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7 Must-Have Subscriptions for Busy New Moms

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Since becoming a stay at home mom I have been busier than ever.

In 2019 we are fortunate enough to have endless products and services delivered right to our door at the push of a button!

I have tried many new subscription boxes and service this year and wanted to share my favorites.

Whether your a working mom or stay at home mom these 7 awesome subscriptions will save you time, money, and sanity!

These subscription boxes and services also make great gifts.

This post may contain affiliate links. This means If you click on any of them and make a purchase I might earn enough money from that purchase to buy my baby something new to wear or to play with at no extra cost to you!

The Best Subscription boxes and services for busy new moms 2019

1. Amazon Prime

What is Amazon Prime?

Amazon Prime is a paid subscription service offered by Amazon that gives users access to services that would otherwise be unavailable, or cost extra, to the typical Amazon customer

Here are some Prime benefits included with your membership:

Delivery benefits

    • FREE Two-Day Shipping: Millions of items delivered fast and free.
    • FREE One-Day Shipping: Available on millions of items with qualifying orders. Receive items by 9 p.m.
    • FREE Same-Day Delivery: Available on over 3 million items on qualifying orders over $35. Order in the morning, typically before noon, and get your items by 9 p.m.
    • Prime Now: Skip the trip and get FREE Two-Hour Delivery on thousands of items.
    • FREE Release-Date Delivery: Be among the first to get new video games, books, music, movies and more. Choose Release-Date Delivery on qualified items and receive your package by 7 p.m. on that date.
    • FREE No-Rush Shipping: Don’t need your Prime order right away? Select No-Rush Shipping and earn rewards for future purchases.

Streaming benefits

    • Prime Video: Stream thousands of movies and TV shows, including exclusive Amazon Originals. Learn more about Prime Video.
    • Prime Video Channels: $4.99–$14.99/month for Prime members. Watch your favorite shows and movies from HBO, SHOWTIME and STARZ channels — no cable required, cancel anytime and no additional apps to download.
    • Prime Music: Stream more than 2 million songs, plus thousands of playlists and stations. Learn more about Prime Music.
    • Amazon Music Unlimited: $7.99/month for Prime members. Start a 30-day free trial to access tens of millions of songs from today’s most popular artists. Listen ad-free with unlimited skips. Download for offline listening.
    • Audible Channels: Unlimited listening to original audio series and playlists handcrafted for every interest.
    • Twitch Prime: Get free game content every month and a Twitch Channel Subscription.

Want more? Here is a guide to connecting your devices to Prime entertainment.

Shopping benefits

  • Prime at Whole Foods Market: Exclusive savings for Prime members, 5% Back for eligible Prime members with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card and 2-hour delivery via Prime Now in select cities (more soon).
  • Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card: Eligible Prime members earn 5% Back every day on all Amazon.com and Whole Foods Market purchases, in addition to rewards everywhere else you shop.
  • Amazon Prime Store Card: Eligible Prime members can get 5% back every day on Amazon.com purchases and access to exclusive financing offers.
  • Prime Wardrobe: Try on clothes, shoes, jewelry, and accessories from the comfort of your home, and pay only for what you keep.
  • Early Access to Deals: Get 30-minute early access to Lightning Deals on Amazon.com.
  • Prime Exclusives: Amazon’s hand-picked products offered exclusively to Prime members.
  • Amazon 4-star and Amazon Books Stores: Prime members pay Amazon.com prices on all products in-store.
  • Alexa Voice Shopping: Shop for millions of items with Alexa and reorder the things you use most.
  • Alexa Voice Deals: Prime members can shop with Alexa and receive an additional discount on select deals.
  • AmazonFresh: $14.99/month for Prime members. Skip the trip to the grocery store and spend more time doing the things you love. Produce, dairy, prepared meals, household essentials and more delivered to your door as soon as next day with AmazonFresh grocery delivery service.
  • Prime Pantry: Low-priced everyday essentials in everyday sizes delivered to your door for a flat delivery fee.
  • Amazon Family: Up to 20% off diapers and 15% off eligible products from your baby registry.
  • Prime Reload: All Prime members can earn 2% rewards on their debit spending when they reload their Amazon.com Gift Card Balance with a designated debit card.

Reading benefits

  • Prime Reading: Prime Reading gives you unlimited access on any device to more than a thousand eBooks, popular magazines, comics, books with Audible narration and more. Learn more about Prime Reading.
  • Amazon First Reads: Read one of next month’s new releases now for free.
  • Prime Book Box: Subscription program that delivers hand-picked children’s books every 1, 2 or 3 months. Each box costs $19.99, saving Prime members up to 40% off list price.

Other benefits

  • Share Your Prime Benefits: Link your account with one other adult to share shipping, streaming access to movies and TV shows, Prime Reading and more for free.
  • Amazon Photos: Free unlimited photo storage for you and five others. Plus, an upgraded search helps you find photos fast.

Mark your calendar Amazon Prime Day 2019 takes place on July 15th & 16th.

2. Amazon Family

What is Amazon Family?

Amazon Family provides Prime members exclusive family-oriented offers, coupons, and age-based recommendations.

Additionally, you’ll receive up to 20% off subscriptions to diapers, baby food, and more, and a 15% Baby Registry completion discount.

3. Amazon Fresh

What is Amazon Fresh?

AmazonFresh is a grocery delivery and pickup service in select cities.

Prime members can get the benefits of AmazonFresh for an additional monthly membership fee of $14.99.

How to sign up for the Fresh Add-on

AmazonFresh customers in select cities can shop for groceries, everyday essentials, favorites from local shops and restaurants, and more with AmazonFresh.

AmazonFresh offers Attended Delivery and Unattended Delivery, with Pickup options in select cities.

Start your 30-day free trial today for $25 off your first order

Prime membership requirements

Members of the Prime Video monthly membership cannot sign up for the Fresh Add-on.

Invited guests of other members, as well as Prime household members, can sign up for Fresh Add-on benefits if one of the primary owners has a Prime membership.

Pricing:

Current Prime members can sign up for a 30-day free trial of the Fresh Add-on. You’ll be automatically upgraded to a paid monthly add-on at an additional cost of $14.99 per month at the end of your Fresh trial period.

Customers with a valid SNAP EBT card issued by a participating state receive free access to the AmazonFresh selection without monthly membership fees.

Free shipping thresholds vary.

4. Home Chef

meal kit subscription

What is Home Chef?:

Home Chef is a weekly subscription meal kit service.

Customers receive orders with all the fresh ingredients you need to make restaurant quality recipes, designed by their chefs.

Home Chef Meal Kits save you the time of going to the grocery store, finding new recipes, meal planning, and portioning.

Their seasoned chefs create new recipes each week for you to choose from–fresh ingredients are sourced for each menu.

How to order your first box:

Start by telling them what you like and don’t like to eat–then you can accept their recommendations or pick out other meals from their menu of 15+ recipes each week.

Home Chef offers a variety of meal types–options for dinner, lunch and in between.

Their source fresh, quality ingredients, and deliver your menu selections right to your door.

Their curated, quality meals are packaged fresh & precisely portioned for each recipe.

I enjoy cooking these nutritious and tasty meals with ease, all week long.

The visual step by step recipe cards makes cooking dinner simple and quick.

Pricing:

Recipe Type

2 Servings

4 Servings

Standard

$19.90

$39.80

5 Minute Lunch

$15.98

$31.96

Smoothie

$9.90

$19.80

Fruit Basket

$9.90

$19.80

Premium Meal

Market Price

Market Price

Delivery is free for orders over $45! Shipping is $10 for orders less than $45.

Here is a $30 Credit for you to try out Home Chef Today!

Check out my Home Chef VS Hello Fresh Comparison

5. Grove Collaborative


safe cleaning subscription box

What is Grove Collaborative?:

Grove Collaborative is a customizable auto-shipment service that delivers all-natural home, beauty, and personal care products directly to your door!

Their aim is to make living a healthy lifestyle easy and accessible for you and your family.

Every product they sell is backed by the Grove standard, which means that it’s healthy, effective, eco-friendly, and affordable.

You can shop with confidence knowing everything you buy from Grove is good for you, your family, your home, and our planet.

Subscription Options:

After your first Grove order they set you up with personalized, scheduled Grove shipments, so you’ll never run out of the products you love.

By default orders come every month, but you can edit the frequency of when products ship to you via your product subscriptions.

Shipments are 100% customizable, and you have complete control over what products you get and when you want to receive them.

Orders can be modified as well as postponed without penalty, and when you postpone an order, you are moving your next scheduled shipment, so you won’t receive another one until that date

Price Match!

To price match, just add the product to your cart, and send them the link to where you see it for less at community@grove.co.

They will adjust before your next shipment so that you get the best price!

Unfortunately, price matches cannot be applied to first time orders, and cannot be applied retroactively to past orders. 

The VIP program is a perks program that they offer to customers looking to get the most out of their Grove orders.

In addition to getting free shipping on every order, VIP members are also eligible for 4 free gifts per year (about one per season).

VIPs also get lower “Ship Noworder minimums ($15 instead of $30), early access to exclusive sales, and more!

The VIP membership differs from your auto-shipment schedule.

The VIP program is meant to get you extra bonuses on your auto-shipments, however, you can still be a VIP and shop without automatic shipments, if you’d like.

Pricing: The cost to join VIP is only $19.99/year.

You can try it for free for 60 days, and they will send you reminders before your membership renews.

Having order minimums helps reduce the environmental impact of each shipment, while still giving you complete control over your orders!

The order minimums are:

$20 for first orders.
$15 for all recurring and “Ship Now” orders for VIP members.
$30 for “Ship Now” orders for non-VIP members.

The cost of shipping is always the same, whether it’s a recurring order or a “Ship Now” order.

VIP members will never pay the cost of shipping on any order.

Non-VIPs will pay a flat rate of only $2.99, but all orders over $49 ship for free regardless!

Try Grove Collaborative today to get a FREE 5-piece gift set and receive $10 after your first purchase.

 

6. Bucher Box

What you get in a Butcher Box:

Choose from curated mixes of high-quality beef, chicken, or pork – or customize your own.

Receive all your meat in an insulated box, frozen and packaged with care.

Explore recipes, tips & tricks, and rest assured you’re feeding your family the best meat on the planet!

Subscription Options:

  • Custom Box
  • The Mixed Box
  • The Beef & Pork Box
  • The Beef & Chicken Box
  • The All Beef Box

Their beef is 100% grass-fed and grass-finished, Chicken is free-range organic, and Pork is heritage breed.

All of their animals are humanely raised and free of antibiotics and added hormones.

Pricing:

CLASSIC BOX:

$129/month for 8-11 lbs of meat = 24 meals

BIG BOX

$238/month for 16-22 lbs of meat = 48 individual meals

Select up to 21 different cuts of everyday items, like ground beef, as well as premium items, like pork tenderloins – not to mention their wide variety of 12 add-ons for that extra something special

Shipping:

Their meat is frozen at the peak of freshness and individually vacuum-packaged. All of their boxes are filled with a specific amount of dry ice that’s carefully calculated based on your geographic location.

You’ll receive a tracking number the night your box ships. Look for your box on its due date and refrigerate as soon as possible. Did I mention shipping is free?

ECO-FRIENDLY PACKAGING

All of their packaging materials are biodegradable or recyclable.

Order your first Butcher Box Today!

7. FabFitFun

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Since becoming a mom I have learned that self-care is very important.

A happy mom is a happy family! #treatyoself #fabfitfun #FabFitFunAffiliate @fabfitfun

FabFitFun Subscription Box

With that being said I finally ordered my first FabFitFun Box and I love it!

What you get in a FabFitFun Box?:

As a FabFitFun Member, you’ll get a seasonal box containing fabulous finds in beauty, wellness, fashion, and fitness- hand-picked by the FabFitFun team! #FabFitFunAffiliate

Pricing: For only $49 you will receive 8-10 full-sized premium products valued at over $200.

Subscription Options: You will receive a Seasonal Box (4) four times per year. *

You will be charged immediately after selecting between either the Seasonal or Annual Membership. 

Depending on when you sign up, that season’s Box or an Editor’s Box will be the first box you receive. The Editor’s Box is offered in between seasons once the current season’s Box has sold out. It may contain past seasons’ products and other products.

After your first Box, your membership will continue according to our seasonal schedule. 

Seasonal Subscription:

If you sign up for the Seasonal subscription, you’ll pay $49.99* per box each season.

They will send you an email before you are charged to remind you of the upcoming bill and all other details about your upcoming box.

Your subscription automatically renews each season unless you decide to cancel before your upcoming bill date.

If you join as a Seasonal Member and later decide to be Annual, you can upgrade at any time from your account.

Annual Subscription:

If you sign up for the Annual subscription you’ll pay about $179.99 upfront for your first four (4) boxes.

You will not be charged for your subscription again until the end of your annual term.

Your subscription automatically renews each year unless you decide to cancel before your renewal date. 

Purchasing an Annual membership will make you a Select Member!

Each season, they will email you before your order ships and allow you to personalize certain items in the box such as what color of a certain item you’d like to receive based on the options that season.

Annual Members are also placed in the first billing group. This means boxes are generally shipped during the first window of shipping.

The Perks:

FabFitFun members receive exclusive access to FFF TV, FabFitFun online magazine, and sales!

Between their Add-on sale, Edit sale, exclusive offers, and FabFitFun Shop, you’re guaranteed to snag some extra goodies you love!

Membership also includes access to the FabFitFun Community, where you can chat and connect with other members!

Thank you @fabfitfun for introducing me to great new products. #FabFitFunAffiliate There’s something nice about having all of the season’s #essentials delivered to your door without having to lift a finger! 🙂

If you don’t already get their boxes, you can sign up by clicking the image below and using my code BEACHBABE to get $10 off your first box! #fabfitfun

Limited quantities are available.


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My name is Brittany. I am a wife, girl mom, and small business owner passionate about guiding new moms from pregnancy through motherhood with the knowledge and tips I learned along the way. I share mom hacks, baby tips, recipes for moms on a budget!

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20 COMMENTS

  • Ceci Rey

    I was curious about some of the subscription boxes…I really would like to try Fab Fit Fun…thanks for sharing!

    • ThriftyBrittany
      AUTHOR

      Thank you for your feedback. I will send you a Free FabFitFun Starter box valued at over $75 you just pay shipping!

  • Tamra

    Good post! I love Amazon Prime! I really could also go for Home Chef!

    • ThriftyBrittany
      AUTHOR

      I agree. If you use the link you can try Home Chef at a discounted price!

  • Joyce

    I may just sign up for all of these! Thanks for sharing!

  • Antonia Napier

    Great post! So informative! I love fabfitfun too!

    • ThriftyBrittany
      AUTHOR

      Im glad you found this informative. Thank you for your feedback!

  • Sara

    I have never heard of some of these subscriptions! It is definitely important to make life as easy as possible after having a baby, thank you for sharing your tips.

  • Maria

    Amazon Prime is great because you can even get diapers and groceries sent to your home! 🙂

    • ThriftyBrittany
      AUTHOR

      Yes! We never run out of diapers and we never leave the house! Its a win win!

  • Mama Writes Reviews

    I’d be lost without Amazon Prime! As a new mom, I would have been lost without Netflix, too!

  • Hoang Vi Fessenden

    Hmm, I’ve never found a subscription company that I really liked and was affordable. Informative post.

  • Yolanda

    I am in love with all of these subscriptions. The idea of gifts being sent every month is the best!! I haven’t heard of Groove Collective, but what a great idea and so helpful and Amazon comes to the rescue of course. I love my Prime membership! 🙂

    • ThriftyBrittany
      AUTHOR

      Yes Amazon Prime comes in handy! Especially during Christmas time when you need to get those last minute gifts in time!

  • Erin

    I am a sucker for a good box bc it’s fun to get
    Mail that isn’t bills 🤣🤣 and it makes it so much easier!

  • Jalisa Harris

    I need to try Amazon Fresh. I have an Amazon Prime subscription

    • ThriftyBrittany
      AUTHOR

      I love Amazon Fresh! Where I live grocery stores are busy 24/7. Shopping in the grocery store is like driving through traffic! I save so much time and stress ordering through amazon fresh.

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