Managing Inserts

[PennyLyons]

I usually end up with 10+ inserts from dumpster diving. After 3 or 4 months I start at the bottom of the pile and go thru page by page and cut the ones that have not expired.

Is there a way I can pull a particular insert and see if there are any still active without going thru page by page?

[RosieG]

Originally Posted by PennyLyons I usually end up with 10+ inserts from dumpster diving. After 3 or 4 months I start at the bottom of the pile and go thru page by page and cut the ones that have not expired. Is there a way I can pull a particular insert and see if there are any still active without going thru page by page?

I just Heidi the same thing and she told me to put the date of the insert in the database (mm-dd-yy) and it would pull up coupons still active. No coupons, toss the insert. FYI: the oldest insert I kept was 03-15-09.

[Lori1969]

Thank You!
I do the same thing as penny.
You have no idea how much time you just saved me!!
Awesome feature!
Thanks

[ILv2Shop]

Nevermind. It's working now. Thanks for sharing Heidi's tip.

[GirlieGirl]

Originally Posted by PennyLyons I usually end up with 10+ inserts from dumpster diving.

Where? How?
Our local Sunday papers are taken back by the person who delivers them if they arent sold by the following Sunday. So where do you go to find them??

[pwetypweas]

Originally Posted by GirlieGirl Where? How? Our local Sunday papers are taken back by the person who delivers them if they arent sold by the following Sunday. So where do you go to find them??

A lot of people get them from other people discarding their personal paper -- so like Joe Blow buys a paper, reads it, could care less about the inserts and tosses them into the recycling bin - tadaaaaaaaaa free coupons for an enterprising couponer :)

[Benichole]

We have alot of senior citizens in our church. We ask them to bring us their leftover coupons after they are done clipping them. We in turn will provide them with some free items here and there. They love it.

I tell all my co-workers to bring me their leftovers. I do the same thing with them. Give the some free items here and there or give them the coupons they need for an item. I have been getting inserts pretty regularly now.

I also buy 3 papers a week.

I also scrounge through a recycle bin in the neighborhood.

I get plenty of coupons this way!

[GirlieGirl]

Recycling centers!! I must be dense for not figuring that out sooner. Theres actually a nice small recycling place right here in my teeny tiny town.
Thanks so much ladies!