Frugal Friday - 4 February 2011

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 03 February 2011  |  2 comments
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Highlights this week include a new 50% sale at M&S, 20% off at Debenhams, an extra 25% off at Tie Rack, free chocolates at Mybag, up to £10 off Valentine’s beauty at Feel Unique, £35 off the Royle Family collection, plus an exclusive offer for lovemoney.com readers!

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Loved-up couples should be eyeing up the best online bargains in time for Valentine’s Day, but if soppy romance doesn’t do it for you, why not treat yourself to a half-price present instead?!

Frugal fashion and homewares

Now that the big sale has come to an end at Matalan there are some new deals to enjoy including half-price denims and cords, 3for2 on selected baby essentials, plus a special suit deal which gets you a suit, shirt, tie and shoes – all for £40!

Now on to the rest of the sales:

• Wallis: Get 20% off non-sale items online only and free delivery on orders over £30.
• Miss Selfridge: An extra 25% off Diva jewellery and new lines added to sale.
• M&S: Up to 50% off selected items in the sale.
• Asos: Last chance to save 40% on coats and knits.
• Jaegar: Still an extra 20% off sale items but now 20% off full price items with code JAGR2WH.
• La Redoute: Save £15 when you spend £50 with code 8285.
• New Look: Save up to 50% on boots and other seasonal reductions.
• Debenhams: Courtesy of the Daily Mail, save up to 20% here.
• Office: Save up to £50 on current season boots.
• Warehouse: Save 20% on jewellery and up to £30 on workwear.
• Boohoo: All coats and jackets from only £10.
• Dorothy Perkins: Use code DPSPRING20 for 20% off when you spend £50.

And see what’s left in the ongoing sales:

• Aldo: An extra 30% off on all reduced boots.
• Barratts: Further reductions with 20% off all boots.
• BHS: Save up to 40% on new season clothes.
• FCUK: Up to 75% off in the sale.
• Firetrap: Final reductions with 70% off.
• Graham & Green: Save up to 70% on homeware.
• House of Fraser: Clearance sale now on save up to 70%.
• Jane Norman: Now up to 70% off sale continues.
• Jones: Final reductions save up to 70% off in the sale.
• Kurt Geiger: Save up to 75% on designer shoes.
• Moda In Pelle: Final reductions with up to 70% off in sale plus BOGOF on boots with code BOOT11.
• My Wardrobe: Clearance ends on Sunday and use code CLEAR20 to save an extra 20%.
• Peacocks: Final sale reductions with up to 70% off.
• Phase Eight: Final reductions with up to 70% off.
• Reiss: Ongoing sale up to 70% off.
• Sainsbury’s: Still some better than half-price deals on furniture.
• Shudoo: Grab 70% discounts on brands.
• USC: Still save up to 70% in the sale.

Valentine’s gifts for less

Surprise your loved one with something special, but keep the bargain price tag to yourself!

• Online only, save 25% on everything at Tie Rack with the code VALENTINES and order by 9 February for delivery in time. That means sale items too, so if you got this paisley pashmina on offer at £14.99 you can knock off another £3.75, or get £5 off this men’s holdall (RRP £19.99).
• For lingerie, get 15% off full-price items at Figleaves with the code FIGHEART valid until Monday 7 February only, or if the lady in your life loves her bags, every Valentine’s order at Mybag.co.uk comes with a free box of chocs!
• For pampering gifts, at Feel Unique you can save £10 when you spend £100 with the code HELLO10, or £7.50 on a £75 spend with HELLO75, £5 on a £50 spend with HELLO50 and £3 on a £30 spend with HELLO30. Plus you can gift wrap it for only 95p! Both offers end this Sunday (6 February).

Books and Games

Browse through the top deals for book worms this week:

• Amazon has the best price for the hardback version of Jo Nesbo’s The Leopard at £6.49 (RRP £12.99) and Kate Atkinson’s Started Early, Took the Dog which is £4.99 (RRP £7.99).
• At Asda you can buy both I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson and Tony Parson’s Men from the Boys for the best price of £3.96 and for something romantic, The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas costs only £5.52.
• If you’ve seen the film and want to know more about how a self-taught Australian speech therapist helped the Duke of York, head to The Book Depository where you can save 52% on The King’s Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi (now just £6.23).

And check out the best buys for gamers:

• For Nintendo DS, you can get fantasy game 4 Elements for £14.85 (RRP £19.99) and Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light Nintendo for £9.85 (RRP £24.99) both at The Hut.
• Finally, head to Amazon for Assassins Creed Brotherhood on the PS3 at £23.99 – saving you £26 – and if you want the second instalment on the PS3 go to Tesco where it costs £17.

DVDs and boxsets

Now on to the best DVD deals this week:

Exclusive offer for lovemoney.com readers

Don’t miss this exclusive offer from new money-saving website Here for a Day. Every day at midnight, a new, heavily discounted item appears on sale for one day only. But as a lovemoney.com reader you get an exclusive early viewing of these stylish Salter Electronic Multi-Function Kitchen Scales for just £14.50 (RRP £49.99), plus £4 for delivery – giving you the chance to buy before the offer is open to everyone else tomorrow. Buy now from this landing page while stocks last.

Freebie of the week

Play ‘Sherrif, Share Your Buttons’ on the Milkybar Facebook page by sharing your Giant Buttons with some friends (by horseback, cowboy hat or sheriff star!) and if you’re one of the first 1,000 you get a free pack of Giant Buttons.

Mobile phone deal of the week 

Get your mitts on a refurbished Nokia N8 with a 12 megapixel camera, three customisable touchscreens and 16GB of in-built storage for only £25 per month with 3 Mobile. For this you can spend 500 minutes chatting each month, send a massive 5,000 texts and surf the net with a 1GB internet allowance, all on a 24-month contract.

Get this phone deal here or compare other top mobile deals at Recombu.

Competition of the week

On the BBC Good Food website you win a 32GB iPad with WiFi and 3G worth over £600 to celebrate the launch of their new iPad app. Fill in your details here before the competition ends 31 March 2011.

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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