Frugal Friday - 7th September 2012

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 07 September 2012  |  2 comments
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Highlights this week include free delivery and 10% off H&M, 25% off at Dorothy Perkins, £5 off baby clothes at Argos, 15% off for B&Q members this weekend only, plus, save £24 on season 3 of The Vampire Diaries!

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…

• Amazon (up to 75% off)
• Argos (£5 off £20 spend on baby clothes with code CLOTH5)
• Asda (25% off selected items)
• Asos (up to 50% off luxury lingerie until 9am 7th Sept)  
• Austin Reed (up to 70% off warehouse clearance)
• Barratts (20% off heels & courts)
• BHS (up to 30% off across the store)
• Debenhams (use code TL76 for 10% off a £25 spend on home, furniture & small electricals, ends 9th September) 
• Dorothy Perkins (25% off with code DPFWE or this voucher, ends 9th September)
• Dune (up to 70% off sale)
• Figleaves (20% off Panache)
• Flannels (extra 10% off clearance with EXTRA10 extended)
• FCUK (up to 75% off)
• Gap (up to 70% off sale)
• Habitat (use code HAB25 for 25% off selected items)  
• H&M (free delivery and 10% off orders until 9th September)
• Hobbs (final clearance with up to 70% off)
• House of Fraser (£20 reward when you spend £100 with Recognition before Sunday 9th September)
• Jane Norman (up to 75% off)
• Jigsaw (up to 60% off)
• Jones (final clearance up to 70% off)
• Karen Millen (up to 70% off)
• Kurt Geiger (up to 70% off)
• Laura Ashley (up to 50% off wallpaper)
• LK Bennett (up to 70% off)
• Marks & Spencer (20% off luxury formal shirts)
• Miss Selfridge (up to £15 off going out)
• Motel Rocks (30% off with VCSEP09, ends 12th September)
• New Look (up to £10 off shoes, dresses & knitwear)
• Oasis (up to £20 off dresses)
• Phase Eight (up to 70% off)
• Reiss (up to 70% off)
• Store Twenty One (up to £5 off selected items)
• Tie Rack (25% off back to work)
• Uniqlo (up to 70% off)
• Urban Outfitters (use code AUTM15 for 15% off these items, ends 30th September)
• USC (up to 70% off)
• Wallis (use MVC code for £10 off a £50 spend, ends 8th September)
• Warehouse (up to £30 off occasion dresses)

Beauty bargains:

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

• Shop the Feel Unique sale this weekend (by midnight on Sunday) and if you spend £40 use the code NEW5 and you’ll be sent a £5 voucher on 11th September to spend on new season beauty.
• Spend £5 at The Body Shop and you save 35% - plus you can either use code 35DEL for free delivery (worth £2.99), or 35BUTTER for a free 200ml Body Butter (worth £12.50). Offer ends noon 10th September.
• Buy The Sunday Telegraph on 9th September for a voucher entitling you to a free L'Occitane product worth £8.50. Take the voucher to a standalone store before Wednesday 12th September to redeem.
• Head over to L’Oréal Insider and register for £6 worth of discount vouchers, £2 off any L’Oréal product, £2.50 off any L’Oréal Paris skincare product and £1.50 off L’Oréal Paris Elnett Lumiere. Expires 30th September.

Book bargains and game discounts

Browse through the top deals for book worms:

• This week’s five Book Deals of the Week (which all have at least 55% off their original retail price) at Amazon include NW by Zadie Smith and Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson for £8.54 each (RRP £18.99) and The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit by Emma Thompson and Liz Catchpole for £5.84 (RRP £12.99).
• Then, simply because they have great titles, Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers by Dav Pilkey is £5.99 (RRP £9.99) at Waterstones and The Italian Sausage Bible by Mary Contini is £4.47 (RRP £5.99) at The Book Depository.

Check out the best buys for gamers:

• Starting with some more PC games buy Attack on Pearl Harbour for £3.95 (RRP £4.99) at The Hut and Phobos 1953 for £10.89 (RRP £14.99) at Base.
• At ShopTo you can pick up one of the last few Enslaved: Odyssey to the West games for £8.86 (RRP £49.99) and SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection for
• £11.86 (RRP £29.99) – both on the Xbox 360.
• Finally, Lollipop Chainsaw has been reduced to just £15 (RRP £49.99) at Amazon and get the best price for another PS3 game, The Amazing Spider Man, at Tesco costing only £22.99 (RRP £39.99).

Best buy DVDs and boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Freebies and coupons

Grab the latest freebies, samples and discounts:

• Palmers UK has 50 travel size bottles of its new Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula for Men Body & Face Lotion up for grabs until 12th September.
• Or grab a free sample of aloe vera toothpaste from Aloe King on Facebook. 
• Lacoste has free samples of its limited edition fragrance LACOSTE L.12.12 Blanc.
• Various free mags are available this week including Country Life, InStyle and Cycling Weekly.

Offer of the week

Sign up to the B&Q Club and once you’ve got your membership number you can shop at your nearest store this Saturday or Sunday and save 15%.

Mobile phone deal of the week

Sign up with 3 Mobile and you can bag the Samsung Galaxy S Advance for £26 per month, on a 24-month contract with 300 mins, 5,000 texts and unlimited internet, with nothing to pay for the handset.

Compare other top mobile deals at Recombu.

Competition of the week

Win one of 50 pairs of tickets to see Mamma Mia the musical shown in London this autumn, courtesy of The Standard. Enter your details by the 16th September to be in with a chance.

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.