Two Ways to Help Improve your Shopping Experience this Holiday Season!

While I'm torn about this blog post due to the fact that I've always been someone who believes presents really ruin the spirit of the holiday season, the fact is that people will be going shopping and buying presents. So since it's going to happen regardless, you might as well save some time and money, right?

One of the most frustrating things EVER (in my humble opinion) is buying something from one store, walking into the next and finding a very similar item on sale for much cheaper. ShopLocal.com helps resolve this problem. This handy website is a frugal persons Mecca. It has everything from coupons, to hot deals, to a weekly circular section. This website is very easy to maneuver, so spend 10 minutes before you head out to look at the circulars for the stores you had planned on stopping by and find out which places are having the best deals so you don't miss getting that nice fleece on Mom's list that's 50% off this week only!

Another thing that you'll find amazing is Best Buy's best-kept-secret. Best Buy has been hurting recently with more and more people shopping online and getting much better deals at online vendors. To counteract this Best Buy is now price matching with Amazon.com. Besides the fact that this will probably end up hurting Best Buy in the long run, it is AWESOME for you, take advantage of it while you can. If you have a smart phone, download the Amazon App that comes with a barcode scanner and start scanning every item before you buy it and find the cheapest price you can on Amazon, if it's the exact same and it's sold by Amazon.com, Best Buy will match the price then and there.

So now you'll be saving some time & money, now get back and enjoy the Holiday Season with family and friends!