Just found a great price comparison site

Went out into the ether there for a while, no updates, no contacts. Needless to say its been a very busy year. Grad school is well under way, and in fact, almost done. Still poor, and still scrounging around for money :) I will start off this year with an effort to catalogue my ways of saving money, until my education is done, and I will bring these saving techniques into the non academic world. First off, book comparisons, since I still am in college and still need books. There are quite a few, but Compare Books is a recent one that I have found to be simple and easy to use, without a lot of the extra fluff that some sites give you. In addition, it searches prices in real time, vs sites that catalogue prices and return results that may be weeks old. Sure the search is slower, but at least I am most probably getting the lowest price around. Book prices are something that can change by the hour, so this is quite handy. Happy new years everyone!

Amazon Grocery?

So Amazon sells grocery store items now. I was skeptical at first, but this looks to be both a time saver and money saver, if you know how to shop. I think the free shipping on the Subscribe and Save program is what really changed my mind:

"When you order through our Subscribe & Save program,
you'll:
• automatically receive a new shipment of the item in intervals you select--every one, two, three, or six months
• get a discount on our everyday price
• get free shipping on every Subscribe & Save shipment
• pay for each order only when the item is shipped
• have the option to cancel at any time "

This is straight from Amazon. It seems that if you look around for good deals, and know the relative price of similar products at your local grocery store (ahem, walmart), that you may end up saving quite a bit. Also it gives you more time to review your purchases, and you can set up automatic delivery each month. I may just give it a try and let everyone know how it goes.