Couponing Lesson 1 - Organization

OK—it’s time for your first assignment! We will be collecting coupons this week, so we need to set up a place to store them so that we can find them. Here’s my post on my blog about my system-- http://memphismommies.blogspot.com/2009/06/couponing-lesson-1-organization.html

Here’s a picture of my file box: http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s166/janeysotherstuff/MVC-781S

And this is my friend Coral’s video of her coupon binder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNorXLOhab4

There are more videos of other people’s binders and systems in You Tube too, if you want to check out all the options.

Regardless of which you choose to start out with, you can change it up as you go along as your needs change and grow. I am considering trying the binder method just so that I can compare a binder vs. a file box.

Stay flexible with the categories you make up, because you will find that they will change as you see which coupons you tend to collect more of. You may need to break a category down into more specific categories later as you get more coupons.

We will start collecting coupons when they come in the mail tomorrow (for Memphis folks) and then on Sunday.