It’s easy to remember to rush to Nordstrom at the end of winter so that you can get rock-bottom prices on sweaters and boots before the season changes. However, sometimes we forget that big-ticket items have clearance seasons, too.  

So when is the best time to buy dining room furniture? There are a few different times of year when dining furniture deals abound. Keep your eye out for sales on national holidays and in the months of January, July and October.

The Pre-Thanksgiving Clearance

October is the best month of the year to buy a dining room table. Retailers know that you’ll be expecting company during Thanksgiving and Christmas. During this time of year you’ll be in the holiday planning stages, thinking about where your guests will sit at your formal Thanksgiving dinner party and where you’ll lay out food buffet-style at your annual Christmas cocktail party.

In addition to ensuring the comfort of your guests, the sales make it an ideal time to replace those threadbare dining room chairs that have become an eyesore in your dining room. Retailers will run sales and promotions on dining rooms and dinettes around this time. Look around for free extras such as chairs, servers, and china cabinets.

Holiday Sales

You’ve got the day off work and there’s nothing pressing you have to do, so you might as well go shopping. At least, that’s the mentality that retailers are hoping for on a holiday weekend. You can expect to find alluring dining room furniture deals on most national holidays, including President’s Day, the 4th of July, New Year’s, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.

Out with the Old, in with the New

There are two months of the year that you are guaranteed low prices: January and July. Each of these months represent times of the year when we start thinking about making changes—such as spring’s bright colors and fall’s darker hues—to freshen things up a bit. This time of change holds true for dining room furniture retailers, too.

Stores will debut their new dining room furniture lines on showroom floors in February and August (in anticipation of the upcoming holiday season), so January and July are prime opportunities to get rid of old dining room inventory through sales and make room for new goods.