Babyccino – Now Your one-stop shop to the best kid boutiques

by Stephanie Mayers | Kid Style

One of our favorite curators of cool is stepping up their game. We have long relied on Babyccino’s blog to find us the best, cutest, most unique goods in Europe, and now these clever ladies have taken their passion one step further. The popular site has just...

Turn up the design factor at home with Fab

by Susan | Uncategorized

As a design junkie, imagine my delight at learning that Fab.com, a new flash-sale site featuring daily design deals, just launched today. Fab is a carefully curated collection of all the coolest stuff, for your home and your life, all at seriously great discounts....

Gilt Taste is a Virtual Feast

by Barbara | Uncategorized

If you have yet to visit, there’s a deliciously gorgeous, high-end new site for the foodies mamas among us: Gilt Taste. It’s like everything that’s great about Gilt plus everything that was great about Gourmet. Gilt Taste in fact is helmed by...

Hopscout – The coolest stuff for families at even cooler prices

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

There are no shortage of deals sites out there these days, and I’m all for it. Who wouldn’t want a few extra bucks in their wallet? But after getting hordes of emails for 55% off dental services and a bunch of other stuff I wouldn’t consider buying...

I’m a real fan of the meal plan

by Stephanie Slate | Uncategorized

A year ago, I never would have thought I’d be excited about weekly meal planning. I was far too cool and spontaneous to be one of those people who actually planned what dinner we would be eating a day in advance. Please. What a silly mama I was! A year of...

Meal planning just hooked up with your local grocery store

by Mir | Uncategorized

There’s plenty of websites where you can go check out this week’s grocery sales, if you’re into that sort of thing. (Not judging, just, um, snore.) And we’ve reviewed plenty of websites and apps to help you do your weekly meal planning, too....

Online meal planner? – Reader Q&A

by Christina Refford | Helpful Services

I am looking for an online meal planner and shopping list generator…any suggestions? As I sit down to plan the meals out and do up a shopping list, I think to myself, there has to be a digital way to do this. -Aine If you really want everything from soup to nuts...

A winter clearance sale at the beginning of winter? Count me in

by Betsy | Uncategorized

I love how when my son loses his glove–yes, glove; always the left–the stores are completely sold out of them. In January. Well, there’s one “make way for the spring inventory even though winter just started” clearance sale I think...

Editors Best of 2010: The coolest services, sanity savers, and helpful websites for parents

by Cool Mom Team | Editors Best of the Year

While some people think of us as shopping blog, we’re not only about shopping. We love tracking down the helpful websites and resources that make our lives easier. Yeah, okay, and things that make our shopping easier too. Consider me a new Shopafrolic-aholic. I...

Great post-holiday sales from the boutiques we love

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

While we all know the department stores are slashing prices in their annual post-Christmas frenzy right now, some of our favorite small online shops are having amazing post-holiday sales too. The snow being what it is in my neck of the woods right now, I’m very...