Frugal Friday - 22 October 2010

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 21 October 2010  |  2 comments
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Highlights this week include £10 worth of Boots Advantage points this weekend, 50% off at Topshop, up to 75% off at Gap, over £20 off a Sanctuary Spa beauty pamper box, a massive £90 off the Frasier box set, £35 off seasons 1 to 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm and cheap days out for half-term!

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The stores are getting warmed up for the Christmas craze and mid season sales are still in full swing, so get stuck into these frugal finds!

Frugal fashion

My pick of the sales this week is Topshop with up to 50% off selected items – the best stuff goes really quickly so don’t miss out! I love these cute bow lace Kirby grips down from £6.50 to £3.25, this crop top, also half-price at £10 and this panelled floral body, reduced from £32 to just £10.

Also, pick up a copy of this week’s Grazia magazine to save 25% on everything online and in-store at Coast, Wallis and Warehouse.

Now let’s browse the rest of the new sales:

• All Saints: Save 25% on selected items online only.
• Asda: Save up to 50% on George clothing.
• East: Save up to a massive 70% in the sale.
• Figleaves: Save up to 50% in the new sale.
• Republic: Get 15% off selected knitwear until midnight on Sunday with the code 15KNIT.
• Tesco: Save 20% on selected womenswear and £5 men’s knitwear.
• Wynsors: Ladies boots with up to 50% off.
• ASOS: Save up to 20% on knitwear here.
• BHS: Save 20% on women and kids lines in stores until Saturday (23 October).
• Clarks: Get 50% off selected adult shoes.
• Dorothy Perkins: Last day to get an extra 20% off in the sale.
• Evans: Get 20% off knitwear and up to 50% off in the ongoing sale.
• Gap: Now up to 75% off in the sale.
• Joy: Save £10 on selected dresses.
• La Redoute: Save 30% on selected items and 25% off the rest of your order with the online code 8270.
• LKBennett: Autumn reductions with up to 30% off.
• Miss Selfridge: Free delivery on orders over £40 with the online code MSAW2010.
• New Look: This season’s coats with 20% off until Sunday (24 October).

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• Alexon: Mid season sale, save up to 50%.
• ASOS: Save up to 70% in the mid season sale.
• Coast: Mid-season sale with up to 60% off.
• House of Fraser: The 50% off sale continues.
• Karen Millen: Up to 70% off in the sale.
• Office: Online only, get 50% off in the mid season sale.
• Peacocks: Grab up to 50% off in the new sale.
• Phase Eight: Mid season sale on plus up to 70% off in the rest of the sale.
• Planet: Mid season sale, save up to 50%.
• River Island: Up to 50% off dresses and 50% off men’s knits.
• Rubbersole: Save up to 60% in the sale.
• Urban Outfitters: Sale continues, save up to 75%.
• USC: Further reductions in the mid season sale with up to 50% off.
• Austin Reed: Save up to 60% in the mid season sale.
• Barratts: Get 20% off all shoes (excluding boots, slippers and bags) with online code LOVESHOES.
• BooHoo: Up to 75% off in the mid season sale.
• Debenhams: Save up to 70% in the Blue Cross Sale.
• Espirit: Save up to 50% in the mid season sale.
• Ghost: Up to 75% off in the sale.
• H&M: 50% off in the sale and get 25% off one item when you sign up to the newsletter here.
• Hobbs: Save a massive £50 on coats and boots.
• Jane Norman: Save up to 50% off in the mid season sale.
• Jones: Get £20 off all boots for men and ladies and £10 off children’s boots.
• Kurt Geiger: Up to 40% off in the sale.
• Laura Ashley: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• Mybag: Save £10 when you spend £50 with the code SAVE10 until 31 Oct.
• Oasis: Up to 50% off in the ongoing sale.
• Wallis: Check out the ongoing half-price sale.

Bargains at Boots

If you need to do a big shop at Boots you can earn up to £12 in Advantage points in the upcoming bonus points events. First up, from today (Friday) until Sunday, if you spend £50 in store or online you’ll get 1,000 points (worth £10).

And, next week there’s a Christmas Shopping Event with 1,200 points (worth £12) up for grabs when you spend £50. This takes place all day online on Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 October and from 3pm in selected stores. Enter your postcode here to find out when and where your nearest store event is taking place.

You can also boost your Advantage Card points by shopping at Treat Street, the new Boots website with links to selected stores including ASOS, Wallis and Virgin Holidays. As you shop, you earn Advantage points just as you would if you were spending at Boots – a generous 1 point for every £1 spent. You can read more about this in A new way to earn rewards on your spending.

Finally, don’t forget the less than half-price Christmas 'Gift of the week' at Boots which this week is the Sanctuary Spa Perfect Pamper Box reduced from £40 to £19 (my mum got me this last Christmas and the box is perfect for storing all your bits and bobs!). 

Books & games

Browse through the top deals for book worms this week:             

• Amazon’s ‘Book Deals of the Week’ all have at least 55% off – buy Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy for £8.55 (RRP £18.99), the amazing Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela for £11.25 (RRP £25), Wonders of the Solar System by Brian Cox for £9 (RRP £20) and What You See is What You Get by Alan Sugar for £8.60 (RRP £20).
• Save 50% on Martina Cole’s The Family, now £9.48 at The Book Depository, saving you £9.51. The Book Depository is the best place to get Cole’s other hits Hard Girls (£4.41, saving you £3.37) and The Business (£5.09, saving you £2.90).
• Finally, if you haven’t got round to buying Steig Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, both The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest are just £3.86 at Asda (RRP £7.99) and The Girl Who Played With Fire is £3.84 at Amazon.

And check out the best buys for gamers:  

• New game, Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3 and Xbox 360 has £15 off at Blockbuster (now £34.99) and another newbie, sci-fi shooter Vanquish for the PS3 is £27.99 at Base, saving you £22 on the RRP.
• Base is also your best bet for Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, costing £15.99 for the PS3 and saving you £24, but if you want the game on other platforms Amazon has the best price for the Xbox (£13.49) and Nintendo Wii (£14.80).
• For Nintendo DS gamers, newly released Scooby Doo and the Spooky Swamp has £10 off (now £14.99) at Base and Hello Kitty: Puzzle Party is only £9.99 at Coolshop (£24.99).

DVDs & boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Cheap days out

With half term next week there are plenty of deals on family days out up for grabs and if these don’t take your fancy there are a whole load more on vouchercodes.co.uk.

• The whole family can visit Monkey World in Dorset for free, as long as they don full Halloween fancy dress on 31 October. Tickets usually cost £12.50 per adult and £7.50 per child.
• Kids in fancy dress go free after 5.30pm between 22 and 31 October at West Midland Safari Park as part of their Spooky Spectacular event when accompanied by a full paying adult. Download this voucher.
• Get a free child’s ticket for Chester Zoo when you purchase two adult tickets before 31 October by using this voucher.
• Capital One is offering you the chance to buy one ticket to Thorpe Park and get the second for £1 here. Thorpe Park will donate that £1 to the radio station’s charity Help a London Child.
• Every ‘Purple Thursday’ enjoy 2for1 entry at Cadbury World with this voucher. This runs until 23 December.

Freebie of the week

See the UK’s favourite feel good flicks for free courtesy of Diet Coke – the free screenings start this Sunday at participating Cineworld Cinemas. Only the first 10,000 to register get a free pair of tickets (plus a medium Diet Coke!) so get in quick by visiting ShowFilmFirst.com and entering the relevant screening code below:

• Pretty Woman (showing at 1pm on 24th October), code 224649
• Mamma Mia (showing at 1pm on 31st October), code 126092
• The Hangover (showing at 1pm on 7th November), code 976857
• Grease (showing at 1pm on 14th November), code 982210

Mobile phone deal of the week 

Get the HTC Wildfire for only £17 per month with 3 Mobile. This is on a 24 contract which includes 100 minutes, 5000 texts and 500MB internet every month, plus two months free Spotify Premium! You’ll even get a free pay-as-you-go SIM card for a mate thrown into the bargain so that you can make the most of 5,000 free Three-to-Three minutes.

Get this phone offer here and compare other top mobile deals at Recombu.

Competition of the week

This week’s competition is perfect for all you sweet tooths – you could win a year’s supply of chocolate to celebrate Divine’s Dark Chocolate with Ginger & Orange! Simply take a picture of yourself posing with a bar of the new chocolate and send it to competitions@divinechocolate.com and the winner gets 104 x 100g bars worth £160!

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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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