They style you pick is like a pair of shoes, you have to go with what works for you. I use a Binder. But this week we are gonna go over all the different way to organize your coupons.
Buy a Quality Binder
- Invest up-front in trusted name brand binder
- Use an office supply store coupon to lower out of pocket expense
- Best time to buy: August and September at Back-to-School sales
Two Methods: By Date or By Category
- By Category
- More time up front, less time shopping
- Smaller binder needed (2-3 inch)
- By Date
- Less time up front, more time getting ready to shop
- Larger binder needed (5 inch)
- Look for a binder with a crease to be able to expand if needed
Supplies
- By Date
- Tab dividers to separate by week
- Sheet protectors, 100+ pages
- By Category
- 9 pocket baseball sleeves. We recommend about 60 pages.
- Pencil pouch
- Small pair of scissors
- Calculator to estimate total cost or figuring price per unit/ weight
- Writing utensils
How to Start
- Tear apart inserts at seams and stack like pages
- Staple pages together
How to Organize
- By Date
- Write dates that insert came out on each page
- Insert each page into its own sheet protector
- Put junk ads back to back to save on space
- By Category
- Cut out each coupon from stapled pages
- File coupons within categories
- Â Figure out what you categories are going to be. Write them on the tabs.
- You can use tab dividers for each category for easier sorting
- Sometimes coupons will need to be cropped or folded to fit
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