Frugal Friday - 23rd July

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 22 July 2010  |  4 comments
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70% off House of Fraser, Dorothy Perkins, Phase Eight and Karen Millen, 50% off Jane Norman and Coast, 40% off Jigsaw, The Short 2nd Life of Bree Tanner for £5.49, Toy Story 3 game for £20.95, £32 off the DVD boxset for Smallville Season 8, free coffee, plus a £200 cinema gift card and mobile phone deal of the week!

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If you’re fed up of everyone else having festival fun and going off on their summer holidays whilst you’re stuck at work, you can feel a bit smug too with this week’s selection of the best frugal finds!

Fashion & homewares

Here are all the new sales and remember to grab the best of what’s left in the ongoing sales below.

New sales…

• ASOS: Don’t miss out, now up to 70% off in the sale.
• Barratts: More cuts this week, now up to 70% off and free delivery on orders over £50 (code MOV5B).
• Debenhams: 20% off selected summer dresses.
• Gap: Save 30% on logo items
• Evans: An extra 10% off sale items.
• LK Bennett: Extra 15% off sale items at with code PROMO, while sale stocks last.
• Marks & Spencer: Sale started yesterday, save up to 50%!
• Net-A-Porter: Final reductions, grab it while you can!
• Next: All items in the sale half-price or less.
• River Island: An extra 25% off sale items online.
• Tesco: Final clearance, save up to 50% on clothing.

Ongoing sales:

• Alexon: Sale continues in 70% sale.
• BHS: You can still save up to 70% off.
• Burton: Up to 70% off in the sale.
• Clarks: Final clearance, get 50% off shoes.
• Coast: Some items half-price in ongoing sale.
• Dorothy Perkins: Save 70% in the sale.
• French Connection: More lines added, up to 75% off.
• Hobbs: Up to 70% off in the sale.
• House of Fraser: Save up to 70% in the summer sale.
• Jane Norman: Save as much as 50% in sale.
• Jigsaw: Sale continues, save up to 40%.
• Joy: Down to 50% off in the sale.
• Karen Millen: Still a few bits left in sale with up to 70% off.
• Kew: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• Kurt Geiger: Up to 50% off in the sale.
• La Redoute: Up to 60% off in the sale.
• La Senza: Many items half-price in the sale.
• Miss Selfridge: Still plenty left in the 50% sale.
• Monsoon: Half-price sale continues.
• Moss Bros: End of season sale up to 50% off.
• MyWardrobe: Get 70% off in the sale.
• New Look: 50% off in the summer sale.
• Oasis: Save up to 70% on selected fashion.
• Oli: Extended sale, get up to 80% off.
• Office: Discounts of 75% in the sale.
• Phase Eight: Up to 70% off.
• Shudoo: Still some bargains, with up to 70% off.
• Topshop: Save up to 50% in the sale.
• Urban Outfitters: New lines added, up to 75% off.
• USC: More cuts, now up to 70% off in summer sale.
• Wallis: Selected lines under £10!
• Warehouse: Many items just £5 or £10!
• White Stuff: Sale continues, up to 50% off.
• Wynsors World of Shoes: Sale continues with up to 70% off.

• All Saints: More added to sale, save up to 50%­­.

Don’t forget to make the most of any discount codes too - you can get an extra 10% off sale items at USC with the code 'FINALS' only until 31 July.

Or, if you’re looking for a new handbag, save 15% on any order at Mybag with the code ‘15MYBAG’, expires 15 August.

And, to match it with some new shoes, save 10% at Shudoo with the code ‘SHUDOOSUMMER10’ until the 31 August.

Top picks for gifts

For something a bit different this week I thought it might be nice to give a helping hand to anyone struggling to find the perfect gift this week. Here are some of the best prezzy ideas I’ve come across:

Jewellery – Don’t buy your bling in the same old stores; take a look at the bespoke jewellery by Hoolala instead. You can save 40% on these pieces but only until 11pm tonight so get in quick! This winged cloud locket necklace caught my eye and has been reduced from £28 to just £11.20.

Beauty – Smellies are a classic gift, but don’t go for the boring gift sets – make your own hamper made up of their favourites. Find bargains in the Cheapsmells hot summer clearance, get some fillers at ELF where items are just £1.50, see what’s available in the Benefit ‘buh-buys’ section and if you’re struggling to find stuff for men, take a look at Lookmantastic and Washbag.

Home accessories – If you’re mum’s anything like mine, she’ll love her ‘bits and bobs’ for the house. Luckily there are some cute things in the Cath Kidston sale right now  or if that’s too chintzy, take a look at CocoMale, which stocks trendy items for the home and has a bargain corner with many items half-price.

Finally, don’t forget you can save 10% on all orders at gift store Gettingpersonal.co.uk with our exclusive code ‘love10’ – use it as many times as you like until it expires on 31 August!

Books & Games

Cut the cost of your summer reading with these deals:

• As usual there are some fab deals at The Book Depository this week, and, to celebrate their 6th birthday they are offering 10% vouchers to you and your mates when you recommend them – find out more here.
• WH Smith has come up trumps with some great offers this week including The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson, now just £2.80 and Jodi Picoult’s Picture Perfect half-price at £3.99.
• Amazon has some impressive offers on current bestsellers including The Legacy by Katherine Webb for just £3.20, and the Twilight saga novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephanie Meyer at £5.49 and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne for £6.49.

Get those thumbs ready with this week’s top gaming offers:

• If you’ve already seen the film and want more get the Toy Story 3 game for Nintendo DS for £20.95 at MyMemory, saving you 41%.
• You can save £20 on Transformers: War for Cybertron for the XBox, now £29.99 at Game, or save a massive £40 on BioShock 2 for the Xbox, now just £9.99!
• Finally, for the PS3, ModNation Racers is £27.99 at PowerPlayDirect and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is just £17.89 at Sendit.

DVDs & Boxsets

This week some of the best deals I’ve found are at Zavvi, and if you’re looking to stock up you can save an extra 10% on box sets at with the code ‘BOXTEN’ so see if any of these take your fancy:

Freebie of the week

Free coffee for Londoners! Duracell are turning selected independent coffee shops across London into ‘power stations’ so that you can recharge your batteries – simply text  ‘Duracell’ to 60066 (standard rate text) and they’ll send a code and the address for the nearest participating café so that you can grab your free cup.

And, for all you house-proud Monica from Friends types, you can get a free sample of a probiotic cleaning product by Aggie MacKenzie (the one that went on about mould and fungus on How Clean is Your House?). Just register here and click on the ‘order a sample’ tab.

Mobile phone deal of the week

If you’re want to get your hands on the Nokia C5, go through Buymobilephones.net for 300 mins and unlimited texts on an 18 month contract with T-Mobile for £25 per month , plus you’ll get £190 automatic cashback, making this tariff the equivalent of just £14.44 a month! Get all the details here.

 Compare other top mobile deals at Recombu.

Competition of the week

There’s just a few days left to enter this week’s competition pick, so if you want to win a £200 cinema gift card get in quick. You can choose from Vue, CinemaWorld or Odeon to make sure you never miss the latest flicks. The offer ends Weds 28th July so apply here.

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Eating out

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Eating in

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