Frugal Friday - 8th April 2010

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 08 April 2010  |  4 comments
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Highlights include 70% off clothes sales, designer fashion for £1, top voucher codes, 80% off books, Wii Sports Resort for £24.85, £20 off The Inbetweeners series 1 & 2, 50% off theatre shows, mobile phone deal of the week, £300 Amazon gift card competition and a free photobook worth £24. Plus win heaps of lovemoney.com goodies with our latest twitter competition!

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If you’re still recovering from the long weekend, you can sit back, wind down and browse through all the latest discounts. We’ve done all the leg work for you so check out the best of the Spring sale bargains, plus new sale dates to pop in your diary, cheap days out and top voucher codes.

Fashion & homewares

If you feel the time has come to spruce up your spring wardrobe, make sure you check out these fantastic high street sales!

• ASOS: Save up to 50% in the mid-season sale
• B&Q: 15% off thousands of items, until Thursday 15 April.
• Barratts: You can still save up to 70% off selected lines in the clearance sale and nab free delivery on orders over £50 with the voucher code MOV5B.
• BHS: Save up to 50% on homeware, lighting and furniture – and save £5 with the voucher code BHS£5C10.
• Burton: Final reductions of up to 70% off selected lines online and in store. Free shoes, shirt and tie with selected suits.
• Coast: Grab the last few bits and pieces in the mid-season sale.
• Debenhams: Save 70% in the Blue Cross Sale on selected lines across all departments.
• Dorothy Perkins: For a limited time get free delivery when you spend £40 or grab a last-chance bargain in the sale, with some items reduced by over 50%.
• Faith: Up to 50% off selected items. 
• Figleaves.com: Last chance bargains reduced by 70%.
• Hobbs: Clearance sale continues with items reduced by as much as 70% off.
• House of Fraser: Up to 50% off selected items in the clearance sale.
• Laura Ashley: Half price on fashion and home furnishings.
• Miss Selfridge: Early season sale continues, plus get 25% off Diva jewellery and £10 off knitwear.
• New Look: Sale continues with up to 50% off selected lines and half-price shoes & boots.
• Oasis: Up to 70% off selected fashion.
• Office: Online exclusive up to 50% off.
• Past Times: Half-price sale online and in-store now on. 
• Shudoo: Save 50% on selected shoe styles. 
• River Island: Grab accessories for £3, t-shirts for just £5 and skirts for £10 in the sale sections.
• Topman: Half-price sale with t-shirts from £3 and jumpers from £8.
• Topshop: Down to the very last few bits and bobs in the sale.
• Urban Outfitters: Save as much as 80% off men’s and women’s fashions.
• Wallis: Up to half price off selected lines. 

Pop it in the diary…

The fashionistas amongst you should put a note in the diary for the first birthday of online fashion store Outnet next week on Friday 16 April – thousands of items will be reduced to a mere £1 sale (yes really). Only one £1 item is allowed per person and delivery costs £5.95 but you can expect some top designer pieces so it’s well worth a look. Register here before Sunday 11 April for access to the sale and wait for an email telling you exactly when it starts.

Tesco’s Phone Fair event (in stores and online) is also worth a gander and runs until 29 April.  It’s on for three weeks only, and there should be some big discounts with many items half-price including new PAYG phones and iPhone accessories. Look out for the Samsung C3050 with built-in MP3 player, FM Radio and large LCD screen, now £24.86, down from £49.73. You can also save up to £100 on Acer, HP and Toshiba laptops.  

Top voucher codes

As an extra Easter treat, Warehouse Outlet is offering several voucher codes:

• Spend £25 and save £5 with code treat5
• Spend £50 and save £10 with code treat10
• Spend £75 and save £15 with code treat15
• Spend £100 and save £20 with code treat20

You can also save £10 and get free delivery when you spend £40 or more at Dorothy Perkins – use the code DPNL10 before Tues 13 April.

And, for beauty bargains, get free delivery at Avon with the code GIFTSET when you spend £20.

Books & Games

Further reductions have been made in the Play.com 80% sale. Top picks include Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights: The Art of Eating a Little of What You Fancy by Sophie Dahl for £9.99, The White Queen by Philippa Gregory for £3.99 and Icons of England by Bill Bryson for £4.99.

Botanical enthusiasts can buy Grow Your Own Drugs: A Year with James Wong for just £7.63 at Amazon and clever clogs can save up to 25% on study books.

Not to be left out, Waterstones has a range of offers including £3 off selected For Dummies guides, up to 40% off Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 longlist and better than half-price offers of the week.

Gamers can save a packet too - ShopTo.Net has reduced prices by up to 60% and is a best-buy for Wii Sports Resort (with Wii MotionPlus Accessory) at just £24.85 and Fifa 10 for the Xbox at £23.99.

Other best buys on the market include chart-topping game Just Cause 2 for the PC for £23.99 at Coolshop and Battlefield Bad Company 2 at for the PS3 for £34.49, also at Coolshop. You can also grab the double pack Sega Superstar Tennis and Project Gotham Racing 4 (Xbox 360) for just £13.99 at Powerplaydirect. 

DVDs & Boxsets

Here are the latest film and box set bargains – but don’t forget you can still get BOGOF on Disney DVDs at various retailers including Tesco, Woolies and Amazon.

Cheap days out

If you’re in London on Thursday 29 April, make your way to Covent Garden and save 20% at over 90 stores in the Seven Dials hidden village. Stores offering the discount include All Saints, Birkenstock, Benefit and MAC.  The event starts at 5pm and ends at 9pm so there’s plenty of time to nab a bargain, but you’ll need a voucher to get the 20% off which you can register for at www.sevendials.co.uk/standard.  

Buy tickets for Ricky Gervais’ upcoming show at Wembley Arena on 27 April from just £19.99 at online ticket marketplace Viagogo.co.uk. For cheap theatre trips, Lastminute has 50% off selected shows and you can save £27 on Dirty Dancing tickets with voucher code MSDRT via the lovetheatre website.

Freebie of the week

Unfortunately we've had to delete this week's freebie of the week due to your comments below. Thanks for getting in touch. PhotoBox gave us a call and said that anyone who made a photobook and wrote in about this should email customer services. Anyone affected should email customer services and quote 'lovemoney' and they will honour the original offer.

Mobile phone deal of the week

The LG Pop is a compact 3 inch touchscreen phone with several eco-friendly features including a highly efficient battery charger and a clever beeper which reminds you to unplug the charger and save energy. You can get this phone for free with 02 for just £15 per month, with 50 inclusive minutes and unlimited texts, on an 18 month contract. Get the deal here.  

Competition of the week

This week, a £300 Amazon Gift Card is up for grabs. Spend it on whatever you like from the online store; the trendiest electronics, your favourite tunes, the latest flicks, or anything else that takes your fancy. Enter the competition here.

Inspired by our articles, Five worst scams ever, This scam will ruin your life and Four sneaky tactics exposed we’re also asking:

• What’s the biggest scam you’ve ever come across?

Tweet your answer to @lovemoney_com or @Frugal_Friday before midnight 12th April 2010 to win one of our lovemoney.com goodie bags. You can find out more about the terms and conditions of the competition on our brand new competitions blog!

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

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