At this point, you don’t need me to tell you that Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale season is under way. We wanted you to enter the 2025 holiday sales season with a game plan, which is why we’ve already rounded up the best early Black Friday deals, shared strategies to avoid buyer’s remorse and put together a holiday gift guide of 163 items vetted by Guardian US staff and shopping experts.
And you must have all taken notes, because you’ve been buying the deals we’ve found. We’re learning that Guardian readers’ most frequently shopped items range from a chef-approved spatula to a steeply discounted pair of noise-cancelling headphones.