Frugal Friday - 4th May 2012

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 04 May 2012  |  1 comment
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Highlights this week include half-price items in the new M&S and Tesco sales, 30% off at BHS and Laura Ashley this weekend, plus earn 10 points per £1 when you spend £10 on suncare at Superdrug, grab a free music download at Sainsbury's, and get the iPhone 4s for £34 per month with £75 worth of M&S vouchers thrown in.

Welcome to this week’s edition of Frugal Friday. Let’s kick things off with the biggest fashion and homewares bargains…

Frugal fashion and homewares

The sale has started on Tesco Clothing with all items at least half-price.

Online or in-store at BHS you can save 30% across all departments until Monday 7th May.

There is a Home and Furniture Event at Debenhams saving you 20% on homeware and up to 60% on furniture, plus a new sale on at Marks & Spencer saving you up to 50%. You can also get 20% off selected swimwear and shorts and 20% off all outdoor and conservatory furniture but only until 8th May.

Everything at Laura Ashley has 30% off this Bank Holiday weekend. And if you’re shopping at House of Fraser with a Recognition card you get £20 reward on your statement if you spend £100+ in a single transaction by Monday 7th May.

Head to Asos for 20% off party looks from head to toe; you can save on belts, shoes, dresses and accessories. Get 25% off at H&M until Sunday 13th May using the code 9800.

Wallis is offering 20% off everything and you can also save 20% online and in-store at Dorothy Perkins this weekend courtesy of Look magazine with the code DPSUMMER20.

Banana Republic has a code too – enter MAYDAY to get 25% off everything until Monday 7th May. Or, if you’re shopping at My Bag, save 10% on any order with the code MBMAY which expires tomorrow, 5th May.

Use code STYLE14 for 25% off at Karen Millen (with the Sunday Times Style) and get free worldwide delivery at Lipsy with the code MAYSHIPPING, valid until 7th May.

This week at Warehouse you can save up to £10 on selected shorts and trousers, or use code MAYOFFER for 25% off orders until Monday 7th May (excludes Fashion Targets Breast Cancer t-shirt).

Oasis is offering £30 off these Weather Wonders and it’s your last chance to grab summer looks from just £20 at Evans.

Finally, check out the new sale at Jane Norman with up to 50% off and if you’re after a new suit try Jaeger where you can save £100 in association with The Independent.  

Health & Beauty bargains

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

• The new Sun Beam golden bronze highlighter from Benefit has arrived, costing £18.50 and you get free delivery with the code SUNKISS. Offer expires 10th May.
• Benefit is also hosting an evening for beauty fans at John Lewis, Oxford Street on Saturday 5th May and you can nab a free eyeshadow worth £14 with any purchase. Visit the Facebook page now for all the details.
• Deals at Boots include three for two on baby products, three fortwo2 on No7 face and body care, 20% off selected fragrances and collect £10 worth of Advantage points with every £80 you spend on electrical beauty products in a single transaction.
• This weekend at you earn 10 points per £1 when you spend £10 on suncare at Superdrug. And to celebrate the first birthday of the Superdrug Beautycard, every week until 6th June there are 1,000 chances to win 1,000 points (worth £10). Plus a note for the diary...on the weekend of 18th May, Beautycard holders will get five points per £1 when they spend over £5 on Superdrug’s own brand goods.
• Buy June’s edition of InStyle magazine (£3.80) and grab a free Nails Inc varnish – this is a full-size 10ml freebie available in three pastel shades, pink, purple or blue.
• Also, I have been using the Razorpit Razor Blade Sharpener for the past few weeks (the cheapest price I could find was Amazon at £14.95) but it is designed to make your razor work for up to 150 shaves. I’m not too sure how long mine usually last but I have been using the same blade for three weeks and it’s still going strong! Not a bad little beauty gadget and it doubles up as a holder too.

Book bargains and game discounts

Browse through the top deals for bookworms this week:

• First up this week if you’re shopping at The Book Depository you can save 10% on your order with the code APMA12, valid until 14th May.
• Get your vampire fix with the hardback Deadlocked: A True Blood Novel (Sookie Stackhouse 12) by Charlaine Harris for £8.54 (RRP £18.99) and Black Dawn (The Morganville Vampires) by Rachel Caine for £4.99 (RRP £7.99), both at Amazon. Or for the latest offerings in crime fiction, Donna Leon’s new book from the Commissario Guido Brunetti series Beastly Things is £11.15 (RRP £17.99) at Amazon.
• If you want to ponder some of life’s biggest questions head to Play where you can buy Free Will by Sam Harris for £3.50 (RRP £6.99), or see what Dr Brooke Magnanti has to say in The Sex Myth: Why Everything We're Told is Wrong – only £7.79 (RRP £14.99), at Amazon.

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• For the XBox 360 buy The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for £24.85 (RRP £54.99) at both Amazon and ShopTo.
• You can also pick up Mass Effect 3 at Amazon for £22.02 (RRP £49.99) and Silent Hill HD Collection for £17.99 (RRP £29.99) at Simply Games.
• And, for the PS3, Yakuza: Dead Souls has been reduced to £14.95 (RRP £49.99) at The Game Collection, Final Fantasy XIII-2 is only £14.91 (RRP £49.99) at Tesco Entertainment and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is £14.95 (RRP £49.99) at The Hut.

Best buy DVDs and boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Freebies and coupons

• Get a free 7-day sample of Garnier Body Intensive by filling in this form. Samples should be posted out within two weeks.
• Birthday boys who are 18-years-old can apply for a free Gillette Fusion Pro Glide razor on Facebook. 
• If you have asthma pop into your local Lloyds Pharmacy for a free Asthma Check up and kids pack.
• L’Oreal’s latest sample is a three day free trial of Youth Code Luminize serum – request your freebie here.

Offer of the week

Sainsbury’s has a new music download service with single tracks starting from 89p, chart albums from £6.99 and a Deal of the Week album for £4.99. It’s well worth checking these against other prices, but new customers also get their first download for free (only an individual track though not an album!) until midnight this Sunday 6th May. And you earn Nectar points on your purchases!

Mobile phone deal of the week 

Move now to get your hands on Three’s best deal for the iPhone 4s. For £34 per month (plus a one-off £49 for the handset) when you sign up for 24 months you get 2,000 minutes, 5,000 mins to Three, 5,000 texts, and unlimted internet every month – plus there’s a free £75 Marks and Spencer voucher to sweeten the deal!

You need to move now though as the offer is only available until Saturday 5th May.

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

Competition of the week

Stella Artois and Picturehouse Cinemas are giving away tickets to see Quentin Tarantino’s fantastic Pulp Fiction with a series of special screenings. Play their Facebook film quiz for a chance to win!  

Also check out the goodies being given away throughout May by Glamour Magazine. They have 20,175 beauty and hair freebies up for grabs so enter on the corresponding days for anything that takes your fancy!

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.