A price book is compiled of pages with lists of items you purchase and the price you paid. This is a wonderful tool because then you know what a true sale price is, and how often sales happen.
I am working on redoing mine since it was years old and the prices were out of date. Price book pages can be found here, and are a free down load. Just print off how ever many you need.
Once you have your pages printed out it is up to you how to best use them. I make a separate page for each item. For example, Milk has its own page. I record how much, such as a half or full gallon, the date, the cost and the store where I bought it. I take the info from my receipts.
It may surprise you to know that it is not always the big guy stores that have great prices! Just 2 weeks ago we found milk on sale for $2 a gallon (have not seen that price in a couple years here) at the tiny mom and pop grocery up the road. Usually I can find milk for about $2.50 in town. So while that .50 may not seem like much, once you add in the $6 in gas to drive into town and back again, vs the drive 5 miles up the road... the savings add up more quickly!
Now my coupon binder is combined in my price book and with my homemaking binder which i am also working on. I use a combination of card pages for holding baseball type cards and photo pages. I use the ones the photo slides in, not sticky ones. Yes I knwo that should be obvious but I have met people who did not think so.
On one of the pages I label a month, coupons that expire that month go in that page and the ones behind it up to the next months page. Then, each month I move the previous month to the back of the binder so the first coupons I see are the ones expiring soonest. For example now my September page is in front, on October 1st I will move it and have October in front. Right now my once thriving binder is nearly empty. I got out of couponing and am just now trying to get back into it. I will try and get some pictures of my binder up. I have not had time lately to take pictures!
Well they are predicting heavy rains for today and tonight! My allergies are agreeing! I love rain but I do not like the head full of wet wool it gives me!
Hugs and have an awesome day ladies!
Organization is the key. Sounds like you are on a roll. Good luck couponing!
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