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This is really going to be a matter of personal preference. A lot of “professional” couponers swear by using a binder and base-ball card holder style inserts. Some use a photo storage box. I have used the plastic sectioned divider thing that I once used at work. It is much larger than a typical coupon holder that you buy at your craft store for a buck. It’s super durable and has about thirty sections. It has served my needs well (picture to follow at some point!) for a year and I just recently moved to the binder method. When I go throught my stores weekly ads I then move my coupons out of the section in the binder or holder and put them in an envelope with the store’s name on the front. That way I am not taking very much with me into the (especially if I have kids in tow) and will only get what I planned for. Then if I see a really amazing deal I can go to the binder that I left in the car. A word of advice, whatever method you choose make sure it closes. I bought plastic pages for my binder because I was too cheap to invest in base-ball card pages. Picked it up upside down the othernight and had all my coupons fall out and had to chase them around in the parking lot. I still have not reassembled it and all the precious coupons I was able to save are sitting in a bucket, expiring as I write this. Some of the serious coupon sites sell their own binders and you can also find some premade on Ebay. If you choose to do your own consider how much you are willing to carry and how comfortable you are with everyone seeing your set up. A binder does drawn some attention whereas a smaller holder could fit into your reusable shopping bag (that’s how I do it). It terms of collecting coupons, do a google search of the items you use most and send an email to the manufacturer to get coupons through the mail. Also check Ebay. You can get full inserts or just coupons for a single product. I think we will do a post soon about getting started and organizing with coupons so keep an eye out for it. Let us know how you do.

Todd,

I am so sorry we haven’t met yet. I have taken over the site form Danielle as her family has moved away from the area. I will absolutely mention your sale and any other goodies you have come up. I have worked with other kid’s consignment stores and have to say yours is the easiest to deal with! I am still learning my way around the site but feel free to send me any photos or graphics you would like me to use.

Erica

Hey- were you trying to buy 100 tubes and bankrupt the store, lol? Just Kidding! I’ll bet you walked away feeling like a criminal over it, I sure do. I had the same thing happen to me the other day with the Palmolive. I’m looking for a written policy other than a cashier just wanting to mess with you and create rules as they go along. It’s a massive PAIN IN THE REAR when that happens with the buy 10 sales because then you have to scramble and get over charged which I guess is their plan. Nothing irks me more than getting overcharged by $4.50 because the last $.49 item didn’t get scanned. I’m leaning to the idea that Kroger is just not coupon friendly and they want us to take our business elsewhere. Wouldn’t it be nice to find a little consistancy between the stores? The buy 10 events are such a joke for the average shopper but you can save a lot of money if you have the patience to do it. I learned from a reader to always look for the young male cashiers as they are less likely to be difficult. If you do get the nasty hag that hates her life and don’t have your kids along driving you crazy just smile and say fine- split the transactions. If you have the time-make them suffer for their stupid rules. Really, you could spend all night there going from cashier to cashier to use all your coupons and you will still make more money in that time than they will. It’s just unfortunate that Kroger had decided to offend such a large percentage of their loyal shoppers if they are planning to enforce this policy. Springs Bargains has the policy here http://springsbargains.com/print-coupons/store-coupon-policies/king-soopers-faq/
and as you will see a lot of the so-called policies are not widely enforced. For example, how would be know what they consider to be the appropriate ratio of value to item, reading that would tell me that they should not have accepted my $2 Wisk item for the Wisk that was the specified size and on sale for only $3.49. That is the biggest problem with a lot of these stores- cashiers are not properly trained and the discretion is largely theirs so if they are having a bad day, your check out costs more than it did last week. Does anyone else think this is backlash from “Extreme Couponing” displaying how to commit fraud with coupons? Most of us “reasonable” people are not buying more than a sales cycle worth anyways! Ten tubes of toothpaste for a family is not unreasonable! It will last a few months at most and if they keep you happy you will be back every week buying other items that they make more profit on. Something they seem to be forgetting is that they send these coupons back to the manufacturer and get PAID for what we purchased, a lot more than what they paid to get the item to the store. Grrrrr!
Maybe we should start a little underground network to compare which cashiers to go to. I’ve actually said no to certain ones that try to get me out of a longer line. No thank you, Coupon-Colonel’s! I think the majority of us do our best to follow the rules but it is hard when there is always a moving target with the cashiers. Will I see you at King Soopers tonight at midnight collecting toothpaste? I’m going for the Palmolive- 3 at a time:)

Jeanne,

Thank you so much for letting me know. I’m going to try it from a different computer since mine has cookies stored I can’t replicate your problem. Hopefully we can get it figured out and not have you miss out on any of those great Weekly Plus deals. Which particular ones were you ooking for? I might be able to send the links to you by emal and see if that works. I have had issues with my Outlook sending links incorrectly but maybe it will work if I send it from Yahoo. Sometimes it works for me when I forward myself the newsletters and open from a different email source (like Yahoo or gmail).

Erica

The cashier has the option of declining your paper coupons if they notice you have ecoupons come off. You can always go to customer service if you notice the Kroger ecoupon did not come off and they can look it up and give you the cash. If your Cellfire or others don’t come off you can email them and they will send you a reimbursement check.