I am a coupon nut. Each Sunday, I purchase the newspaper and clip ALL of the coupons. I also occasionally purchase All You magazine at Wal-Mart because it has $30-$40 of good coupons in every issue. Another thing that I do is send off for a lot of free samples, and many of them send me coupons. This adds up to a LOT of coupons (and a lot of money saving!) Some are discarded into my "Can't Use" envelope, where I distribute them among friends and family. I save most and file them into my coupon caddy. I initially knew that I would have a lot of coupons to keep track of, so I came up with the idea of a coupon database. In Microsoft Works Database, I have created a document that has these headers: Brand, Terms of Coupon, Expiration Date, and Quantity (how many of each that I have). This takes a little bit of time each week to enter the new coupons, but it has saved me a ton of time when I am looking at sale ads and want to know if I have a corresponding coupon. Also, you can print out a copy of your database to take with you so that you can easily know in a store whether you have a coupon. Works for me!
2 comments:
Great idea! Listen, you might want to subscribe to All You. It's much cheaper that way, and even using one or two of the coupons pays for the magazine--making it free!
I will have to share this with hubby...we are big coupon collectors too and we were just talking about how we need to get them organized so we know what we have!!!! Great post. our WFMW is up. :-)
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