Website Review: 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.
The purpose of The Coupon Mom, as it states on its site is to provide this service "free in the hopes you will buy at least one item a week for charity with a little bit of your coupon savings." On the grocery store deals lists, every once in a while you will see the word charity next to an item. That means that item is an appropriate item to donate to charity. Sometimes there are even items for free (via store sales + a coupon) that I don't want. Instead of just not buying that certain item, I can just buy it anyway and donate it to charity; doing so is giving a little back to the purpose of The Coupon Mom. But of course donating is not a requirement for using the site.
The Coupon Mom is a free site, and probably because of that, sometimes the deals and sales on the lists are not accurate. I have gone to the grocery store many times and one or more of the deals I was expecting to get were not legit. The Coupon Mom mentions this happening, "The lists' prices are to be considered a guideline, as some stores within the same chain or city may have slightly different prices." It is a little disappointing not to find the great deal I was anticipating, but I can't complain too much since The Coupon Mom is a free service. Someone else does most of the work for me!
But using The Coupon Mom is work for me, too, and my 2 1/2-year-old daughter would agree. I spend a while looking through the week's deals for both grocery stores, selecting the deals I want to take advantage of, printing out the lists, then flipping through stacks of coupon ads, cutting out appropriate coupons, checking and rechecking the deals with the coupons, searching for misplaced coupons, and more. By the time I am ready for the grocery store, some days it is time for my daughter's nap already.
I look at using this service as work. I do the work and get paid by saving at the grocery store. Since the system is free to me and my state is listed, it can't be beat.
Published by Erika
Erika has been married for 8+ years to her college sweetheart and stays at home with their 2 children. She enjoys blogging, reading lots of books, finding good deals, homeschooling, and learning more from th... View profile
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23 Comments
Post a CommentI use coupon for years and the Coupon Mom was good. It's cool to find more coupon websites around us, digg their coupon directories, and pay less on freewebdeal.com
Great post. A good coupon website will save us huge money anytime we shop online. For people living in Ireland, couponmaster.ie is the website update online coupon and printable coupon for free. - my two cents
I TOTALLY agree with Jami. Coupon Mom is nothing but affiliate ads that lead me nowhere. Every time anyone clicks on a link she makes money because she hides her affiliate links in regular menus etc. She makes out like she's one mom trying to save money and help other moms/women do the same but thats a bunch of hogwash. She's a journalist who has a crew of women working for her and she has the connections. She rakes in thousands of dollars a month from treating her visitors like dummies for clicking on all those useless links. Her site and way of doing business is an insult to me.
I also agree with Jami that the smaller sites are the way to go. The one I use is specific to my area and they find local deals and coupons so that I can really save money and not waste my time making someone else money while Im finding my way around their site.
People have told me they've had problems as you've said, Jami, with Coupon Mom, but I have not ever had one of the problems you mentioned. That may be because of my email account (Gmail) doesn't let spam get to my inbox, or maybe because I use Coupon Mom only for its grocery store list - basically which coupons to use with which product at which store and when, nothing else. So for that Coupon Mom is great, and it is free, too. It has been a blessing for me to have access to it.
I have to respectfully disagree. While I have my own couponing site and realize one of the goals of these sites is to make money for the owner , Coupon Mom is nothing but completely useless ads. It is headache inducing to try and view anything on her site .
The aftermath of signing up for anything on her site is even worse . This is the Webster's dictionary deffinition of Phishing. I won't go so far as to call it a scam , just be very careful with the forms you fill out to view anything on her site . It may not take any money out of your pocket but it sure will clog up your inbox.
Too bad NBC didn't do more in depth research on the site and see that while there is SOME good information to be had it is not worth the hassle . When you are bombarded with advertisements both on the site and in your inbox , for very little useful information , then you might want to look to smaller less commercial sites to get equal or better couponing information or learn to coupon . My assesme
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Thanks for the comments. I am hooked on groceryguide.com and tell all my friends about it. As you've said, it's FREE! I get recipes for the food items and there's articles about food that are informative and helpful. I recently saw where I could post a comment about the store I love and shop at.