Let's talk- Scissors and Cutting Implements

[JAHokie46]

I've been couponing for a few months now. I get the P&G, RP, and SS flyers in both Saturday and Sunday papers. We get one of each but most of the time I pick up a couple of Saturday papers (it's cheaper) to get a few sets of each flyer.

It takes me a while to cut the coupons. I then started to line up the pages and clip 2 at a time, but by then I was buying 4-5 sets of the paper. If I clip more than 3 pages together, no matter how hard I hold the pages together with my fingers they tend to slip and each Q doesn't get cut exactly the same, and occasionally I'll get a missing part of the code or exp date.

Is there a faster, better, and more efficient way you cut Qs?

[Hoshi]

Honestly, I don't cut them till I need them... I keep them in the insert so I can find them easier.

[MysticWench]

I make my kids do it and buy them treats with the coupons in return.

I have made stacks of 8-10 and cut very carefully in the past.

[couponmom2008]

I use to cut each coupon out and have my children help me as well. But since I have been getting stacks of coupons from a co-worker at my husband's job, I don't have the time or patience to cut them out. So, I don't cut them until I need them. It makes it sooo much easier this way.
I just make sure that once every other night I look through my inserts to see if there is anything that I can use. If there is, that's when I start cutting. I also give my children a stack and tell them what coupon(s) I would like for them to cut for me. They love it!
I realized that cutting the coupons before I am actually going to need them is hard for me to organize and becomes rather messy.

HTH

[tdtowen]

I do the Stack, Staple, Cut method. Somewhere ont the site is a link to a youtube video that shows you how to do it, but basically...

1. Stack like pages of the insert together
2. Staple the pages together at each coupon (not on barcode though!)
3. When you go to cut them, the coupons are stapled together.

I like this method because the coupons are all cut the same and when an item goes on sale, I know exactly how many of that coupon I have.

Works great for me!


**** find the video though... it will explain it better than I just did. ****

[meofcourse80]

fiskars paper trimmer from my craft room. :-)

[carisal]

I get usually 4-8 copies of the inserts.... I just get all the like pages at a time and lin them up (put them together and drop them on the table so they line up) then cut them, if they start to slip, I stop cutting and line them back up. I've only damaged maybe 4-5 coupons by cutting off part of the UPC or the exp. date. I am thinking about starting to staple like coupons together though, because right now my organization is a mess, and I think that will help.

[shelleyf]

[quote=tdtowen;1294502]I do the Stack, Staple, Cut method. Somewhere ont the site is a link to a youtube video that shows you how to do it, but basically...

1. Stack like pages of the insert together
2. Staple the pages together at each coupon (not on barcode though!)
3. When you go to cut them, the coupons are stapled together.

I like this method because the coupons are all cut the same and when an item goes on sale, I know exactly how many of that coupon I have.


Thank you so much for telling about this method. I will have to try it.

[DianeScraps]

I do it the way Sam taught me :-D

YouTube - How to clip coupons

[tharriet]

you might also want to do a search on YOUTUBE for couponing,how to use coupons,etc. i learned a lot about how to keep and store coupons from looking at videos.