My system and my record

Here is how I organize myself. I can't use one of those little filer things...it just doesn't work for me....I have to visualize what's in my book.

I have a regular binder and baseball card inserts.
In the front I put coupons I have to put away.
The first plastic page is things I definitely want to use (Walgreens register rewards, my Target rewards and other things that will expire.


I have colored tabs to separate my binder and only have 5 real sections...I have a simple mind, so I need a simple system. Also, putting them in this format, I see them a lot as I flip through and it helps me remember what coupons I have because I see them all the time.

My brain separates the store into 4 areas where I use coupons the most and that's how I set up my book:

Grocery (things that aren't refrigerated or frozen..cereal, cans of whatever, etc.)
Refrigerated & Frozen
Health & Beauty
Home (light bulbs, batteries, toilet paper, paper towels, ziplocs, etc)

My 5th section is for snacks (candy, soda, chips, crackers and things we don't buy a lot of)

Here's my receipt from my recent personal best savings...



Here's my bags and receipts from my record trip. If you look closely, you can see where the receipt changes about half way down from things I bought to coupons. When I stood the receipt next to me, it went from the floor to my chest.

Coupon Swap

On Friday night Tana and Lisa and I got together for our first swap. We went through tons of coupons that we have, shared websites that we use, and piled up our expired coupons & ones that we won't use. Tana learned somewhere that even expired coupons can be used by military families, up to 3 months expired. I'll see if I can find a link for it and put that up, too.

more to come!

Coupon Swap

I'm hosting a girls night at my house on next Friday December 12th for some of my coupon clipper friends! If you are in the area and would like to join us, let me know and I'll forward you the e-vite!

Thanks!

To
Mom
Grandma
and
Tiff

for saving coupons for me from the paper & handing them off to me while we were in IA!

Walgreens trip and more sites

See my 3rd Walgreens savings on the sidebar. Overall it was my best savings in one trip yet!

If you add the $22 in register rewards (basically $22 in coupons I get to use the next time I go) I saved $66.43 off my bill of $104.15! That means I saved 63.7% because of the specific things I bought in the ad, my coupons and the Walgreens coupons I had!

I also added 2 more sites to my sidebar:

Colgate and Penny Pincher Gazette