions above are met, use the following worksheet to figure your deduction.

Looks like she shouldn't be deducting this at all, coupons or no.

I got a whole bunch of stuff that I will tell my wife to donate today. Like DOZENS of boxes of baking type powder. I also have over a hundred bottles of vitamins that I don’t need so we will send them to Venezuela for my in-laws to use for bartering since the Bolivar has been severely devalued. I gave a bunch of my FREE Bayer aspirins to my contractor as part of the bartering I am doing for his services which normally would cost me at least a couple of thousand bucks. He is a friend so over the next few months I will be giving him several thousand dollars more of free stuff. I hope I can get dogfood free because he just adopted a pet dog.