Frugal Friday - 5th August 2011

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 05 August 2011  |  3 comments
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Highlights this week include 25% off at Republic and 15% off at Oasis, only until midnight tonight, £10 off a £40 spend at Tesco, 50% off in the new Phase Eight sale, an extra 15% off sale items at Evans, an extra 10% off sale items at Dorothy Perkins and 20% off at Jaegar when you sign up for the loyalty card. You can also save 50% at The Body Shop, grab 3 for 2 on Maybelline and Gosh at Superdrug, get 500 Advantage points on Touche Eclat at Boots, save 50% on bestselling kids’ books at Waterstones and save over £61 on the Jonathan Creek box set, series 1 to 4!

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Frugal Friday. Let’s kick things off with the best frugal picks on fashion and homewares.

Frugal fashion and homewares                                                      

The sale at My Bag has been extended and you can save up to 75% for this week only.

Now on to the rest of the new sales:

• Ann Harvey: Save an extra 20% off sale items until Sunday.
• Republic:  Save 25% until midnight tonight only using code SUMMERLOOK.
• Oasis: Use code 2011NEW15 for 15% off all full price items until midnight tonight.
• Tesco: Get £10 off when you spend £40 using the code AFFAUG before Sunday 7 Aug.
• Phase Eight: Save up to 50% in the new High Summer sale.
• Evans: Online only, save an extra 15% on sale items.
• Dorothy Perkins: Final clearance with an extra 10% off sale for a limited time.
• Burton: Get an extra 10% off in the summer sale.
• House of Fraser: Save 50% on selected garden furniture and Hugo Boss.
• Cath Kidston: Save up to 30% on summer and garden essentials.
• Jaegar: Sign up for the loyalty card and get 20% off.
• Sainsbury’s: Save up to 60% on indoor furniture.
• Clarks: Save up to 50% off selected women’s sandals. 
• Austin Reed: Buy two men’s suits and save 25% or three women’s suits and save 20%.
• Tie Rack: Save up to 70% in the sale.
• Monsoon: Now up to 70% off in the sale.
• Kew: Clearance with up to 70% off.
• Moda In Pelle Final reductions with up to 70% off.  
• All Saints: Now up to 70% off sale items. 
• Matalan: Now save up to 75% in the sale. 

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• Aldo: Up to 70% off sale items.
• Alexon: Up to 70% off in the ongoing sale.
• ASDA: Final reductions with up to half-price off selected items. 
• Barratts: Final reductions with up to 70% off.
• Debenhams: Final summer clearance with up to 70% off.
• Firetrap: Save up to 70% in the sale.
• Habitat: Still up to 70% off in the sale.
• Jane Norman: Everything must go, save up to 70% off.
• Jones: All sale lines have at least 50% off.
• M&S: Selected womenswear has up to 25% off.
• Miss Selfridge: Save up to 70% in the final summer clearance.
• Office: Final reductions with a further 20% off items.
• Peacocks: Save up to 70% in the sale.
• Reiss: Final reductions, save up to 70%.
• River Island: Still up to 65% off.
• Sweaty Betty: Ongoing sale with up to 75% off gym gear.
• TK Maxx: Women’s accessories clearance.
• USC: Final clearance, save up to 70%.
• Viyella: Still time to get 70% off.
• Wallis: Save 20% in the holiday shop.
• Zara Home: Now up to 60% off.

Beauty Bargains

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

• Head to The Body Shop where you can save 50% with the code FRIENDS50 – this can only be used the once so it’s worth stocking up. This can’t be used in conjunction with other offers including the current deal for 40% off beach babe collections – the cheapest set contains 200ml Coconut Body Butter, 400ml Coconut Foaming Bath, Coconut Shimmer Body Lotion and Coconut Lip Butter all for £17.50 (worth £32.50). 
• There are lots of offers at Superdrug too including 3 for 2 on selected Maybelline and Gosh, BOGOF on Johnson & Johnson, and up to £6 off Bourjois.  And, over at House of Fraser you get this free gift when you purchase any two Clarins Skincare items.
• Also you can still get triple Advantage points at Boots on fragrances over 50ml – that’s 12 points per £1 spent – and 500 Advantage points with any purchase of Touche Eclat. It’s also 3 for 2 on selected No7.

Books and Games

Browse through the top deals for book worms this week:

• The Book Depository has the best price for The Good Cook by Simon Hopkinson at £13, saving you £11.26, or for something sweeter, The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days collection by Tarek Malouf is only £7 at Amazon, saving you £13.

• Other Amazon bargains can be found in the favourites section where titles have up to 50% off including Alan Sugar’s autobiography What You See Is What You Get reduced from £20 to £9.99, and The Complaints by Ian Rankin (hardback), reduced from £18.99 to £12.
• At Waterstones you can save 50% on bestselling kids’ books such as Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz, now £3.49, Grey Wolves – Henderson’s Boys by Robert Muchamore, also £3.49 and City of Fallen Angels: Mortal Instruments 4 by for Cassandra Clare for £4.99.

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• Nintendo DS game Resident Evil: The Mercenaries is cheapest at Amazon costing £25.95 (RRP £39.99). Or for DS game Jewels of the Ages, head to HMV where it is reduced from £19.99 to £13.99.
• Over at The Hut save a  massive 80% on Half-Life 2 (Orange Box)2 for the PS3, reduced to just £9.93 (RRP £49.99) and
• Finally, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Part 2 for the Nintendo Wii is cheapest at  Amazon (£27.91), for the PS3 go to The Game Collection (£35.49) and for the Xbox 360 go to ShopTo (£29.86).

DVDs and boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Freebie of the week

Over on the Aquafresh website free 20ml samples of toothpaste are up for grabs when you fill in your details and answer a few simple questions here. Be prepared to wait for up to 35 days for delivery.

Mobile phone deal of the week 

This week's deal comes from 3 Mobile. For £30 a month you get not only the Samsung Galaxy S II, but also 500 minutes, 5,000 texts and 1GB intener, on a 24-month contract.

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

Competition of the week

Over on The Book Depository you could win an Xbox 360 games console and the full series of TimeRiders books signed by Alex Scarrow. Head to this page and scroll down to answer the question ‘How many books are there in the TimeRiders series?’, then add you name and email to be in with a chance.

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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