Frugal Friday - 6 May 2011

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 05 May 2011  |  1 comment
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Highlights this week include 75% off at Oxfam, 50% off in the Tesco clothing sale, 20% off and free delivery at Peacocks, a free make-up gift and half-price sale at Urban Outfitters, an extra 20% off sale items at Oasis, half-price theatre tickets, a free 2 for 1 discount card for gardens and parks, £71 off seasons 1 to 9 of Family Guy and a free comic book up for grabs tomorrow only!

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It’s back to work after two bank holiday weekends in a row, but don’t fret, here are this week’s frugal finds to put a smile back on your face!

Frugal fashion and homewares

Save a packet on clothing at Tesco with up to 50% off in the new sale. Top picks include this Florence & Fred oversized jumper for £10 (was £20) and this men’s F&F suit jacket for £25.50 (was £34).

• Oxfam: Save 75% online in the second hand store.
• Urban Outfitters: Up to 50% off plus get a free gift by NYX make up with all women’s online orders.
• Oasis: Save an extra 20% on sale items with code 20SALE0511.
• Peacocks: Spend at least £35 and you get 20% off and free delivery.
• Jaegar: Spend £200 and get a free clutch bag worth £160 with code SSGWP2.
• French Connection: Free delivery on orders with code PPSS11 until 18 May.
• Kickers: Get 10% off everything with code MVCMAY from Myvouchercodes until 31 May.
• Topman: New sale with up to 70% off.
• Asos: Up to 30% off festival footwear.
• Warehouse: Up to £10 off summer knits.
• BHS: Save up to 30% on summer dresses.
• Viyella: Save up to 30% on new season styles in the VIP event.
• Evans: Online only, get 15% off in the holiday shop and 20% off sleepwear.
• House of Fraser: Summer event for cardmembers, save up to 20% until Sunday 8 May.
• M&S: Save 25% on selected women’s shoes and 30% on selected upholstery.
• Clarks: Save £10 on leather handbags.

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• All Saints: Mid season sale continues with up to 50% off selected lines.
• Coast: Save up to £30 on selected shoes when you buy a full price dress. Plus get free delivery extended until midnight 16 May.
• Debenhams: Get 15% off when you spend £25 with code PB6B online until 13 May or with this voucher in store.
• Dorothy Perkins: The half-price sale continues.
• Jaegar: Spring sale and 20% off shoes.
• Karen Millen: Save £50 on selected dresses.
• Planet: Still up to 50% off in the sale.
• Uniqlo: New customers get £5 off when they sign up to the newsletter.
• Wallis: New lines added to sale save up to 50%.

Entertainment on the cheap

Having fun can easily get expensive but there are plenty of cheap days out to be had if you know where to look…

• Head to Lastminute.com for the half-price theatre ticket sale which ends 31 May. There are 23 deals on offer including Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre, London, from £32.50 and Pygmalion from £19.75. Browse through all the offers here.
• There are various Lovetheatre codes on offer at Vouchercodes.co.uk to save you money when booking your tickets. For example, Dress Circle seats for Legally Blonde are only £37.50 (usually £66) for performances before 31 May, Monday-Thursday, using code VCUK.
• Out now, the Gardener’s World Magazine is re-running its 2 for 1 discount card on 260 gardens around the UK. This includes the Eden Project, Tatton Park and National Botanical Gardens in Wales.
• There’s a ticket fiesta at Southernrailway.com with 26% off Advance and Off-Peak tickets throughout May when you book online. Also, to celebrate the birthday of moustached Mexican wrestler and train enthusiast Loco Toledo on 26 May, there will be a surprise bargain online fare.

Books and games

Browse through the top deals for book worms this week:

• Robert Pattinson fans may be all about the film, but Sara Gruen’s novel Water for Elephants is a bargain £3.99 at Amazon, down from £7.99.
• At The Book Depository the second in the Hunger Games science fiction trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, is £3.98 (RRP £6.99) and if you still love the first and original The Hunger Games, it’s only £3.48 (RRP £6.99). But, the final instalment, Mockingjay, is cheaper at Amazon (costing £4.19, down from £6.99).
• Sticking with The Book Depository, you can save 46% on Committed: A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert, now £4.27, or grab her world-wide bestseller Eat, Pray, Love for the lowest price of £3.96 at Asda (RRP £7.99).

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• Top deals at Tesco Entertainment include Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Xbox 360) for only £10.95, down from £49.99, and Mindjack for the PS3 for £7, saving you a massive £32.99!
• You can save a neat £14.14 on Xbox 360 game Crysis 2 at GameSeek which has the lowest price of £35.85.
• For the Nintendo DS, save £15.14 on Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light at Zavvi, now only £9.85. Zavvi also has the best price for Xbox Kinect game Carnival Games: In Action at £17.85(RRP £29.99) with five theme parks to enjoy including the ‘Batting Cage’, ‘Hot Air Balloon Race’ and ‘Rocket to Mars’.

DVDs and boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Freebie of the week

Get a free comic book (from this selection) on the aptly named Free Comic Book Day tomorrow (Saturday 7 May) all over the world. Scroll down here to select England and then your city or town to find a participating store.

Mobile phone deal of the week 

The HTC HD7 can be yours for only only £27 per month if you sign up with O2 for 24 months. This tariff includes 300 minutes, unlimited texts and 500MB internet every month, perfect if you’re a texter, rather than a talker.

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

Competition of the week

Head over to the Ginsters of Cornwall website and fill in your details for a chance to win a brand new 32GB iPad 2 with Wi-Fi and 3G.

Competition closes midnight on Saturday 21st May 2011.

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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