Frugal Friday - 12th August 2011

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 12 August 2011  |  2 comments
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Highlights this week include 25% off at Banana Republic, 20% off at Evans and Phase Eight, free delivery at Karen Millen and Oasis, £10 off at Tesco, 20% off school uniforms at Debenhams, £10 off summer knits at Warehouse, a free £15 HQhair voucher when you recycle your old GHDs, various free Clinique treats at Boots, a free £15 iTunes voucher with Tigi products at Feel Unique, up to 100 free music downloads with SEAT, season 1 of Breaking Bad for £7.99 and £40 off seasons 1 to 8 of Two and a Half Men!

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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                                                      

You can still save up to 50% in the ongoing high summer sale at Phase Eight, but if you’ve got your heart set on a full-price item, use the code P8ASWH for 20% off until midnight 4th September. 

Now on to the rest of the new sales:

• Banana Republic: Save 25% with code UKSAVE25, expires 16th August.
• Evans: Save 20% on your first order with the code EVANSSHOP until 25th August.
• Karen Millen: Order before 3pm and use the code FREENEXT for free next day delivery.
• Oasis: Use code FREEDEL0811 for free standard delivery.
• Jaegar: Get 20% off sale and full-price items with the code AW2LYLNW, expires 31st August.
• Tesco: Get £10 off when you spend £40 using the code AW4C before midnight 4th September.
• House of Fraser: Various offers including 20% off Jaegar with code GHK2JGR2 and 30% off selected shoes.
• Debenhams: Save 20% on school uniforms and in store its BOGOF on women’s clearance.
• Miss Selfridge: Up to £10 off selected shoes and accessories. 
• Warehouse: Get £10 off summer knits.
• Dune: Save 20% on sandals.

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• Aldo: Sale items reduced by up to 70%.
• All Saints: Final reductions with up to 70% off selected items. 
• Austin Reed: Now save up to 70% in the sale.
• Barratts: Final reductions with up to 70% off.
• Dorothy Perkins: Last chance for up to 30% off.
• Firetrap: Save up to 70% in the sale.
• Habitat: Still up to 70% off in the sale.
• Jones: All sale lines have at least 50% off.
• Kew: Clearance with up to 70% off.
• M&S: Selected womenswear has up to 25% off.
• Moda In Pelle Final reductions with up to 70% off. 
• Monsoon: Sale continues with up to 70% off.
• Sweaty Betty: Ongoing sale with up to 75% off gym gear.
• Tie Rack: Still up to 70% off.
• USC: Final clearance, save up to 70%.
• Viyella: Still time to get 70% off.
• Wallis: Save 20% in the holiday shop.

Beauty Bargains

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

• If you’ve got some old GHDs lying around that you don’t want anymore head to beauty website HQhair.com and they’ll give you a handy £15 voucher to spend for them. All you need to do is download and fill in this recycle form, and then post it with your old straighteners using the freepost address in the recycle form.
• Get a free bag of Clinique beauty treats when you buy two Clinique products in store at Boots (one has to be a skincare product). Offer ends 20th August. The freebie includes blusher, Long Lasting Glosswear, Repairwear Laser Focus, Rinse Off Foaming Cleanser and Dramatically Different Moisturiser. If you buy two Clinique skincare products online you can pick one of these four kits for free (Anti-Blemish, Uneven Skin Tone, Radiance, De-Ageing) using the relevant codes at the checkout.
• At Feel Unique you get a free £15 iTunes voucher when you spend £35 on Tigi and if you spend £20 on any All For Eve products you get two admission tickets to Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model 2011 for free worth £25.

Books and Games

Browse through the top deals for book worms this week:

• Over at Amazon you can buy The Millennium Trilogy hardback box set by Stieg Larsson for only £32.85, saving you over £37 on the original price of £69.99. You can also buy the hardback version of Tom Clancy’s Against All Enemies for only £10.78 (RRP £20) at Amazon.
• The final book, Forever, from another popular trilogy, The Wolves of Mercy by Maggie Stiefvatter,  is available at The Book Depository for only £3.58 (RRP £7.99) and you can buy the other two, Shiver and Linger for £4.08 each, which still saves you £3.91 per book.
• Other children’s book bargains for this week include Pirate Pete’s Potty by Andrea Pinnington for £3.49 (RRP £6.99) at Tesco and The Snail and the Whale for £3.63 (RRP £6.99) at Amazon.

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• At Zavvi, buy The Smurfs: Dance Party for the Nintendo Wii for £14.85, saving you £25.14, and new Wii game UFC Personal Trainer for £24.85, saving you £5.14.
• For the Xbox 360, Captain America: Super Villain is cheapest at Bee costing only £29.99 (RRP £49.99) and you can also save over £50 on another Xbox game, Red Dead Redemption, now only £14.98 (RRP £64.99).
• Finally, for the PS3, Play has the best price of £17.99 for Call of Juarez: The Cartel, saving you £22 and Send It has the lowest price for Earth Defence Force: Insect Armageddon at £19.89 (RRP £49.99) – you do pay £1.99 on top of this for delivery but it still works out cheapest.

DVDs and boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Freebie of the week

SEAT is giving away 50 free music downloads if you visit one of its dealerships and fill out a quick form. Plus if you go on to take a test drive in one of SEAT’s cars you’ll be entitled to another 50 free music downloads! Get all the details on the SEAT Facebook page.

Mobile phone deal of the week 

This week's deal comes from 3 Mobile. For £15 a month, on a 24-month contract, you get 500 free minutes, 5,000 texts, 1GB of internet usage and and a Samsung Galaxy S handset.

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

Competition of the week

One for the kids this week – head to the Nickelodeon website and vote for your favourite Sponge Bob Square Pants character and you could win £1,000 to spend at ToysRUs, with 20 runners up winning SpongeBob lego sets ‘Heroic Heroes of the Deep’ and ‘Glove World’.

Competition closes 15th August.

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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