Couponing: Using Your Filing System

Here's how to use the supplies listed in the Starting Your Filing System post.

*Filing "Cabinet" - this is probably self explanatory. You're going to file your coupons and you need a place to put them. Organize by date.
*File Folders - Pull all the coupon inserts from the Sunday paper. Place them in a file folder labeled with the date. Put files in the Filing Cabinet.
*Envelopes - You'll start to acquire loose coupons because you'll find them in product packages, tearpads in the store, peelies (the ones you peel off a package), clipped from magazines and many other places. Plus, you'll have printable coupons too. You need one envelope to take with you to the store with all the coupons you plan to use. The other envelopes will be used to organize your loose coupons. Create categories similar to the sections in a store, health & beauty, baby, household (cleaning, paper products, etc). Sort your loose coupons into these envelopes. Some people prefer to use a 3-ring binder with baseball card holders so they can see the coupons as they flip the pages.