Frugal Friday - 2 July 2010

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 01 July 2010  |  6 comments
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Highlights this week include 70% off fashion, 75% off homewares, brilliant beauty bargains, half price Stieg Larsson books, Extras Series 1&2 for £9, a free bag of sweets and a chance to win a Kenwood Smoothie maker.

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All this sunshine has left us feeling generous, so here’s a bumper selection of top deals, huge discounts and best buys on everything from the latest book and film releases, to fantastic beauty bargains and the hottest fashion summer sales.

Fashion & homewares

More retailers are jumping on the summer sale bandwagon so check out the new additions to our ever growing list!  

• ASOS: 20% off selected brands.
• All Saints: Up to 50% off selected styles.
• Alexon: Now save up to 70% in the sale.
• Barratts: Up to half-price off and free delivery on orders over £50 (code MOV5B).
• BHS: Now up to 60% off furniture, home and lighting.
• Burton: Summer sale with up to 50% off.
• Clarks: Up to 50% off shoes.
• Coast: New styles added to sale with up to 50% off.
• Debenhams: Further reductions in half-price sale.
• Dorothy Perkins: Now a further 10% added to sale items at checkout.
• Evans: Save 30% on selected swimwear.
• Fiorelli: Final week of the sale with up to 70% off.
• Firetrap: Save up to a massive 70% in the sale.
• Hobbs: New lines added to 50% sale.
• House of Fraser: Save as much as 50% in the Big Brand summer sale.
• Joy: Up to 70% off in the sale.
• Karen Millen: End of season sale with up to 50% off.
• Kurt Geiger: Up to 50% off in the sale.
• La Senza: Many items half-price in the sale.
• Marks & Spencer: Up to 50% off in furniture sale until 27 July.
• Miss Selfridge: New lines added to 50% sale plus £5 off camis, 2 vests for £12, 3 for £9 lingerie.
• Moss Bros: End of season sale up to 50% off.
• MyWardrobe: Now save up to 60% in the sale.
• New Look: 20% off summer shop until Monday only.
• Next: All sale items half price or less.
• Oasis: Up to 50% off selected fashion.
• Office: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• Phase Eight: At least 20% off all collections.
• Shudoo: Summer sale with up to 60% off.
• Tesco: Up to 50% off clothing.
• Topshop: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• USC: Up to 50% off in summer sale.
• Urban Outfitters: Sale continues with up to 50% off.
• Very: Save up to 70% in the sale.
• Wallis: Many items half price in the sale.
• Warehouse: Extra 20% off in the sale!

If you’re looking to do up your home, there are some big discounts on offer, with up to 50% off at Habitat in its sale and up to 75% off in the Sainsbury’s home event. Top picks include these half-price Rattan 2 drawer bathroom storage units for just £6.49, this gorgeous Tu Chrysanthemum light shade in cream with 25% off at £10.50, and with all this sunshine, save £40 on this 6-piece garden furniture set, now £39.99.

You can also get an extra 10% off furniture in the Debenhams half-price sale, saving you over £100 on this ivory Atlantis bed high foot end bed, now from just £260.10 and saving you over £180 on this flip foldable dining table, now just £152.10.

Beauty bargains

There are lots of sales and special offers for all you beauty fans, so we’ve rounded up the best of the best to give you a helping hand:

First of all the sales:

• You can save 50% on the strawberries and cream range at The Body Shop, plus check out the sale items under £5.
• See what’s left in the Nails Inc sale with up to 80% off and save 50% on Elemis products in the TimetoSpa.co.uk sale.
• Check out the new additions to the Vie at Home sale with up to 70% off. And for something a bit posh, browse the summer offers at Molton Brown.

Now on to the deals:

• Spend £25 or more at Avon.co.uk and you’ll a free True Colour eyeshadow quad (worth £8) plus free delivery with the voucher code SUMMER10.
• At Feel Unique if you spend £30 on Crabtree & Evelyn you’ll get a free rosewater gift set.
• Save 10% on your first order at Zuneta with the code Z8641.

Books & Games

Sort your summer reading now with our pick of the best book bargains:

• Stieg Larsson fans can get both The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest and The Girl Who Played with Fire for £3.86 at ASDA. And The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is just £3.48 at The Book Depository.
• You can save 55% on ‘The Passage’ by Justine Cronin, now £9 and 58% on ‘The Love Verb’ by Jane Green at Amazon, now just £7.14. Both of these are in hardback.
• Other deals worth a look include 2 books for £10 at The Base, bargain books with up to 80% off at Pickabook.co.uk and buy one get one free on selected books at Tesco.

Give those thumbs a weekend workout with the latest gaming offers:

• With Wimbledon in full swing, join in at home with EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis available for Nintendo Wii for just £15 at Tesco and £39.99 for the XBox and PS3 at Amazon.
• Coolshop has the top price for newly released Singularity on the PS3 at £34.49 and JK Rowling fans can get Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 for Nintendo Wii for £29.49 at PowerPlayDirect.
• Elsewhere, you can buy 2 PS3 games for £30 at Base.com, or 3 Wii/DS games for £20 at ASDA and save up to 80% on games in the mammoth sale at The Hut.

DVDs & Boxsets

Here are the latest offers on top box sets and new releases:

Freebie of the week

Treat yourself to a free bag of sweets as part of a new film promotion for The Sweet Shop, starring Gemma Atkinson, Vanessa Haywood and Matthew Lewis! All you need to do is fill out the form here and register to be placed on the free sweet list.

Mobile phone deal of the week

Get your hands on the swanky Samsung Monte complete with built-in GPS and Google Latitude to keep track of your contacts for only £20 a month with Vodafone. With this you’ll get 300 inclusive minutes and unlimited texts, all on an 18 month contract. Grab the deal here.

Compare other top mobile deals at Recombu.

Competition of the week

Fancy yourself as a bit of a dab hand in the kitchen? Get your hands on the Kenwood Smoothie Pro in this week’s competition and start wowing your mates with fresh fruit cocktails. Don’t worry if you’re lacking inspiration – it comes with a handy booklet of 14 different smoothie and cocktail recipes.

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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

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