Steven Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Reader Liz is suffering from discount overload. I get discount offers for retailers, restaurants, and

movie theaters through my employer, my gym, my auto club, and my professional organizations.

When it's time to make a purchase,

I'm so overwhelmed by which discount to use and where that I usually say to heck with it and pay

full price. Help! Liz, you're everyone's favorite customer. Retailers and manufacturers

love giving out discounts. They know the psychological mind control benefits of the discounts

will keep you coming back, a slave to their manipulation, a mindless buying zombie, meaning no offense to zombies, of course, it's not their fault they're mindless.

Retailers also know that most of the time you won't use their discounts, because you'll forget.

They get the best of both worlds, like any good codependent

partner. You give them your business, and they don't even have to put out. But you don't have to let

them win. Remember, keeping and tracking discounts takes work. Only do it for large enough

discounts. If you're looking at a 30% off a $200 purchase, go for it.

5% off a $7 purchase, don't bother. Here are my four quick and dirty tips for getting the

most of your discount offers. Tip one, make a spreadsheet. If you really care about squeezing

every cent out of your discounts, do the legwork all at once.

Schedule a couple of hours.

Review all your discount cards and memberships and list the discounts in a spreadsheet.

In column one, put the kind of the product, car rental or hotel.

In column two, put the brand name, Enterprise Renta Car, or Hilton.

In column three, enter the brand name, Enterprise Rintacar, or Hilton. In column three, enter the discount card, AAA membership.

And in column four, the discount amount, 20% off on Saturdays.

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