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...

RightCliq by Visa – making online shopping fun, easy, and more affordable. Did we mention fun?

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

Since we’re all about shopping online here, we’re also about ways to make online shopping easier. And more affordable. And more fun. We’ve been eagerly following Rightcliq by Visa in the last few months since their launch and it seems it’s a...

Online shoppers – prepare to save a ton of money

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

If you work on Firefox–as about half of you do, judging from our site stats–you probably know that there are all sorts of interesting add-ons you can add to the browser to make things faster, easier, and more functional for you. I’ve been poking...

Cool personalized gifts that can still make it to you by Christmas

by Christina Refford | Holiday Gift Guide

Oh sure, I try to be all nonchalant at this time of year: Christmas cards? I’ll get to them! Wrapping? I have weeks!But, don’t let my cool exterior fool you. I am quaking as the clock ticks down to Christmas. But before I tackle my never-ending Christmas...

Lilluxe offers lots of luxury without the luxury prices

by Lexi Petronis | Uncategorized

I’m the first to admit that discount sites can get overwhelming. I get so swept up in the dealiness of everything that I put a bunch of too-good-to-be-so-cheap things in my cart, second-guess every one, and then abandon the whole thing in favor of a calming cup...

Bid, borrow or swap your way to a fabulous wardrobe

by Melissa | Helpful Services

If eBay, Net-a-Porter, Rent the Runway and Gilt Groupe (all of my favorite shopping websites) had a baby, their progeny would look like I-ELLA.com.Launched by a fashion-obsessed entrepreneur in New York, I-ELLA weaves enough elements into the shopping experience to...