8 items to get on October Prime Day rather than Black Friday

CHEF iQ Smart Wireless Meat Thermometer

A smart way to prep Thanksgiving dinner

$126 $180 Save $54

Smart thermometers make great gifts for the chef in your life, and you’ll find a lot of them on sale for Black Friday, but with have Thanksgiving coming up, you may want one for yourself before then. The Chef iQ is about as good as it gets, with a handy hub, two thermometers, and a smartphone app to make sure your food is properly cooked.

Ring Video Doorbell

Just in time for trick-or-treating and Prime Day deliveries

$55 $100 Save $45

A lot of folks use the sales to upgrade to a video doorbell, and this is a great opportunity to do so. You’ll have it set up just in time for trick-or-treating, which will be a great stress test to see how well it works for you. After that comes the parade of Amazon packages being delivered to your door that you’ll see, which will help stave off porch pirates. It’s also 45 per cent off, which is as good as it gets.

LG C3 OLED

Watch football and binge holiday movies in a bigger, brighter way

$1397 $1800 Save $403

Football, basketball, and hockey have all either started or are about to start their seasons. If you’ve been itching for a new TV, it’s a pretty good time to do it. We quite like the LG C3 and OLED is an outstanding TV technology. The G3 is technically better, but it’s also way more expensive. You can go with either one and be set. It also comes with HDMI 2.1 ports with full support for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S.

Amazon Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen)

Display Thanksgiving recipes

$40 $90 Save $50

The Echo Show 5 (3rd gen) is a nice addition to a kitchen, bedroom, or living room. It doubles as a smart display as well as a speaker, so you can jam out to music during your holiday parties or video call your loved ones during the holiday season with the integrated camera. Sure, you can get this on Black Friday, but Thanksgiving is over by then, and this thing could come in handy with its ability to show recipes.

Peloton Bike

Get a head start on your New Year’s fitness resolution

$1095 $1445 Save $350

Why wait until New Years to start exercising when you can do it before it gets cold out, and you have less winter guilt to burn off. Peloton bikes are on sale for $500 off, which is an excellent deal no matter which one you get. Peloton has some of the best biking exercise classes available. Just, you know, don’t buy one for your other half and reenact that hilariously bad commercial from a few years ago.

Amazon Smart Plug

Makes setting up holiday lights easy

$13 $25 Save $12

This plug is one of those products that you can talk about all day for random, niche smart uses. However, the best use for this at this time of year is for decorations. Halloween and Christmas decorations especially where you don’t want lights to be on all day every day. Use a few of these, which are nearly 50 per cent off right now, and let an Alexa routine turn them on and off at sunset. No more cheap timers from the hardware store.

JBL Pulse 4

Be the life of your holiday party

$130 $250 Save $120

The JBL Pulse 4 is a good sounding Bluetooth speaker that also looks nice. We’re at the beginning of the season where people have consistent social functions for the various holidays. A new Bluetooth speaker gives your function some background music. This one is 48% off right now, which is one of the biggest price drops of any Bluetooth speaker this Prime Day.

iRobot Roomba i4 EVO

So you don’t have to wear your pet’s winter coat

By the time Black Friday rolls around, pet shedding season will be over and this will be a lot less cool to have, even if it’s the same price then. Instead of vacuuming extra times to clean up the pet hair, let the machines do it. The iRobot Roomba i4 EVO is literally 50 per cent off right now, just in time for your dog or cat to shed their summer coat. It’s still a bit expensive at $200, but that’s a lot less than $400.