Frugal Friday - 27th July 2012

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 27 July 2012  |  1 comment
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Highlights this week include £10 off a £50 spend on clothes at Tesco, final clearance with up to 70% off at Debenhams, Barratts, H&M and Oasis, an extra 10% off the Amazon 70% clothing sale, and 10% off orders and free delivery when you spend £30 at M&S.

Welcome to this week’s edition of Frugal Friday.

Frugal fashion and homewares  

Let’s kick things off with the biggest fashion and homewares bargains…

• A-Wear (up to 75% off)
• Accessorize (up to 70% off)
• Amazon (up to 70% off and extra 10% off with code EXTRATEN)
• Asos (up to 30% off, plus get an extra 10% off today only with code OPENING2012)
• Austin Reed (up to 70% off)
• Barratts (up to 70% off)
• BHS (up to 50% off)
• Cath Kidston (up to 50% off)
• Clarks (up to 60% off)
• Coast (up to 50% off)
• Cotton Traders (up to 50% off)
• Debenhams (up to 70% off) 
• Dorothy Perkins (up to 70% off)
• Dune (extra 20% off sale with code DUNEW26, ends 4th August)
• East (up to 50% off)
• Esprit (up to 50% off)
• Figleaves (free delivery with code PROMO)
• Firetrap (up to 70% off)
• Flannels (half-price sale)
• FCUK (up to 75% off)
• Habitat (up to 50% off)
• H&M (up to 70% off)
• Hobbs (up to 70% off)
• House of Fraser (up to 70% off)
• Jaeger (up to 70% off)
• Jane Norman (up to 75% off)
• JD Sports (up to 60% off)
• Jones (all sandals half-price or less)
• Joules (up to 70% off)
• Karen Millen (up to 70% off)
• Laura Ashley (up to 50% off ends Sunday with extra 20% off home)
• LK Bennett (up to 70% off)
• Marks & Spencer (10% off with code SUMMERMS, ends 8th Aug)
• Miss Selfridge (up to 50% off)
• New Look (up to 50% off)
• Oasis (up to 70% off)
• Phase Eight (up to 50% off)
• Reiss (up to 70% off)
• Republic (up to half price)
• River Island (up to 50% off)
• Sports Direct (up to 90% off)
• Tesco Clothing (£10 off £50 spend with code FLIPFLOPS by Sun 29th July)
• Timberland (up to 50% off)
• Urban Outfitters (use code FESTEVA for 15% off festival)
• Wallis (up to 30% off dresses and Petite)
• Warehouse (£5 off maxi dresses)
• Whistles (up to 70% off)
• White Stuff (up to 50% off)

Beauty bargains

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

• All week at Feel Unique there have been flash sales saving you money on various beauty products. Today use FLASHFRI10 for 10% off Benefit and FLASHFRI20 for 20% off Elemis (ends at midnight).
• Another newsletter offer this week comes from The Body Shop with a special treat of 40% off online and in-store with code X451, ends 1st August. Otherwise remember first-time shoppers get 25% off online with code WELCOME.
• Get 20% off a cut and/or colour with this exclusive Vouchercodes.co.uk offer for Toni & Guy, expires Friday 31st August 2012, valid seven days a week.
• Other Vouchercodes.co.uk deals include 10% off at Mankind with code 10VCMK (valid until 31st July) and 15% off at Lookfantastic with 15LFVC (valid until 29th July).

Book bargains and game discounts

Browse through the top deals for book worms:

• The six hardback Book Deals of the Week this week (which all have at least 55% off) at Amazon include Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer for £5.84 each (RRP £12.99), Jasper Fforde’s The Woman Who Died a Lot for £7.64 (RRP £16.99) and Battle Lines by Andy McNab and Kym Jordan for £8.54 (RRP £18.99).
• Stay put to pick up hardbacks Perfect Strangers by Tasmina Perry for only £6.46 (RRP £12.99) and Gok Cooks Chinese by Gok Wan for £8.86 each (RRP £20).
• Then at The Book Depository pick up The Magic by for Rhonda Byrne for £5.39 (RRP £8.99) and Bared to You by Sylvia Day for £6.42 (RRP £7.99) (the first in the Crossfire trilogy being pushed for fans of the now infamous Fifty Shades of Grey!).

Check out the best buys for gamers:

• Play Trade bargains this week include Nintendo DS game Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for £9.78 (RRP £29.99) and Spec Ops: The Line for the PC from £17.50 (RRP £24.99).
• At Amazon buy Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary for £8.99 (RRP £34.99) on the Xbox 360 and save over £35 on action role playing game Dark Souls for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 at The Hut, now only £14.95 (RRP £49.99).
• For a 2012 game, Tesco is selling Nintendo Wii game Back to the Future: The Game for only £14.42 (RRP £29.99) and newly released Game of Thrones is on offer for £21.50 (RRP £49.99) at Click for Games (for both Xbox and PS3).

Best buy DVDs and box sets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Freebies and coupons

Grab the latest freebies, samples and discounts:

• The Natural Store is giving away samples of their organic products so like them on Facebook and enter your email address before the 31st July 2012.
• Give yourself a tan the safe way with a free sample of Garnier Ambre Solaire No Streaks Bronzer 150ml (500 up for grabs) – enter your details before the 31st August to be in with a chance.
• Take the Dr. Beckmann Colour & Dirt Collector ‘Brighter for Longer’ challenge by registering and waiting to be sent some free sheets.
• Try Purepotions Skincare produce (for 100% natural skin care products) for free when you like their Facebook page and post a sample request on their wall.
• Trial Fellowes Virashield, a cleaning cloth to clean your keyboard, phone and desk, by entering your details on their website.
• Save 50p on any Sanex purchase with a voucher available on their website, expires 31st August 2012.
• Like the Femfresh Facebook page for a free coupon saving you £1 on any Femfresh Intimate Wash. There are 10,000 to give away.
• Boots have 50,00 free 15ml samples of 3D White Brilliance from Oral-B, designed to whiten your teeth in just 2 weeks.

Mobile phone deal of the week

Another one from 3 Mobile this week, but this time you can get your hands on the Samsung Galaxy S3 (white) for £33 per month. You do have to pay a token £29 for the handset but this 24-month contract gives you an impressive 2000 minutes, 5000 texts and unlimited data every month.

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

Competitions of the week

Twenty lucky people get to trial the new Molton Brown Healthy Ziao Jao Hair Wash. Register and log into Beauty on Trial before 15th August 2012 to be in with a chance.]

And over on our sister site lovefood.com they've got a great competition to win a dozen bottles of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc wine worth £120!

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

Midweek Moneysavers

Every Tuesday, we pick out the latest midweek sales, deals, discounts and freebies. Don't miss it! 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.