I am one cheap S.O.B. If I can get a deal on something I do. One way I’ve found a lot of great deals for my family is by using RSS feeds.
If you’re not familiar with RSS feeds, imagine getting customized news feeds sent right to you. You’ll need an RSS feed reader to act as the centralized delivery location, I’d suggest Google Reader for this. It’s very good and it’s free.
Most websites will have a orange icon that looks like that one up there. All you need to do is click on it and say that you want to subscribe with Google Reader or the reader of your choice. Just about every website now has rss for news, weather, blogs and even sales.
RSS Feeds to Save You Money
Craigslist – Ever wish you could know when a new item was posted to Craigslist? Now you can. With Craigslist, you can save any search as an RSS feed which is great because you can specify what you want to get results for. Here are some that I like to keep an eye on: Baby & Kids, Toys & Games, and Farm and & Garden. We’ve gotten some great deals for our son by following these, a great example was the huge box of clothes we got for $50. It was about $300 worth of clothes. And the farm and garden one is great during the summer when people have excess garden bounty.
Bens Bargins – I rarely buy any electronics without watching the prices for a few weeks on Ben’s Bargins. I like that you can get RSS feeds for a specific category of products.
Deal News – This site tracks deals all over the internet for just about every kind of product. They too let you drill down to specific items, Babies and Kids, for example. My favorite part about Deal News is that they’ll tell you how the current deal relates to previous deals on that item, so you’ll know right away if this is the cheapest they’ve ever seen an item.