This is part of the series on Coupon 101 to get you started. Read the entire “Coupon 101 – Common Hurdles to Couponing” series.
Yep, that’s my entire coupon clipping system. There’re not very many coupons that I actually clip without knowing the sales beforehand.
Every Sunday, I flip through the coupon inserts, and only clip coupons I know I’d use, usually canned soup, pasta and yogurt. That took a couple minutes. After that, I use a multi-pocket binder to file all the Sunday coupon inserts by dates, and that’s it. They never saw daylight again until the store circular came out and coupon matching was done for the week.
This is what I do before hitting the drugstores for a worthy trip. I write down what I’m buying, and clip all the coupons together with the note.
Is coupon clipping time consuming and yield little more than a few dollars of savings? I think not. When coupon and sales matching are done correctly, the savings are huge, especially with toiletries (see all the CVS and Rite Aid scenarios).
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Have you heard about the Couponizer??? Is it worth it?
Laura, I’ve heard about the Couponizer, but I’m not a big Sunday coupon clipper so I don’t need an elaborate coupon filing system. I only clip a small number of Sunday coupons – I go hunt relevant coupons down from the almost intact Sunday coupon inserts when the store circulars come out, and I match sales with coupons. Thus I only have a small amount of clipped coupon to file.
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