Get Yo’ Sh** Together

Being Organized is extremely important. If you cant find your coupons, how are you going to take advantage of the hottest deals? The 3 of us love the binder method (but use whatever best works for you).

Binder Method:

This method can be some work but you will always have your coupons with you. You will need to cut and file your coupons every week, but when you find clearance or an unadvertised sale you will be prepared.

Supplies needed:

• 1 1/2″ – 3″ Binder
• 50+ 9-pocket baseball card pocket sleeves
• Construction Paper (optional)
• 24-32 Plastic Divider Tabs
• Plastic Pockets (optional)
• Zippered 3 hole pouches (optional)

1. Cut construction paper into squares small enough to fit into the baseball card pockets. Put one square into each pocket of all pages. These make a great divider to put coupons on each side. You will be able to see which slots are empty much more easily and not confuse the back and fronts of coupons.

2. Set up your Categories. Use whatever works best for you. You will be the one using it. Just to get you started, here are the categories (in order) that I use:

1. FREE
2. Dairy
3. Paper Products
4. Laundry
5. Cleaning
6. Dish washing
7. Smellies
8. Condiments
9. Baking
10. Bread/Pasta/Sides
11. Cereal/Breakfast
12. Snacks
13. Candy
14. Canned/Jarred
15. Beverages
16. Meats
17. Frozen
18. Produce
19. Face/Skin Care
20. Body Washes
21. Deodorants
22. Lotions
23. Hair
24. Shaving
25. Girlies (Fem care)
26. Oral Care
27. Drugs
28. Vitamins
29. Cosmetics
30. Baby Items
31. Toys
32. Misc/Pet

3. Cut and file your coupons. Now they will be all nice and neat and you will have the ability to flip through and see each coupon with a quick glance.

File Method:

This takes very little time. Just file inserts and cut as needed. All you need to do is check out your fave blog, myfave4letterfword.com, for the weekly sales and pull the noted inserts and snip needed coupons. Unfortunately, you may miss out on clearance and unadvertised deals.

Supplies needed:

• File box or cabinet
• 12 hanging files w label tabs
• manilla folders

1. Label each of the hanging files with each month of the year. (Dont remember the months? Here they are (in order): January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.)

2. Label your manilla folders with the date of your inserts as you go and file in the proper month file.

3. Clean out expireds periodically.