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My NEW Coupon Binder!

Posted 05-02-2008 at 12:43:24 AM by manystraits

Just had to share my new coupon binder!! For the past few days I have been working on convering my coupon box to a coupon binder. It has been some work but already I love it! It is so easy to see what coupons I have without digging through little envelopes or little slots in my accordian file.

My basic set up is this: I have a zippered 2-inch D-ring binder with LOTS of trading card pages for binders (9 slots/page) as well as a few 4x6 photo pages for binders (2 slots/page), some tabbed index pages and a few regular sheet protectors.

Here is my first page:

This is a 4x6 photo page that holds the coupons I am planning to use on my next shopping trip - one slot per store (one for Dillon's and one for Walgreen's as well as a 2nd page with one for Wal-mart and one for rainchecks - organized by date).

Here are some samples of my inside pages:

Again, each page has slots for 9 coupons. I trimmed some of the coupons so they would fit nicely in the slots and some I just folded so I could see the product name and/or description. I have my binder divided into 14 categories:
refrigerated
frozen
boxed/bagged
canned/jars
cereal
baking
bread
beverages
paper/plastic
cleaning
Health & Beauty
Candy
Misc.
Baby

Then at the very back I have a couple of full-size sheet protectors to hold my restaurant coupons, rebate info, and other misc. goodies.

Also, the front cover of my binder has a pouch to hold a staple puller, scissors, calculator, pen/pencil and small sticky-notes.

This will make planning shopping trips as well as the actual shopping so much easier as I will be able to select a category and go right to a page for refrigerated bread items, or boxed/bagged snacks, or baby diapers, etc. Plus if I spot a great deal at the store then I can easily go to that category in my binder to see if I have any coupons for additional savings!

Well, that's all for now!!

Blessings!

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	Wow! looks great! this looks awesome, so organized and easy to view!.......think i might try this.....where did you purchase the vinyl pocket pages? thanks for sharing your idea!
	Posted 05-02-2008 at 04:23:28 AM by cupunlvr

	i need you i need you to come to my house and do my coupons like yours .. good job
	Posted 05-02-2008 at 02:38:42 PM by jreid0978

	Thanks for your kinds words! I bought the insert pages at Office Max but have heard that you can also get them at Wal-Mart. They are called trading card insert pages and they come in packs of 10 sheets. Blessings!
	Posted 05-02-2008 at 04:00:44 PM by manystraits

	Thanks for posting that with pictures!!! I'm new here and I love the idea of using a binder to organize coupons!
	Posted 05-02-2008 at 05:22:48 PM by okjess

	I have a binder like this too! I just love it! But I am going to steal your idea about have a page with inserts for stores. I always carry them in a envelope which sometimes spills or gets misplaced. Thanks for sharing!
	Posted 05-02-2008 at 08:22:49 PM by MablesTable

	Thanks for posting the pics. Right now I have all my coupons in a large file case in alphabetical order by brand. But, I think doing it in categories is much better. I might adopt the binder method instead, I think that would really help for trades and to take with me while I am shopping.
	Posted 05-03-2008 at 04:08:21 AM by neodymm