Mission Organization: Week 18 – My Coupons

I’m not a big couponer, but I do use them on occasion, for example, last week when I bought the Lint Lizard for cleaning my dryer, I was very happy that I remembered to use my store coupon. I always look through the circulars that come with the Sunday newspaper, and I clip out any coupons for products that I routinely use. My downfall with coupons is forgetting to use them. I clipped these two not long ago for products that I always buy, and I laid them on my kitchen counter.

They laid on the counter and expired because I forgot to take them with me when I went to the grocery store. Sometimes I even have coupons in my purse that I forget to use because they shift to the bottom and get lost in the black hole.

My mission this week is to organize my coupons so that I can keep up with them and use them before they expire. I know that I could buy some kind of coupon organizer, but I decided to look around the house and try to use something I already had.

I found this little photo album that had come from Walmart when I ordered copies of prints. It looked big enough to hold the few coupons that I would carry, yet small enough to easily fit in my purse.

The first thing I did was to print out an identifier sheet to slip into the first page. I used some pretty colored paper and a large font.

Then I used these stick-on tabs from my desk drawer to divide the book into sections. I kept the headings general and made four sections – Food, Health/Beauty, Laundry, and Stores.