Previous Post. Schedule a time to clip, print out, collect and organize coupons If you use coupons regularly, schedule a time once per week to gather, clip or print out coupons. Use apps to help manage store loyalty cards, digital coupons and gift cards Apps such as Honey help you to find online coupons. Sort coupons by type and expiration date Sort coupons by type first. Next, sort coupons by expiration date or month of expiration.
Determine a way to contain coupons Here are some options for storage products to better organize coupons: A pocket accordion expanding receipt and coupon organizer A pocket sized coupon organizer portfolio A 3 ring binder with page inserts for coupons A file folder and a hanging file for errands and coupons only if you use a file cabinet or desktop file box regularly. Schedule a time to sort and discard expired coupons Schedule a few minutes at the end of each month toss the expired coupons.
Share via: Pinterest Twitter Facebook. She assists residential clients throughout the area in organizing homes, decluttering, moving, and managing time. Comments Wow, Nancy, this really takes me back to the s when I was a serious couponer! I hope Gyft can help one of your future clients. Key Ring is wonderful. It has had reduced my loyalty cards at bay. To this day, I still use it. This will help you know which coupons to pull, since you can easily forget what's in there without assistance.
Frankly, even if you clip your coupons these companies which help you match coupons and sales can be a big help and time saver for you, so you may want to look into one. Get free printable here. If you decide to clip coupons, no matter which option you choose below, they both require you to categorize your coupons.
The reason is that once you clip all those little pieces of paper you're just left with big stacks that you can't find anything easily.
I've created a list of coupon categories you can reference, with both main categories and subcategories, to help you get an idea of how you should categorize your own coupon collection.
In addition, I've created a two page printable version of the categories and subcategories you can use as a table of contents in your binder, for example, if you choose that method. I've given a little more instruction on categories in the coupon categories article itself, so be sure to read it and familiarize yourself with the suggested categories when setting up your organizational system as part of this Challenge. Here's where I lay out the two main organizational methods for clipped coupons, so you can choose which one will work best for you.
They are the coupon binder ad the coupon box or wallet. Many people use a coupon binder to organize coupons. To make one, create tabs for each of your main coupon categories see above and dividers for your subcategories if needed , and place them in a large, sturdy three ring binder. Place the coupons in special divider plastic sleeves, such as for baseball cards, or those shown below designed for coupons. Then, carry your binder with you on all your shopping trips and flip to the right page to retrieve coupons as needed.
The other option for organizing clipped coupons is to place them in a coupon wallet or coupon box. Basically, all of these types of coupon organizer systems are portable filing cabinets for your coupons where, instead of retrieving coupons by flipping pages in a binder you thumb through the tabs and fing the coupons where you filed them.
Here's one of the best explanations of how to organize coupons using a coupon box or wallet I've found. I've embedded the video of Carrie Isaac's explanation below because sometimes "seeing" how someone does it makes a lot more sense than me explaining it in writing.
Although Carrie uses a box for her organizational system, unless you do a lot of couponing a simpler wallet will most likely work for you, if you choose this method. To the right is a small expandable file coupon wallet, which is perfect for someone who does not clip many coupons, and therefore does not need to have lots of categories.
It is small and light weight, so it is easily portable and not too unwieldy. You've got to regularly add new coupons and cull old expired coupons from your organizational system, or it will quickly become useless and outdated. Therefore, the fifth step in the Organize Coupons Challenge is to get in the habit of adding new coupons to your organizational system about once a week.
In addition, since many coupons expire at the end of the month get in the habit around the beginning of the month of combing through your coupons to remove all the expired ones. Remember, you can do these steps while watching TV or listening to music, or if your kids are old enough you can enlist their help in these tasks and make couponing a family affair!
Please note that you can donate your expired coupons to military families living overseas , if you're interested.
I've got more detailed instructions at the link. In my binder, I have tabs for each month and I have organized by expiration date. It took me a while to get organized, but when I did it made all the difference. Whatever method you choose to use make sure it works for you and stick with it. I figure that I can always go back to get the item with my coupon if it is that great of a deal.
Plus this helps me stick to my list and budget. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Skip to footer Subscribe for the latest. Organizing Coupons There are lots of ways to organize coupons; the key is to find the approach that works best for you and sticking with it. Organizing Tips There are many ways to organize your coupons. Whichever approach you choose, there are several things that you can do to ensure that your coupons remain neat and accessible: Develop a filing system.
Most couponers organize their coupons by category dairy, frozen foods, deli, etc. Find a filing system that works for you, organize by aisle, by expiration, or category etc. At first, you will be busy with organizing, but once you are done it will really make couponing easier. Find a container to hold your coupons. Use a shoebox, a storage container, a coupon binder, a coupon wallet or a recipe box.
The most important thing is to have a landing spot for all of your coupons. File coupons the same day you get them. Okay, so you may not always have time to file your coupons right away, but try to file them as soon as you can.
This will prevent them from getting lost, and save you the hassle of having to sort through a big mess of coupons all at once. How you organize them should be based on your shopping style.
These are just a few ways you can organize them:. The easiest method I have found to cut all your coupons is to take apart your inserts and assemble a stack of each page from each insert. So if you get four SmartSource inserts one week, take off the first page from all four inserts and staple them together, all four of page two and so on. Then take the stapled pages and cut each coupon out or only the coupons you will or might use. Repeat this method for the rest of the pages and inserts.
This is a time saver as you are only cutting out one time for each page of each insert. The staples help keep the pages together while you are cutting them out. Using your baseball card sleeves or sheet protectors, put your cut coupons in each slot.
You can organize the coupons you cut out in any of the ways listed above. But as I mentioned, I feel the easiest way is to take apart each insert, stack them and staple each coupon. That way you can still quickly find a coupon when you see it listed on a sale list because it is filed the Sunday Date.
This method saves you time from cutting each coupon AS the sale comes up. While keeping your coupons organized may seem like a daunting task there are many tools and tricks to not only help you save time but to keep you organized too.
Let me introduce you to the Coupon Cutter! Watch this short video on how it works!
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