5 Deals You Need to Know Today: Everyone Needs Zip Ties Eventually
You'll need a zip tie someday, this Amazon sale proposes. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life. So check out this offer and more in our roundup of the five best deals we found over the last 24 hours.
Top Home & Garden Deal
Zip Tie Deals at Amazon
Up to 45% offThis deal is basically a paean to the everyday drudgery that sometimes gets forgotten in the exciting and exotic world of dealjockeying. To the domestic and industrial heroes who need 400 zip ties for $6. I don't think I've seen 400 zip ties in my entire life. Zip disks, maybe, but only because they were, and remain, The Future. (Wikipedia refers to them as "the most popular of the superfloppy products", a sentence which should fill anyone's heart with glee.) This little slice of absolutely perfunctory product discountery is enlivened somewhat by the presence of stainless steel gimmicks, which feel like the Rolls Royce of zip ties with their shiny surfaces and elaborate "frosted steel ball self-locking design", and also by entertainingly vast plastic ties pictured over yon. If you cannot imagine your dad entertaining himself for two or three minutes with the sound produced by slapping that handful of ties against an open and meaty palm, then good news: You are That Dad.
Fufu & Gaga 86.6" 16-Shelf Sideboard
$218The only brand in today's roundup to have been named by a dizzy baby, Fufu&Gaga are the proud purveyors of this thing: a large sideboard that looks at once totally modern, and also like a pantry from a 1990s British cookery TV show (complimentary). 16 shelves, it boasts, with 12 doors. How many doors does one sideboard need, you might reasonably ask. Twelve. And look: they're not even all full doors. Don't worry about skewing your door per room ratios. Fufu&Gaga already thought of that while the baby was spinning around thinking of names.
Top Video Game Deal
PlayStation Store Big Games, Big Deals Sale
Up to 90% offVideo games are, of course, a complete waste of time. That's what makes them so appealing as things to do with your hands while you listen to podcasts or music. Try playing Horizon: Forbidden West with a critical eye towards its story, and it will be rendered a laughable, pitiable thing. A thing wherein the protagonist Aloy goes on an investigation to figure out why there are so many dinosaur robots (no, don't go) at a location, only for her to declare upon finding the cause, without so much as a baleful stare into camera to express the deep remorse you'd expect for uttering the line as written, "A machine lure. That explains all these machines."
Video games are lucky they're pretty. (And fun and diverting and sometimes even clever. But yikes, Horizon.)
Top Shoe Deal
Sperry Mens Moc-Sider Slip On Shoes
$15If "Shoebacca" is a legally distinct enough name for the company to survive all this time without incurring the wrath of Lucasfilm-then-Disney lawyers, then it's time for me to put aside this sham career and invest in my line of spinning toys on strings for toddlers: Baby Yo-yoda. But first I should probably tell you about these Sperry shoes that are on sale. Give in to the Moc-side of the Force.
Top Sale Deal
Costco Instant Savings and Everyday Values
Up to $1,250 off for membersAny store you can walk into and say "I need to buy marinara sauce, some shorts, a leaf blower, a laptop, and some motor oil" is a good store, especially when all of those items are discounted. For members only, alas, but hark: is that a Groupon deal on a Costco membership with a $20 Costco gift card attached? (Yes.)
