It’s 2026. We’ve had smart home products for a while now, and if you’re not doing anything with them, you’re missing out. You can turn on lights, music, the TV, see who’s at the door, adjust the thermostat, and so much more. Dedicated smart products, like a smart light bulb for instance, can be pretty pricey when compared to its non-smart counterpart. However, you can turn your current setup of appliances “smart” by simply plugging them into a smart plug.
Right now, Amazon has a few different packages of its smart plugs on sale for as much as 28% off. If you just need one, that usually sells for $25, but the discount takes it down to an even $20. Need two? The two-pack that’s normally goes for $50 is now just $36. How about twice that even? Well, four typically sell together for $100, but that’s now been brought down to just $75. Though, honestly, with the current discounts, you might as well just purchase two of the two-packs since that’ll add up to just $72, saving you a few more dollars.
Smarten Up Your Home
Amazon smart plugs are super easy to set up. All you need to do it’s plug them into an available outlet, open up your Alexa app, and it’ll guide you through the rest. It only takes minutes.
Not only will you be able to control your plugged in appliance—be it a lamp, a fan, a coffeemaker, or what have you—via voice control through an Amazon Echo (sold separately). You can even set routines in the app, so this way they come online at a certain time during the day.
If you need to turn off your smart-plugged-in device, and either you don’t want to use voice control, or your phone isn’t handy nearby, you can always still use the physical on and off button along the side.
I’ve got a few of these myself and recently had the brilliant idea to plug my air conditioner into one. The weather and temperatures have been so sporadically unpredictable this year, I’ve been left to been finding myself waking up in the middle of the nights either sweating bullets or freezing my butt off with the flip of a coin. Then I got to get up out of bed and walk over the the AC to either turn it on or off depending on if the air outside has blessed me this night with with either boiling or freezing temperatures.
Now I can just comfortably ask Alexa to turn it on or off for me without sticking even a single limb out from under the sheets. It’s bliss.
And I get that level of convenience and peace all for less than the price of a single’s day lunch eating out. That’s certainly worth it.