Tips Organizing / Storing Your At Home Coupons / Inserts, Etc. - Page 19

maryccc · 08-13-2009, 10:39:21 AM

I cut all mine up and use a big CD case and put my cut coupons in it organized by category. I used a pencil holder for all my coupons I may be using soon. I've tried every system but so far I like the cd case better than the binders.

Nurse Tanya · 08-14-2009, 05:15:09 AM

Originally Posted by politjunkie

and not for the stockpile, but for the coupons themself. I have only been doing this for about 4 weeks and i already have 2 3" ring binders completely full. Its getting to the point where im thinking of getting about 5 of them and use one for different catagories. Its just insane that they are taking up this much room (and time to keep them straight).

Someone needs to come up with a better method of organizing. Problem really is that each sunday I get between 40-80 insert sets and after they are cut up and stored they take a lot of space.

I like having them cut so i dont need to hunt them down and cut them later. I have read the organizing thead and i have adopted the baseball sheets in a 3ring binder book, but does anyone have so many 3 ring binders it becomes hard to keep track of them?

Where do people get so many inserts?

*deb* · 08-17-2009, 02:53:54 PM

That is exactly what I was wondering as I was reading this thread!

thickbluebug · 08-17-2009, 03:03:40 PM

To stockpile for their family

To Donate to church pantries or food missions

To share with family or friends...I have 2 family members that have lost their jobs & 2 that are deciding if they want food or medicine with their money

To help teachers out with school parties

To have neighborhood parties

Mainly - I am just a pig and if it's free I want it

organization:
I am only cutting what I know I will use and putting those in my check bookfile accordian.
The rest are being stored in hanging files in the car. That way if something is on clearance I can go back to the car and pull and cut the insert

ladycat00 · 08-17-2009, 04:01:08 PM

Originally Posted by thickbluebug

I am only cutting what I know I will use and putting those in my check bookfile accordian.
The rest are being stored in hanging files in the car. That way if something is on clearance I can go back to the car and pull and cut the insert

My hanging file with inserts and All You is at home, and when I am looking for a coupon that may or may not be in them, I use the database here to see if I have it, and where it is.

If you carry them in your car, HOW do you find the ones you want without having access to the database to search?? :shrug7:

The only ones I carry are the clipped ones that are in accordian files. I can find those by category.

ladycat00 · 08-17-2009, 04:06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Nurse Tanya

Where do people get so many inserts?

I've wondered how the coupon clipping services get many hundreds (or even a couple thousand) copies of the inserts.

Just the thought of dealing with that many is enough to give me nightmares.

lilacmay · 08-17-2009, 04:08:03 PM

There is those of us who have access to Recycling Centers or really knows our paper carries and get the extra's from them.

thickbluebug · 08-19-2009, 04:50:25 PM

I print a master list of each weeks inserts and put it in the beginning of the file (have to make changes since my inserts are diff amts),
Over the years I have done the master lists different ways. Sometimes in front of each weeks inserts, sometimes in a folder, sometimes I 3 hole punch the coupon list and put it in a binder.
Also If I am close to a wifi I plug in on my lap tap, I have been known to forget my shopping list or can't remember something - so I wi fi a bunch.

Some can remember what is in each weeks inserts - not me

Originally Posted by ladycat00

My hanging file with inserts and All You is at home, and when I am looking for a coupon that may or may not be in them, I use the database here to see if I have it, and where it is.

If you carry them in your car, HOW do you find the ones you want without having access to the database to search?? :shrug7:

The only ones I carry are the clipped ones that are in accordian files. I can find those by category.

blessedmom · 08-25-2009, 09:36:35 PM

Thanks all for great tips. I was just wondering about how to organize the inserts, by week or by SS/RP, etc... I've also decided to not to cut every cpns in the inserts but I'm getting drowned in inserts and have a hard time finding the cpns I need.