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Best Deal-Hunting Site: Slickdeals [Hive Five Followup]
Posted on August 17, 2010
Alice Takes Household Shopping Off Your To-Do List [Budget]
Posted on June 23, 2009
Everyone’s looking for ways to squeeze more time into the day. Web site Alice aims to give you an hour or two back by automating household shopping.
The idea is pretty simple. Create a free account, which includes setting up your household (family members and items used), then start shopping. When you choose an item to add, you’re given the option to create a custom label, choose the quantity, select how often to be reminded that you’re running low, and determine whether to add it to a current order or a future purchase.
But Alice doesn't stop there. Aside from ordering items and having them shipped to you—free—Alice offers coupons, checks product prices, provides product reviews and even manages your household budget.
With charts similar to Mint, the most popular web-based personal finance app, Alice breaks down your spending by room, by family member, and by transactions—keeping tabs of the last 12 months of purchases.
Eventually Alice will offer the option to auto-ship supplies, potentially removing many of the “How did I run out of coffee?!?” moments from your life.
FatWallet Adds Coupon Search to Save You Money with Ease [Saving Money]
Posted on March 25, 2009
Deal-finding web site FatWallet has always had an excellent forum for saving cash, and while that made it very popular among Lifehacker readers, the site’s new coupon search helps you avoid digging through forum posts.
Using it is simple: Just head over to the FatWallet homepage or the coupons search page, enter the name of a store you’d like to save some cash at, and see what results you can find. Sites like previously mentioned RetailMeNot have covered this territory before, but it’s great to see a site with as rich of a database of coupons as FatWallet offer this kind of simplified coupon search.