Coupons will always remind me of my grandma. Not so much coupons, but the act of painstakingly scouring the Sunday papers for coupon pages. She had a huge pair of scissors with red plastic handles that I never saw her use for anything but clipping coupons. While I helped her find and clip, I couldn’t help but wonder what the work to savings ratio was.

Half the coupons she clipped either ended up sitting in her wallet until their expiration date, or that particular store location didn’t honor them. Well I wish my grandma was still around to check out TheGroceryGame.com. This site is take all work out of coupon clipping! All you do is pay $5 and you get a location-specific list of all the best grocery deals in your neighborhood.

Do you need new electronic items but avoid buying them because of the price? If you want cheap, new headphones, speakers and other such items, or gadgets like Swiss Army Knives and flashlights, and can afford to wait until a good deal comes along, then look no further than DailySteals.com. Daily Steals offers one deal a day – yes, just one. The idea is that it’s better to sell one item at a really awesome price than a lot of items at prices you can’t afford. Here are Daily Bids, we like that philosophy, and recommend you bookmark DailySteals.com and make a mental note to check it every day to see if the item you need is up for grabs. At Daily Steals, you can find yourself saving up to 90% on products – sometimes, there are even freebies.

Did we mention headphones? Visit DailySteals.com today to buy iHip Professional DJ Stereo Headphones with booming bass and noise isolation for only $4.99. You’ll normally pay up to $49.99 for this product, so don’t miss this deal. These headphones are compatible with iPhones, iPods and MP3 players. Get them while they’re hot.

If you love daily deals on fashion, culture, beauty, food and drink, home, travel and gifts, and you live in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle or Washington, D.C., or just dwell in the cyber world, then are you subscribed to DailyCandy.com? If the answer is no, then you should subscribe – right now!

DailyCandy.com presents with subscribers with some of the hottest deals from local merchants that you’ll find anywhere Basically, when you subscribe, each day you’ll receive an email or two that will give you coupons for great discounts. How easy is that? To give you a taste of what to expect – today’s DailyCandy.com has deals like 25% off clothing from Lilac and Lilies, 60% off the Swirl line at Fashion QI, 30% off Sonya Dakar cosmetics, and 30% off May Yeung Jewelry. Too good!

There are all kinds of websites out there selling you designer clothes at discount prices, but this one’s invitation only. Which makes it all the more desirable instantly, right?
Gilt Groupe offers “men’s, women’s, and children’s coveted fashion” at 70% off retail. Each “flash” sale lasts 36 hours only, and the goods go fast. During the hour after its weekday sales kick off, between noon and 1 p.m., the company claims, its site is visited by an average of roughly 100,000 shoppers. The company has more than 2 million members, ¾ of whom are female.
Now I know you’re getting anxious, but don’t worry. This is one exclusive club that won’t cost you anything to join. All you have to do is be invited by one of those 2 million members—o if no one will share, you can request membership through customer service on the site.
Once you’re in, it’s first come, first serve, a virtual mad dash for the racks. Good luck!

So if you’re living in a big city, you have to check out Living Social! Essential, they weed out the not-so-good deals and put up only best of the best in savings. The coupons or deal alerts are custom to your area. For instance, the NY deal of the day is one hour of salt room air treatment, a popular European skin treatment, for $97 at Halo Air.April 5 there was spend $10 on Screme gelato and get $20 worth! They also had a deal that stated if you spent $25 at Winebar you’d get $50 worth of merchandise.

You can even download daily deals to your iPhone.

How cool is that?

If you have your bookmarks full of great deal sites but are finding it hard to keep up with every single one, you may want to check out dealnews.com.

Dealnews.com streamlines the deal hunting for you. Plus, their catchphrase is “Where everyday is Black Friday.”–music to a coupon fanatics ears!

It’s updated daily (over 156 deals were posted today), and the deals are for anything you could possibly ever want to save money on. Which is everything. This site is super user-friendly, and the deals are set up like news stories, hence the name. You can even sign up to get deals via email, if you’re too busy to check out the site everyday. The Editor’s Picks section is a must-see. Feature on it are some of the most mind-blowing savings on everything under the sun.

So don’t miss out on this amazing deals. Bookmark Dealnews.com!

Groupon
This site is relatively new, but it’s already a standout for coupon collectors and even coupon skeptics. The formula is simple. Members get one deal e-mailed to them every day. We’re not talking about buying one pair of socks and getting the second pair 66% off. These are deals on activities. Half off one day ski-excursions and trips to the spa. That kind of thing.

Groupon is currently available in 30 cities nationwide. Members are asked to pay up front for the deal, and then can redeem it at any time in the future. There is really only one snag. Each of the deals advertised requires a certain amount of people to sign up for it before it becomes active, otherwise it’s cancelled. But the vast majority of deals do go through.

TheKrazyCouponLady
This coupon lady is so crazy, she has to spell it with a K. KrazyCouponLady is the best when it comes to collecting great coupons from all over the web. If you’re looking for deals on breakfast foods, medicine and household supplies, this is the place to start.

RetailMeNot
RetailMeNot is a safe haven for shopaholics. The site puts out great coupons for big name retail stores like L.L. Bean, Kohls and Victoria’s Secret. Although we also found a deal on the site today for Papa John’s. I guess this way you can gorge yourself on food and then buy new clothes on the cheap.

Dealighted
This site is particularly good for tech gadgets. Right now, on the main page, there are deals and coupons advertised for iPod speaker systems, Wii accessories and televisions. Dealighted also puts out deals for non-tech stores like JC Penny.

FreeShipping.org
For one day a year, this site is the king of cyberspace. This site organizes the annual Free Shipping Day event, which featured more than 700 big companies. But don’t forget about this site for the rest of the year. FreeShipping lets users create customized lists of which stores provide them with coupons.

CheapStingyBargains
This site gets bonus points for being shameless with their name. CheapStingyBargains may be the best place on the web to find computer coupons. They also advertise some sweet deals on other electronics like cameras and even smart phones.

CouponMom
CouponMom has a simple and attractive mission statement: help shoppers cut their grocery bills in half. The site advertises free samples and of course, grocery store coupons. But one of the best features on this site is a breakdown of grocery store deals by state.

RedPlum
RedPlum is also great for saving on groceries. Here you can find coupons on essentials like cereal and flu medicine. The site also lets you search for coupons for restaurants by zip code.

CouponCabin
We’ve written a bit about this site before, but it’s worth mentioning again. CouponCabin has an incredible variety of offers. According to the site, there are nearly 45,000 coupons and deals currently active. These include deals at clothing and sports stores, and even a coupon for Godiva chocolate.

SmartSource
This site specializes in advertising printable grocery coupons in your local area. If you couldn’t find what you were looking for on CouponMom, then be sure to check this site. In 2008, SmartMoney declared this to be one of the 5 best coupon sites on the Web, and even with all the other sites that have popped up since then, SmartSource still deserves to rank high on that list.

Bargainist
Bargainist is a great site for finding discounts on stuff to do with your leisure time. The site promotes coupons and deals on hotels, cruises and movies, as well as retail merchandise. Bargainist makes frugal feel stylish.

Shortcuts
With all the buzz around coupon sites, it’s not too surprising that big companies like AOL would try to create their own. It may not be quite as comprehensive as SmartSource but Shortcuts provides some great deals on grocery supplies.

Coupons.com
When in doubt, stick with the standards. Coupons.com is a great site for finding deals on household goods and gifts. It also has the best domain name in the business.

Organizing Your Coupons
Before you start bookmarking these sites and printing out a fury of coupons, it’s important to stay organized. Tipnut.com has several good suggestions for doing this. Get an accordion folder or binder to put your coupons into and arrange them either expiration dates and products. Before you go shopping, make a list of what you plan to buy and then check off which items on that list you have coupons for.

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!

Bizrate is an online shopping resource that helps shoppers compare prices to any products they’re looking to buy. Bizrate amasses information from the biggest retailers on the web to even the smallest sites, that you haven;t even discovered yet, to ensure that you’re getting a diverse list of prices.

So before you buy from the first place you see, punch in the item in Bizrate’s search engine and see if it’s cheaper anywhere else.

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.