Hello Coupon-lovers! I've been involved in couponing (on and off) since the 80's. In fact, I still have my original copy of Cashing in at the Checkout by Susan Samtur. I have numerous couponing DVD's. I, loyally, get two newspapers every Sunday so that I can have a cache of coupons. What I haven't had going for me was a viable coupon organizing system, haven't had until now, that is. My early coupon organizing efforts were culminated in an index card/small brief-case type container.  In theory, it seemed like a good idea, and I was making it work (sort of) until the unthinkable happened, and in an odd calamity of errors , the entire coupon file, turned over and it was a complete disaster.

Most recently, I decided to try a clip-less system, whereby entire coupon flyers, organized per each month by date.  Clip-less system was a Use-less system for me.  There was this do not touch sort of attitude with this system, so I didn't touch them, save to put them in the file. The tempting aspect of this system was that there is an online (free) database of the coupon inserts, so one was to search database for specific items. I spend scads of time at my computer, so I thought this might be a new approach for me to an age old problem---organizing my coupons for use. However, volumes of inserts went by without my touching them and soon, I wasn't using any of my coupons, which were, nicely organized in the file folders for searching through the database.

I had been eyeing another system online for nearly a year. It was called the Couponizer.  I kept going back to the site and was helpless to understand how a system, so simple, could accomplish for me, what a coupon attach, a computer data base, a hanging file folder, four loose-leaf filled with baseball card pockets (yeah used that one too) were unable to do for me. But, one day, my husband (God bless him) ordered it for me. That was a week ago. Last week I went through my tome of (mostly expired but neatly organized by date) coupon inserts and clipped what I could salvage. Saturday, my husband and I used the Coupon Stacker with the Couponizer and put away our coupons. Filling the Couponizer was accomplished with such ease, I wondered if we were really finished. On the strength of the Coupon stacker, I devised a sub-category coupon stacker for coupons that I use only at Drugstores. This leads me to my story about actually using the Couponizer to save money. It's a small story , about a very little amount of money. 

On Saturday, after sorting our coupons into the Couponizer and my Couponizer-inspired drugstore-coupon organizer, my husband and I were driving home. I had been meaning to pick-up dishwashing liquid for nearly a week and it had slipped my mind each time. So when the CVS sign we were passing flashed Dawn dishwashing liquid 96 cents, we pulled in. Then I remembered I had 1 (yes ONE) Dawn coupon in my organizer. My husband (who had helped in the coupon organizing) remembered it too.  One little coupon for 50 cents.  So we culled through the Household cleaning segment and found the one coupon. As it happens, when I went into CVS, I scanned my ECB card and learned that I had two Extra-Care Bucks as well. So we ended up getting three bottles of Dawn dishwashing liquid, for 44 cents. I was tickled. Walt (my husband) was thrilled!

Just today, we made another CVS run and came home with $90 worth of products for $60. So for us, the Couponizer system does, indeed work. My next purchases from the Couponizer site will be Couponizers for gifts for family and friends who are into or want to try couponing.  Thank you for your good works.