Best Home Depot Black Friday Deals for 2025

Of course, it always happens Friday at Home Depot. Or at least, Home Depot Black Friday deals deviate from all the traditional boundaries of the calendar: Online deals started on November 5 and run through December 3.

This includes some pretty steep discounts on major tool brands like Milwaukee, Ryobi, and DeWalt tools – by which I mean half off and buy-one-get-one. It appears that half the store is on sale. But here’s an early look at some of the best deals worth checking out before Black Friday begins.

Discounts on Google Nest and other smart home devices

Home Depot has significant discounts right now on some of WIRED’s top-tested smart home devices from Google Nest, as well as many smart home devices from Echo, Eufy, and others.

Photograph: Nena Farrell

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Nest Learning Thermostat (4th generation)

The latest Nest Learning Thermostat is a real blockbuster device in its category, and Home Depot is selling it for the lowest price I can find at any retailer right now. The Nest is beautiful to look at and doesn’t suffer from disconnections or irregularities in temperature readouts, which is surprisingly common among smart home thermostats. It also offers a number of fun features, including a readout that changes depending on your proximity to the device. Even better, the Nest Thermostat comes with an external temperature sensor that lets you prioritize readings in a specific room (or part of a room). This allowed WIRED reviewer Nena Farrell to tune the device to her child’s bedroom to keep it from getting too crowded. He added that the larger screen size is also a notable upgrade over previous generations.

The Nest Cam Outdoor 2K requires a little installation, of course: You’ll need to screw in the mount and run a cable. But the cam offers 2K video quality and two-way audio, and doesn’t waste your time with a series of vague information like many outdoor cameras: it can accurately detect people, animals, and vehicles. The camera delivers sharp video with a 152-degree field of view. This is the WIRED outdoor cam that WIRED reviewer Simon Hill recommends above all others — but keep in mind that while notifications and live feeds don’t require a subscription, you’ll need a $10- or $20-per-month subscription to access more advanced features that include detection of familiar faces and 30 to 60 days of video history. Anyway, Home Depot is having a 20 percent discount for Black Friday along with a sale on other smart home devices.

Buy one get one deal on DeWalt tools

Some tools from home improvement staple DeWalt are currently on sale for buy-one-get-one. It’s a little hard to sort out on Home Depot’s site, but essentially you get a mix and match of some select DeWalt tools.

Buy one, and any other device is free. These include the 13-inch Cordless String Trimmer ($139), 20V Cordless Leaf Blower ($179), 20V MAX XR Cordless Brushless Jigsaw ($239), and 20V MAX Cordless Brushless Circular Saw ($229).

In addition to that BOGO deal, you can get a free DeWalt tool with the purchase of a battery or a free DeWalt battery with the purchase of a tool, as described here. Or, much of the rest of the DeWalt toolkit is on sale this month at between 20 percent and 50 percent off. It’s not the biggest discount on the list, but might I suggest WIRED’s favorite drill and driver kit, which is on sale right now for $50 off?

Photograph: Home Depot

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20V max 1/2-inch cordless drill

50% Off Home Depot Milwaukee Tools

During Home Depot’s month-long Black Friday sale, you can also opt for buy-one-get-one or 50 percent off deals on many Milwaukee tools. WIRED reviewer Scott Gilbertson is already liking the Milwaukee Tool ecosystem as a smart investment — to utilize Milwaukee’s excellent battery technology. They now have dozens of owners, ranging from impact guns to circular saws and drywall screw guns.

Anyway, the most essential tool in the kit, Milwaukee’s M18 Fuel Brushless Cordless Hex Impact Driver ($179), is on a buy-one-get-one sale as part of a buy-one-get-one deal with other select Milwaukee tools, which also includes Milwaukee’s Brushless Cordless Grinder ($229) and Cordless Personal Inflator ($199). Other tools include free batteries with select tools, or vice versa.

It’s not always easy to see which tools are on BOGO deals when browsing the normal site, but click the button below and pay attention to the tools marked “Free with purchase.”

Buy-one-get-one Makita, Ryobi, and Ridgid tools

Once you’ve purchased a device ecosystem, it now becomes a part of your life: You’ve chosen a battery pack that will power an entire world of powered devices. Different WIRED employees have their own preferences. For both WIRED reviewers Julian Chokkattu and Pete Cottell, their personal world is the Makita. And Makita is one of the brands offering buy-one-get-one deals at the moment: simply buy one of the Makita tools here and you can either choose a free battery pack, or a free gift among seven other Makita tools in the $200 range.

WIRED hasn’t tested all of these tools, but Ryobi has a similar deal on its affordable tool set, which includes a BOGO deal on several tools and batteries, including an 18-volt, oscillating, sanding, and cutting multitool ($79) and an impact wrench ($99) for wall and panel work.

Ridgid has a similar deal with a different product set. There’s up to 60 percent off Rigid Tool Bundles with Batteries, with a special deal on Cordless Blower with Battery Starter Kits for more than half off.

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18V Brushless Cordless Battery Leaf Blower with Battery and Charger

Free Christmas Tree Delivery

I remember two things about Christmas-tree shopping as a child, which was always the best and worst day ever. Of course, picking the tree was quite exciting. But then you have to load it. And you have to move it after putting it in the pickup truck. Then you have to take it down, and bring it into the house. By the time you’re free from all this, you might even forget the Christmas spirit.

Well, the Internet is a wonderful thing. Home Depot is offering free delivery on Christmas trees during Black Friday, from artificial trees (here’s the best-selling one right now) to fresh-cut cedar, which is already arriving in stock, but only from online sellers. (Or, if you prefer, check out WIRED’s roundup of the best artificial Christmas trees, tested by professionals.

Artificial trees or real trees will be delivered to your door at no extra charge, no pickup truck required. Because we are already living in the future.

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