Website Review: The Coupon Mom

For a couple of months now I've been using The Coupon Mom - a free website designed to help shoppers save money on groceries. Originally I had been a paying member of The Grocery Game - another website designed to save shoppers money on groceries. The Grocery Game saved us lots of money on our groceries when we were using it, but since it cost a monthly fee of around $15 (at least at the time it did), we were glad to find out about the free program, essentially the same thing, called The Coupon Mom.

Saving money on groceries was really fun at first, but then after realizing how much work it took to use either system, I, the main grocery shopper in our family, got lazy and quit using The Coupon Mom system also.

A year or so later, my husband and I needed to cut any unnecessary spending for our new budget, and I looked into The Coupon Mom again. That was just a few months ago, and I have been very faithful at doing the work required each week in order to save at the grocery store.

The Coupon Mom lists a good number of states on its site. For instance, I live in Colorado, and The Coupon Mom has two Colorado grocery stores on its list - Safeway and King Soopers. Some states are not listed at all, others have only one grocery store listed, while a few states have multiple grocery stores on the list.

Once a week (on Wednesdays here in CO) The Coupon Mom adds the new week's grocery stores deals and corresponding coupons onto each list. Usually on that first day, I try to find time to look at the updated deals lists for both Safeway and King Soopers. Each item on the list has the sale price listed, as well as the price with any coupons available. And not only are prices displayed but percentages to be saved are displayed, also. I can quickly glance through the list, mostly looking at percentages to see the best deals for the week. Some weeks free items are even listed.