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This week's Black Friday sales are better than ever, and Best Buy is one of the leading retailers rolling out savings. You can find hefty discounts on everything from laptops to headphones to home appliances.

If history is any guide and advertisers are to be believed, the best bargains still are to be had from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, a four-day period known in the retail world as BFCM for short.

To celebrate the tentpole shopping event that is Black Friday, our favorite tech-home-beauty brand triple threat is running limited time deals with savings of up to $300 off. From their advanced cordless vacuums to innovative hair care tools and air purification systems,

Needless to say, none of them offer Black Friday deals. The markets for toaster ovens or slippers do not quite operate in the same manner. For a start, goods are differentiated by design and quality.

Oh, the deals you will find—not just on one day, but for an entire season of shopping. I’m in my mid-forties. Things are going gray in places and my hips hurt for no reason. And back in my day, Black Friday was one day: the Friday after Thanksgiving.