Some people like to clip their coupons and store them in baseball sleeves you can also order some tabs to seperate the sleeves out by categories. You can use some of the categories here to get you started then start inserting your own categories for your personal needs. You can find tabs like this on Amazon here or find some at your local stores.
Avery Write-On Tabs, 1.75 Inches, 48 Tabs (16143)
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Avery Index Tabs with Printable Inserts, 1 Inch, 25 Tabs (16219)
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Example Categories:
(Pick what you can use then add what else you need)
Baby Items
Bags
Baking
Bath
Bedroom
Beverages
Breads
Breakfast Food
Cakes
Candy
Condiments
Cookies
Cosmetics
Crackers
Dairy Products
Dental Products
Deodorants
Desserts - misc.
Dishes
Feminine Products
Film
Foot Products
Frozen Desserts
Frozen Dinners
Frozen Veggie's
Hair Products
Household Cleaners
Ice Cream
International Food Products
Jam and Jelly
Laundry Products
Lawn Care
Meat
Nuts
Oil for Cooking
Pasta
Peanut Butter
Pickles
Pizza
Pop Corn
Potatoe Chips
Rice
RX - Drugs/Vitamins
Salad Fixings
Sauces
Seafood
Soups
Spices
Stuffings
Syrups
Toilet Paper
Vegetables
Waffles
Folders
You can use folders to seperate each weeks ads into 1 folder, If you only get 1 paper you could just put all that weeks ads into the folder and date the folder. When all the ads from that folder have expired you can recyle the folder and use it again. If you buy multiple papers you could use 1 folder for each ad of the week like for example 6/5 Redplum, 6/5 Smartsource.
Sheet Protectors
This is my personal method that I use as I have tried the obove methods and they do not work well for me. Each person will be different so you might want to try each method to see which you prefer. I buy at least 6 papers each week and between what I buy and what I get from friends or family I have usually 8-12 papers. So I take my ads and seperate each page from it and so I have a stack of Redplum page 1 then I insert each stack into a sheet protector so its showing coupons on the front and back. If there are no coupons on the back of a paper I will put it aside until another stack does not have a back coupon and then I will put them back to back. Then I use my nifty tabs to mark the date on the first page so I can quickly flip to that weeks date and look thru the ads.
Avery Write-On Tabs, 1.75 Inches, 48 Tabs (16143)
File Accessories & Folder Accessories)Avery Index Tabs with Printable Inserts, 1 Inch, 25 Tabs (16219)
File Accessories & Folder Accessories)Binder
There are several types of binders you can for most couponers swear by a zippered binder. If you plan on taking your binder with you to the store I suggest a zippered binder. However for my method I just use plain 4 inch binders. I currently have 2 of them. Before I coupon I sit down and make a list which helps from unexpected spending also allows me to make sure my plan goes thru without a hitch and I am not guessing what I am supposed to be doing while the line behind me in checkout is building. Once I clip my coupons I organize them into my small coupon purse that I carry in my purse.
