Frugal Friday - 17 September

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 16 September 2010  |  3 comments
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Highlights this week include a free audiobook, £5 off and free delivery on beauty products, 20% off selected tops and dresses at Asos, 30% off at Gap and a £10 discount at Espirit. For film buffs, grab over £70 off the complete Lost collection and save just shy of £30 on the first series of The Mentalist!

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This week’s frugal tips are sure to cure your end of summer blues so make the most of all these new autumn shopping bargains!

Frugal fashion and homewares

If you’re on the hunt for some new clobber head to your nearest New Look store on Sunday 19 September where you can get £5 off when you spend £25 with this voucher. This discount is only available on this one day only so don’t miss out.

It’s also VIP week at Dorothy Perkins, meaning you can save 25% with this voucher in stores until 19 September (inclusive). Online you can also enjoy this discount with the code DPVIPE.

Next week, you can save a massive 30% instore at Gap (from Monday 20 to Tuesday 28 September) with this voucher. There are great deals online too, such as 30% off all denim and free delivery on orders over £50 with the code UKFREE50.

The supermarkets have all come up trumps this week on home furnishings with a home clearance sale at ASDA offering up to 50% off and deals such as 3 for £10 on selected cushions. At Tesco you can save 20% on selected dinnerware and mirrors and save up to half-price on selected bedding.

And, at Sainsbury’s there’s a 25% discount on all showers as well as a host of deals such as 50% off selected towels and decorative accessories.

Here are the rest of the new sales:

• Alexon: Free delivery until Tuesday 21 September.
• Argos: Save 10% on furniture over £150 with the code FURN10.
• Asos: Get 20% off tops here and dresses here.
• B&Q: Save 15% on garden buildings.
• BHS: Lighting event online save up to 40%.
• Debenhams: Save up to 20% with the Daily Mail until 26 September, find out more here.
• Espirit: Get £10 off your outfit with the code OMGAD4HUK when you buy a top and bottom together.
• Evans: Online exclusive, save £10 on knitwear.
• Laura Ashley: Mega event - save 25% on all home furnishings until Sunday 19 September.
• House of Fraser: Save 15% on full-priced fashion when you spend £60 with a code from the VoucherCodes website.
• New Look: Buy one pair of tights/socks and get 50% off the second pair.
• Oasis: Save up to £20 on dresses and tops. 15% off everything with the online codeVCCOUKLFW. This expires on Sunday 19 September.
• Phase Eight: Get free delivery on all orders for a limited time only.
• Republic: Mix any two items for £35.
• Tesco: Various deals including 1/3 off selected coats, footwear and denim, and 20% off baby clothes.
• USC: Save 20% on all maxis.
• Wallis: Up to 30% off selected lines.
• Wynsors World of Shoes: Military boots up to £50 off RRP.

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• Asda George: Save up to 50% on clothing.
• BunnyHug: Up to 75% off in sale.
• Clarks: Up to £15 off selected women’s pumps.
• Coast: Sale continues, save up to 50%.
• Ghost: Up to 75% off in the sale.
• Jigsaw: Last few bits in the sale, save 40%.
• Joy: Final sale 50% off.
• Karen Millen: Ongoing sale with up to 70% off.
• Kew: Save 60% in the sale.
• La Redoute: Save 30% on selected items and 25% on the rest of your order with code 8257.
• Lipsy: End of summer sale save 50%.
• Mybag: Save up to 75% on last chance to buy bags in the offers section.
• Miss Selfridge: Sale continues some items with 50% off.
• MyWardrobe: You can still get 70% off in the sale.
• Office: Save up to 75% on shoes.
• Phase Eight: Save up to 70% in the sale.
• Rubbersole: Save up to 60% in the sale.
• SimplyBe: Now save up to 70% in the sale.
• Urban Outfitters: Sale continues with up to 75% off.
• White Stuff: Final clearance, up to 60% off.
• Yoox: Now get 80% off spring/summer collection in the sale.

Beauty bargains

Pamper yourself with these offers on your favourite beauty buys: 

• Get £5 off a £50 spend at Feel Unique with the code TREND5, or if you only want to spend £25, save a handy £2.50 with the codeTREND25 – valid until midnight Sunday 19 September.
• Get 3for2 on No7 products at Boots and check out the fragrance mega week at Superdrug and save up to 50% on selected fragrances.
• Grab a 15% discount at Benefit Cosmeticswith the voucher code MYVCBENEfrom Myvouchercodes (expires 23 September).

Books & games

Find the best price on bestseller crime thrillers, Jeremy Clarkson’s latest attempt to set the world to rights and the biography of a mathematical genius this week:

• Save 43% on I, Alex Cross by James Patterson at The Book Depository, now £10.93. And if you need to fill some gaps in your James Patterson collection, you can get Pop Goes the Weasel and Cat and Mouse both for £5.28 each at Asda (RRP £7.99).
• Amazon comes out on top for How Hard Can It Be? The World According To Jeremy Clarkson Volume 4 at £9.99, saving you £10.01, and Top Gear enthusiasts can also get The Big Book of Top Gear 2011 at The Book Depository for half price at only £6.48.
• Lastly, the newly released Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry is available for £9 at Amazon, a saving of £11, and The Man Who Only Loved Numbers by Paul Hoffman is £6.69 at The Book Depository, saving you £2.30.

Games-wise, there’s something for everyone this week and even some special edition goodies!

• Gamers can get new PC game The Sims 3: Fast Lane Stuff for £7.75 (RRP £9.99) and Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition for the PS3 for £12.95 at Zavvi (RRP £19.99).
• Enjoy the stunning graphics special edition of Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (which includes a 48 page artwork book and two artprints) for the best price of £26.95 at Base – saving you £8.04.
• Coolshop has some great deals too, offering Xbox game R.U.S.E for £33.99 (RRP £49.99) and Legend of Sayuki for the Wii for only £11.49 (RRP £29.99).

DVDs & boxsets

Snuggle down with this week’s selection of the best frugal films:

Freebie of the week

Download the audiobook version of the fantastically funny Yes Man by Danny Wallace on the Guardian website here for free! Simply fill in your details by Saturday 18 September and follow the instructions.

Mobile phone deal of the week 

For only £22 per month you can get the HTC Wildfire for free and spend 300 mins chatting to your mates, send a massive 5000 texts and use 500MB internet data, all on a 24-month contract with 3Mobile.

It even comes with two months of Spotify Premium and a pay-as-you-go SIM card for a friend at no extra cost! Get the deal here and compare other top mobile deals at Recombu.

Competition of the week

This week we’ve got three (it’s a magic number) competitions for you, so fingers crossed for a lovemoney success story!                                                                                                                                                                        

• Win £1,000 with the Canderel Reward Programmme in September!
• Win a free book every day at Bangzo! Every 24 hours, five winners are selected to win a copy of the promoted book.
• Win a Polariod TWO Instant Digital Camera every week at 7upsimplepleasures when you upload a photo that represents the theme of the week (this week it’s activities).

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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

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

Don’t forget: although all prices and discounts were correct on the day this article was published, offers this good are subject to change and often sell out quickly.

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