Frugal Friday - 9 July 2010

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 08 July 2010  |  4 comments
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Highlights this week include 75% off fashion, 70% off luggage, brilliant beauty bargains, half price books, 80% off games, Outnumbered Series 1&2 for £14, and the chance to win lovemoney.com goodies.

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There are brilliant bargains all over the place at the moment, but to help you sort the wheat from the chaff, here are some of the best buys we’ve come across. Also, remember that if you find a great deal yourself, shout all about it and share it with other lovemoney.com readers at the bottom of this article – you could even win some lovemoney.com goodies if you find the best deal!

Fashion & homewares

Here are some of the best deals on the high street this week!

• ASOS: 50% off in the sale.
• All Saints: Further reductions in sale, save up to 50%­­.
• Alexon: More lines added to 70% sale.
• Barratts: Further reductions with up to half-price off and free delivery on orders over £50 (code MOV5B).
• BHS: New lines added and up to 70% off.
• Burton: Summer sale with up to 50% off.
• Clarks: More styles added, get 50% off shoes.
• Coast: New styles added to sale with up to 50% off.
• Debenhams: Save as much as 70% in the Blue Cross Sale.
• Dorothy Perkins: Extra 10% off sale items ends midnight on Sunday.
• Evans: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• Firetrap: Final reductions in the sale with savings of up to 70%.
• French Connection: Up to 75% off in the sale.
• Hobbs: Now up to 70% off in the sale.
• House of Fraser: Save up to 70% in the Big Brand summer sale.
• Joy: Down to 50% off in the sale now.
• Karen Millen: End of season sale with up to 70% off.
• Kew: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• Kurt Geiger: Up to 50% off in the sale.
• La Senza: Many items half-price in the sale.
• Marks & Spencer: Up to 50% off and free delivery in furniture sale until 27 July.
• Miss Selfridge: 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: Bigger savings this week- up to 70% off in the sale.
• New Look: 50% off in their biggest summer sale.
• Oasis: Up to 50% off selected fashion.
• Office: Now save up to 70% in the sale.
• Phase Eight: Up to 70% off.
• River Island: Exclusive online sale now on!
• 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: Further cuts, now up to 75% off!
• Very: Final week to save up to 70%.
• Wallis: New lines added, many items under £15!
• Warehouse: Now up to 70% off in the sale.
• Wynsors World of Shoes: Sale now on with up to 70% off.

This week most of the big sales have stepped it up a notch with new lines added and bigger discounts on offer. And it’s not just fashion. There are plenty of bargains on homewares too!

For a start, the Blue Cross Sale is on at Debenhams and you can save as much as 70% across women’s clothing, menswear, luggage and home furnishings. This blue graphic towel bale, for example, has been reduced from £50 to just £15!

Similar savings are on offer at BHS, with some of the best deals on homewares, lighting and furniture. This Checkerboard flush ceiling light caught my eye and is now just £65, down from £130. And, if you’re looking for something a bit cheerful to take on holiday, take a look at this turquoise spotty suitcase, half-price starting at £20! 

Beauty bargains

Now is a great time to treat yourself to a beauty bargain, so here are my top three for this week:

• Get £5 off at organic beauty store Lovelula when you spend £25 to celebrate their 4th birthday – just enter the code LULA at the checkout before it expires on 31 July.
• There are great deals on gifts sets at Halfpriceperfumes.co.uk including the Clinique Full Potential Lip Plump and Shine Duo, reduced from £30 to £14.99 and a massive 80% off this Myeko Organic Skincare, reduced from £50 to just £10! The men aren’t forgotten either – they can save over 50% on this Ultraviolet for Men luxury box set, now just £29.99, or get this Davidoff Cool Water set, reduced from £35 to £19.99. Use the code hpp10off at the checkout to get 10% off your order.
• Get a free Blush Wear Crème Cheek Colour worth £13 with any Jemma Kidd Make Up School purchase.

Books & games

This week, I’m bringing you the top book sales around as well as the best prices for new releases so you can catch up on some new reading or find an old gem with a bargain price tag:

• If you’re spending some time abroad this summer, travel books are on offer at Amazon with up to 50% off, including the Lonely Planet guide to Turkey for £8.47 and Frommer’s South America for £9.50.
• You can also save up to 70% on books at Zavvi – get your hands on ‘Twilight The Graphic Novel’ by Stephenie Meyer for just £8.55.

• Katie Fforde’s new hardback book ‘A Perfect Proposal’ is only £6.74 at Amazon and the hardback version of ‘The Fields of Death’ by Simon Scarrow is available at the top price of £8 at Tesco.
• For teen fiction, Alyson Noel’s ‘The Immortals 3: Shadowlands’ is out now and costs just £3.48 at The Book Depository and if you haven’t got the others in the series, you can get ‘Evermore’ for £3.78 and ’Blue Moon’ for £3.49.

There are plenty of gaming bargains too this week so take your pick from these suggestions:

• Zavvi is offering a huge 80% off games in the ‘Big Juicy Clearance’ so you can save £37.04 on ‘Call of Duty 4’ for the XBox, now £12.95, or £35.04 on ‘Madworld’ (Wii), now just £4.95!
• New releases ‘Tournament of Legends’ for the Wii is just £12.47 at Amazon and ‘Delta Force Sniper’ for the XBox is £27.95 at Zavvi.
• ‘Lego Rock Band’ (Wii) is a snip at £4.99 from Game and whilst you’re there, save yourself £30 on Alan Wake (XBox) which is now just £19.99!

DVDs & boxsets

Here are the best deals on box sets and new releases – just a quick note also to say that Arrested Development fans can get seasons 1,2 and 3 for £9.99 each at HMV so don’t bother getting the box set of all three seasons which costs more at £45.99!

Freebie of the week

Stay green for free with this Bag for Life from Future Friendly – instead of using hundreds of plastic carrier bags a year, keep this on you for your weekly shop as an eco-friendly alternative. Supermarkets can charge quite a lot for these reusable bags so a freebie is always welcome and you can pick from 8 rather nice colours!

Apply for your free bag here – you’ll need to register first and unfortunately you must be over 18 and only one bag is allowed per household. 

Mobile phone deal of the week

This week’s deal is a fantastic all rounder – for just £20 a month you can get the HTC Wildfire with 300 inclusive mins, a whopping 5000 texts and 500MB Internet, all on a 24 month contract with 3 Mobile!  Grab the deal here.

Compare other top mobile deals at Recombu.

Competition of the week

This week you could win a £200 Boots Gift card to spend on whatever you like, from health and beauty products to eye tests and new glasses. You can also stock up on prezzies with some of the gift sets, or, save yourself a packet and get your summer holiday photos printed off! Enter the competition here.

Win lovemoney.com goodies

Love lovemoney.com? Win a lovemoney.com cloth bag, a lovemoney.com mug, a lovemoney.com travelcard and some chocolates! All you have to do is comment at the bottom of this blog with details of a bargain or discount you've found that could go in Frugal Friday! We're running this competition every week from now on, so whenever you come across a bargain during the week, remember to come over and post it on Frugal Friday (www.lovemoney.com/frugalfriday).

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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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