Starting A Coupon Binder

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Starting A Coupon Binder

After several weeks of printing coupons, and allowing them to pile up, I decided it was time to restart my coupon binder.  Since this is something I used to do, it was second nature pulling it all together, but my friend saw it and started asking a million questions, so I’m going to share with all of you what I shared with her.

Supplies Needed

• 3-ring binder that zips closed
• dividers
• baseball card sleeves
• currency sleeves (these are my favorite – if you only get one type of sleeve, get these)
• photo sleeves

Building the Binder

1. 1. 1. First, come up with a list of categories for your coupons.  Below are the ones that I use.
         

         Beverages	Snacks
         Canned Goods & Soups	Baby
         Cereal & Breakfast	Pets
         Condiments & Sauces	Cleaning Supplies
         Dairy	Laundry
         Ethnic	Health Care & Nutrition
         Frozen Breakfast, Fruits, & Desserts	Hygiene
         Frozen Meals & Vegetables	Paper Products
         Pasta, Rice, Grain, & Bread	Refuse & Storage
         Produce, Meat, Deli, & Bakery	General

      2. Create a tab divider for each category.  Based on my list, you would need 20 dividers.
      3. Place the dividers in your binder.
      4. Begin clipping coupons!  You can get coupons in the Sunday newspaper, but you can print them as well.  My favorite website for printing coupons is Coupons.com as they have the largest variety of coupons of any of the sites, and I have never had a problem with the coupons on their site printing from my Mac.
         
      5. Sort your coupons and put them in your binder.  I don’t put the sleeves in my binder until they have coupons in them.  For the smaller coupons that you get in the Sunday newspaper, I use the baseball card sleeves.  For the larger rectangle (almost square) coupons, I use the photo sleeves.  But my #1 go to for all printable coupons, and most of the ones I get in the newspaper, are the currency sleeves. 

And that is it!  You have now created your very own coupon binder.  You can take it with you while you are at the market, and can easily flip from category to category as you walk the aisles looking for deals, or you can keep it at home and flip through pulling the coupons that you need as you plan out your grocery shopping trips.

How do you organize your coupons?