Frugal Friday 4th November 2011

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 04 November 2011  |  1 comment
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Highlights this week include the Mega Points event at Boots this weekend, £10 Tesco vouchers for £5, 25% off partywear at M&S, 20% off at New Look, 25% off brands and triple points at House of Fraser, up to £70 off boots at Office, 3 for 2 on gifts at Tesco, up to £15 off at River Island, £1 next day delivery at Republic, secret savings at The Body Shop, 3 for 2 on Barbara Daly, free £11 Nails Inc varnish, at least 55% off the book deals of the week at Amazon, free full size shampoo and conditioner, season 6 of How I Met Your Mother for £13.99 and over £52 off seasons 1 to 8 of Two and a Half Men!

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                                                      

Make sure you use your Tesco vouchers before 1st December because from now until then you can swap £5 vouchers for £10 in tokens to spend in-store or online on selected items. There are also some great discounts at M&S this week; get 25% off partywear, £5 off a £30 spend on lingerie using code LINGERIE and up to 30% off selected furniture until Sunday 6th November.

Now on to the rest of the new sales:

• Planet:  Get 20% off everything until midnight tonight.
• Ann Summers: Until midnight on Saturday get 10% off everything with code FIREWORK until 5th Nov. 
• New Look: Get 20% off online with code FFOCT20 until midnight on Monday and in store with this voucher until tomorrow (5th Nov).   
• House of Fraser: Last day of brand event saving you 25% on homeware brands plus triple points.
• Accessorize: Save 20% on jewellery and hair, up to £10 off bags, plus get delivery for £1.
• Oasis: Save 25% on full-price jewellery here.
• Office: Get up to £70 off boots.
• Tesco: it’s 3 for 2 on Christmas gifts and nightwear. 
• USC: Save up to 30% on season essentials.
• Miss Selfridge: Up to £30 off coats.
• Republic: Next and nominated day delivery is only £1.  
• River Island: Save up to £15 on selected items for men and for women.
• Laura Ashley: Up to 50% off ends this Sunday.
• Jane Norman: Online only, get 20% off all full-price items and 70% off sale.  
• Monsoon: Up to 30% off knitwear, ongoing free delivery (to various countries) for a limited time.
• Wallis: Up to £40 off coats.   
• BHS: Get up to 30% off all departments.

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• Asos: Save up to 70% in the sale.
• Barratts: Now get 20% off everything (use code EVERYTHING)! 
• Coast: Sale with up to 50% off selected items, and these five dresses have up to 50% off.
• Hobbs: Get up to £50 off selected coats and boots.
• Jones: Save up to £20 on selected boots and £10 on children’s styles and handbags.
• Karen Millen: Selected full-price coats have £50 off and mid-season sale now has up to 70% off.
• Kurt Geiger: Up to 70% off sale items.  
• Peacocks: At least 20% off everything and £1 delivery if you spend £30.
• Reiss: Autumn sale with up to 40% off.
• TK Maxx: Free delivery until midnight this Sunday.
• Urban Outfitters: Mid-season sale with up to 70% off.
• White Stuff: Save 50% in the sale and get a Happy Bug with any order for 15% off your next shop, valid until 30th November.
• Viyella: Get up to 70% off in the sale.
• Motel Rocks: Use code HELLO for 10% off full price items until 9th Dec. 

Beauty bargains

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

• This week's Star Gift of the Week at Boots is the Champneys Spa Complete Home Spa collection, containing Skin Comforting and Citrus Blush body care treatments (body scrub, shower gel, bathing milk, body lotion) – all for only £24 (RRP £50)! Offer ends Thursday 10th November, or while stocks last.
• Plus there is a Mega Points Weekend at Boots until Sunday. This time you can collect an extra £10 worth of points for every £50 you spend in-store or £75 you spend online. Offer ends Sunday 6th November.
• The Body Shop has been offering newsletter subscribers a Secret Saving – mine was 25% off my next order online, valid until 7th November.
• Don’t forget you can buy big beauty brands at Asos and many of these feature in the sale with up to 70% off – you can buy these Nail Rock nail wraps for £3.90 (was £6.70) and this Two Faced liquid eyeliner for £7.50 (was £13.50).
• There are some great buys on beauty at Tesco Direct including 3 for 2 on the popular Barbara Daly and Maybelline ranges. And, remember that until 1st December you can boost your Tesco vouchers (swap £5 vouchers for £10 in tokens).  
• For magazine freebies, look out for free £11 Nails Inc varnish with the December edition of Glamour (£2), And, with The Telegraph this Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th November (£2) you can get a voucher for a free £5 Body Shop shower gel and a free £9 Crabtree & Evelyn hand cream.

Books and Games

Browse through the top deals for bookworms this week:

• There are five book deals of the week to choose from at Amazon this week; The House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes) by Anthony Horowitz for £8.49 (RRP £18.99), Perfect People by Peter James and Death Comes to Pemberley by Baroness P.D. James both for £8.54 (RRP £18.99), Kirstie Allsopp Craft and Onstage, Offstage by Michael Buble both for £9 (RRP £20).
• You can also save 50% on 2012 calendars and annuals such as Guiness World Records (now £9), Justin Bieber (now £4.79) and Banksy (now £5.86).
• Then over at The Book Depository get The Race by Clive Cussler for £9.48 (RRP £18.99) and Silence (third book in Hush, Hush series) by Becca Fitzpatrick for £4.97 (RRP £9.99).

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• For Nintendo 3DS pre-order bargains head to CoolShop for Moshi Monsters Moshling Zoo for £23.77, and at The Game Collection, Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 both for £27.99.
• Simply Games has the best price for new PS3 game Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception, £34.85 (RRP £49.99) and for the Xbox 360, Eternal Sonata is only £10.95 (RRP £30.99) at CoolShop.
• Finally, for two of the most popular Nintendo Wii games, Zumba Fitness is cheapest at Asda at £19.97 (RRP £39.99) and the original Just Dance is only £12.85 (RRP £24.99) at ShopTo.

DVDs and boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Freebie of the week

Get 10 free bin bags by filling in your details on the Eco Bag Pac page (delivery takes up to 6 weeks).

Or if you miss out on that, there is finally a full-size beauty freebie up for grabs – register with Klorane and you will be sent a 200ml shampoo and conditioner from the range of your choice!

Mobile phone deal of the week 

This week's deal will see you get the Blackberry Torch 9860 handset absolutely free! It's on a 24-month contract from Vodafone, which will set you back £26 each month. But for that you'll get 100 minutes, 500 texts and 250mb of data.

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

Competition of the week

Get a bit of help this Christmas with a some money towards the big supermarket shop – if you win this competition you get £200 of Sainsbury’s vouchers (from the Good to Know website) and an Xmas pudding to boot!

Competition ends 30th November.   

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.