Imagine saving hundreds of dollars the next time you shop for big ticket items without so much as leaving your house.

We have some high tech tools can save you money both online and at the store. If you haven't tried price comparison shopping online now is the time! Websites like pricegrabber.com do the heavy lifting for you by lining up various prices on just about anything you can buy online:

"Products that range from home and personal, beauty items, jewelry, watches, ranging all the way through to high end electronics like HD televisions," says pricegrabber.com's Mike Wilson. His site also offers customer feedback so you can see how other people felt about a particular product or merchant.

"We really run the gamut and provide everything people need to make an informed purchase online."

Here's another example: at shopping.com we looked for a specific GPS unit and found the price varied by more than $250 dollars.

And say you're in the store-- if your cell phone does text messaging you can get a little help comparing prices from google. We watched google's demonstration on youtube and tried it ourselves.

Send a text message to 466453.. it spells google.. type "price" and the item you want to search and google will text you the price range it found online.

The google text message service also can pull up phone numbers, retrieve airline info, even movie times. We have a link to that here:

Google.com text message search

Pricegrabber.com mobile

Shopping.com