Frugal Friday - 15th April

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 15 April 2010  |  1 comment
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Highlights this week include 25 high street sales, 5 top voucher codes with up to 25% off, 50% off health and beauty bargains, plus free beauty gifts, prescription glasses for £5, 80% off books, Lord of the Rings boxset for £30, cheap digital cameras, free ince cream, plus mobile phone deal of the week and competitions of the week!

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We’ve added even more top spring sales this week, plus some top voucher codes, beauty bargains and all the best deals for the most popular films, books and games. Enjoy!

Fashion & homewares

• ASOS: Now up to 70% in the mid-season sale
• Barratts: Buy 1 pair of man’s shoes and get 1 half price (free delivery on orders over £50 with the voucher code MOV5B).
• BHS: Save up to 50% on homeware, lighting and furniture (free delivery and returns on all orders ends this Sunday).
• Burton: Get an extra 20% off prices that have already been reduced by 70% with the code TAKE20MORE.
• Coast: Grab the last few bits and pieces in the mid-season sale.
• Debenhams: The Blue Cross Sale, with up to 70% off ends Sunday.
• Dorothy Perkins: Limited offer of up to 20% off these selected items , plus some last-chance bargain in the sale section.
• East: Get a free kaftan when you spend £100.
• Faith: New lines added to 50% off sale. 
• Figleaves.com: New lines added to outlet with items reduced by up to 70%.
• Gap: Head to your nearest store for 30% off summer shirts and dresses until 21 April.
• Give: Up to a massive 80% off in the sale.  
• Hobbs: Mid season sale with up to 50% off.
• House of Fraser: Up to 50% off selected items in the clearance sale.
• Joules: Up to 50% off in the mid season sale.
• Laura Ashley: Half price fashion and home furnishings.
• Miss Selfridge: Up to 50% off in the sale.
• New Look: Sale continues with up to 50% off selected lines and half-price shoes & boots.
• Oasis: Up to 70% off selected fashion.
• Office: Mid season sale with up to 50% off.
• Past Times: Half-price sale online and in-store now on.
• Phase Eight: Up to 50% off in the sale.   
• Shudoo: Save 50% on selected shoe styles. 
• Urban Outfitters: New lines added to sale with as much as 80% off.
• Wallis: Up to half price off selected lines. 

Top voucher codes…

• Save 20% on all orders at Clarks, when you spend at least £60 with code BSPRING (expires this Sunday) 
• Save 25% on your first order at La Redoute with code 9810
• Get £5 off kidswear orders at M&S of £25 or more with code  KWSNSMAR (expires 19 April) 
• Save 25% online at The Body Shop with the code SPRING25 (expires Mon 19 April)
• Get 15% off your first purchase of Elemis products at timetospa.co.uk  - use discount code AFF1004

Health & Beauty bargains

If you wanting a pre-summer glow, at Feel Unique you can buy any two Xen-Tan products and choose from three free gifts worth up to £23.95. You’ll get the chance to choose your gift at the order confirmation page.

Cheapsmells is offering customers who buy anything from the Omnisens Paris range 50% off plus free UK standard delivery (normally 95p per item).

If you need a new pair of glasses, going online can save you hundreds of pounds. Check out Selectspecs.com which now has an exclusive range of prescription glasses for just £5. You can also buy prescription specs from Tesco from just £10 and for designer brand glasses try Spex4less and Perfectspecs.

Books & Games

There are all kinds of offers at Tesco on books right now including BOGOF on teen fiction and children’s picture books, plus Channel 4 TV Book Club best reads at two for £7.

Save over 80% on books at Bananas – the online clearance store from The Book People. There isn’t a massive selection but with some titles on sale for as little as 50p it’s certainly worth checking out. You will have to pay delivery, but only on orders under £25 so if you need to stock up (particularly on kids books) this is the ideal one-stop shop.

For new releases, Blueeyedboy (hardback) by Joanne Harris has been reduced to just £9.49 (RRP £18.99) at Amazon, which also has the best price for 9th Judgement (Womens Murder Club 9) – another hardback – by James Patterson at £9.48.

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There are also top pre-order bargains at Play.com including Michael Connelly’s The Scarecrow for £4.99 (due to be released on 13 May) and Hard Girls by Martina Cole, also £4.99 (due to be released on 15 May).

For gamers this week, my top picks are Bioshock 2 for the Xbox 360 at ShopTo.Net for £24.85. You can also pre-order Super Street Fighter IV (Xbox 360) from Coolshop for just £22.69.

Fallout fans can get the Platinum edition of Fallout 3 for the PS3 from The Hut for £11.93 – whilst you’re there take a look at the ‘everything for £5’ section and snap up some bargains like Guitar Hero - On Tour for the Nintendo DS and Pirates Of The Caribbean: At Worlds End for the XBox 360.

DVDs & Boxsets

With kids back at school on Monday, some of you may be in serious need of some R&R so here are some top films for you to get stuck into! And, if these don’t tickle your fancy, head to HMV which has slashed box set prices by 80% but it can still be beaten by Amazon and other retailers on many of these so do check before you buy.  

Gadgets & Gizmos

If you’re anything like me, waking up in the morning is rarely a happy occasion but with this Wiki MP3 clock from PrezzyBox for £19.95, you can wake up to your favourite tunes. All you have to do is plug it into a USB port on your computer and the software allows you to select the MP3 files of your choice.

There are some top deals at design store Nest this week. Head to the clearance section for 15% off lots of items including this Black & Blum Jimmy Bottle Opener (now £6.94) and this Normann Form salt & pepper set (now £12.59).

I also came across these 3 mini suitcases (for storing photos, little keepsakes etc) from the Cancer Research UK online store. Or for a retro feel – they come in red and white polka dots too. They both cost just £14.99 and you’ll be doing your bit for charity.

M&S has reduced the price of several digital cameras by £10 including the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS62, now £119 (was £129) and the Fujifilm FinePix J250, now £139 (was £149). And, if you want to print off some snaps, there are several digital photo printers on offer in the Electricshop.com clearance section. 

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Freebie of the week 

Pop a note in the diary for Ben and Jerry’s Free Fair Cone Day – every year they give away a free scoop and for 2010 that day falls on 27 April. Simply head down to your nearest scoop shop between 1pm and 5pm and grab a delicious free scoop. Participating stores are listed here.

Mobile phone deal of the week

Our pick of the bunch this week is the Samsung Jet Ultra with O2. For only £20 per month you can get this handset for free with unlimited texts and 100 cross-network minutes every month – all on an 18 month contract. Get the deal here.                                                                                                                        

Competitions of the week

Up for grabs in the competition this week is a stylish 13’’ Apple Macbook, worth over £800! This is one of the most sought after notebooks so you’ll be the envy of all your friends – it has a multi-touch trackpad, a fast processor and a battery that lasts for 7 hours on a single charge. Enter the competition here.

Plus, following our article The easiest way to slash your food bill, we’re running a new lovemoney.com competition where: 

• We challenge you to drop a brand for a week!

Tweet how you got on to @lovemoney_com or @Frugal_Friday or leave a comment on our facebook fan page before midnight 19th April. Tell us how much money you think you've saved and whether you'd recommend it. 

The best tweet/comment will win one of our lovemoney.com goodie bags! Read the terms and conditions of the competition here. 

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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