My coupon organizer!

My friend, Karly, asked my to post a picture of my coupon binder, so here ya go! I found this at a garage sale for like $1.00 but have seen them at Walgreen's or Walmart. Just get one with pockets and one that zips up so you don't lose anything.

Here is what this baseball card holders look like that I use to organize each section with. Just buy regular old baseball card holders and put a few in each section. I found mine at Shopko.

You need dividers, probably several packs. I divided mine into these sections: baking, canned, treats\snacks, frozen, meats, refridgerated, condiments, side dishes, cereal, beverages, cleaning, laundry, paper products, razors, toothpaste, misc health and beauty (female "stuff", deodorant, medicines, first aid), soaps\lotions, hair products, makeup, and baby.

When I get my inserts from the Sunday papers, I put them in piles like this.

Then I make piles of the same page so I only have to cut each one once. There are 5 of each coupon page in each pile and I just get cuttin'. Then I put them in my binder and I am ready to rock and roll. It may look like it takes a ton of time, but it really doesn't. Maybe 30 minutes if I am taking my time. I usually take my binder to the store with me and have an envelope with the store's name on it so I can keep the coupons I will be handing the checker handy and not be flustered, looking all over for a certain coupon. Any questions? Ok, try it, you'll love all the money you will save and love all the food that fills your house!

Why I love couponing:

*I don't pay more than .50 for name brand cereal. When it goes on sale for $1.00, I bust out all my cereal coupons and get like 20 boxes for dirt cheap.

*I generally pay .75 for my cleaning products. Walgreen's is the best place I've found for buying cleaning products. They put them on sale a lot and do rebates for them, so I stock up there.

*When they put out a "try this for free", I get to try it 5 times since I get 5 Sunday papers and get 5 sets of coupons each week.
*I get free stuff all the time when I see it's on sale and use a coupon. I got Tyson chicken packages free since there were coupons out saving you $2.00 off each pack and I found the ones that were priced $2.00 or less. I wish they'd put that one again. That was so cool.

*I have enough Electrosol dishwasher packs to last me for like a year since they put out a coupon saving you $2.25 and I got some for .09 by getting it on sale for cheap at Target. I traded for more coupons and my friend gave me tons of hers so I totally scored with that deal.

Anyway, I love couponing. I'd love to convert you all to couponing................