Today marks the halfway point of the countdown to Black Friday 2025. We're exactly 6 months away from November 28th which is the date Black Friday falls on this year (which is the second latest possible date).
Of course Black Friday itself has become much less important in recent years as sales are starting earlier and are spread over a longer period. While you wait, here's an article with some general tips for scoring holiday shopping deals.
We'll be be "officially" starting our Black Friday and holiday shopping coverage in the fall but we'll continue to post any relevant updates here in the meantime.
It's Christmas in... April? as we've just posted the 72-page Hallmark Dream Book 2025 Catalog. This catalog features their lineup of Keepsake ornaments. Page 12 of the catalog features ornaments exclusively available to members of Hallmark's Keepsake Ornament Club.
Most of the ornaments in the catalog are available starting in either July or October on Hallmark.com - see the individual ornament in the catalog as it will tell you when it will be going on sale. Some of the Keepsake ornaments will only be available at physical Hallmark stores as well.
If you are one of the many making an exodus from Twitter and joining Bluesky, be sure to follow us there. Our username is @gottadeal.com so we're pretty easy to find. We'll be posting the same Black Friday updates as well as the latest deals and more.
You can also sign up for our exclusive Black Friday alerts mailing list so you won't miss a thing. We will alert you via email when we post new leaked Black Friday ads along with the latest deals, store news and much more. Sign up today!
We received many requests over the years from our visitors who wanted to be able to browse older Black Friday ads from previous years. To answer those requests, we created the Black Friday Archive. The site is a great place to get your Black Friday fix during the "offseason".
This site lets you browse our complete archive of past Black Friday sale ads. The Black Friday Archive currently goes back to 2000 (plus one ad from 1963!) and has over 1,400 historical ads. If you're on Bluesky, follow the Black Friday Archive account where we post a random ad several times per day.
In case you are unaware, we have a GottaDEAL Discord server for those of you who'd like to chat in real-time about Black Friday and anything else with other GottaDEAL visitors and forum members. You can access the server via this invite link and we hope to see many of you in the chat.
For those who are unfamiliar with Discord, it is a free text, voice and video chat service. You can access it via their apps or through a traditional web browser. Once you sign up for an account you can join the GD server using the special invite link.
As we do every year around this time, we have officially opened up our main Black Friday message board for this year. You can check out all the early Black Friday discussion here.
You can start discussing your predictions for this year, any Black Friday news that comes up and much more. Also be on the lookout for our first contests of the year as well. See you there!
Join over 120,000 other GottaDEAL visitors by liking our Facebook page. We've been using the Facebook page as another way to find out about some of the latest updates we've posted including new posted ads, online sales going live and much more.
We also have Facebook-exclusive contests where you can win our famous Black Friday t-shirts, gift cards and more prizes. You can also use Facebook as another way to contact us. We also recommend you follow us on Bluesky and Instagram and join our fun Discord server.
While you may already be subscribed to our Black Friday newsletter, we also have our Instant Deal Alerts mailing list which you can learn more about and sign up for on this page. The Instant Deal Alerts let you know about Black-Friday level deals that pop up during the rest of the year.
These newsletters are sent out on an as-needed basis so during the slower time of the year you might only hear from us once or twice per month. We send them out when there are enough very hot deals happening at one time to warrant letting you know. Subscribe for free right here.
Every year we suggest you follow our TikTok account. We plan on using this account to post short video updates about hot deals, new sales, leaked Black Friday ads, store stock status and much more. Plus exclusive contents!
It's just another way you can find out when we post new important site updates. Of course the best way to learn about new updates to the site is with our mailing list. Also be sure to follow us on Bluesky and Facebook and join our Discord server.
One of the best ways to maximize your savings during Black Friday season and all year long is to make sure you have a good cash-back credit card. Use these credit cards for your purchases and you will earn additional cash back beyond the usual big Black Friday savings found each year.
Many of these cards have big signup bonuses if you spend a certain amount in the first few months with the card, so sign up for any of these cards today and you can use your holiday spending to meet these bonus goals easily. Check out GottaCreditCard for an list of our current favorites.
This year we invite you to follow GottaDEAL on Instagram. We plan on using our Instagram account for some fun things this year including exclusive contests, as well as sharing the latest news and rumors about whatever Black Friday ends up looking like this year.
It's also another way you can find out when we post new leaked ads, catalogs and more. Of course the best way to learn about new updates to the site is with our mailing list. Also be sure to follow us on Bluesky and Facebook and join our Discord server to chat with other GDers.
While you have a few months to pass the time until the sales start, why not do some reading about the history of these big days? First, check out the history of Black Friday and learn about the birth of Black Friday as a term in Philadelphia.
Next, the history of Cyber Monday is more recent with early years being known for lackluster sales. The history of Amazon's Prime Day is also more contemporary and after a few early rocky years it has become a big sale period each year.
Finally, check out a brief history of GottaDEAL for some interesting historical information about the site. We're proud to be the oldest independent deal and Black Friday site still around.
