Put down the scizzors and step away from the mailer… clipping coupons is old news.

These days, mobile coupons are the new wave of savings. If you have an iPhone, you need to download the Yowza!! app so you can get deals on everything from a new outfit to a delicious dinner.

Once you load Yowza!! on your iPhone or iPod touch and launch it, it gets busy finding coupons and deals in your geographic area—from as close as within a mile of you or as far as 50 miles away.  Choose one of the offers and visit the store. When you walk up to the cashier, just show the Yowza!! coupon on your device and let them scan the barcode. It seems like something from a futuristic sci-fi movie, but the future is now so start saving!

Finding the best deals online can be pretty challenging when you have to sort through the thousands and thousands of sites that all advertise the same promises of saving you  money.

But any good deal hunter knows that if you want results you have to be vigilant and keep searching, even when you’d really rather be doing something else.

I used to spend hours online, scouring the web for coupons and savings. If I needed to go shopping, I wouldn’t leave until I found a coupon I could use at the store I was going to. Some call it obsession, I call it dedication.  So when I stumbled upon CouponMountain.com, I knew I struck gold.

CouponMountain.com is the ultimate coupon search engine. You can search for coupons by category, like electronics, home furnishings, jewelry, movies and more.

You can also search by store, which is really convenient if you’re looking for savings before you plan on going out to the mall. They even have a free samples section. I ended up getting a free eyeshadow from DHC USA Incorporated, which really made my day. Who doesn’t love free stuff?

All in all, their great selection of coupon codes, printable coupons and electronic coupons really make bargain hunting a lot easier.

Searching for online bargains can be so frustrating – the items you want never seem to be on sale, and the items on sale are never the ones you want.

Of course, almost every product eventually goes on sale, it’s just hard to keep track of when that happens. What are you supposed to do – check the retailer’s website every day?

Fortunately, there’s a better option. Online price tracking websites do all the heavy lifting for you. All you have to do is add an item to your watch list, like an xBox or a pair of shoes, and you will receive an automatic price alert email when the product goes on sale. How easy is that?

Here are some of our favorite price trackers:

• EasyPriceTracker.com
• PricePlease.com
• PriceProtectr.com
• PriceSpider.com

Be sure to click around these sites, as each offers other services as well, such as indexes of online coupons.

One other way to ensure the discount items you find are the items you desire is to bookmark websites that focus on types of products. For example, www.DailySteals.com often spotlights bargains on electronics, which would be perfect for a tech junkie.