Thursday, October 28, 2004
Continuing in our series of answering common questions from Personworks clients, today we address: where should I put my coupons?
Where should my coupons go?
Coupons are always found after the fact. Sometimes you are lucky and the restaurant will still honor the coupon, but most the time this does not happen. How do you store your coupons without losing them only to find them when they have expired? There are a couple of ways to organize them
Put them into your tickler file under the month they expire. Be sure to put a reminder in your calendar or planner that you have a coupon. For example, if you have 10% off an oil change and you know you need to get an oil change in October, put the coupon in October. Set up an appointment date to get the oil change and add a reminder to bring the coupon.
Purchase a hand held size tickler system and organize your coupons by the expiration date. Again, put the event in your calendar. This is a great thing to carry around. If you are male and don’t have a bag to put it in, leave it in your glove box. For us gals, it may be too big for our purses, so do the same as the men, put it in your glove box
If you only have a few coupons, put them in your wallet and still make an appointment with yourself to use them. Because most of us don’t use paper planners today, we can paper clip them into our planners that is why you will need to send yourself a reminder. (see my article on palm and pocket PCs and how to use them like a paper planer in my November Newsletter by going to http://www.personworks.com/newsletter.htm )
How do I make the time and energy to get and then stay organized?
Coupons are always found after the fact. Sometimes you are lucky and the restaurant will still honor the coupon, but most the time this does not happen. How do you store your coupons without losing them only to find them when they have expired? There are a couple of ways to organize them
Put them into your tickler file under the month they expire. Be sure to put a reminder in your calendar or planner that you have a coupon. For example, if you have 10% off an oil change and you know you need to get an oil change in October, put the coupon in October. Set up an appointment date to get the oil change and add a reminder to bring the coupon.
Purchase a hand held size tickler system and organize your coupons by the expiration date. Again, put the event in your calendar. This is a great thing to carry around. If you are male and don’t have a bag to put it in, leave it in your glove box. For us gals, it may be too big for our purses, so do the same as the men, put it in your glove box
If you only have a few coupons, put them in your wallet and still make an appointment with yourself to use them. Because most of us don’t use paper planners today, we can paper clip them into our planners that is why you will need to send yourself a reminder. (see my article on palm and pocket PCs and how to use them like a paper planer in my November Newsletter by going to http://www.personworks.com/newsletter.htm )
How do I make the time and energy to get and then stay organized?
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