Coupon Wallet
Coupon Wallet
We see coupons in newspapers, magazines, fliers, inserts from companies like Valpak, and even through the Internet. Some companies will send you additional discounts when you register with them. Frequently we each save more money with a shoppers card. My birthday was recent and we received quite a few additional discount offers.
We sign up for a shoppers card or the shoppers club at all establishments that we think we may sooner or later return to someday. Everyday we get one or two emails for discounts from these sources. I'll print down the ones we will probably use and delete the rest.
I'll tear out coupons that I think the household can use in all newspapers, magazines, and junk mail we have delivered to the house. If a pair of scissors are available, I'll use them.
We used to keep all coupons in a pile in the kitchen. Sometimes we had three or four hundred coupons stacked together. The main problem was many coupons expired and were no longer useful. The next problem was that if we were looking for a restaurant coupon we also had to go through all of the grocery coupons also. Sometimes we had friends in the house who were coupon traders and they just found the pile of coupons and went through all of them thinking that we already used those we were going to use and cherry picked a lot of good coupons for themselves.
We recently bought a coupon wallet and suggest that everybody also invests in one too. A coupon wallet is about 7 or 8 inches long and 3 or 4 inches wide and come with several sections like a loose leaf binder. We put grocery store food coupons in the first section, grocery store non food in the second, restaurant coupons in the third, coupons for miscellaneous things in the next, and coupons to trade with others in the next. You may find this organization good or you may use your own.
We found that we bring the wallet into the house to add coupons, weed out expired ones, and to pull the ones we want to use while shopping that day. We also found it useful to bring it in the car each time we take the car out because you never know when you may need a coupon such as to eat out.
We also found that most shopper clubs give you both wallet sized and keyring sized id cards where we have opted for the keyring size and carry about twenty of them around with us. We also believe in adding additional family names to the same shopper club account. That way if the offer is a free turkey with $250 worth of purchases and each buys slightly more than $125 worth of groceries, they are still entitled to the free turkey. Always use the shoppers card even if you do not think it will save you any money...you never know.
A coupon wallet makes things a lot easier. It does save time. I think we maximize using our grocery coupons now. We almost always use a coupon when we go out to eat saving money. We save more money each week with the wallet than before we had the wallet.
We see coupons in newspapers, magazines, fliers, inserts from companies like Valpak, and even through the Internet. Some companies will send you additional discounts when you register with them. Frequently we each save more money with a shoppers card. My birthday was recent and we received quite a few additional discount offers.
We sign up for a shoppers card or the shoppers club at all establishments that we think we may sooner or later return to someday. Everyday we get one or two emails for discounts from these sources. I'll print down the ones we will probably use and delete the rest.
I'll tear out coupons that I think the household can use in all newspapers, magazines, and junk mail we have delivered to the house. If a pair of scissors are available, I'll use them.
We used to keep all coupons in a pile in the kitchen. Sometimes we had three or four hundred coupons stacked together. The main problem was many coupons expired and were no longer useful. The next problem was that if we were looking for a restaurant coupon we also had to go through all of the grocery coupons also. Sometimes we had friends in the house who were coupon traders and they just found the pile of coupons and went through all of them thinking that we already used those we were going to use and cherry picked a lot of good coupons for themselves.
We recently bought a coupon wallet and suggest that everybody also invests in one too. A coupon wallet is about 7 or 8 inches long and 3 or 4 inches wide and come with several sections like a loose leaf binder. We put grocery store food coupons in the first section, grocery store non food in the second, restaurant coupons in the third, coupons for miscellaneous things in the next, and coupons to trade with others in the next. You may find this organization good or you may use your own.
We found that we bring the wallet into the house to add coupons, weed out expired ones, and to pull the ones we want to use while shopping that day. We also found it useful to bring it in the car each time we take the car out because you never know when you may need a coupon such as to eat out.
We also found that most shopper clubs give you both wallet sized and keyring sized id cards where we have opted for the keyring size and carry about twenty of them around with us. We also believe in adding additional family names to the same shopper club account. That way if the offer is a free turkey with $250 worth of purchases and each buys slightly more than $125 worth of groceries, they are still entitled to the free turkey. Always use the shoppers card even if you do not think it will save you any money...you never know.
A coupon wallet makes things a lot easier. It does save time. I think we maximize using our grocery coupons now. We almost always use a coupon when we go out to eat saving money. We save more money each week with the wallet than before we had the wallet.
posted by God Bless America - Bob at 11:52 AM
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