Frugal Friday 14th October 2011

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 14 October 2011  |  2 comments
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Highlights this week include new half-price sales at Asos, Office, River Island, Dorothy Perkins, Figleaves and My Bag, savings of up to £30 on coats and knitwear at Miss Selfridge, improved sales at Gap and Banana Republic with up to 75% off selected items, free mini samples at various make-up counters at Boots until Tuesday, up to £20 off at The Body Shop this weekend only, the Doctor Who Cybermen box set for under a tenner and £120 off the complete collection of Agatha Christie’s Poirot!

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 save 50% in the new sale at White Stuff and you’ll even get a Happy Bug (yes I want to throw up too) with any order for 15% off your next shop, valid until 30th November.

Now on to the rest of the new sales:

• Peacocks: There are various deals including £5 off denim and knitwear and £10 off footwear and outerwear.
• Asos: Grab discounts of up to 50% in the new sale.
• River Island: The sale has just started so get in quick for half-price bargains.
• Office: Another new sale to enjoy with more than 50% off some items.
• Evans: As well as the 50% sale you can save £10 on coats and up to 30% on shoes and boots.
• Dorothy Perkins: Save 50% in the mid-season sale. 
• Oasis: Students get 20% off. Get your code here.
• Figleaves: Many items half price in the sale.
• My Bag: A mid-season sale now on with up to 50% off.
• Coast: These five dresses have up to 50% off.
• Karen Millen: Selected full-price coats have £50 off.
• Miss Selfridge: Up to £30 off coats and knitwear plus save up to 50% in the sale.
• Jaegar: Save 20% on AW11 Boutique with code CMP2BTQUE.
• Banana Republic: Now up to 70% in the new sale.
• Gap: Now up to 75% off in the sale.

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• Accessorize and Monsoon: All items in the sale have 50% off.
• Barratts: At least £10 off ladies' boots.  
• BHS: Ongoing sale with up to 50% off. 
• Coast: Sale with up to 50% off selected items.
• Debenhams: Ongoing sale with up to 75% off.
• House of Fraser: Up to 50% off selected items.
• Jaegar: Save up to 50% in the mid-season sale and get a free bag with bath/body set (worth £150) when you spend £200.
• Jane Norman: Final clearance, save up to 70%.
• Karen Millen: Mid-season sale, save up to 50%.
• Kurt Geiger: Up to 70% off sale items.
• La Senza: Once again, save up to 50% in the sale.   
• Laura Ashley: Up to 50% off.
• M&S: Another mid-season sale with items up to half-price.
• Miss Selfridge: ‘Like’ the Facebook page for 10% off and free delivery when you spend £60.
• Motel Rocks: Use code HELLO for 10% off full-price items until 9th Dec. 
• New Look: Mid-season sale savings of up to 50%.  
• Oasis: Ongoing mid-season sale with up to 50% off.
• Planet:  A half-price sale and up to £70 off all coats.
• Republic: Sale with up to 50% off and students get 20% off here until 19th Oct.
• Tesco: Items up to half price in the sale.
• USC: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• Wallis: Up to 30% off dresses and coats and up to 50% off in the sale.
• Warehouse: Mid-season sale, save up to 50%.  

Beauty bargains

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

• Head to fashion secret sales website Showroomprive.co.uk and not only will you get a £10 voucher credited into your account right after registering using this link, but if you spend £50 or more, you also receive a free beauty treatment. Get all the details here.
• Go to various make-up counters at any Boots store before Tuesday 18th October and bring along any used, full size facial product and they will offer you a free skincare consultation and a free mini-sample as part of the Great Skincare Swap. Brands involved include Benefit, Clarins and Clinique.
• This weekend at The Body Shop, get £5 off when you spend £15, £10 off when you spend £25 and £20 off when you spend £40 using the code SUPERSAVE which can only be used once and is valid until noon Monday 17th October.

Books and Games

Browse through the top deals for bookworms this week:

• There are 5 Book Deals of the Week to get your teeth in at Amazon this week; Ian Rankin’s The Impossible Dead for £8.54 (RRP £18.99), The Hairy Bikers’ Perfect Pies for £9 (RRP £20), Empire: What Ruling The World Did to The British for £11.25 (RRP £25)  by Jeremy Paxman, The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern for £7.64 (RRP £16.99) and The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides for £9 (RRP £20)
• Elsewhere, you can buy The Good Food Guide 2012 at The Book Depository for only £8.82, saving you £8.17 and, if you can stomach it, they also have the top price for Happy Like Murderers; The True Story of Fred and Rosemary West by Gordon Burn at £4.98 (RRP £8.99). 

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• Gears of War 3 has been reduced by a few quid and now can be yours for £37.99 (RRP £49.99) at Amazon, while you can buy another Xbox game Rage for £32.85 (RRP £49.99) at Simply Games.
• Gamestation has the lowest price for PS3 game Skate 3 at £12.99, saving you a healthy £37 and Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 for PS3 is £17.47 (£19.99) at Amazon.
• And for Nintendo Wii games under £10 Amazon also comes out on top for Battle of the Bands at £3.89 (RRP £29.99), or you can buy Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4  for £9.98 (RRP £39.99) from PC World and Alone in the Dark from £4.05 (RRP £39.99) at Play Trade.

DVDs and boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Freebie of the week

Two more beauty freebies this week – first up get a free sample of the Miracle Mattifier on the Good Things Skincare Facebook page and then if you’re one of the first 10,000 to fill in their details here you’ll get a free sample of Paco Rabanne 1 Million.

Mobile phone deal of the week 

This week's deal comes from 3 Mobile. For £30 a month on a 24-month contract, you get the HTC Sensation handset, 500 minutes, 5,000 texts and 1GB data!

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

Competition of the week

Firebox is offering you the chance to get Christmas sorted with a competition to win £3,000 worth of toys and games for kids with over 60 products including a Parrot AR Drone remote control flier worth £299.99, a Ride In Dalek worth £199.99, a Razor RipRider 360 worth £129.99 and a Leapfrog LeapPad worth £79.99. Answer the question here.

Competition ends 10am 31st October.

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.