5 Deals You Need to Know Today: It's Still Presidents' Day Somewhere
Yesterday was Presidents' Day, but the inexorable passage of time cannot deter the good ship Woot from keeping its celebratory sale alive for another while. Check out this offer and more in our roundup of the five best deals we found over the last 24 hours.
Top Mattress Deal
Woot! Presidents' Day Sale
Up to 74% offGiven Woot's usual levels of eclecticism, there really is an abnormal concentration of mattresses, and more broadly, bedding items, in what is not, ostensibly, a bedding sale. The presidents are not traditionally known for their mattresses, pillows, or comforters. FDR's fireside chats were not sponsored by Casper. Yet, bedding upon bedding. But also, a TV or two, because even presidents like to watch Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives in bed sometimes.
Top Grill Deal
Lippert Odyssey Portable Grill
$30It's a charcoal grill, which is classic, but its temperature control is USB-powered, which is terrifying and new. And here at the intersection of present and future is hot meat. Now, admittedly, to arrive at this hot meat intersection, you have to select the ostentatious bright green colorway, but this makes sense, given that your options are traffic light-coded — yellow slows down to a $5 off clip coupon, red keeps it steady at $5 off, but green is full speed ahead at a fulsome $6 off. That's just traffic school 101 right there.
Top Toy Deal
Arcade1UP Deals at Kohl's
Up to 60% off + up to $100 in Kohl's CashThe Mortal Kombat arcade machines on offer here give me leeway to talk about this: this franchise's greatest enemy is the invention of the DVD. Not because it let us watch Mortal Kombat Annihilation whenever we want, which is never, but because it allowed Midway to start adding actual story to Mortal Kombat beyond simple text wrap-ups for each character. You beat Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat 2, through all his cheesing and cheating? Congratulations, now enjoy this plain-text denouement: "Liu Kang then returns to the seclusion of his Shaolin temple. He pays his respects to his lost brothers and finally realizes that the events which have taken place were all fulfillment of his destiny." That's the exact right amount of story for a Mortal Kombat game. Then DVDs arrived, and suddenly, huge, extravagant cutscenes were possible, a trend which culminated in the MK9 through MK11 trilogy, which turned into a weird sub-MCU thing with multiverses and timelines out the wazoo, and it all collapsed in under itself because the flimsy Mortal Kombat framework was not built to withstand such shabaroonery. Bring us back to the good old days, Arcade1Up, when games were games, and came with up to $100 in Kohl's Cash.
Top Golf Deal
Track 7 24V Electric Ride-on Golf Cart
$110A frankly suspiciously low price for this golf cart will not deter us from enjoying these savings. It's "Nigerian prince email" levels of too good to be true, and yet, is both too good and also true. These are the paradoxes to which this roundup will sometimes give rise, and we just have to ride it out and try not to think about it too hard. Instead, think about this: another clippable coupon, our second of the day. Walmart could just set it at its post-coupon price and have done with it, but where's the fun in that? This gives all the joy of feeling like you're saving a little extra, without the hassle of typing something like a regular coupon. Words are for suckers, I write as if upon my own tombstone: checkboxes are the future.
Top Apparel Deal
Under Armour Outlet Deals
Up to 40% off + extra 40% off + 15% off via codes "EXTRA40" & "UA15"And now, to make up for it, two regular coupons. But hark: they are the fabled stacking coupons. Not for Under Armour the ignominity of offering two discounts, but ne'er the twain shall meet. These discounts are happy to come together, potentially at Hot Meat Intersection, and become more than the sum of their parts. Well, exactly the sum of their parts, let's not overstate things — percentages are what they are. In conclusion, good prices at Under Armour, and the original Kano was not kanonically Australian until the Mortal Kombat movie came out in 1995 (post-Mortal Kombat 3) and made that accent one of his two kharacteristics, along with pink eye.