How To Organize Your Coupons- Organizing 101

Sharing is caring!

There are many ways to organize your coupons but you will have to determine what works best for YOU!
Here are a few ways and only you can determine what works best:

• Binder method – putting all coupons together in a binder with clear plastic baseball card type inserts
• Envelopes/Shoebox method – each envelope has a category then put in a container of you choice.
• Expanding file – each tab as a category (some even use multiple for different stores)
• Box – there are small boxes to large boxes – all have tabs for categories

Next is to Label your categories.  You can go as detailed as you want or as general as you want.

General Categories:

• Frozen
• Refrigerated
• Boxed
• Canned
• Bagged
• Paper Products
• Cleaners
• Bathroom:  toothpaste, haircare, deodorant, hair color, mouthwash, pads (this is the largest category I have the most coupons in so I would sub categorize this one)
• Makeup
• Restaurants
• Recreation (toys etc)
• Pets
• Misc -batteries etc…

Detailed Categories:

• Air Fresheners & Candles
• Baby
• Bags
• Baking
• Batteries
• Beverages
• Bread
• Candy & Gum
• Canned Foods
• Cereal — General Mills
• Cereal — Kashi
• Cereal — Kelloggs
• Cleaners
• Condiments
• Crackers
• Dairy
• Frozen
• Health Food
• Hygiene — Dental
• Hygiene — Other
• Jelly / Peanut Butter
• Makeup
• Meat
• Medicine / Rx
• Mexican
• Office Supplies
• Paper Products {T.P., etc.}
• Pasta
• Rice
• Salad Dressing
• Seasonings
• Sauce
• Snacks
• Toys
• Vitamins

Here’s what NOT to do:
Don’t alphabetize them! You will never remember where you put it.
For example, if you have a Charmin Bathroom Tissue coupon you will never remember if you put it under C for Charmin, B for Bathroom, P for paper, T for Toilet etc….

 

You may also want to make other tabs for Stores that you normally shop at for their specific coupons:

• Bed Bath & Beyond
• Craft Stores
• CVS
• Photo Deals
• Safeway/Randalls
• Target
• Walgreens
• Wal-Mart

Now when I am shopping I put all the coupons to the front of my coupon basket standing up so that I know which ones I plan to use.

I hope this article helps you stay organized!

Happy Shopping iSavers!