Frugal Friday - 18th May 2012

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 18 May 2012  |  0 comments
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Highlights this week include 25% off at Dorothy Perkins, 30% off at Gap, 40% off and free delivery at The Body Shop, 100 bonus points at Superdrug, last chance two for one Vue Cinema tickets, 20% off at Southern Railway and £24 off season 1 of Boardwalk Empire!

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

Get 30% off at Gap with this week’s Grazia mag (Jennifer Aniston on front cover). The voucher code expires on Monday 21st May.

You can save 25% on everything at Dorothy Perkins with code DPVIPE or this voucher which ends Sunday 20th May.

Enter UNI40 at the Uniqlo checkout for £5 off when you spend at least £40. Ends Sunday 20th May.

Vouchercodes.co.uk has a new code for Forever21 saving you 15% on a £60 spend – enter code 15F120514 at the checkout before it expires on Sunday 20th May.

New lines have been added to the sales at Miss Selfridge, where you can save up to 50%, and Marks & Spencer, where you can save up to 75% and get 20% off all dresses.  

Over at Republic there is new half-price sale. And you can save 15% at Urban Outfitters with new voucher code STYLEUK.

There is a flash sale on now at Missguided, saving you 20%. But if you want a full-price item you can still save 10% with MVC code MVCMAY which expires midnight Sunday 20th May.

MVC also has a code saving you 10% at Matalan – there is a steep minimum spend of £50 though, so don’t use it unless you were already planning a big shop.

If you want designer labels, you can save up to 70% at The Outnet, while there’s also a half-price sale at Dune.

And, there are various offers at Evans including 20% off sandals and shoes plus free UK delivery when you spend £50 (use code FWW50) or £75 internationally (use code FWW75). Or use ongoing MVC code MVC20 for 20% off orders over £40, valid until 20th May.

Health & Beauty bargains

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

• A new one for The Body Shop this week - code MAY40, valid until noon 21st May, will save you 40% with free standard delivery.
• Earn 100 bonus points when you buy two Proctor & Gamble products – which includes Olay, Nice’n Easy, Pantene, always, Oral B, Tampax, Gillette, Pampers and Aussie – and present your Beautycard at Superdrug. Offer ends Wednesday 6th June 2012. Not valid on any other products. Excludes Max Factor.
• Debenhams is offering you the chance to swap any used mascara (from any brand) for a High Impact mascara or High Lengths mascara. These are around half the size of normal mascara, but still a great trade if you’ve got old, clumpy mascara you don’t use! Offer ends 20th May and while stocks last so pop into a store soon.
• Enjoy free delivery at Murad (and free samples with every order) using the code FREESHIP, valid until midnight on Monday 21st May.

Book bargains and game discounts

Browse through the top deals for bookworms this week:

• The three Book Deals of the Week (which all have at least 55% off their original retail price) at Amazon are: All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Max Hastings is £4.49 (RRP £9.99), Running with the Kenyans by Adharanand Finn for £6.74 (RRP £14.99) and hardback HHhH by Laurent Binet for £7.64 (RRP £16.99).
• Amazon also has the best price for Out of Sight, Out of Mind by Ally Carter, now £3.86 (RRP £5.99).
• And stay put if you want the first volume, Game of Thrones, in the epic fantasy trilogy 'A Song of Ice and Fire' by George R. R. Martin as it will only set you back £5.39 (RRP £8.99).

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• Starting with some more Everything Under £10 bargains at The Hut, look out for Need for Speed: Shift (Classics) for the Xbox 360 at £6.95 (RRP £19.99) and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine for the PS3 at £9.95 (RRP £49.99).
• Sticking with The Hut you can also buy Nintendo DS games Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part Two for only £7.95 (RRP £29.99) and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time for £9.95 (RRP £29.34).
• And if you’ve gone all Avengers crazy, Thor: God of Thunder is £7.99 (RRP £39.99) at Base and Iron Man 2 is £7.95 (RRP £9.95) at The Game Collection, both for the Nintendo Wii.

Best buy DVDs and boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Freebies and coupons

• Join the Aquafresh Club and try a free travel size sample of Ultimate toothpaste while stocks last. And team it with some Colgate Plax mouthwash range with a 50p off coupon.  Enter your details on the site and you will be emailed a printable voucher.
• Garnier is feeling generous, offering three free samples of Miracle Skin Perfector – just complete the form.
• Decleor has 500 sachets of its new skin cream to giveaway when you answer a question and Like/Share its Facebook page.
• You can also get one of 25,000 free samples of the new L’Oreal Triple Resist Shampoo on Facebook.
• Nab a free sample (in discreet packaging) of Tena Protective Underwear. You can order a sample every six months, so make sure you visit the site again at the end of the year.  
• And, Twi-hards can print their own Twilight bookmark from BellaandEdward.com all featuring stars from the films.

Offer of the week

Southern Railway has launched two new offers with 20% off Southern Advance train tickets and 12% off many Off-Peak train tickets. These offers end 23rd August, but can be used for up to 12 weeks in advance (subject to availability and excluding public holidays) so you could use these offers for travel through to mid-November.

Also, don’t miss two for one cinema tickets at Vue. Print off this MVC voucher and show at your nearest participating cinema to get BOGOF tickets for either Mirror Mirror (last chance today Friday 18th May) or Cabin in the Woods (ends Friday 25th May).

Mobile phone deal of the week 

3 Mobile is offering the Samsung Galaxy Note White (which boasts a huge 5.3” Super AMOLED HD display, a smartpen, super-fast dual-core processor and 8 megapixel camera) for £32 per month with 500 minutes, 5,000 texts, 250MB data on a 24-month contract.  

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

Competition of the week

Loreal Elvive has a new Facebook comp giving away a customised goody bag of treats and 1000 lipglosses for the runner ups. Closes 15th June 2012.

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.