Frugal Friday - 8th Jan 2010

by John Fitzsimons on 08 January 2010  |  1 comment
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Highlights this week include discounted duvets, the complete James Bond collection for £79.99, half price games, bargain holidays, suits from £79, brilliant book deals and free music!

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It's January, and chances are you are snowed in. There's only one way to spend your time - making sure you get hold of the very best bargains the January sales have to offer! So let's get on with the very first Frugal Friday of 2010!

Fashion and homewares

If you're hunting for some truly warm clothes, or ambitious enough to be plotting your outfits for the summer ahead, then check out these fantastic fashion deals.

• Barratts: All website lines reduced, with some by as much as 70%.
• Bhs: Up to 70% off selected fashion. Free delivery if you use the code bhssnow at the checkout.
• Burton: Up to 70% off selected lines, with men's suits starting at just £59!
• Coast: Up to 50% off selected fashion.
• Debenhams: Sport and leisurewear at up to half price, with up to 70% off other selected lines.
• Dorothy Perkins: Up to 70% off selected fashion. 
• Faith: Up to 50% off selected lines in the winter sale.
• French Connection: Up to 60% off a range of fashion.
• Hobbs: Selected items reduced by as much as 70%
• Jane Norman: Up to 50% off.
• Marks & Spencer: Buy one, get one half price of all luxury shirts, as well as 3 for 2 on all schoolwear.
• Moss Bros: Suits, jackets and coats all reduced, with prices starting at £79.
• New Look: A whopping 70% off selected items.
• Next: All sale items at least 50% off, with 70% off women's tall and plus sizes.
• Office: Up to 50% off a range of footwear.
• Oasis: Further reductions in the Oasis sale, with many items up to 70% off.
• River Island: Further reductions in a large sale, with some items less than £5.
• TOPMAN: Sale items at half price
• Urban Outfitters: Huge reductions across the board, with ladies' jackets and coats starting at just £19.99
• Wallis: Many lines £15 and under.
• Warehouse: Up to half price on accessories, with knitwear better than 50% off on selected items.   

If Santa didn't bring you the homeware you were after, fear not - we've got some more great deals for you.

Fancy wrapping up warm in a nice new duvet? Debenhams has slashed the prices of its Hungarian goose down duvets, with the 10.5 tog reduced from £99 to £205 based on size, to £79.20 to £164 - that's 20% off.

Elsewhere Next boasts some massive discounts, with this Long John table less  than half price at £185, and this Montana sofa at just £245 - a saving of a huge £254!

And finally, if you need a new dining table, check out the Atika Dining Table from John Lewis, which has been reduced from £599 to just £399.

Books and games

If you are snowed in, or stuck on a train, the one thing you need is a good book!

• If you need help getting that New Year's diet off the ground, then at Amazon you can pick up I Can Make You Thin by Paul McKenna, with accompanying CD and DVD, for just £6.73 - a saving of 55%. Be aware though this deal will end on Sunday.
• If that all seems a bit serious you can snaffle up Soccer Saturday (and Countdown) host Jeff Stelling's autobiography, the brilliantly named Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbly: Saturday Afternoons in Front of the Telly for just £9.99 at The Book Depository, saving you more than £6!
• And finally, if what you want most of all is a good novel, why not head over to Tesco and snap up Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett, available for just £8, saving you £10.99!

And if you need some new games to keep you occupied, have a gander at some of these magic deals:

• Head over to Amazon, and you can pick up a copy of boxing game Friday Night Round 4 for just £24 - that's better than half price.
• If you fancy a bit of cheeky fun for your Nintendo Wii, then you can get hold of Alvin & the Chipmunks - The Squeakquel for £17.73 at TheHut.com - a saving of nearly 30%.
• Finally, if you fancy snapping up a new game for your Xbox 360, then check out Forza Motorsport 3. You can save 45% by grabbing it from TheHut.com, for just £27.73. 

Film and box sets

Why not snuggle up under a warm duvet and watch a few DVDs. There are some absolute steals available! 

Eating out

If the blizzards outside are thawing where you are, then why not treat yourself to a slap up meal out and about? You can check out all the latest restaurant bargains in our Frugal Food blog. Read more

Eating in

But if you're still snowed under and stuck at home, you can always throw together a feast without breaking the bank. Why not try an original recipe from our Frugal Recipe Blog? If you're registered, you can subscribe to the blog here.

Cheap days out

If you refuse to let a little snow get in the way of your plans for an exciting day out, then why not try one of these fantastic days out that won't cost you a fortune?

If you fancy getting a bit closer to nature, then why not head down to the 700 unspoilt acres of Barleylands Farm, in Essex. With every fee paying adult a child gets free entry with this voucher

Fancy an afternoon gawping at the oddities in the London Odditorium? Then get yourself over to lastminute.com where you can get 2 for 1 on tickets to Ripley's Believe It or Not! 

And finally, if you can't get enough of the ice, then why not head to Coventry's Planet Ice skating rink. With this voucher you can save £3 on any family ticket purchased.

Deal of the week

If you sign up to any O2 broadband package through the following link, you get two months free broadband to get you started! Offer ends 31 January.

Travel

If, like me, you can't wait to get out of this cold snap and into some sun, there are a host of fantastic holiday deals from lastminute.com you should take advantage of.

First of all, be sure to take advantage of the fantastic sale on Hilton hotels. You can get up to 50% off!

And if you fancy a proper trip away for some sun, here are some of the real eye-popping deals available today. But remember, they will go quickly so act sharp if you want to snap them up! 

Freebie of the week

My fairly limited music collection took a hammering over the Xmas break, so it's time to discover some new music. Luckily the NME is offering a free 20 track mixtape to download from its website.

Featuring the acts it reckons will make it big in 2010, from Joy Orbison to Frankie & the Heartstrings, it has to be worth checking out!

Competition of the week

Finally, this week's competition: 

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