There are almost too many amazing ways to save this weekend. If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today's newsroom and any business incentives. Amazon Prime Day starts in less than two days, but you don't have to wait until midnight (PST) on Sunday to find incredible discounts, nor do you need to shop just on Amazon. It turns out there are a lot of deals on Amazon and sales at other major retailers already available that are actually totally worth it.

These great deals are the perfect way to jumpstart your weekend. If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today's newsroom and any business incentives. There are so many reasons to get pumped that the weekend has finally arrived. All the great deals you can grab on everything from the latest fashion and beauty products to meat thermometers and more.

Thursday is the day for great savings. Shopping for the best deals online is kind of an art form. Before I started writing for Reviewed, I knew that retailers ran a lot of deals and buying something on discount was probably not too hard, provided you waited until the right time. More: Here's how to prep for Amazon Prime Day now that dates are revealed What I didn't know was that not all sales are alike. Some places might tell you something is on sale, but actually marked up the price beforehand and are giving you much less of an overall savings than you thought you were getting.

Get some huge savings on all your favorite electronics, like a new Kindle or robot vacuum. If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today's newsroom and any business incentives. You know that scene in 30 Rock when Liz Lemon is like "What a week, huh?" and Alec Baldwin's character goes, "Lemon, it's Wednesday." I happen to know a great cure to the Hump Day blues however, and it involves doing a bit of retail therapy. I don't just recommend buying a bunch of stuff you don't need at Target or on Amazon.

The 20 most popular things our readers bought on Amazon in April (Photo: Reviewed.com) If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA TODAY's newsroom and any business incentives. At the start of every month, we like to look back at what products really caught our readers' eye the previous month. Usually, we see our readers buying a lot of tech gadgets, robot vacuums, and kitchen supplies, but in April, our readers took an even bigger interest in health and beauty products.

Today's vision of a smart home has more to do with what's technologically possible than what people really need. Thus the endless parade of internet-connected wine openers, water bottles, meat thermometers and refrigerators, and a dearth of automation that would clean and fold our laundry, pick up things around the house or assist aging people as their physical strength wanes. Not that some tinkerers aren't trying to come up with life-changing tools, often while trying to persuade consumers to share their routines and shopping habits to make all this work -- and potentially opening the doors to hacking or surveillance in their homes. The annual CES gadget show, which opened in Las Vegas on Tuesday, is a showcase of the latest innovations from big corporations and tiny startups. Some of these inventions could soon be useful to consumers. Others look outlandishly impractical -- or maybe it's too soon to tell.

Today's vision of a smart home has more to do with what's technologically possible than what people really need. Thus the endless parade of internet-connected wine openers, water bottles, meat thermometers and refrigerators, and a dearth of automation that would clean and fold our laundry, pick up things around the house or assist aging people as their physical strength wanes. Not that some tinkerers aren't trying to come up with life-changing tools. The annual CES gadget show, which opened in Las Vegas on Tuesday, is a showcase of the latest innovations from big corporations and tiny startups. Some of these inventions could soon be useful to consumers. Others look outlandishly impractical -- or maybe it's too soon to tell.