Organizing coupons

**QuilterMom** · 05-27-2002, 11:26 AM

I use the binder method (a notebook with baseball card pages - put the coupons in the card slots so I can easily see what I have). I get my coupons from the Sunday paper and a coupon train that I'm a member of. Sometimes I print coupons from www.coolsavings.com

**CAGmomof2** · 05-28-2002, 06:39 PM

My Coupons come from several diffrent sources!!

I usually put my coupons in a small rubbermaid shoebox organizer!!
Then after I go through the coupons that I am going to use for the Grocery Store I then put them in a Idex Card Box and take that with me to the store!! I then at the store put the coupons that I used in either an evenlope or a organizer so I don't get those coupons mixed up with the ones that I am not going to use on that Shopping trip!!

**simplemom** · 05-28-2002, 07:10 PM

Kahana! I like the way you keep your coupons! I never thought of that.

I keep them in my purse in a plastic clear accordian filer.

**keilley** · 05-31-2002, 06:30 PM

I finally have unearthed myself. I got a small binder (dollar store) and organized my coupons alphabetically. It is working well. I keep it in my bag all the time. I am surprised at how much I can add to my grocery saving by combining coupons with sale items. Thanks ladies! My dh thanks you all too.

I also joined the coupon train. I refuse to throw out any coupons but I can't afford to save all that money. LOL! Choo! choo!

Keilley

**bmiltimore** · 06-29-2002, 12:16 AM

I have now realized that these flimsy envelopes are not going to cut it for organizing my coupons. I need to get some sort of "caddy" to put them in so I can easily look through them while shopping.

How do you all organize your coupons? Do you use something from a store? Something you made yourself?

I'd like to hear from all of you how you stay organized.

Thanks!

**aylasmommy** · 06-29-2002, 12:53 AM

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3016149

this is what I use, I have two of them and it fits all of my coupons but would need another one for trading and expireds to save for Albertsons..

I don't forget about the coupons though just because I'm always sending out sharing envies and filling people's wishlists so I look through each section quite a lot.

Oh by the way, the 'envelope' system was my first way of organizing

Until they started ripping and getting holes in them I though ewww no no no no

**summercat** · 06-29-2002, 03:44 PM

I ordered the coupon box from a refund magazine I received a few months ago and it works great for me. It has divider cards with the months on them and it can hold thousands of coupons in it.

**Bevv** · 06-29-2002, 03:50 PM

I use a 4x6 pocket photograph album. It is probably a bit over six by nine inches total. It has two pockets on each side of the page. I use postit stickys to make lables. This works for me because it is easier for me to flip pages than to page through the traditional coupon holders.
My coupons are sorted by products.. like Laundry, dish, frozen. refrigerated, etc and the pages are placed in order of the aisles of the store that I use the most. They also can be alphabetica,l.

The album is a binder style, so I can add pages. I have a cler zipper pocket in the front to carry the "hot" coupons, coupons I might need but have not sorted... etc.

**QuilterMom** · 06-29-2002, 04:02 PM

I use the binder method.

http://pages.ivillage.com/lwmsavon/l...dtips/id2.html

**AmyBoz** · 06-29-2002, 04:06 PM

When I first started, I had a 3-ring binder that had baseball card holding pages in it. (My Dad used to collect them and had 100's of extra pages.) I organized them by products. It got to be too much of a hassle, though, and I never remembered to go through and find expireds. So, I traded the binder method in for a small coupon expandable thingy, much like what aylasmommy uses, except it's for coupons, not checks. I find it much easier. Yes, at times it gets overflowing, but it works for me. I have a separate coupon expandable thingy for the coupons that I use, not trade.

**simplemom** · 06-29-2002, 04:43 PM

Bevv,

I like your way! I`ll try it. I`ve been using a plastic transparent expandable filer but I find your way very good because it`s more visuale for my eyes.

Thanks!

**Bevv** · 06-29-2002, 05:05 PM

Here is info I just found comparing a binder system and a filing box system

http://www.couponstocroutons.com/Org...%20Coupons.htm

**AmyBoz** · 06-29-2002, 07:11 PM

Bevv, So, I read the article and the comparison chart, and now I'm thinking I should go back to the old method! Darnit!

**AmyBoz** · 06-29-2002, 07:22 PM

Originally posted by aylasmommy
http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3016149

expireds to save for Albertsons..

You are able to use expired coupons at Albertsons? Is that right?

**aylasmommy** · 06-29-2002, 07:37 PM

Yep amy

Only the cashier I had when I used them, didn't notice that all my coupons were expired..and they went through just fine. But when he told me i couldn't use one due to the things I bought being b1g1f, he also said " and anyways it's expired"

I had just called that morning to verify that yes they did take expireds up to a year (manufacturere coupons only)
Talk about lack of communication with your workers lol!!!