While Black Friday is a great time to score deals on big-ticket items, don’t overlook deals on lower-priced items—especially if you're looking to cross some folks off your list ahead of the holidays. Amazon’s Black Friday sale has thousands of deals, but we narrowed it down to the 40 best gift ideas you can score for less than $25 during the sale.

If Thanksgiving and Black Friday mark the official start of the holiday season, the logic follows that they may be the best time to buy holiday gifts if you haven’t already. After all, waiting much longer to check everyone off your gifting list after this point will be cutting it pretty close — and who wouldn’t want to score some serious savings on gifts that are both fun and practical?

You’re not just getting junk, either. If you know where to look, it’s not hard to find something useful for your arsenal. Right now, for example, you can get a great smart speaker in the fifth-gen Echo Dot,