my notebook – it’s handy and dandy

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 at 3:52 pm

My biggest challenge when I started getting serious about saving money was keeping each particular deal organized, and learning prices of everything. I am by no means good at organization, although I long to be like Monk when it comes to having everything in its place.

Sadly, that’s not happening.

Let us take a moment here to mourne the passing of the greatest TV show ever.

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I really miss Monk.

Anyway, I had to come up with a system to keep everything in order.

Here is what ended up working for me.

Tada! It’s a notebook!!!

It’s about half the size of a regular notebook, with lined pages. It has been laying around with my office supplies for whatever reason. If you don’t have one laying around you can probably find something that will work well at the Dollar Tree.

This notebook houses my price book – a page that lists what a good price is on the most popular things we buy, and has pockets for coupons I’m ready to use. I also keep my deals organized, what I’m buying, what it should cost, what coupons I have, what rewards I should receive…

It’s handy. It’s dandy. It’s my handy dandy notebook.