Follow these steps to get started clipping and organizing your coupons.
REMEMBER: more than likely it will take you 3-4 weeks before you really start seeing BIG savings so don't get discouraged! Stick with it and I promise you will soon be SAVING BIG!
1. You will need to somehow get the Sunday paper. (I recommend the Wednesday paper too because this one has the grocery store circulars for the upcoming week. If you are lucky enough to get the Alberson's circular in your paper you can find HUGE savings in there...more about this later.) You can get the paper by going to the store every Sunday or you can contact your local Herald or Sentinel and ask about their deals. You will need 2 copies most weeks so you can either have 2 delivered or you can have 1 delivered and pick up 1 at the store on the weeks that have good coupons.
2. Setting up your Coupon Binder:
*It is a good idea to clip every coupon (unless of course you KNOW for sure you will not use the product). To really save money you can't really be BRAND loyal.
*Get yourself a binder. I use a zip traper keeper. (I will post a picture of it later so you know what I am talking about.)
*Get index dividers and baseball card plastic inserts. (You can find them at Wal-Mart.
*Organize your coupons.
3. Organizing Coupons:
*I sort my coupons first into food and non-food items.
*Food has the following catagories:
-dairy
-produce
-condements
-pasta/rice
-canned
-snacks (chips/cookies)
-cereal
-beverage
-frozen veggies
-frozen snacks
-frozen misc.
-meat
-baked goods
-refridgerated
-Misc. Food
*NON-Food
-food storage (zip-loc, foil, etc)
-laundry
-dental care
-over the counter medicine
-paper products (TP, paper towels, napkins, paper plates, etc)
-air fresherners (yes you will need an entire section for this)
-household cleaners
-beauty (and man) products (deoderant, lotion, shampoo, etc)
-baby products (for those of us that need this)
-MISC
Please feel free to organize the way the works best for you. You might want to organize according to the Publix that you use..however, you will find GREAT deals at Target, WalGreens, and CVS too.
4. Collect, Clip, and Organize coupons for at least 1 month.
5. Check back here for deals and more "how tos"
NOW GET CLIPPING!
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Looking forward to seeing pictures of how you organize. That's my problem...I have never found a good way to organize coupons and I forget I even have them, so they expire before I get around to using them.
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