My Coupons Finally Broke Me Down...

When I first decided to get serious about couponing, I did a lot of research about a lot of things... What were the couponing rules and etiquette about couponing. I also wanted to know what methods people used to keep their coupons organized.

On the latter issue, I saw that a lot of people use the binder method. People buy zippered binders and baseball sleeve sheets (the sheets that baseball card collectors use to showcase their baseball cards) and place their coupons in there to make it easier to find later. But that was never going to be me. Even though I was going to get serious about couponing, I was not going to carry around that big binder. Just couldn't imagine carrying around this big huge binder that I couldn't hide my little secret from the world.

I started out with a small free coupon holder that my mother picked up from some event she went to. Within two to three weeks, I had out grown that holder. I went back to my mom who had another of the same coupon holder. Again, within weeks, I had outgrown both coupon holders. I was in denial for a few weeks, but after my coupons falling everywhere in the grocery store TWICE because the holders could not stay closed, I finally decided I needed something bigger.

So.... My next step was to look on Etsy where I found someone who made a purse like contraption. It even came with bigger, more sturdier dividers. It was four inches deep which could surely hold lots of coupons. I love my little coupon purse, but it barely took 6 weeks for me to outgrow the coupon purse.

Now that I've gotten this far, I had 2 choices. Get the 6 inch deep coupon purse... Or... *sigh* Getting the dreaded binder.... It took me 2 more weeks of denial fornthe coupons to wear me down. Today, I did it... I brought a zippered coupon binder and 4 packs of the baseball card sleeves. I at least tried to make it cute and got the zippered binder with a handle and a shoulder strap.

The part of all this that made this not as painful? Finding out the zippered binder was on sale for $4 off it's original price since it's back to school season AND realizing I had a $2 off coupon for the binder as well! Getting $6 off the price I was prepared to pay definitely lessened the blow!