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I finally got some pics uploaded yesterday that offer you a little tour through my frugal world.  I hope you enjoy them.  We’ll be back tomorrow with a continuation of the How To Coupon And Have a Life series.  In the meantime, enjoy my stockpile pics and coupon binder pics! This is the front of the CouponBinder.  It zips (although right now, I have stacks of coupons to be filed inside of it, so it is a little too full to zip!)  The little front pocket is where I put receipts before I get a chance to take the extrabucks off them or claim the rebates. 

This is a side view of the inside of the binder (like I said, its really overfull right now because of all the to-be-filed coupons.

 

These are the dividers I use.  As you can see, they are labeled by category. Each of my CVS cards has its own section, and then different types of coupons (Med/Pharm, Oral Care, Skin Care, Hair Care, Drinks, Breakfasts, etc.

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These are the pages in the front.  They are the big document pages, and they contain full page print outs of coupons.

 

These are the pages in between the dividers that actually contain the coupons.  They are baseball card holders.  Each brand gets a little holder and all the coupons for that brand go in the same slot.  

Coupons waiting to be put into the holders are placed right after the divider in the appropriate section of the binder:

That binder has allowed me to amass a large stockpile of all kinds of items.  Here is a view of the guest room where I keep the bulk of my stockpile.  Its a bit of a mess because I need to find something to do with all of the Robitussin I have been buying lately (any suggestions?)  When guests come, the bins stay there but the floor gets cleaned up.  I figure guests don’t mind the bins too much, especially when I invite them to “go shopping” and take home a few of any product that they would need.

Here is a closer view of some of the stuff contained in the stockpile.  The whole Sterilite drawer is filled with body wash.

 

My mouthwash stockpile (again, the whole Sterilite bin is full):

Anyone know what I should do with all these post-its?  I have been getting paid to buy them for months, so the collection has reached epic proportions! 

Here is my collection of razors.  All different kinds, both mens and women’s are in this bin.  

Handsoap, facewash, deodorant and medicine.  Also, some glade candles.   

Shampoo.  There’s also a conditioner bin right next to it thats about equally as full.

That is it for the guest room.  Moving downstairs, we store laundry and cleaning products in a laundry room closet (some excess cereal also found its way into some bins).  Note the use of the sweater hanger to store the paper towels.  You can also see the bottles waiting to be taken in for refund (not part of the stockpile, but frugal none-the-less)

Here’s some more paper towels stored in the back of the closet.  There are 7 more 8-packs stuffed in various places throughout the house

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laundry detergent in the cabinet above the washer (2 deep on the first shelf of Tide, and Gain is stacked on the 2nd shelf.

 

Soda is in the garage (I only paid tax & bottle deposits for all this soda):   

The freezer is also in the garage.  The little baggies on the big shelf contain meat, cut into 1/2 pound portions (there are two 1/2 pound portions per bag).  This is the dogs food, all meat purchased for an average of $1 a pound (chicken for .49 a pound for Wal-Mart, mixed beef for $1.29 from my butcher (he lets me buy the stuff he is going to grind into ground beef before he grinds it), and pork & beef rips for .99 a pound.  The top shelf has TV dinners, the 2nd shelf has Pyrex dishes containing pre-made meals I made (and it looks like a bit of overflow because the TV dinners didn’t all fit).  The door has ice cream, and free TGIF Sncaks, and bread and free waffles.  All of the TV dinners were either free or cost $1 or less.  

This is a closer view of the Pyrex’s containing the pre-made food:

Moving back into the house, this is the pantry.  It needs to be a bit more organized, but I try to use baskets to group like items. 

This is the stockpile I have acquired since May, so about 6 months.  It doesn’t include the $178 worth of stuff I told at my garage sale.  If you want to amass a stockpile like this, be sure to stick around this site for information on couponing and other money saving tips.  To get started, check out my Step By Step Guide to Grocery Savings You can even subscribe to my RSS feed (And I hope you will!)