5 Deals You Need to Know Today: It Costs But a Scratch
It's a dangerous world out there, so you can't be too safe, but if I had to guess, this suit of armor is probably the closest you can get to being too safe. Check out this offer and more in our roundup of the five best deals we found over the last 24 hours.
Top Clothing and/or Decor Deal
Medieval Wearable Full Suit of Armor
$620You know when you're frying some meat and moving within a foot of the pan results in an impressive array of minor oil burns? And how you've always wanted a solution that wasn't just "Fry it on a slightly lower heat, you jackass?" Welcome to the nuclear option. Admittedly, wearing metal armor near a hot stovetop could have its own drawbacks, but I trust you to have the wherewithal to avoid roasting inside your own articulated crockpot. If you have doubts, this is perhaps best deployed as a slightly outré art piece.
Top Shoe Deal
Running Shoes at Woot
Up to 68% off"On Brooks Altra" sounds like it should be a Latin motto for some governmental agency, but instead it's the three brands represented in this sale at Woot (an Amazon company, lest we forget). Since we're big fans of shoe names here at DealNews dot com, please enjoy the following quiz: Which one of these shoes names (from the sale, obv) was also a song for passingly-popular 90s Brit grunge band Bush?
- Glycerin
- Ghost
- Levitate
- Adrenaline
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It's 1: Glycerin! (Although, admittedly, spelled "Glycerine".) Weirdly though, Bush singer and former Gwen Stefani tolerator Gavin Rossdale did have a song called "Adrenaline" on the soundtrack to early 2000's Vin Diesel vehicle XXX. And Bush had a song called Headful of Ghosts, which is pretty close. I had to Google all of this, by the way, which meant I also Googled "Bush Addiction" to see if they had a song called that, and the results were not that.Top Audio Deal
Sony X-Series Portable Bluetooth Speaker
$150This isn't just portable, according to the little blurb at Best Buy — it's "super-portable". What could this mean? Can it sprout little legs and run around like a metal millipede, bringing long-forgotten Gavin Rossdale music wherever you wander? No, of course not. Is it significantly lighter than other portable speakers? I will not endeavor to check, but I'm assuming: also no. The important thing is, even if it's just portable to the usual degree, that's fine, especially since this daily deal puts it $200 under what you'd pay at Amazon today.
Top Hardware Deal
Quikrete Deals at Walmart
Up to 67% offIt seems particularly dangerous for Walmart to have "Play Sand" for sandboxes and litter boxes in among the quick setting cement. You do not want to get those confused. There's nothing worse than seeing your kids playing in the sandbox with the sprinklers going, and then suddenly, bam — they're ankle deep in freshly-laid pavement. Or, equally bad, you're trying to mix up some cement, and all you get is a sandy slurry all over the place. Luckily, the vast, vast majority of these items are indeed concretely concrete, so you can shop these discounts with a high level of confidence.
Top Coat Deal
Levi's Men's Trucker Jacket
$22 in cartThe marketing for this jacket promises an "inherent sense of cool" — obviously I'm well placed to judge levels of coolness, since I'm a writer on the internet, the coolest job in town. And so, I rate the Levi's Trucker Jacket at least a 7 on the Cool Scale. Also, cool people use scales. All the dang time. You get a 10 on the Cool Scale just for using the Cool Scale. Saving money is an 11 on the Cool Scale, but I haven't actually defined the upper limit of the Cool Scale, because being iffy on the details is also cool.