Frugal Friday - 5 November 2010

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 04 November 2010  |  0 comments
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Highlights this week £10 worth of extra Boots points, £5 off M&S lingerie, 70% off beauty at Feel Unique, half-price beer and wine sets, free wildlife park entry, computer games for under a tenner and £20 off both The Pacific and Flight of the Conchords box sets!

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Remember, remember the fifth of November….is time to get frugal and save money on all your Christmas shopping!

Frugal fashion

A great one at M&S this week is £5 off when you spend £35 on full price lingerie and nightwear before 14 November. Use the code HEAVENLG at the checkout or look out for the voucher in stores. At Wallis the fantastic £10 off all dresses promotion is back and you can still save up to £30 on footwear.

Now browse the rest of the new sales:

• Alexon: Save up to 30% on winter warmers.
• Asos: Get 20% off these shoes for a limited time only.
• BHS: Save up to 30% off clothing and accessories.
• Clarks: Save 25% on full price handbags with code BAGSXMAS.
• Debenhams: Save 15% with the code PGQP.
• Evans: Save up to 30% on coats.
• Hobbs: Get 20% off selected autumn lines.
• Karen Millen: Get 20% off with code STYLE8 and £50 off boots with the code BOOTS.
• La Redoute: This weekend only save 35% with code 8272.
• Laura Ashley: Get 20% off all full price fashion.
• M&S: Get 30% off these dresses.
• Miss Selfridge: Save up to 50% in the new sale.
• New Look: Get up to £20 off coats and buy one get one free on all jewellery and hair accessories.
• Peacocks: Get £10 off selected coats, 50% off heels and 20% off knitwear.
• Sainsbury’s: Save 25% on Tu clothing in store including socks and tights until Mon.
• Viyella: Save up to £50 with new seasonal offers.
• Oasis: Up to £30 off coats and dresses.

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• BooHoo: Up to 75% off in the mid season sale.
• Coast: Mid-season sale with up to 60% off.
• Figleaves: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• USC: Further reductions in the mid season sale with up to 50% off.
• Dorothy Perkins: Sale continues with up to 50% off.
• Dune: Get up to 60% off in the sale.
• Espirit: The mid-season sale continues with up to 50% off.
• Gap: Save 25% on outerwear.
• H&M: Get 50% off in the 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 boots for men and ladies and £10 off children’s boots.
• Joules: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• Mybag: Get up to 75% off in the sale.
• Office: Final week of sale with up to 75% off.
• Planet: Mid season sale, save up to 50%.
• Tesco: Save 20% on winter warmers.
• Urban Outfitters: Up to 50% off in the sale.
• Whistles: Now up to 70% off in the sale.

Christmas gifts for less

Here are my frugal finds for top gifts this Christmas:

• The Body Shop can be a bit pricey, but if you buy three of these stocking fillers you get one free. Also, when you spend £25 you get a free body butter gift and until 11 November delivery is also free.
• The Christmas Shop is now open at Feel Unique with up to 70% off collections and fragrances. Top picks include this Burt’s Bees Lip Balm gift set for £8.50 and this men’s Crabtree & Evelyn Nomad Traveller Set for £15.
• Wine and dine your friends and family with the half-price beer, wine and spirit sets and the selected food gifts with 20% off at BHS.
• Finally, this week’s Boots ‘Christmas gift of the week’ is the Strictly Come Dancing Fab-u-lous Cosmetics Case for just £22, down from £45, which includes eye, lip and blusher shades – and from today if you spend over £50 at Boots you can earn an extra 1,000 Advantage points until Sunday 7 November!

Don’t forget to check with the various voucher code websites for any handy discounts. For example, at Myvouchercodes.co.uk you can currently save 10% at both Green & Blacks and Cadburys, or 15% on orders at Elegant.

Books & games

Browse through the top deals for book worms this week:

• Even more autobiographies this week and Amazon has the best price for Derren Brown’s Confessions of a Conjuror at just £8.54, saving you £10.45, and Gok Wan’s Through Thick and Thin at £9.48, saving you £9.51.
• If you’d rather have Katie Price’s You Only Live Once head to The Book Depository instead, where it is half-price at only £9.48.
• Another celebrity author, Dawn French, has just released her first novel A Tiny Bit Marvellous and you can get it for only £8.16 at Amazon (RRP £18.99) Or, the fantastic children’s book The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne is only £4.39 at Play (RRP £6.99).

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• If you want to spend less than a tenner, you can get Oblivion – Game of the Year edition (PS3) for the lowest price of £9.89 at Sendit (RRP £19.59) as well as Assassins Creed 2 (Xbox 360) at The Hut for only £9.93 (RRP £19.99).
• The Hut is also your best bet for having a Wii Party for less – it costs just £32.47 (RRP £39.99) and for the Wii, you can save 50% on Scrabble Interactive (£9.93).
• PC gamers can roam from dance clubs to rooftop Jacuzzis with The Sims 3: Late Night which is £22.99 at Amazon (RRP £29.99) and at Zavvi you can get The Sims 3 for the Xbox for £34.95, saving you £15.04.

DVDs & boxsets

In honour of Halloween this weekend here are some suitably frugal horrors!

Freebie of the week

Kids and adults now get free entry to South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Cumbria until 13 February 2011 – there is an impressive list of animals to see including lions, tigers, penguins, kangaroos and lemurs. Get all the details here.

Mobile phone deal of the week 

Get your hands on the Samsung Galaxy Apollo with a 24 month contract with T-Mobile with 600 mins, 500 texts, a free flexible booster, for only £20 per month! With a 3.2" colour touchscreen, 3 megapixel camera, MP3 player and apps available from that Android Market, you can really make this phone your own.  

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

Competition of the week

Feel Unique is giving away £1000’s worth of beauty products until 14 November and all you have to do is ‘like’ them on Facebook, complete the entry form and within 24 hours they will email you your prize and details of how to claim!! Daily prizes include a £250 voucher and discounts to use on the site.

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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