I'm sure I am not the first to think of this, but here's a way to organize all that stuff that piles up on your kitchen countertop. You know what I'm talking about: Coupons, store ads you want to keep, and the like.
I realized today that they come in four categories:
1. Restaurant coupons
2. Grocery coupons and ads
3. Coupons and ads for non-grocery stores (e.g. shoe stores, Home Depot, etc...)
4. Things to do (you know, ads for local events and such)
So, what I did was took all that stuff and divided it between 4 folders that now are nestled in with a collection of cookbooks on our kitchen counter. Now, when we are thinking of going out to eat next Friday, we just look and see what sort of coupons we have in the "Restaurant" file instead of having to rifle through everything (if we had even been able to find it in the first place!). We can do the same before a trip to the grocery and when we are wondering what to do next week.
