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CNN
20-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- CNN
Score summer essentials early while Target's Memorial Day sale offers deep discounts
Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner, and with it comes one of the biggest shopping events of the season. Target is kicking off the summer in style with its Hello Summer Sale, offering deep discounts across categories like appliances, patio furniture and more. Whether you're planning a backyard BBQ, refreshing your wardrobe or just looking to score summer savings, we've rounded up the best early Memorial Day deals you can shop right now — before they end on May 26. Tangkula 3-Piece Rattan Conversation Furniture Set Spend quality time outdoors chatting with friends while enjoying this patio chair set. The plush cushions mean you can spend ample time relaxing, all while resting drinks on the table. Room Essentials Linear Geo Outdoor Area Rug This playful outdoor rug will bring a homey touch to your patio or balcony. It comes in four fun prints, including geometric and checkerboard patterns. Threshold 9-Foot Round Outdoor Patio Market Umbrella Slide this patio umbrella into outdoor tables and enjoy the shade while feasting on barbecues. It's available in three on-sale colors — Maroon, Teal Blue and Lime Green — for 30% off. Studio McGee Striped Outdoor Bolster Pillow Complete with stylish tufted buttons and a striped design, this cylindrical bolster pillow lends back support. It boasts a UV-, water- and fade-resistant fabric to fare better against outdoor elements. Room Essentials Metal Mesh Patio Accent Table Rest beverages or display plants atop this mesh metal folding table. Tuck it away when not in use to clear room for tanning and other outdoor activities. It has a powder-coated metal frame to avoid rusting. Universal Thread Women's Maxi Halter A-Line Dress Replenish your summer clothing stock while women's dresses, tops, skirts and shorts are up to 40% off. This versatile dress pairs well with white sneakers and sandals. Its string halter design means you can get creative with tying it too. Vera Bradley Outlet Lighten Up Little Hipster Crossbody Bag Target is loaded with Vera Bradley purses. This crossbody bag features a bevy of pockets and compartments, perfect for any travels you have on the itinerary. It's over 75% off during the retailer's summer sale. Wrangler Men's ATG Flex Cargo Shorts Good news for men's wardrobes: Tees, tanks and shorts are 30% off at Target. One highlight are these Wrangler shorts, which black, tan and green styles. Its cargo structure and pockets make it great for outdoorsy activities. Hanes Originals Women's SuperSoft Comfywear Rib Sleep Shorts I love a matching sleep set, but I've had to retire long-sleeved ensembles with rising temps. These breathable lounge shorts are a constant in my summer clothing rotation, especially when paired with their matching tank top. Lands' End Women's Slender Suit Wrap One Piece Swimsuit The coastal outfitter has a home at Target, including this popular swimsuit. It comes in petite, regular and long torso sizes as well as on-sale ombre patterns — all for 30% off. Shark HV301 Rocket Ultra-Light Corded Bagless Vacuum This Shark vacuum has been a trusty cleaner in my apartment for nearly four years. It's tackled everything from weekly cleanings to vacuum-sealed bags. I can't recommend it enough, especially while it and other floor care items are up to 40% off. Tineco iFloor 3 Breeze Wet/Dry Vacuum Cleaner Mop Cutting down on cleaning steps, this wet-dry vacuum cleaner mop from Tineco can do two jobs in one fell swoop. It builds in an extra suction mode and has a self-cleaning feature all within its slim, cordless build. Bissell Little Green Select Portable Carpet Cleaner Pet messes on rugs and spills on couches stand no chance when it comes to this portable upholstery cleaner. A sibling of the iconic Little Green Machine, this cleaner can similarly spray, scrub and lift away dirt and stains from all surface types. Dyson V8 Origin Vacuum It's quite shocking to see a discounted Dyson vacuum — nevertheless, one for $130 off. Target has the V8 Origin for less ahead of all your summer hosting plans. The cordless stick design ensures it tucks out of sight if you're tight on space. Sharper Image Lightweight Handheld Vacuum Whip out this handheld vacuum when food crumbs litter your surfaces. It comes with a rechargeable base that boasts up to 25 minutes of runtime. You can even tackle nooks and crannies with its crevice tool. Sony WH-1000XM5 Bluetooth Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones Since the latest Sony WH-1000XMs dropped, we're seeing great discounts on the previous-generation pair. It's equipped with great noise-canceling and its slim design gives it a less bulky fit. Plus, they're still holding the top spot out of all the Sony headphones we've our review TCL Class S5-Series 4K UHD HDR LED Smart Google TV Snag a top-notch smart TV for as little as $200. All sizes of this screen are discounted for Target's Memorial Day sale. Enjoy specs like detailed 4K UltraHD Resolution, brilliant LED backlighting and optimizing AI processors — all at a value price. JBL Clip 5 My sister bought this a couple of weeks ago, and I only wish she had gotten it while on sale. It's super portable, clipping onto tote bags, while packing in great sound to play outdoors at picnics. Bose Smart Soundbar With Bluetooth and Dolby Atmos A noteworthy soundbar we tested, this Bose pick has solid mid-range sound and supports Dolby Atmos audio for a more immersive experience. It hails from the premier tech brand, and is $130 off before Memorial Day. Garmin Venu 3S Track all your sleep and fitness stats and discover insights about your health with this Garmin smartwatch. The mega retailer knocked $100 off the wearable in all five colors, including neutral browns and pinks. Memorial Day is one of the key holidays when Target offers some of its steepest discounts outside Black Friday. You'll find major markdowns on outdoor furniture, summer apparel, kitchen gadgets, tools and electronics — items that rarely all go on sale at the same time. Most deals run through the long weekend and typically end on Monday night, but some limited-time deals may only last for 24 to 48 hours, so shopping early is the best way to lock in savings. It's a great time to stock up for the season or grab a few big-ticket items at a lower price. Many everyday essentials are also included in the sale, from sunscreen and summer snacks to cooling bedding and cleaning supplies. Even small purchases can add up to big savings when timed with a major holiday event like this. Our deals team has been covering deals for decades, garnering plenty of experience saving our readers money. After all, advocating for buyers is what we're all about. Our deals editor, Jacqueline Saguin and the rest of the deals team work hard to ensure we're only handpicking the best prices on products, so you can get the most bang for your buck.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Lifestyle
- Yahoo
These 10 Target finds make my apartment look expensive, but they start at just $8
I love decorating, which is good, because I've done it a lot. I've moved seven times over the last 10 years, all around New York City, and each apartment has had its own style and flair. However, around the fifth apartment, I decided I needed to buy more timeless neutrals that I'd be excited to take to the next spot rather than leave behind. In the fashion world, they call this "quiet luxury" — tailored, high-quality basics that last and go with everything. So, yeah, that's what I was going for, except I didn't want to buy super expensive stuff, only to risk damaging it during the next sells a ton of home goods that look so much more expensive than they are. Its collections, including collaborations with Joanna Gaines' Magnolia and Studio McGee, are filled with stylish furniture and decor. And its own Figmint and Casaluna lines include cookware and linens with luxe-feeling finishes. I've been settled in my current apartment for the last two years, and I'm planning on staying here for many more to come. But I still shop at Target for a lot of my home goods, and not to brag, but guests constantly compliment me on my decor. Sometimes they're shocked when they hear me say, "Thanks, I got it from Target!" (But they're always happy when I share the link so they can copy the look.) Here are 10 Target faves that have earned me the most raves:
Buzz Feed
16-03-2025
- Business
- Buzz Feed
People Are Sharing The "Modern Scams" They Discovered That Made Them Realize, "Wait, This Whole Industry's A Rip Off"
Recently, someone on Reddit asked, "Redditors who unexpectedly discovered a 'modern scam' that's everywhere now — what made you realize, 'Wait, this whole industry is a rip off?'" Here's what everyone shared: 1. "Once upon a time, I attended a time-share presentation because they offered money to go. Yes, they are all high-pressure salespeople and scammy by nature, but on this one, I spotted exactly how they would hose everyone involved. I read the contract carefully (since I was there anyway, and it made their salesperson shut up while I read)." "Quietly buried near the bottom was a mandatory cleaning and maintenance fee of about half the rent of a modest apartment that they could adjust at any time, with no stated limits. Fortunately, they'd supplied a shuttle to pick up people and take them to the timeshare presentation location. About 15 of us were in one of those little shuttle vans with seats facing each other. We started chatting on the way back, and I pointed the clause out to everyone in the group." — Terpsichorean_Wombat 2. "Furniture. My wife is a huge fan of home design shows, especially one called Dream Home Makeover. That'll be important later. So, one day, she picked out a rug for our dining area. It's called 'The Janette' (yes, they name rugs), and we ordered it. It's something like $1500. The rug arrives with a label on the back that says, 'The Samuel.' I thought we ordered the wrong thing, so I Google the brand and 'The Samuel.' I find it on Wayfair for $300. This can't possibly be the same rug, can it?" "I take a chance and order it from Wayfair, and when I have both in my possession, I do a side-by-side. It's the EXACT same rug. Basically, these designer brands are buying stuff directly from vendors, changing the name, and charging 5x the price. Fast forward a few months. She finds a dining table on the Studio McGee website (the folks who have the Dream Makeover show). I do a Google reverse search on the picture of the table and find it on a random furniture store's website for 1/3 of the cost." — schaudhery 3. "I don't know if this counts, but I found an empty lot with barely visible no-parking signs next to an ATM. Tow trucks would wait just behind the building for someone to park there. The person would park and walk around the corner to use the ATM. Then, they returned to their car, which was already hooked up, and the tow truck driver would unhook it for a able to be obtained from the ATM. It's been years, but I'm still enraged when I think of it." 4. "I worked a month as a pharmacy clerk, and the health insurance price disparity is insane, especially on things like insulin." 5. "I had a 'job interview' with what you'd now call an MLM way before they entered the mainstream consciousness. The interviewer spent the whole time talking about all this hustle culture bullshit, talking about how hard you gotta work if you want to succeed, how it's all down to your network, and you need to be a go-getter; you better earn that commission and all that shit. Well, I'm a fiercely introverted person who wasn't very self-motivated at the time, so when I was called into the 1-on-1 with the interviewer, I couldn't help myself. I told him I was a bad fit, and it didn't sound like it was for me." "To my surprise, his tone instantly flipped. He started talking about how it wasn't that hard, how you could work less and still make a good living, how generous the commission structure was at lower levels, and so on. Exact opposite of his earlier vibe. And that flip, that's what made me realize it was a scam. They didn't care about my skills, my drive, or my personality. They'd do whatever because all they wanted was for me to buy in. And though I didn't understand the whole scam, I knew that had to be a bad idea. That's the only interview I've ever walked out of partway through." — GrinningPariah 6. "Mobile gaming. It's been like this for probably a decade now that mobile gaming is just psychologically designed to give you just enough satisfaction at first but keep you wanting more and locking stuff behind paywalls or extremely long-timers. It's nearly impossible to get where you want without dumping money for in-game currency and stuff. Mobile games are designed to the core to be addictive and siphon money from people. So many people still play them. I can't touch them anymore and haven't for years." 7. "When I saw my first crypto rug pull. That's when I realized that most of the industry is a giant casino, and it's all about who can time when to get out of the coin the best. Very few coins offer any real utility and most aren't using them for anything legitimate. Most of it is just to move money across borders without the banks and governments seeing it." — shotsallover 8. "Any solar roof that is not paid in full at the time of installation. Specifically talking about 20-30-year solar 'leases' and, even worse: 'Power Purchase Agreements.' Scammy, scammy scams. They prey on people. They'll lie and tell you it's a great investment for your house that the next buyer will love. WRONGGGG. Couldn't be more wrong. No buyer wants to take over the next 18 years of your solar lease. You'll have to pay it all off at closing, and GUESS WHAT? it's $50k+. Which is absurd because the panels would have cost less than $10k if you had gotten a real company to do it." "Even worse: the systems are usually so poorly designed that they don't even appreciably lower your electric bill. So, $50k for nothing. Worse than nothing because you'll have to spend more money taking them off whenever you need work done on the roof. There's also a decent chance that the solar company that sold you that 20-30-year lease goes out of business, so there's no one to talk to about your system. Someone else bought the leases (but none of the service warranties), and you are still on the hook for the payments regardless of whether it works or not, and if you stop paying, they have a lien on your house. SCAM, SCAM, SCAM, SCAM. STAY AWAY FROM 'PAYMENT-PLAN' SOLAR. Regular solar that you pay in full upfront: fine. Good, even. Payment plan solar: SCAM." — shinywtf 9. "Like a decade ago, Reddit was big on safety razors, the old-fashioned twisty open thing you put a single blade into like what your grandpa might have used. Eventually, I tried it out because of this. I now spend less on shaving per year than I used to spend on a pack of razors for a week or two." u/Winnipork / Via 10. "Individual 'pods' for laundry are a total ripoff that forces you to use specific portion sizes. Companies want you to waste products like this so you buy more often. With liquids or powders, even the caps and scoops are designed so that you use too much. If your clothes are particularly soiled, you can use a little more, but otherwise, you don't need to use a lot for clothes to come out clean and smell nice. You can use half of the recommended amount for most loads, and things will be perfectly fine." u/Tlammy / Via "Also, fabric softener and dryer sheets are mostly unnecessary garbage. They leave unnecessary scented chemicals on your clothes, can damage some synthetic fabrics over time, and make towels significantly less absorbent. Clean clothes won't smell like anything at all…you don't need to add a chemical perfume to every fabric. Static cling is just a temporary effect of low humidity when you remove things from a dryer." — BrianMincey 11. "I'm not sure why modern nursing care facilities/homes are not higher on the list. Some are good (but they're $10k/month or more), but most others are shit. Not to mention, they drain older citizens' savings until they have nothing left, then push them to Medicare and then bill the government at a higher cost due to the 'extra' work involved in using that system. A total scam making some of the larger corporations that own hundreds of these little out-of-the-way homes billions each year." — op4 12. "Most glasses, especially ones you can get at an eye doctor. You can get frames and lenses online for like $30. There's a big monopoly company that jacks up the prices in most brick-and-mortar stores." 13. "Weddings. Everything about a wedding is incredibly overpriced and so far booked out for no real reason." — MiPaKe "I used to work at a little seaside place that would take wedding bookings. Someone would call and ask about a wedding, then be told, 'Oh, we're booked out until next year! Yeah, everyone wants to have a wedding here, sorry!' then take down their number. A week later, they'd call them and say something like, 'Oh, it looks like so and so isn't able to make the booking, do you want it?' Then they'd basically triple the price they advertised online. They would use this method multiple times a week, and as a result people were foaming at the mouth trying to get in there. The only time they took real bookings was for known locals." — airfryerfuntime 14. "I had a too-good-to-be-true feeling about streaming services pretty early on. When interest rates started going up, I thought, 'Oh boy, here come the ads, price jacks, and quality drop.' So far, two have become true; time will tell if quality stays good over time." 15. "Companies posting that they are hiring, but in reality, the jobs were only posted as a way to show the company is growing. I believe it's a way to manipulate their stocks. Fake job listings make it so much harder to find actual real jobs." — Nat_StarTrekin 16. "New phones each year that aren't big improvements with software that is obsolete before the phone itself is." — Jappie_nl And finally: 17. "The 'service fees' scam. You see a price, think you're getting a deal, and then — BAM! At checkout, a bunch of mysterious fees appear out of nowhere. Concert tickets? 'Processing fee.' Ordering food? 'Convenience fee.' Even some hotels now have 'resort fees' for things like using the pool (which you didn't even touch). It's like companies sat down and said, 'How can we charge people more without actually raising prices?' And we all just… accept it. Pure daylight robbery."
