{getting back into couponing} Day 1~cleaning out the binder and organizing

I don’t know about you, but I really fell off the coupon bandwagon the last quarter of the year. I was doing ok, and then I don’t know what happened. Looking back at my holiday expenses, I definitely need to get back into it. Our holiday spending wasn’t totally out of control or anything, but I know I could have done better on the food spending at least.

So what I’m going to do is a baby step program. Little steps, day by day, until I’m back into a decent, manageable routine.

This is what I’m doing today–just cleaning out my coupon files. That’s it, pretty easy. Just cleaning out all expireds since today is a great day to do it. If I have anything that may need attention–a mail in rebate to be done, some Pampers points or Huggies Rewards to be entered, just putting those in a little pile in my desk drawer.

My coupon file is pretty new and in good condition, just needs to be dusted off-literally!

I’m also going through my desk-the printable coupons that I printed but never cut, the piles of inserts that never got clipped. Looking at what is expired and what isn’t. Tossing what is expired, putting aside what isn’t.

That’s it, that’s all I’m doing today. More tomorrow.