Housewarming gifts, priced damn honestly for once

Housewarming is the occasion with the least price transparency of any on this list, because the recipient has no idea what anything for a house costs either. They have just bought a house. Their sense of the damn value of a serving bowl was destroyed six weeks ago.

That cuts both ways, and it is why this page is worth reading. The categories a housewarming gift comes from are precisely the categories where the strikethrough price is least connected to reality — you know what a can of beans costs and you have no damn idea what a console table costs.

Why home-category pricing needs checking

Reference prices in home, furniture and garden are inflated more often than in most departments, because the products are less directly comparable and buyers have weaker price memory for them. A bookshelf listed at $200 and sold at $89 every week of the year is not a discount; it is a damn price with a costume on.

So the scoring on this page leans hard on the product's own history and ignores the listed reference entirely. A permanent sale scores nothing here, which is why some very loudly discounted items sit at the bottom of the grid.