Emilia Hitching
20 May 2025. Memorial Day sales have arrived, and the eCommerce editors and I have searched high and low to handpick the nine best deals.
13 May 2025. The Homes & Gardens eCommerce editors and I have searched through the offers currently live at Amazon ahead of the Memorial Day Sale and picked out the six best early deals. We'll be updating this page as we near Memorial Day, so be sure to bookmark it.
Memorial Day is now days away but Amazon's sale is in full swing, with savings in the $100s on some of our all-time favorite home goods.
Everything from air fryers to furniture to outdoor upgrades are available with massive discounts, and our team of expert e-commerce editors has been scouring hundreds of listings for the best Memorial Day deals so you don't have to.
Amazon's Memorial Day Sale is live right now, and there are plenty of deals to be had on products that we love here at Homes & Gardens. I'll be updating this page regularly with the help of our dedicated team to collate all the latest and best deals at Amazon, so be sure to bookmark and come back for the best live deals.
Shop Amazon Memorial Day sales by department
Each of our shopping writers has their niche. Lydia covers kitchen content, including blenders, juicers and air fryers. Emilia is our sleep editor, bringing you the best bedding and mattresses. Charlotte covers all things style, knowing all of the greatest interior trends and products to buy. And I'm Dan, Homes & Gardens' resident home tech expert, specializing in vacuum cleaners and air purifiers.
- Amazon home and kitchen deals: Supplies, vacuums, smart home gadgets and more with up to 50% off.
- Amazon furniture deals: Save more than $150 on furniture for the whole house.
- Amazon kitchen deals: Up to 56% off on air fryers, coffee makers and more.
- Amazon mattress deals: Save $200+ on high-quality sleep.
- Amazon outdoor living deals: Lawn mowers, outdoor lights and patio furniture with up to 59% off.
Our favorite finds in the Amazon Memorial Day sale
Our kitchen appliances editor Lydia Hayman says: 'I always recommend this one to families with plenty of kitchen space and lots of mouths to feed. We actually just got two of these air fryers for our shared office, since they are so quick and easy to use in busy lunch hours. This is the best price I've seen for months on one of the best Ninja air fryers. I'm pretty sure it's even lower than it was on Black Friday.'
Our Place makes non-toxic cookware with extreme temperature capability: you could put this pan in the oven or on the hob up to 1000°F. The Always Pan is free from PFAS or Forever Chemicals, yet still non-stick, so it's suitable for delicate cooking of eggs, pancakes, crepes, and the like without the risk of toxic chemicals leaching into your food.
Read more in our full Our Place Titanium Always Pan review.
Debuting in 2016, the V8 is still a popular choice for pet owners and those looking for a small, quick, convenient cleaner. It doesn't have Dyson's latest technology like in the Dyson V15 Detect for example, but it's effective on carpets and hard floors alike, exhibiting many of the qualities that we look for in the best cordless vacuums.
Read more in our full Dyson V8 review.
If you're looking to jump on the kitchen countertop lighting trend, I highly recommend a portable, wireless lamp like this one. It's petite, chic, has three brightness settings and should last between 10-16 hours on a full charge.
Style and trends editor Charlotte Olby says: 'I'm shopping the sales for patio furniture deals that will help me spread my garden reno budget further. I've got my eye on this boho-style loveseat that is the cheapest, and best reviewed all-weather wicker I've seen.'
The Traeger Ironwood has a smart self-feeding hopper and can even be paired with your phone for remote operation. It's a really nice smoker for beginners and pros with a massive $400 off.
'I always buy my coffee table books on Amazon as it tends to be the cheapest place to pick up design books for less. I'm finally adding designer Amber Lewis' 'Call It Home' to my basket this week while it's 45% off – I can't wait to leaf through her images to get some inspo for my remodel,' writes Charlotte Olby, style and trends editor.
The Shark HydroVac MessMaster is one of the best vacuum-mops from Shark, a brand we've tested extensively and love at Homes & Gardens. It can clean stains, spills and solids from your floors, and now it has a generous $100 discount at Amazon.
The Mellanni Queen Sheet Set is one of Amazon's best-selling bedding bundles with more than 250,000 verified five-star reviews. It's lightweight and perfect for summer, with a wide range of colors to complement any color palette and some prints and patterns including stripes and paisley to add interest. They feature in our best affordable bed sheets and best cooling sheets thanks to their pristine feel.
When is the best time to get an Amazon deal?
Amazon Prime Day deals
You will see the greatest breadth and depth of Amazon deals on Amazon Prime Day. Remember, there are two Prime Days each year – one in July, one in October – and each event typically lasts for 48 hours.
In my experience as a sales hunter, the deepest Amazon Prime Day deals are on Amazon hardware, such as Kindles, Fire Tablets, and Echo devices. If you're shopping specifically for home goods, you're just as likely to find a deep discount on Black Friday.
Where Amazon Black Friday deals are open to everyone, you can only make the most of Amazon Prime Day deals if you're a Prime member.
Not to worry: other major retailers, including Walmart and Best Buy, tend to run their own counter-sales around Amazon Prime Day, and you don't have to be a member to shop at those, though you can grab a free 30-day Amazon Prime trial and cancel before it renews.
Amazon Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals
Amazon Black Friday deals start dropping around a week in advance of the big day. If you want to beat the crowds and bag a bargain on a trending appliance, I suggest you shop early.
In my experience, Black Friday is the best time to shop for homeware, whether it's the best non-toxic air fryers or the best pizza ovens. It's when all the major home retailers compete to offer the lowest prices. I've seen sheet sets on sale for less than half price, hundreds of dollars off mattresses and sofas, and deep discounts on small and large appliances.
Amazon Lightning deals
Amazon Lightning Deals are flash sales that pop up around major sales periods. You're less likely to find small or large appliances in the Lightning Deals section – think more along the lines of skincare, make-up, and other impulse buys.
You can make Lightning Deals work for you by stocking up on a few inexpensive items to get you over the threshold for free delivery. So, if I were buying a $35 sheet set, but I needed to spend $40 to qualify for free delivery, I could shop the Lightning Deals section to pick up a few cheap favors. Anything from your essential cleaning toolkit would be perfect.
How can you tell if you've found a good deal at Amazon?
Download a price tracking tool
Shop like an eCommerce Editor and use a price tracking tool, which gives you access to the price history of a particular product. That way, you can work out from context whether you're actually getting a good deal, or if you'd be better off waiting for prices to fall further in the next holiday sales.
For Amazon, I recommend CamelCamelCamel. Here's how it works: paste the Amazon link or ASIN into CamelCamelCamel's search bar, and you'll see the product's lowest recorded price, as well as its average price, and when that price tends to fluctuate.
These figures form 'humps' on a line graph, like the back of a camel, hence the name.
Use comparison sites
This could be as easy as clicking the Google 'Shopping' tab at the top of your search engine results page. You might find that the best deal isn't on Amazon at all, but Target, Wayfair, QVC or somewhere else entirely.
Only buy the items you actually need
Throughout the year, I keep a wish list of the items and appliances I want to buy. Sometimes, I add the item to my cart before the sale begins, so that I can buy it right away when the deal drops.
When the sales start, I'm strict with myself –I only let myself shop from my wish list. That way, I get the dopamine hit from bargain-hunting, but I don't fall victim to overspending.
FAQs
Do you have to be a Prime member to access Amazon deals?
Technically, no. Every day, Amazon drops hundreds of deals, many of which are open to the public. With that said, if you want to access the deepest discounts and the widest range of deals with fast delivery, you should sign up for Amazon Prime.
Here's a workaround if you want access to deals over a holiday weekend, but you don't want to pay for Prime all year. Simply sign up for the one-month free Amazon Prime trial right before you want to shop.
For that month, you'll get free one-day delivery, plus access to Amazon's Prime Video streaming service. As long as you cancel before the 30-day cut-off, you won't be charged. If you forget to cancel your payment, you'll be charged $14.99 a month.
Can I get alerts for Amazon deals?
Yes. Download the Amazon Shopping app at Google or Apple and subscribe to deal notifications on items on your wish list.
Amazon is an enormous website, with hundreds of product launches and new deals every day.
To save you from feeling overwhelmed, we wrote a guide that teaches you how to shop Amazon like a style editor. That way, you can save time and money and sort through to find the good stuff.
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