So I’m shortly going to be wrapping this live blog up - see what I did there - but here’s a reminder of some of the main Cyber Monday deals you can get with some of the UK’s biggest retailers today:

Amazon UK

What’s happening? The online retailer is offering “lightning deals” of discounted products that usually run for six hours on Cyber Monday, as well as deals of the day.

Where? Cyber Monday deals can be found here.

Argos

What’s happening? Like many retailers, Argos has rolled Cyber Monday into its Black Friday sales.

Where? The Argos Black Friday page is updated with what is left in stock for Cyber Monday.

What? Customers can save 20% on selected homewares by quoting HOME20 and save 20% when they spend £100 or more on selected indoor furniture by quoting FURN20.

Asos

What’s happening? The online fashion retailer is offering 20% off everything.

Where? Find out more here.

Debenhams

What’s happening? The Debenhams 12-day sale runs until 1 December.

Where? The online sale is here.

What? There are half-price women’s, men’s and kids’ boots, up to half price on beauty, perfumes and electrical devices; and 40% off women’s and kids’ knitwear.

eBay

What’s happening? eBay has a sale until 30 November.

Where? You can find offers here.

Etsy

Etsy has gathered together all the items with Cyber Monday discounts on their site into one place. There’s a huge range of discounted jewellery and clothing, on offer, and it’s also a good chance to pick up a few bits to make your home even more festive with a range of discounted Christmas decorations on offer.

Gap

What’s happening? Gap is offering 50% off full-price items and an extra 25% off sale styles until Tuesday.

Where? Go to the website and use the code CYBERGAP.

Habitat

What’s happening? Habitat’s “black five days” take in Cyber Monday.

Where? Online offers are here.

Hamleys

What’s happening? Hamleys offers savings of up to 50% on hundreds of toys and games on Cyber Monday.

Where? The online sale is here.

Harvey Nichols

What’s happening? A Black Friday/Cyber Weekend/Cyber Monday sale running from 23 November to 26 November, both online and in-store.

Where? You can find the discounts here.

What? Up to 25% off fashion and accessories, and 10% off beauty.

House of Fraser

What’s happening? The department store chain is offering up to 60% off across fashion, home and beauty, on Cyber Monday.

Where? Online promotions can be found here.

John Lewis

What’s happening? They say they have lowered hundreds of their prices “even further”.

Where? The discounts are gathered together here.

What? Offers include discounts on Mulberry and UGG, as well as deals on Apple, Samsung and Sonos products.

Liberty

What’s happening? Liberty have been running “The event before Christmas” which ends today.

What? Up to 30% off, with 15% off beauty. The deals aren’t grouped together as easily as on other websites though, so you have to have a bit of a rummage through the men’s, women’s and kid’s sections to bargain hunt.

Mothercare

What’s happening? Mothercare’s big sale finishes on Cyber Monday.

Where? Online deals are here.

What? There are discounts of up to 60% on all toys, up to 50% off some car seats, bedding and nursery furniture; and 25% off all clothing, footwear and accessories.

Notonthehighstreet

What’s happening? The online marketplace is offering savings of up to 50% on thousands of products.

Where? On the website.

Ocado

What’s happening? Ocado has half-price or better offers until midnight.

Where? Ocado’s Cyber Monday page is here.

What? Deals include a Philips Sonicare Diamond clean electric toothbrush for £99.99, down from £299; and a 75cl bottle of Champagne Autréau Brut Prestige Les Perles de la Dhuy Grand Cru 2011 for £26.66, down from £39.99.

Red Bubble

Red Bubble has a wide variety of goods and unique designs, and for Cyber Monday they are offering 30% off everything. Use the code 30CYBER at the checkout to access the deals.

Sainsbury’s

What’s happening? Sainsbury’s has knocked 25% off all Tu clothing and has deals on its entire range, from groceries to electronics.

Where? The Tu promotion can be found here.

Ted Baker

What’s happening? Ted Baker’s technology partner, Proporta, will be offering up to 60% off on its website.

Where? The Cyber Week sale runs from 26 November until 3 December here.

Some new research by Barclaycard has suggested that this year in the UK we will spend £1.6bn on experience gifts this Christmas, as people veer away from sending and receiving physical gifts, and look towards presents that can make memories. And are also super-Instagram material.

Barclaycard also say that their consumer survey suggested that this year spending in the Xmas period itself on entertainment and events such as gigs, beauty treatments and adventure days will be up 115% on last year

If you are thinking of gifting someone an experience, then there are some deals around today that can save you a bit of cash - and they’ll never know you skimped by ordering it on Cyber Monday ;-)

Virgin Experience Days are offering a selection of deals as part of their Cyber Weekend promotion. It is worth having a dig around the full list, but here are some of the highlights:

• 50% off the View from The Shard Experience for two adults (Now £32, was £64)
• 75% off a Winery and Brewery Tour for two with tastings (Now £7.50, was £30)
• 35% off a London Bungee Jump for one (Now £49, was £80)
• 25% off a Vintage Afternoon Tea Bus Tour for two (Now £82.50, was £110)
• 60% off a Supercar experience in 24 locations across the UK (Now £55, was £139)

There also some deals on London Musicals

• Aladdin in the West End is offering tickets from £25 as a limited Black Friday weekend promotion, with savings on tickets of up to 39%.
• Kinky Boots tickets are on sale for up to 43% off from lastminute.com and Encore Tickets, starting at a very reasonable £17.50.
• Dreamgirls at the Savoy Theatre is another production that is taking part in Cyber Monday deals (which last until 30 November), with savings of up to 28% on tickets within the C and D price bands plus no booking fee.
• Motown The Musical has deals on tickets for up to 46% off (starting at £21.50), and they have also taken the cost of booking fees off orders made for performances between 22nd - 29th December.

It would be remiss of me to spend a whole day live blogging special Cyber Monday offers and then neglect to mention one rather close to home...

The Guardian and The Observer

What’s happening? Brilliant offers across our range of print and digital subscription packages

Where’s it happening? You can become a subscriber here.

What’s the deal? Save 50% for three months on print and digital subscriptions to The Guardian and The Observer. Offer ends Sunday 2 December.

If you are in the market for smart watches, then there are some good deals kicking around today on the web.

You can save £60 on the Apple Watch Series 3 over at John Lewis, while Withings are offering their Full Black Smart Watch at half-price.

There’s a decent (if slightly exaggerated) price drop on Huawei Band 2 Pro Fitness Wristband at Amazon, and you can also get the Fitbit Unisex Versa Health and Fitness Smartwatch for £159 from the online retail giant. The Garmin Fenix 5 Multisport GPS Watch also has a hefty online discount on it at the moment, bringing it down to £309.99.

As one of the Guardian’s resident Doctor Who nerds there was absolutely no way I was going to get through live blogging Cyber Monday without somehow cramming a Cyberman reference in there. And it is even topical, because episode Kerblam! the other week was about the perils of working in a mostly-automated factory sending out parcels and gifts. Ahem.

Fortunately there are some Doctor Who-related deals I can tell you about. Big Finish, who produce Doctor Who audio dramas based on the original series, often with the original actors, have been offering discounts on a range of titles featuring the Time Lord’s Fantastic Foes, including the Master, the Daleks, the Ice Warriors, and of course, the Cybermen. Access the deals here using the code FANTASTIC.

If you are buying for someone whose cult interests go a bit further than Doctor Who, then it is worth dropping in on the Forbidden Planet special offers page - they have discounts on a range of about 50 items including merchandise for Harry Potter, Rick & Morty, Star Wars, and Deadpool.

One of the things I suggested in my piece today about thoughtful presents you’ve still got time to make or order was using old photos to make a nostalgic present for relatives or old friends. And you can do that slightly cheaper today, as printing service Photobox are offering up to 50% off everything, with an additional 20% off if you use the code CYBER20. Unfortunately you can’t get a 20% discount on the amount of time it takes you to sort out the mess of photos stored on your laptop.

Shopping online isn’t without potential pitfalls, and Hannah Maundrell, Editor in Chief of online comparison service money.co.uk, has this advice for people doing their Christmas shopping today.

She says shoppers should “factor in the cost of delivery when you compare prices online. Check whether you can click and collect for free, as this can be a good way to save if you live near a store.”

She also warns us to be on our guard, saying “just because a retailer tells you they’ve cut the price of an item you can’t take it as gospel; you’ll only know it’s good value by shopping around. Be suspicious and check.”

And there is a reminder of the consumer rights you enjoy when ordering online: “You get 14 days from the day your order arrives to return it and get a refund. This gives you the flexibility to cancel if you find your bargain cheaper elsewhere. There are some exceptions, like personalised goods, but it’s guaranteed on most other purchases.”

If possible, she says, “pay for items that cost over £100 by credit card to get protection, so you can go to your credit card company for a refund if there’s an issue.”

Her final warning is one that applies to virtually everything on the internet, whether it is fake news or a Cyber Monday bargain: “If a deal seems too good to be true, treat it with a healthy degree of uncertainty.”

One of the things about Christmas is that it inevitably leads into the new year, and grand plans to re-invent yourself into a healthier lifestyle. What if you could prepare for that moment in advance? Here’s how you can do that, and save a little bit of money as well, with Cyber Monday deals on subscription boxes.

HelloFresh is a subscription service that allows you to download the app and pick from a selection of recipes each week to be delivered to your door in neat packages with all of the fiddly ingredients portioned out and prepared for you. They often have good introductory deals, but their Cyber Weekend deal takes it one step further, offering 55% off your first 2 boxes/weeks (and you are not obliged to continue your subscription).

Birchbox are offering 2 boxes for £5 using the code FRIYAY, a promotion they claim is their “best offer ever.” Usually, boxes are £10 each, making this a 75% discount. Plus, December’s box will have a bumper 7 products, and again, the subscription can be cancelled at any time.

KiwiCo deliver monthly crates of educational and creative activities for kids of “every age and interest” and they are currently offering 60% off the first crate for those who sign up on Cyber Monday.

Lifebox are part of the “Wellness Revolution”, delivering a selection of superfood snacks to subscribers every month as a “convenient and affordable way of discovering new and delicious wholefoods.” You can also buy their boxes as a one-off, and for Black Friday they are reducing the price of their Classic and Energy boxes to £17.21 (was £22.95).

With about ten hours of Cyber Monday still to go, here’s a summary of some of the best deal lists we’ve posted so far:

• Video games and consoles
  
• Major UK retailers
• Smart speakers and home voice assistants
• Phones and phone accessories
• Homeware deals
• Flights and holidays
• Museums and attractions

Plus we’ve covered magazine subscriptions, books, vacuum cleaners and kitchen mixers among other things.

I’m also interested in you sending me any weird and super-niche Cyber Monday offers by email to martin.belam@theguardian.com.

Pro-tip 1: Don’t buy your partner gadgets to do household chores as Christmas presents.

Pro-tip 2: If you need a new household chore gadget anyway, today is a good day to buy it cheaper than usual.

Here’s a selection of deals on vacuum cleaners:

DYSON V7 Motorhead Cordless, Bagless Vacuum Cleaner

Peddler are offering up to 37% off the Dyson V7 Motorhead Vacuum Cleaner, bringing it down from £370 to £234.19. However, if you would make use of Dyson’s ‘Toolkit’ including additional tools for mattresses, hard-to-reach areas and dried in dirt, Currys PC World are offering the Dyson V7 Motorhead Vacuum in a bundle deal with the Dyson Handheld Toolkit for a combined price of £249.

iRobot Roomba 980 Vacuum Cleaner

Save £50 on the iRobot Roomba at John Lewis & Partners, making it £799, and get a 2 year guarantee included. Also good fun if you’ve got cats or dogs round the house.

SHARK IF250UKT True Pet Cordless Vacuum Cleaner

Currys PC World have reduced this Shark vacuum cleaner to £279 (was £479) in their Cyber Monday sale. Plus, you can utilise another discount code on top of this promotion, which takes 10% off the marked price when you quote VACUUM10 at checkout, and there is the option to pay monthly.

VAX Air Lift Steerable Pet Max Upright Bagless Vacuum Cleaner

This well-reviewed vacuum cleaner has been reduced by several retailers with a saving of around £50, to £129. However, John Lewis & Partners and Currys PC World are both offering an included 2 year guarantee in their deals.

Miele Classic C1 Edition Powerline Bagged Vacuum Cleaner

With a saving of £51, the Miele Classic C1 Edition Vacuum is now £99 at John Lewis & Partners, who claim this deal is ‘exclusive’ to their customers. Like the other John Lewis deals mentioned, this also comes with a 2 year guarantee included and the option to add further protection against accidental damage for £10.

Happy holiday hoovering!

The chances are that you’ll be in charge of buying the presents for at least one football fanatic in the family, and football merchandise is an easy, if obvious, choice for those sometimes-hard-to-buy-for children.

Going to club websites today will yield you some savings. At the top of the Premier League Manchester City, Liverpool, Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal and Everton are all offering discounts on selected lines ranging from 20% at Chelsea to 50% at Arsenal. A quick trip down the leagues showed club shops from the likes of Leeds and Sunderland joining in, so it’s worth checking directly with clubs to see if there is a deal on.

Even my beloved Leyton Orient have some special offers on, so maybe it is finally the year someone will get me a nice woolly hat to wear at Brisbane Road.

As a nation we are still in the grip of bake-off fever, which means the market for kitchen gadgets has never been healthier or more competitive. Here are some deals on stand mixers if you are looking to “soup” up your kitchen gear. You see what I did there.

KitchenAid 150 Artisan 4.8L Stand Mixer

For anyone who has been waiting to get their hands on the cult favourite KitchenAid Artisan mixer - now is the time. This mixer has been dramatically reduced by several retailers, but most notably, Currys have reduced their price from £549.99 to £274 (a £275.99 saving). Plus, they are offering a further discount code giving customers 10% off their order when they spend over £200 on 2 or more small kitchen appliances and there is also the option to pay monthly.

Kenwood kMix KMX754 Stand Mixer

The Kenwood kMix has also seen large reductions across the board - AO, Amazon and John Lewis have all reduced their prices to £179. However, John Lewis include a 2 year guarantee with their deal, and you can add an additional 2 years of protection against accidental damage for £15.

Fearne by Swan: 6 Litre Die Cast Stand Mixer

After bringing out several successful cookbooks, Fearne Cotton released her own range of kitchen appliances with Swan. Her 6 Litre stand mixer has not been reduced by many retailers, but Amazon are offering a saving of £175, making it £124.99 (down from £299.99) in four colours, and they are also including free delivery.

Sage The Scraper Mixer BEM430

Heston Blumenthal’s 4.7L stand mixer is on offer at almost 30% off from ECookshop, with free delivery available. While this is a better deal than the likes of AO and Amazon are offering, if you do spot it cheaper elsewhere, ECookshop will endeavour to price match.

Also, while we are thinking about the kitchen, do take five minutes to read Zoe Williams’ amazing interview with bake-off’s Kim-Joy

Running a live blog about Cyber Monday is a bit like going shopping, but without any of the fun. And by the end of the day I won’t have got my Christmas shopping sorted either. However, it does mean you run into a lot of rather leftfield suggestions for ways for people to invest and save money.

Probably the most obscure promo I’ve seen cross my inbox so far today is for Farmers Weekly. They’ve extended their weekend sale and today, for the last day, you can subscribe to the Web+ digital version of Farmers Weekly for £50+VAT. Go on, you know you want to.

It’s not the only place you can get subscription discounts on magazines however. Magazine.co.uk is offering £15 off when you subscribe to three titles. iSubscribe, on the other hand, is offering 10% off and a £5 credit voucher if you take out magazine subscriptions before the end of today. GreatMagazines.co.uk is offering 20% off new subscriptions over the value of £25, and that deal runs until the end of tomorrow.

Another magazine with a special deal going on is Anorak, the ‘happy mag for kids’ aimed at boys and girls aged between 6 and 12 years old. They are offering 20% off all their single issues and posters with the code HAPPYANORAK. You can have a browse here.

Incidentally, you can email me at martin.belam@theguardian.com if you’ve seen an even more obscure Cyber Monday deal.

Books make a lovely gift, since the choice often says something personal about you, and there are some bargains to be had out there on Cyber Monday.

WH Smith are offering 50% off or more on selected titles and Waterstones have a similar deal, while Book Depository have up to 60% off their promotional titles. You can get 20% off online purchases at Foyles with the code BLACKFRIDAY20. CYBER25 is the code you need to unlock 25% discounts with Book People.

Don’t forget that the Guardian Bookshop is also offering deals and gift suggestions with up to 30% discount, which you can find here.

Need a bit of inspiration? Here’s what our books team were recommending back in the autumn.

If skin care is your thing, then hop over to the Dermalogica website where for Cyber Monday they are offering three for two on full-sized products.

Feel Unique, meanwhile, have a range of Cyber Monday deals promising up to 33% off of over 25,000 beauty and perfume products, and the exciting bonus of a mystery gift if you spend over £50. *spooky ooo-oooo-oh ghost noise*

One big question around Black Friday and Cyber Monday that remains - is it actually making anybody any happier?

A couple of days ago my colleague reported on whether the backlash against Black Friday had already started in the UK. Greenpeace is among a group of organisations promoting MAKE SMTHNG as an alternative to the consumer spending over this weekend. During it artists and crafters run workshops on ways to reuse, repair or recycle goods, rather than buying something new.

There is some data too about how the Black Friday shopping experience makes people unhappy. HappyOrNot, the company that produce the little machines where you can register how happy you are with a consumer experience by pressing a range of smiley or not-smiley faces, measured 575,000 feedbacks from customers in places like Lidl, Zara, and Tesco. They claim that analysing the data shows that we’ve just lived through the unhappiest UK Black Friday they have on record.

As well as a year-on-year decline in happiness, in the UK, Black Friday was slightly unhappier (79.8%) for UK shoppers than an average day in 2018 (80.3%). UK shopper happiness also dropped drastically throughout the day, starting at 84.3% for early birds at 9am, and ending at 78% for those still slogging round the shops at 9pm.

None of that today though - with Cyber Monday you can happily do it all from your phone of course.

By the way, if you are struggling for Christmas inspiration, we have this year’s gift guide over here.

And here are 12 ideas for gifts that keep giving throughout the year, by taking out a subscription service for someone.

The shift to online retailing has made times tough on the high street for department stores. Some of them, like Fenwick, Fortnum & Mason, Harrods and Selfridges have stayed out of the Cyber Monday fray. Others, like Debenhams, are offering plenty of deals. Here’s a quick whizz around the discounts available online today from some of the UK’s major department stores:

Debenhams

What’s happening? “12 days of amazing deals” in their “Black Friday spectacular”

Where? The online hub page for their deals is here

What? They promise 40% of mens and women’s coats - offers which are ending today, up to 15% off beauty, plus up to half price on toys and electricals.

Harvey Nichols

What’s happening? A Black Friday/Cyber Weekend/Cyber Monday sale running from 23 November to 26 November, both online and in-store.

Where? You can find the discounts here.

What? Up to 25% off fashion and accessories, and 10% off beauty.

House of Fraser

What’s happening? In the news recently for all the wrong reasons, House of Fraser is promising big discounts in the run-up to Christmas.

Where? “Up to 60%” off, screams the shop’s website.

What? “Move fast, we predict a sell out” they say, offering discounts on Barbour and beauty. For men the “up to 60%” applies to coats, jackets, suits and knitwear. For women it’s the same, but with dresses, tops and trousers added into the mix.

John Lewis

What’s happening? They say they have lowered hundreds of their prices “even further”.

Where? The discounts are gathered together here.

What? Offers include discounts on Mulberry and UGG, as well as deals on Apple, Samsung and Sonos products.

Liberty

What’s happening? Rather than anything as trite as Black Friday or Cyber Monday, Liberty have been running “The event before Christmas” which ends today.

What? Up to 30% off, with 15% off beauty. The deals aren’t grouped together as easily as on other websites though, so you have to have a bit of a rummage through the men’s, women’s and kid’s goods to bargain hunt. If you think £24 for two pairs of socks is a bargain, of course. If you are after fabrics though, today is the day, as there is 20% of a huge range.

A huge amount of attention on Black Friday and Cyber Monday naturally goes to the biggest UK retailers - but there are also a lot of deals to be had from smaller shops and manufacturers on the sites they use to sell.

Etsy has gathered together all the items with Cyber Monday discounts on their site into one place. There’s a huge range of discounted jewellery and clothing, on offer, and it’s also a good chance to pick up a few bits to make your home even more festive with a range of discounted Christmas decorations on offer.

Red Bubble also has a wide variety of goods and unique designs, and for Cyber Monday they are offering 30% off everything. Use the code 30CYBER at the checkout to access the deals.

If all this online shopping has left a dent in your bank balance, and you’ve still got people left to buy for, you might be interested in these five quick tips for thoughtful and meaningful presents that you can sort out between now and Christmas without indulging in any more spending.

They might have splashed the cash on getting Elton John to star in their mega-Christmas advert, but John Lewis have also gone big with a Black Friday/Cyber Monday event online.

In their price match section they are promising 15% off MAC make-up, 20% off Barbour, and 30% off Levi’s and Ralph Lauren.

A word of caution though - it still pays to shop around and do your own price comparisons on Cyber Monday. Don’t just take a retailer’s word for it that they are the cheapest available today. Remember, it’s not like the horror of having to flit from crowded shop to crowded shop making price checks, so it really is worth looking around.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have become key fixtures in the retail run-up to Christmas. My colleague Rebecca Smithers reports today that customers in the UK are expected to have spent around £7bn across the weekend.

It is also noticeable this year that the usual cut-off date for deals - midnight tonight - is being extended by a lot of retailers, who will be continuing their offers throughout what is being dubbed “cyber week”.

Good morning. If you didn’t quite get all your Christmas shopping done on Black Friday then don’t worry - Black Friday’s younger cousin, Cyber Monday, is here. With a little bit of judicious online shopping today you can get Christmas done and dusted, and have the whole of December to just kick back and eat mince pies, safe in the knowledge all your gift shopping is done. We’ll have a rolling guide today to some of the best online deals in the UK.