How to Create a Useful Coupon Book for a Friend

A friend in need is a friend who will indeed love this coupon book.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Calligraphy Inks
• Printers
• Calligraphy Pens
• 2 Sheets Card Stock
• Pencils
• Colored Printer Paper
• Computers
• Rulers

1. Make a list of things you could do to help your friend out. Things like "drive your kids to school," "drive you to work when your car's in the shop," "treat you to lunch and a sympathetic ear," "baby-sit your kids for the evening" and so on.
2. Type them all into a word processing program, in 14-point type, with the introduction, "Present this coupon and I will ..." Leave six blank lines between each "coupon" so that you end up with four per page.
3. When you're done entering your text, select it and arrange the document in two columns, with the text lining up evenly in both columns, so that you end up with eight coupons per page. Center all the text.
4. Type "COUPON BOOK" in bold 24-point type on a separate page. This will be the cover of the book.
5. Print your coupons using the highest print quality.
6. Draw crop marks evenly between each section of text using a ruler.
7. Take the pages to a copy shop and have them copied onto bright-colored paper. Have the cover text printed on a heavier stock, and then have all the pages cropped along the crop marks and spiral-bound into a little booklet.

Tips & Warnings

• If you have nice handwriting, you can write out the coupons in calligraphy and then have them copied, cropped and bound. Don't use your originals because the ink might smear or run.