Coupon Class

My first coupon class will be help the 21st of February at 10:30 in my Queen Creek Home. If you would like to participate please send me an email to kamscoupons@hotmail.com so I know how many people are coming. The class will also be held free of charge. I am also looking at doing more classes in the future.

Getting Excited about Coupon Shopping

To help get you excited about starting your coupon shopping consider this senario:
Last night I went to Fry's because they were having their Mega Deal where you buy 10 participating items and get 5 off your bill. I also had coupons for everything I bought in the mega deal so it made the items very cheap and lots of free stuff. Here are a few examples:
6 cans Hormel chili beans FREE
4 cans Rotel diced tomatoes FREE
3 mustard FREE
6 steamers vegies FREE
6 lotion kleenix FREE
2 Cottonelle toilet paper FREE
12 pace picante salsa
11 pilsbury crecent rolls
6 popcorn
3 lysol bleach cleaner
2 pert shampoo
3 chex mix snacks
We got 64 items and spent a total of $22.55 and saved over 145 dollars which is an 85% savings.

Tips

Here are some tips to remember when coupon shopping

1) Its okay if you dont get every good deal

2) Only buy things your family will eat, dont just buy because its on sale

3) Wait until things go on sale and use your coupons with the sale items

4) You cant be brand specific but most of the time you get brand names anyways

5) Sales go in cycles so if you dont get it one time around there will always be another sale

Getting Organized

The first step to being successful in coupon shopping is to GET ORGANIZED! There are many methods you can use to organize your coupons. I am sure everyone will come up with their own unique way to organize but here are a few suggestions. The first method is the bin method, the second is the binder method, and the third is my own personal method.

Bin Method

1) File all coupons in bin by using folders with the dates you recieved each newspaper.

2) Most websites refer to coupons by telling you the date (1/18/09) and what coupon stack its in (SS =SmartSource)(RP=Red Plum)(P&G= Proctor & Gamble).

3) Once you know where to find the coupon by date and stack you can clip coupons and get ready to shop!

Binder Method

1) Buy or find a binder and put baseball card holders inside

2) Clip all coupons from newspaper or printables and organize according to category and type.

Example: You would have a baseball holder for cereal and then organize the cereal according to brand such as Kellogg's, Post, Quaker, Etc.. and add these to the different baseball holders

3) Before going to store pull out all coupons you think you will use.

4) Take the binder with you to the store incase you forget or find other deals.

My Method

1) I found an old picture book and organized my coupons in this. The pages are wider and coupons fit easier

2) I then organized my coupons by putting different colored paperclips on the ends of the pages to represent different categories such as freezer items, breakfast, baby, household, etc..

3) I put a color coded key on the first part of the book so I would remember which paper clip is for what type of items.

4) I clip all coupons and organize into the book

5) Before I go to the store I pull out what coupons I want to use and put them in envelopes for the different stores I will be going to.

6) The picture book is fairly small so I always take it with me to the store too.