Frugal Friday - 19th November

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 18 November 2010  |  2 comments
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Highlights this week include 30% off at Gap, a £5 discount voucher for Oxfam, up to 30% off at the big department stores, over £20 off a hat box crammed full of beauty goodies, 25% off Nintendo consoles at Sainsburys, PS3 game Fallout New Vegas for under £30 and £17 off the box set of all three series of The Inbetweeners!

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There are now just five weeks to go till the big day (that’s Christmas in case you’re feeling a bit slow today!) so if you need a helping hand get started this weekend with my pick of the best bargains around.

Frugal fashion

Don’t miss a handy £5 off when you spend £25 in any Oxfam High Street shop. All you have to do is download your voucher and take it along to your local Oxfam shop before 30 November. Online, enter code OOS2520 for 20% off a £25 spend on new products in the new Ethical Collection.

At Republic it’s BOGOF on ‘Christmas Gifts’ – which for women means underwear, hosiery, hats, bags, scarves and some flat ballet shoes. For men, the choices are belts, wallets, hats, scarves and bags. If you’re looking for a fur jacket enter code 15JACKETS for a 15% discount!

Now browse the rest of the new sales:

• House of Fraser: Get £5 off when you spend £25 with code TFH82.
• Miss Selfridge: Free delivery on orders over £40 with code TREATWEEK.
• Fashion Union: Get up to 40% off in mid season reductions.
• Hobbs: Get up to 40% off these posh frocks.
• BHS: Save up to 30% across the store until Saturday.
• Laura Ashley: Get 25% off everything in the Mega Event until Sunday.
• BooHoo: Get 20% off ALL party wear with code PARTY and 20% off knitwear with code COSY.
• Coast: Save 20% on everything including sale items until midnight Sunday.
• All Saints: Get 20% off when you spend £150 with code UK20 until Sunday.
• John Lewis: Get 20% off in a price match promo.
• Gap: Get 30% off the new Holiday Collection in store with this voucher.
• Dorothy Perkins: Get 30% off ALL items for a limited time.
• USC: Save 30% on women’s clothing and accessories.
• Debenhams: Get 25% off all departments in the new sale until Sunday.
• Clarks: Buy one full price pair of shoes and get 25% off a second pair.
• Tesco:25% off ALL coats, jackets and knitwear.
• Alexon: Get 20% off ALL items until Sunday.
• Oasis: Get 20% off ALL collections.
• Planet: Save an extra 20% on ALL items until midnight Sunday.
• Wallis: Offer of 20% off everything ends today.
• Mybag: Get an extra 10% off with the code HOLLY10 until Sunday.

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• Asos: Save 20% on party wear and jewellery.
• H&M: Get 50% off in sale and get 25% off one item when you sign up to the newsletter here.
• Jane Norman: New lines added to sale, save up to 50%.
• Jones: Get £20 off all adult boots.
• Joules: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• Karen Millen: Save up to 50% in the ongoing sale.
• La Redoute: You can still save 30% on selected items and save 25% on the rest of your order with code 8273.
• Miss Selfridge: Up to £20 off dresses and £15 off coats.
• M&S: Get 30% off these dresses.
• Mybag: Get up to 75% off in the sale.
• New Look: Get 20% off selected partywear and men’s shirts.
• Office: Grab up to £40 off high heels here.
• Peacocks: Get 30% off women’s knitwear.
• Shudoo: Up to 70% off brands.
• Urban Outfitters: Up to 50% off in the sale.
• Whistles: Get £75 and £50 off selected lines.

Christmas gifts for less

Here are my frugal finds for top gifts this Christmas:

• My mum just picked up the Nintendo DSi XL at Sainsbury’s (a well deserved Crimbo present for her and dad!) for only £108.74 – that’s over £36 off the retail price. You can also save 25% on other Nintendo consoles but they are out of stock online so check your local store now before they all go!
• Feel Unique has come up trumps yet again this week with lots of free gifts on offer – if you buy any two Elemis men’s products you get a free Elemis shave set worth £25. Or buy any two KMS California products for a free make-up kit, also worth £25.
• Boots special 'gift of the week' offer is Fearne Cotton Favourites Hat Box (complete with eyeshadows, eye shimmers, eye pencils, mascara, lip glosses, lipstick and a animal print powder puff!) for only £19 (usual price £40) only until 25 November.

Books & Games

Browse through the top deals for book worms this week:

• Get £11 off the fantastic Jay-Z Decoded, a first person chronicle of the rapper’s life and work, now only £9, and Harry Hill’s Livin’ the Dream for only £8.16, both at Amazon.
• Other deals of the week at Amazon include the tie-in books to the TV shows The Armstrong and Miller Book for £8.99 and The Thick of It: The Missing DoSAC Files by Armando Iannucci for £5.84.
• Richard and Judy book club reads The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha is only £2.99 at Booksdirectbargains and A Place of Secrets by Rachel Hore is only £3.18 at The Book Depository.

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• Grab Fallout New Vegas (PS3) for the lowest standalone price of £31.85 (RRP £49.99) at Simply Games. Or, you can get it at The Hut for just £29.93 when you buy Fallout 3 as well for £17.93.
• For Nintendo DS games The Hut is also your best bet for Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth at only £24.93 (RRP £34.99) but for Super Scribblenauts you can get £10 off at MyMemory (now just £19.99).
• Finally, if you’ve already got your hands on the new Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 you can get Kinectimals for £30.97 at ToysRus.

DVDs & boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Freebie of the week

For Oasis fans, or the plain curious, you can download the new track by Liam Gallagher’s new band Beady Eye. It’s called ‘Bring out the Light’ and can be downloaded for free here.

Mobile phone deal of the week 

The HTC Trophy is definitely a phone to be seen with and it can be yours with 900 mins, unlimited texts and 500MB internet, all on a 24-month contract with Vodafone costing just £30 per month.  This Windows Phone 7 lets you browse the web, send emails, share and edit documents and even play Xbox LIVE games online.

But, if all that doesn’t float your boat, you can compare other top mobile deals at Recombu.

Competition of the week

Theschoolrun.com is giving away three Scotch Pop-Up Tape Christmas hampers, containing three ideal gifts for kids – a Buzz Lightyear, Buster My First Dog and a Transformers Action figure along with wrapping paper, cards and a Scotch Tape handband dispenser. Enter the comp here before 12 December.

Eating out

If you don’t fancy cooking for yourself this weekend, you can check out all the latest restaurant bargains in lovemoney.com’s Frugal Food blog. Read more

Eating in

If you'd prefer to stay in and cook up a delicious meal without blowing the budget, check out the original Frugal Recipes blog for some inspiration! Read more

Don’t forget: although all prices and discounts were correct on the day this article was published, offers this good are subject to change and often sell out quickly.

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