Our favorite day of the year is finally here: Cyber Monday.

The best part of Cyber Monday is the fact that you don’t have to camp out in the freezing cold outside a Walmart, and then get trampled to death by ravenous shopper looking for 10% off video games.

The second best part, of course, are all of the incredible deals.  We’ve searched the internet high and low, and found out where all the best Cyber Monday Deals are for 2011.  Take a look here:

Department Stores with Cyber Monday Specials

• Sears
• JCPenney
• Amazon
• Target
• Overstock
• Walmart
• Kohls
• Macy’s
• Kmart
• Costco

Cyber Monday Fashion Deals

• Endless.com ($30 off $100, $60 off $200, $100 off $200)
• Zappos.com (Pre-holiday Markdowns)
• Lucky Brand (30% off Everything & Free Shipping)
• 7 For All Mankind (40% off Sale Items)
• Aldo Shoes (Extra 30% off Sale Items)
• Ann Taylor (50% off Everything in Store and Online & Free Shipping)
• Banana Republic, Gap & Old Navy (30% off)
• Chico’s (35% off)
• Coldwater Creek (40% off Everything)
• Bustedtees (20% off & Free Shipping)
• Express.com (30% off & Free Shipping)
• Guess.com (30% off & $500 Gift Card Giveway)
• Nine West (60% off Party Shoes)
• DSW ($15 off $74, $30 off $149, $50 off $199)

Cyber Monday Gifts, Games & Gadgets

• Brookstone (Free Shipping + Giveaway – 40 shoppers get their orders free!)
• Gamestop (Xbox Bundle Deal + Many More)
• Toys “R” Us (Up to 70% off)
• Mom Agenda (20% off & Free Shipping)

Cyber Monday Tech Deals

• Dell (Save up to 55%, Computers starting at $299, Special doorbusters)
• newegg.com
• Verizon Wireless
• T Moblie (Free TMobile myTOuch or myTouch Q + Free Shipping)
• Best Buy (Free $10 E-Gift Card)

Cyber Monday Specials- Home & Garden

• Crate & Barrell (15% off & Free Shipping)
• Pottery Barn (Free Shipping on Everything)
• Restoration Hardware (Save $100 on Every $500)
• Pacific Coast (Free Shipping on Everything)
• World Market (20% off Everything + Free Shipping on Orders Over $150)
• Home Depot (Free Shipping on 100,000 items + No Interest for 12 months)
• Lowes

Cyber Monday Pharmacy Specials

• CVS ($15 Today + 30% Coupon Later)
• Walgreens ($10 off $40)

Cyber Monday Deals- Office

• Staples (Multiple Deals + Free Delivery on Everything with no Minimum Purchase)
• Office Depot (Save up to 50%)

Cyber Monday Sports Deals

• REI (30% off)
• Cabela’s (5-Day Holiday Sale)
• Dick’s Sporting Goods (25% off Single Item)

TARGET Pre-Black Friday Tablet Deals

Nook Color: $199

The Wireless Nook Color by Barnes and Noble is available at Target for a great deal. The nook has been the best competitor for Kindle since it’s release. The Nook Color is still among the most accessibly priced tablets on the market.

Nook Color comes equipped with:

• Wireless computing
• 8G of memory for plenty of storage
• Touch Screen
• Gaming and Web capabilities

The Nook Color is also available at Barnes and Noble’s website for the same price but when you buy at Target your purchase comes with a $30 Target gift card!

Amazon.com Pre-Black Friday Tablet Deal

Kindle Fire: $199

Amazon.com is still the best place to purchase your Kindle and the Kindle Fire is no exception. With a beautiful touchscreen and vivid color, your reading experience is enhanced exponentially. With no camera or GPS system both the Kindle Fire and the Nook Color are available for a much lower budget.

Kindle Fire comes equipped with:
• Free Cloud storage for all your Amazon content
• Access to millions of books movies and magazines
• Wifi Apps like Pandora, Hulu and Netflix
• Super fast web browsing with Amazon Silk

Best Buy Black Friday Doorbuster Tablet

Asus Transformer : $249

The Asus Transformer is equipped with  

• 10” Touch Screen
• Front facing Web Cam
• 1280×800 resolution for crystal clear viewing

At $249, the Asus is a great middle of the road tablet with a huge ten-inch screen. It’s the perfect tablet to take on an airplane trip for the optimum movie watching experience.

Walmart Black Friday iPad 2 

iPad 2: $499

The iPad 2 is thinner and lighter than it’s older sister the iPad. It’s kicks out more power with a dual-core A5 chip and yet maintains its 10-hour battery life. Two-way cameras make it possible to have video chats and take photographs with a view screen. You can buy iPad 2 at many different vendors but at Walmart you get the choice of a free starter accessory as well. Black Friday sale only!

Buy.com Black Friday Motorola Xoom

Motorola Xoom: $429

Available at Buy.com is a great deal on the Motorola Xoom tablet just for Black Friday.

• 10” display
• Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS
• HD video and touch screen
• Thin and light
• Bluetooth capability for hands free devices
• Wifi networking

Office Depot Black Friday Blackberry Playbook 

Office Depot is playing host to an amazing Black Friday Deal on the BlackBerry PlayBook. 

• Small and light for fantastic portability.
• Built in Wi-fi for networking and online gaming
• Dual HD video cameras for video conferencing
• mid range price for a very popular gadget

So… it’s pretty exciting when retailers offer free shipping. And Cyber Monday is a bonanza of $0 delivery!

Cyber Monday Deals

If you’re in the market for an awesome vacuum cleaner, Dyson is offering to take it directly to you for the low, low price of zero! (Now there’s a number a person can get behind!)

Dig the luxurious products at Pacific Coast Feather©? You’re in luck. They’re not only offering down throws starting at $19.99, they’re gonna drop them at your house for free.

Lands’ End is offering free shipping on all orders over $50.

Need a new pair of jeans? Lucky Brand is offering 25% their entire site on Cyber Monday, plus free ground shipping.

For those of you looking for something athletic, Dick’s Sporting Goods is offering free shipping on all purchases over $99.

Home Depot will deliver new appliances at no cost – as well as remove the item that appliance is replacing.

Look nice for the holidays! Get free shipping and a free gift when you order $50 worth from Estee Lauder.

For the organizer in your life, momAgenda – a company specializing in planners and home journals – is offering free shipping on holiday must-haves.

Soul-inspiring home décor store Enchanted Garden Gift Store will all deliver orders over $50 for free. They also offer a gift-wrapping option.

A savvy shopper should check specific retailers’ websites for additional shipping deals – often they offer free or discounted shipping on specific items or departments (for example, Target is offering free shipping on select shoes, women’s and men’s clothes).

Happy e-shopping!

JoS A Bank is offering 50% OFF their entire site, plus FREE Shipping on Cyber Monday. May 2012 be classier than ever.

There are a few days in addition to Cyber Monday that are known for mind blowing savings that rival Cyber Monday itself. Usually the first day that triggers the immense wave of sales is none other than Thanksgiving Day itself. Start saving your coupons folks because by now the mad dash has begun. Luckily, this article is written so that you won’t have to go through all of the anxiety of missing a sale or two. Thanksgiving, in actuality, has one of the lowest grossing sales figures in when it comes to online holiday shopping. Surprisingly, so does the legendary Black Friday when it comes to online sales figures.

Over the course of Thanksgiving Weekend we find plenty of sales for the two-day event offered by online retailers. Online retailers for Thanksgiving Weekend have been boosting their popularity by offering outrages sales in preparation for the approaching Monday. After all the already major savings comes beginning of the real deal, Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday and the next few days afterwards marks the beginning of amazing online savings known for the holiday season. Cyber Monday had a bit of a dip in popularity in 2009 but came back even stronger in 2010, an impressive sixteen percent sales figure increase! Riding behind this is Green Monday. Green Monday is the second Monday in the month of December and with sales figures trailing Cyber Monday just by a little bit, be sure that the savings are just as immense!
(Sources: comScore, Inc.)

One last tidbit, be sure to check out consumer brand and store Facebook pages for coupons!

The sales dates as listed for 2011:

Thanksgiving: Nov. 24
Black Friday: Nov. 25
Cyber Monday: Nov. 28
Green Monday: Dec. 12

The holiday season is usually the time when major game publishers release their games to contend for the prestigious title of “Game of the Year”!

Ahhh but the joys of being an online retailer. Instead of playing the guessing game and setting their prices ahead of time, online retailers can simply wait to see the deals offered by their offline competitors, and then adjust their own prices accordingly.

Such is the strategy employed by Amazon.com, which has stated it plans to match or beat its competitors prices this holiday season. For this reason, it’s a great idea to keep checking back with Amazon to see what their current Black Friday or Cyber Monday Specials are. But for now, here’s a few of the fantastic sales they’ve already announced:

Amazon.com Black Friday Specials

Haier 32-inch LCD HDTV – $99

Nothing like getting a LCD TV as a Christmas present. Normally $350, this Haier flatscreen offers 720p picture, which is 720 more p than the old tube TV you’ve got in your basement.

Lord of the Rings Blu-Ray Trilogy – $50

For the Lord of the Rings nut in your family, give them a whopping 682 minutes of Frodo in stunning Blu-Ray picture for just $50. That’s $70 off the regular list price!

Spy Video Remote Control Car – $57

Probably the toughest part about holiday shopping is when you see how much better today’s children have it with their AWESOME new toys. This is probably exhibit A: a spy car with a camera on it that beams a video picture to your remote control. So jealous.

Below is a table of all the wacky store hours for Thanksgiving and Black Friday.  Some stores, like Nordstrom, don’t really alter their hours at all.  Others are open round the clock.  Most seem to be closed for all or part of Thanksgiving, but there are a couple surprises.  Take Sports Authority, for example: not only are they open on Thanksgiving from 9am-3pm, but they offer 25% off your entire purchase.  Now that’s a deal!

Thanksgiving Store Hours

Black Friday Store Hours

Slickdeals is probably the best site there is for all coupon and deal related posts. This site functions as both a site for featured savings on specific products and a forum for people to share information on things such as sales and multiple-use coupons! Slickdeals offers many posts that include savings online and in-store; there are posts that are locally exclusive as well! Slickdeals covers a wide variety of deals and coupons including electronics, clothing, and even food! Remember, sales don’t last forever so be sure to take note when the deals and coupons end!

Do ya feel lucky? Well, do ya? 1SaleADay is a site that offers one different product for an incredibly great deal in each of its categories daily. It’s almost like the lottery but with 1SaleADay, everyone is a winner every day! 1SaleADay has offered a total of over one billion dollars-worth of savings since it started! News publications all over the nation have given praise to this wonderful website!

Are you looking specifically more for electronics and gadgets? Then Meritline is your one-stop-shop for discounted wares! Meritline is known for offering insane prices for electronic and computer products! With supplementing coupons from Slickdeals, Meritline has become famous for selling HDMI cables for less than $10; other miscellaneous cables are practically free (though sometimes shipping and handling is not included with the deal). This is a great site for electronic stocking-stuffers!

One last note about Meritline, they are currently having a giveaway on Facebook for an iPad and a Kindle Fire! So there you have it folks, amazing sites with mind-blowing deals!

Just looking over the leaked-moments-ago Costco Black Friday sale flyer, I felt my heart breaking the speed limit.  A high-definition camcorder for only $179.99!  Laptops for $180 off?  My EKG is jumping off the chart.

And then I saw it: The Dyson Animal Ball. The Cadillac of vacuum cleaners. The Messiah of multiple-pet owners. A perfect piece of purple magic. It. Is. $100. Off. Get the crash cart.

In addition to the gems above, Costco is slashing prices on digital cameras, various GPS, 2TB hard drives! Knife sets! Diamonds! Seriously, diamonds are on sale.

The BAD NEWS… this mega-sale is from Nov. 25-27 only. Consequently, you have two-plus weeks to wait. But start strategizing now! In most cases, sale prices are at least 20% off retail.

Things you’ll need:

• A Costco membership. You can obtain them in-store or online. They cost $55 for an entire year and cover you and a member of your household.
• Money. Duh.
• A Plan. Prioritize. The better the stuff, the faster it walks off. Make sure to hit the purple Dyson first!