I'm going to keep this short and sweet:

The original winner of the Coupon Box giveaway has not responded to their email - so I am drawing a new winner:

The new winner is Erin! You will be receiving an email from me shortly.

I should resume posting on a regular basis again shortly!

With all that the holiday season has to bring, one thing I need more of is time! I will be posting some pictures of our tree and some of the decorating we've been doing soon!

Congrats to Jennifer (jennyrg73@) who was chosen by Random.org as the winner of the coupon box giveaway!

You will be receiving an email with instructions on how to claim your prize.

For all the rest of you, I have made available a PDF file of the tabs I used when creating my box - you can download them here.

If you do use the tabs or make a coupon box, I would love to see your finished product! Leave a comment on this post or here.

The giveaway for the coupon basket closes tomorrow! If you haven't done so already, be sure to head over here to sign up!

The Coupon Box - this is the method I have settled on, and I'm pretty sure I am going to stick with it for a long time! I use envelopes with a card sticking up on top all inside a wicker basket lined with fabric. Since I cut out most of the coupons I get, I have a pretty extensive list of categories for my envelopes. All I do is cut the coupons out once a week and file them, if I see something I will most likely use, I put it in the envelope for the store I plan to use it at, and write it on my list. During the week when I am doing coupon listings on the blog, I will print out some of the ones I think I can use and file them either in the correct envelope to use later or right into the store envelope if I know what the regular or sale price is.




Some of the advantages about this method are: the box is small enough that you could take it with you to the store if you wanted, without being heavy or extremely bulky. All of the coupons are organized by how broad or specific you make the categories. Since you are clipping the coupons, you should have a general idea of what you have. You can usually use what you already have lying around your house to make one of these boxes (or for very cheaply buy a basket and envelopes at the dollar store, along with your newspapers for the week).

The only drawbacks I have about this system is that: if my basket tipped over, I would have a bunch of envelopes all over the floor, and you can only stuff so many coupons into an envelope before you start to tear it.

If you would like to see and/or use the tabs I made for my box, click here

The above picture is my coupon box, and I want to end this series of Coupon Organization with a giveaway! One reader will win a fully made coupon box, pictured below, like mine (I will customize the tabs to suit the grocery stores around you)!



The giveaway will be open until 11:59:59pm CST on December 10th 2009. The winner will be announced on December 11th, 2009.

How to enter:
1. Leave a comment telling me what your current method of coupon organization is
2. Subscribe to the RSS Feed
3. Blog about this giveaway, and give the URL to the page where you blogged about it



The winner will be notified via email and have 48 hours to respond with their mailing address or a new winner will be chosen. The winner will randomly be selected from all eligible entries using Random.org. Each person is allowed up to 3 entries into the giveaway, any additional or duplicate entries will be deleted.

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I don't know how many of you got to see the entry here, but here is a snippet

Since opening the giveaway, I have won more points and have decided that there will be a 2nd winner for 50 points. The winners will be announced on Friday, Nov. 6th.

Well since then, I have actually won another 25 points - so now there are 3 winners instead of just 1!

Winner of the 115 points is entry #8 huntandride@
Winner of the 50 points is entry #4 Kbroderi@
Winner of the 25 points is # 19 haydensmommy05@

You will be receiving an email from me shortly with directions on how to claim your prize!

Thank You to all who entered! There will be another giveaway in a week or two.

The giveaway will be open until 11:59 pm CST, Nov. 5, 2009. Make sure you sign up!

Since opening the giveaway, I have won more points and have decided that there will be a 2nd winner for 50 points. The winners will be announced on Friday, Nov. 6th.

The original giveaway has not changed - there will still be a 115 point winner and a 50 point winner.

I have 115 My Coke Rewards Codes to give away! This giveaway will be open until 11:59 pm CST, Nov. 5, 2009. One lucky reader will be announced on Friday, Nov. 6th

How to enter:
1. Leave a comment telling me what you are saving your points for
2. Subscribe to the RSS Feed, and leave me a comment in the form telling me you did!
3. Blog about this giveaway, and give the URL to the page where you blogged about it




Disclaimer: This giveaway is not sponsored by Coca-Cola. The codes that will be given away are ones that I have either won or collected.

The winner will be notified via email and have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. The winner will randomly be selected from all elegible entries using Random.org. Each person is allowed up to 3 entries into the giveaway, any additional or duplicate entries will be deleted. The winner will be emailed the codes, and I will mail the game pieces to you for your records.

The comments to this post have been closed, if you have any questions please send an email to shining.light.webmaster @ gmail . com (remove spaces).