Frugal Friday - 25 March 2011

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 24 March 2011  |  3 comments
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Highlights this week include a half-price sale at Debenhams, 20% off Asos Collection, 20% off all baby clothes at Tesco, an exclusive lovemoney.com code for Feel Unique this weekend, better than half-price No7 Protect & Perfect face collection with a free gift to boot, cheap Body Shop goodies until 4pm today, £80 off the complete Charmed box set and £12 off the new season of Tudors!

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With Mother’s Day coming up, check out this week’s pick of the best offers and snap up something special without spending a fortune.

Frugal fashion and homewares

A new sale has started at Debenhams with many items half-price, plus up to 40% off kidswear. You can also save an extra 10% on fashion with an exclusive code from Vouchercodes.co.uk which expires on Saturday (26 March) – so hurry!

Now on to the rest of the sales:

• Jones: Free UK standard delivery on orders this week.
• Asda: Free delivery with code spring3 when you spend £30.
• Uniqlo: Up to £100 off on all +J lines here.
• Laura Ashley: Now up to 50% off home favourites.
• Hobbs: Save up to 25% on selected citywear.
• Gap: Now save up to 75% in the spring sale.
• Figleaves: Save 20% on selected Freya and Fantasie lines here.
• Kurt Geiger: Save up to 30% on Miss KG and Nine West shoes.
• Asos: Get 20% off selected items from the Asos Collection.
• Jaegar: Enter code GRZA9JGR for 20% off in association with Grazia, plus save 20% on men’s suits.
• Tesco: Grab 20% off ALL baby lines.
• La Redoute: Get 25% off full price items in the spring /summer 2011 collection with new code 8299.
• Wallis: Still £10 off ALL dresses and 70% off in the sale but now £1 delivery for orders over £30 up for grabs too.
• BHS: Now up to 50% off fashion and homeware.
• Lipsy: Save £10 when you spend £50 or more on the spring/summer 2011 collection. Use code LIPSYSS11 before 31 March.

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• Aldo: An extra 50% off sale items for a limited time online only.
• Asos: Buy limited edition Diet Coke cans and enter the unique codes on Coke Zone for £5 off your next purchase of £20 or more, or even vouchers worth £100, £20 and £10.
• Asos: Get 30% off selected footwear for a limited time only.
• Boots Treat Street: Save 20% at New Look, Early Learning Centre and Wallis, 15% at Dorothy Perkins and 10% at Laura Ashley until 31 March.
• Coast: More styles added to the sale with up to 50% off.
• Dorothy Perkins: £5 off ALL jeans plus sale continues with up to 50% off.
• Habitat: An extra 10% off sale items online with code S1SSU.
• House of Fraser: Spring season event with up to 20% off extended to 30 March.
• Jane Norman: Further reductions in the sale.
• Karen Millen: Further reductions in the mid season sale with many items half-price.
• La Senza: Many items half-price in the sale.
• Mamas & Papas: Save up to 50% on maternity and baby clothes.
• M&S: Save £5 when you spend £35 or more on full price lingerie and sleepwear wth the code HEAVENLY. Or save £3 when you spend £15 or more on full price beauty with the code MSBEAUTY. Both codes arevalid until 3 April 2011.
• Miss Selfridge: Get up to 50% off Diva jewellery and clothing.
• Oasis: Ongoing sale with up to 50% off.
• Peacocks: Sale now on with many items half-price.
• Sainsbury’s: Clearance homeware sale continues in stores only with up to 70% off.
• USC: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• Warehouse: Further reductions in mid season sale with up to 50% off.

Mother’s Day bargains

Mums are often easily pleased but if you want to give her a treat without spending a fortune, look out for these special offers:

• Exclusively for lovemoney.com readers, save 10% on orders this weekend only (until midnight Sunday 27 March) at Feel Unique with the code LOVEMONEY10. This offer excludes GHDs but there are over 12,000 products to choose from and free delivery worldwide.
• If your mum loves Boots No7 this Protect & Perfect Intense Face Collection is better than half-price at £32, down from £66. It contains No7 Protect & Perfect Intense Day Cream, Night Cream and Beauty Serum. Plus, when you spend £22 or more on No7 you get this free cosmetic purse full of more No7 goodies.
• The Body Shop is celebrating 35 years with four collections worth up to £51 for only £19.76 (the year they first opened the store) available online until 4pm today only.
• For other smellies, Superdrug is offering a 20% discount when you spend at least £35 online – simply use the code ILOVEMUM before it expires on Sunday (27 March) – plus get free delivery on all orders until 3 April. Or, save 10% at Crabtree & Evelyn with this code from Myvouchercodes.co.uk.
• If you spend £40 or more at Mybag you’ll get a free Fiorelli coin purse – not worth spending the money for the sake of it, but there are some accessories under £20 which could make a nice present anyway.
• At Laura Ashley save 20% on Mother’s Day fashion accessories and gifts, or head to PastTimes for up to 50% off gifts.

Books and games

Browse through the top deals for book worms this week:

• Head to Asda for Fern Britton’s New Beginnings, all about her life as a TV presenter, or Danielle Steel’s 42 Charles Street, both for only £7. Other Asda bargains include The Slap by Christos Tsiolkos for £3.96 and Theodore Boone by John Grisham, also for £3.96.
• Bargains at The Book Depository this week include 45% off Kate Morton’s The Distant Hours which is now £9.33, and 42% off Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman, now £7.48.
• Then at Amazon, one of its book deals of the week is When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman for only £5.84, saving you 55%, or you can save £11.71 on Raymond Blanc’s Kitchen Secrets, now £13.29.

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• Head to GamesBasement for Xbox 360 shooter game Homefront at £29.98, saving you £20.01, and save £7.14 on Okamiden for the Nintendo DS at Shopto.net (now £22.85).
• Zavvi has the best price for Top Spin 4 on the PS3 and Xbox 360 at £32.85 (RRP £49.99), but if you want to play it on the Wii, it costs only £22.99 (RRP £32.99) at Gameplay.
• Finally, The Game Collection is offering the new Super Monkey Ball 3D game for the Nintendo DS lowest price of £27.99 (RRP £39.99).

DVDs and boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Freebie of the week

For a free Mother’s Day card, register with Funky Pigeon, then add six event reminders to your calendar and they will credit your account with £3 which you can use to buy your card.

Mobile phone deal of the week 

The Tesco Phone Shop has the pick of the bunch this week, offering the HTC Wildfire for only £15 per month when you sign up for 24 months with Vodafone. For this you get 300 inclusive minutes and unlimited texts – perfect if you’re a heavy texter but don’t want to pay over the odds for extra minutes.

Get this deal here or compare other top mobile deals at Recombu.

Competition of the week

Win one of six Divine Chocolate hampers courtesy of Good to Know, just in time for Easter. Answer the simple question here and press the Submit button to fill in your details.

Competition closes 22 April.

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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