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October Prime Day: boring but essential household items worth stocking up on

Save big on the everyday items you’ll need anyway — from cleaning supplies to paper products and baby care.

Ben Williams

on October 7, 2025

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Glad Tall Kitchen Drawstring Trash Bags, Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects, Amazon Basics USB-A to Lightning Charger Cable, and Georgia-Pacific Angel Soft Toilet Paper Rolls on a blue background for Prime Day

Credit: Mashable Photo Composite / Georgia-Pacific / Glad / Crest / Amazon

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The Prime Big Deal Days sale, Amazon’s mid-October follow-up to summer Prime Day, is also about less exciting yet vital household supplies, to go with all the fancy gadgets and smart TV bargains.

Alongside snapping up the best new deals on Apple products, it’s also the perfect excuse to load up on the practical stuff: paper towels, cleaning wipes, laundry tabs, and batteries that disappear faster than your weekend.

If you’d rather skip the frenzy of last-minute restocks later this fall, these discounts make it easy to bulk up your supply closet for less.

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The best boring but vital household essentials deals during October Prime Day

Cascade Free & Clear Dishwasher Pods (47 Count)

$13.29

Cascade Free & Clear Dishwasher Pods on a white background

ARM & HAMMER Deep Clean Stain Formula Laundry Detergent Power Paks, Laundry Stain Remover, Sparkling Clean Scent, (44 Count)

$7.99

ARM & HAMMER™ Deep Clean Stain Formula Laundry Detergent Power Paks on a white background

Energizer AA and AAA Batteries, 48 Count, Combo Pack

$23.09

Johnson's Baby Sleepy Time Bedtime Gift Set

$11.24

Fresh Step Clean Paws Cat Litter with Febreze Freshness (37lbs)

$24.57

Amazon Basics USB-A to Lightning Charger Cable, Nylon Braided Cord: 6 foot, Rose Gold

$11

Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects – Teeth Whitening Kit, 22 Treatments (20 + 2 Bonus)

$29.99

Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects – Teeth Whitening Kit, 22 Treatments on a white background

We’ve scoured beyond the typical range of the best deals of Amazon's October Prime Day. Browse the perfect set of offers for everyday essentials, from kitchen workhorses to baby-care must-haves.

We’ll update this list all the way through to the end of Prime Day on Oct. 8, so keep this page bookmarked for more unmatched deals to keep your cupboards full.

Best household essentials deal

The Georgia-Pacific Angel Soft Toilet Paper Bulk Case on a white background

Credit: Georgia Pacific

Georgia-Pacific Angel Soft Toilet Paper (Bulk Case of 80 Rolls)

$71.93 at Amazon
$84.95 Save $13.02

Why we like it

If you’re ever going to buy toilet paper in bulk with a top-tier household essentials brand, this is the time to do it. This Georgia-Pacific Angel Soft Professional Series case includes 80 individually wrapped rolls, each with 450 two-ply sheets, and it’s currently marked down to around $71.93 (was $84.95); that’s about 15% off the typical price.

That works out to roughly 20 cents per 100 sheets, which is excellent for a premium-grade paper that’s soft, strong, and septic-safe. Made from sustainably sourced trees and packaged neatly for long-term storage, this is the kind of “unexciting” deal that actually pays off every single day.

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Ben Williams

Ben Williams is a freelance writer at Mashable, having joined the team in June 2025. With over 10 years experience in gaming, tech, TV, anime, and film, there’s nothing he hasn’t covered. Alongside Ben’s other work at IGN, Radio Times, Eurogamer, UNILAD Tech, and Rock Paper Shotgun, he also has bylines at sites like GamesRadar+, PCGamesN, ScreenSphere, Twinfinite, ScreenRant, GGRecon, and more.

When away from writing, he spends his downtime playing and watching games, films, and shows he loves covering — whether it’s replaying The Last of Us Part 2, catching Pokémon, rewatching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, or bingeing Tarantino movies.