We have always had a place to store coupons, so when we moved into our current home, we decided to have a coupon drawer which would be located near the garage for easy access to coupons. It started off nice and tidy but ended up looking like this…
Such a disaster! We weren’t using any of the coupons because we couldn’t find them quick enough so they were just piling up in the drawer and driving me crazy!
I decided we needed a system for organizing these coupons since we were getting so many! I started by pulling out all of the coupons and organizing them by stores. I was also checking the expiration dates because most of them had already expired.
I then used envelopes and wrote the store name on the envelope. This way, if I had to run to Michael’s, I could just pull out the envelope and go. While I am waiting in line or running through the store, I look through the envelope to see if there are any coupons I could possibly use.
Now putting them all away. I put them all in alphabetical order so I could find things easily, and ta-da! My organized and efficient coupon drawer!
