ORGANIZE YOUR COUPONS

Don't go run away because you think you have to spend hours and hours cutting all of the coupons out and putting them in alphabetical order in baseball card holders. Talk about way to hard, right? I will teach you an easier way. They way I do it is much more simple. Besides the baseball card way, there are two simple ways and I will teach you both of them.

First- File folder

You get a hanging file folder box and make lables for each of the coupon booklets. (i.e: label for Red Plum (RP), Smart Source (SS) and Proctor & Gamble (P&G) and Misc.) Then on Sunday pull all of the booklets from your newspapers and sick them in the files oldest date to the back of the folder. (So you could have a file named RP and the first booklets are from 3/1/09 then the next RP booklets are 3/8/09 all in the same file folder.)

Second- Binder (I think easiest way!)

Get a 2 or 3 inch binder and some clear paper holders. Then when your sunday papers come you pull out the booklets and put all of them (RP, SS, P&G) in one of the clear holders and mark it with the date.

Then the next week get all the booklets and put them in another clear holder and mark it with the date.

This way it only takes me a couple of min. to get all my books and file them away. (To many kids at my house to take any longer!) Always remember to have a folder or clear holder for your misc. and printable coupons!

Now when you look at the grocery lists you can see it lables all the coupons accourding to date and booklet.

example:

The Goodlife Recipe brand cat treats
-$ .50 / 1 RP 3/8
=unknown

This shows that you will get $.50 off on 1 cat treats, it is found in the Red Plum booklet from March 8, 2009.