The {21} Purge: Day 3 Cutting Coupons

Today is Day 3 of The {21} Purge and Rhonna's motivation is to remember that:  "This is the weekend & it's normal to feel like: What? This is harder than I thought?  You may start fighting against it...you may start rationalizing & saying: Ahh..I don't have time for this. or I just can't do this.  If you have felt that...or even fallen off the wagon...it's not the first time someone has at day three.  Don't worry.  Pick yourself back up. Dust yourself off. & recommit!  FIGHT FOR IT. NOT AGAINST IT."

Which to me translates to:  Keep on'a truckin'...remember those cartoons from the 70's...

 Probably dating myself here...ha!  Don't care cause...I'm gonna... Keep on'a truckin'  ;)  Image from here.

So here is an update on my progress for Day 2:  over the weekend I completely finished purging that huge pile of magazine that were gathering next to my chair...as well as other places in my living room.  Now all's I have left are my art magazines which I do not break-down...oh my...that would be considered a cardinal sin amongst us artists ;)

These art magazines will eventually be put away into my magazine holders with the past issues, but for now I leave them right here for quick reference, especially during the holidays when I'm creating gifts.  Just check out that HUGE paper bag, full of recyclable, torn down magazines that will be going out with the trash with week!  But first I'll have to tie it up with some heavy string so that the town will actually pick them up at the curb...quite heavy that bag ;)

So what happens when you cut up all of your magazines?  Well you get a lot of COUPONS! 

Then there is another great benefit to reclycling your magazines in a timely manner...you actually get to use your coupons before they expire...woo hoo!

HOWEVER...now I have to PURGE my coupon caddy.  In the photo above you can see it...where it sits on my kitchen counter...it's a BIG MESS!  I tend to just throw coupons at it...in lieu of neatly putting the coupons in their properly assigned tabbed areas...ha!  So then when I want to go grocery shopping I have to stop and first organize my coupons...only to discover that most of them have expired...OR WORSE YET...I skip looking through them all-together. 

SO for Day 3...I'm off...cause I have to...

How about the rest of you?  What keeps you truckin'...

 

Comments

[Bonnie]

We hardly get coupons here, a few here and there, but nothing to write home about! That is one thing I think is cool about America...
Anyway I think your goal is great!

[Cortney Lyon]

I think I gave up on my coupon clipping for awhile. I aways get the paper and clip, clip, clip, but then I never end up grabbing them on my way out to the store. I guess I need to get a better organizer for them. This was inspiring, thanks!

[cinnibonbon]

Oh I like your goal!!! I thought I had a bunch of old mags laying around, but I'm pretty sure you beatme..heheh.
Seriously though, these purges are sure to make you feel accomplished!!

[Donnie]

I didn't think I had much but coupon piles was one of those things that I kept meaning to get to. Well, I finally did and I made 2 piles, 1 food-1 nonfood and a friend from the American Legion is going to pick them up. She said that they send them to bases overseas and the commissaries accept them so the military and their families can get more of a break on their grocery bills. I'm not sure how it works but she volunteers to do the wrapping and sending. Good job.