Day 9: Coupons

Today's organizing was something I really enjoyed! I came up with a new way to store all of my coupons. 

Before today, I kept all my inserts in a messy pile on the table. As I needed coupons, I flipped through them and clipped whatever I needed. 9 times out of 10, the inserts were out of order and missing pages, and I was letting tons of coupons go out of date!

Here's all the out of date coupons I was hoarding. Such a shame to let them all go to waste! 

To keep them more organized, here's what I came up with. 

I've had this cute binder for a while (thanks Target), and decided to finally put it to good use. 

In the front, I used baseball card holders to organize already clipped coupons. I'll probably keep store coupons, and rain checks here as well. I've tried this method before, and failed miserably. This time I'm only going to clip the coupons and I need them, so the coupons here are ones I will use the next time I go shopping. 

The rest of the binder is just sheet protectors, that hold each individual page of the inserts. Any multiples I have are doubled up to save space! 

I've also labeled the beginning of each insert with a sticky note to make hunting for the right coupon that much easier! I'm hoping that through using this method I'll be able to easily see what coupons I have, and not let any go to waste. I'm also going to try shopping with this bad boy. Every time I go out, I see something on sale that I know I have a coupon for - it's just at home. Lame, I know! Hopefully this will keep that from happening :)