Mish Mosh Crafting: I'm Miss Organized Coupon Keeper

Dear Readers,

I'm sorry to have abandoned you during the past couple of months. It wasn't intentional, I swear. If it makes you feel any better, I neglected my personal blog for quite sometime, too.

To make up for it, I thought I would share my coupon binder. (Yes, I coupon.)

Now, if you're thinking,"Why a coupon binder? That's not crafty."

You're right, however - my part of crafting is the organization behind it.

Today, I was at Target and a lady came up to me & was wondering what I kept flipping through. (Either, 1.) I was that loud flipping, 2.) I wasn't really talking in my head, but aloud, or 3.) she had been following nearly every aisle.). I explained to her it was my coupon binder and it's how I keep it organized. She said she had NEVER seen a coupon binder like mine.

Here it goes:

I have nearly 20 sports card sleeves in my binder. My brother & I grew up collecting football cards, so these aren't in short supply here! On Amazon.com - they have a pack of 25 for around $5.

I separate my coupons by "department" & by category. My departments are health & beauty, food, household/kitchen items, store specific coupons, restaurants, receipts, and miscellaneous. For every department, I split up the categories. Example would be in health & beauty, I have a sleeve for bandages, body wash - female, body wash - male, deodorant - female, deodorant - male, etc. It's alphabetical and if I ever need to update or change out a category I rip off the labels and reorganize the sheets. However, it's always easier to write down a list of categories first.