Frugal Friday - 8 July 2011

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 07 July 2011  |  1 comment
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Highlights this week include an item for £1 at New Look today only, an extra 20% off sale items at Espirit, new half-price sales at Monsoon, Accessorize and ASDA, improved sales with up to 70% off at Urban Outfitters, House of Fraser and Net-a-Porter. Plus get a free Sanctuary Spa gift at Boots, check out the latest cheap perfume picks, save an extra 5% on Clinique at Cheapsmells, get £5 off at Zavvi when you spend £50 and buy the complete West Wing box set for £47.85, saving you over £52!

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Frugal Friday. If you haven’t got stuck into all the summer sales yet now’s your chance!

Frugal fashion and homewares                                                      

Today is your last chance to go to the New Look Facebook page and click the 'get your voucher now' to get an item for just £1. Simply print it off and take it to your nearest store.

Now on to the rest of the new sales:

• Espirit: Save an extra 20% on sale items.
• Jones: All sandals have been reduced with up to 50% off.
• Accessorize: Save up to 50% in the new sale.
• Monsoon: Lots of items are up to half-price in the new sale.
• Sweaty Betty: Summer sale with up to 50% off gym gear.
• Aldo: Up to 50% off selected lines.
• Dorothy Perkins: Online only, save 25% on selected summer dresses and tops.
• M&S: Furniture sale with up to 50% off and free delivery.
• ASDA: Many items reduced by up to 50%.
• Habitat: Summer sale with upto 50% off.
• Alexon: Now up to 70% off.
• East: Now save up to 70% on jewellery.
• House of Fraser: Now get up to 70% off in the sale.
• Jaegar: Further discounts, save up to 70%.
• Net-a-porter: More designer labels added to sale now with up to 70% off.
• Office: Save even more this week with up to 75% off in the sale.
• Paprika: Another improved sale, save up to 70%.
• Topman: Many sale items now have 70% off.
• Urban Outfitters: Sale just got even better with up to 70% off.
• Boohoo: Now up to 75% off in the sale.
• My Bag: Now at least 40% off everything.

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• All Saints: Up to 50% off selected lines.
• Amazon: Grab half-price clothes in the sale.
• Ann Harvey: Sale continues, save up to 70%.
• Asos: Now up to 70% off.
• Banana Republic: Save up to 60%.
• Barratts: Ongoing sale with up to 50% off.
• BHS: Now save up to 70% in the sale.
• Cath Kidston: Flower power for less in the sale with up to 50% off.
• Clarks: Final clearance to ongoing half-price sale.
• Coast: Still up to 50% off in the sale.
• Debenhams: Blue Cross Sale with up to 70% off ends Sunday.
• Dorothy Perkins: Sale continues with 50% off.
• Evans: Another 50% off sale to enjoy.
• Fat Face: Mid season sale with items under £10.
• French Connection: Now up to 60% off.
• Harvey Nichols: Save up to 50% on designer lines.
• H&M: Save up 70% in the sale.
• Hobbs: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• JD Sports: Save up to 50% in the mega summer sale.
• Jane Norman: Sale continues with up to 50% off.
• Jigsaw: Many items up to half-price.
• John Lewis: Clearance sale with up to 50% off.
• Karen Millen: Further reductions in end of season sale, save up to 70%.
• Kurt Geiger: Find reductions of up to 40%.
• Laura Ashley: Save up to 50% in the summer sale.
• La Senza: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• Miss Selfridge: Ongoing sale with up to 50% off plus 20% off summer essentials.
• Mothercare: Half-price sale across the store.
• New Look: Save up to 50% in the summer sale.
• Oasis: Still up to 70% off.
• Peacocks: Many items half-price in the sale.
• Planet: Still up to 50% off in the sale.
• River Island: Ongoing sale with up to 50% off.
• Sainsbury’s: Half-price summer sale plus up to 70% off dining room furniture.
• Ted Baker: New lines added to half-price sale.
• Tesco: New lines added to sale with up to 50% off. Uniqlo: Up to 50% off.
• USC: Use code JUNE10 for an extra 10% off sale items.
• Viyella: Still time to get 70% off.
• Warehouse: Save up to 70% on selected items.
• Whistles: Up to 50% off in the sale.
• Wallis: Ongoing half-price sale.
• Zara: Save up to 50% in the new sale here.
• Zara Home: Also up to 50% off.

Beauty Bargains

Pucker up for these deals on all your beauty must-haves:

• Spend £10 on selected Sanctuary Spa products at Boots get a free Sanctuary gift box containing a full size body scrub, body wash, hand cream and body butter! Plus, there’s still time to get a free gift worth over £33 when you spend £22 or more on No7.
• If you’re looking for new perfume, the latest bargains include Marc Jacobs Lola 50ml eau de parfum for £29.99 (RRP £45) at The Fragrance Shop (the cheapest I could find it anywhere else was £39.99 at Fragrance Direct) and YSL Cinema 50ml eau de parfum for £30.49 (RRP £43.99) from Fragrance Mad.

• Over at Cheapsmells you can save an extra 5% on Clinique - saving you up to 25% - until Sunday. Top deals include the 3-Step Skincare System for £19.90 (RRP £32.95) and Repairwear Lift SPF 15 Firming Day Cream for £37 (RRP £45).

Books and Games

Browse through the top deals for book worms this week:

• Get two books for the price of one with Cecelia Ahern’s Girl in the Mirror and The Memory Maker for only £3.79 (RRP £7.99) at Amazon. Stay put for Supernanny Jo Frost’s Confident Toddler Care for the lowest price of £8.49 (RRP £16.99).
• Actress Portia de Rossi tells all about her eating disorders in Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain and it’s also cheapest at Amazon, costing only £4.55 (RRP £7.99).
• Over at The Book Depository you can save £18.71 on this Jane Austen 6-book box set (now £21.28) and if you ‘send a summer postcard’ you get a voucher for an extra 10% off.

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• Nintendo Wii gamers can save £21.74 on De Blob 2, now only £8.89, and £17.53 on Dance on Broadway, now only £7.99, both at Amazon.
• Also, at Zavvi buy any three from this selection of Wii games for £18 – most are £6.85 so you’ll only save a few quid but if there are three games you want to buy anyway, it could be worthwhile.
• Stick with Zavvi if there are a few things you want to buy because if you spend £50 you can get £5 off with the code MVCFIVE50 from Myvouchercodes.co.uk which expires 19th July. And don’t forget this includes the Zavvi DVD deals below…

DVDs and boxsets

Here are all the biggest bargains at Zavvi this week and don’t forget to use the code above to save £5 on a £50 spend:

Freebie of the week

Get a free sample of L’Oreal Revitalift Repair 10 when you register on the Facebook page (or login if you’ve already signed up to L’Oreal Paris before).

Mobile phone deal of the week 

Get the BlackBerry Torch 9800 at half-price for six months when you sign up for 24 months with Orange. You pay only £17.50 for half a year before it reverts back to the usual £35 per month and for this you get 1000 mins, unlimited texts and 750MB internet.

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

Competition of the week

To mark the new novel by Tasmina Perry, Kiss Heaven Goodbye, top nail brand Nails Inc is giving away £500 worth of products including a year’s worth of manicures, nail polish and luxurious hand care products.

All you have to do is fill in your name and email address here and there will be a prize draw on 15th August with an email sent out to the lucky winner on 29th August.

Competition closes midnight 31 July 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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