Frugal Friday - 26 February 2010

by John Fitzsimons on 26 February 2010  |  0 comments
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This week’s highlights include £29 hotel rooms, free days out at National Trust sites, half price cameras and lighting products, bargain fashion, Inverting the Pyramid for £6.08, Bioshock 2 for less than £30, £21 off the Ross Kemp on Gangs box set, and free spinach and beetroot seeds!

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It’s Friday, and more importantly, it’s payday! If you plan to see in the month by splashing a bit of cash, be sure to take advantage of these terrific deals and get yourself a bargain!

Fashion and homewares

It’s nearly Spring, and that means even more great discounts and deals! Here’s our pick of this week’s highlights:

• Barratts: Up to 70% off selected lines.
• BHS:50% off a selection of formal shirts and ties. Can also get a free second pair of trousers with selected suits.
• Burton: 30% off selected lines.
• Debenhams: Free delivery on orders over £30, enter SHW2 in the promotional box in your shopping bad – ends 1st March
• Dorothy Perkins: 20% off selected tops.
• Faith: Up to 70% off selected lines
• French Connection: Sales continues with selected items better than half-price.
• Hobbs: Selected items reduced, with as much as 70% off.
• House of Fraser: Shirts and suits reduced by up to 60%.
• New Look: Up to 50% off fashion for men, women and children.
• Next: Most sale items for men and women half-price or better. At least 70% off women's tall and plus sizes.
• Office: Up to 75% off selected items.
• Oasis: Many sales items half-price or better.
• Republic: Two items for £30 on both men’s and women’s fashion.
• River Island: Women's wear sale with items starting from just £5.
• TOPMAN: Final clearance is taking place with up to 75% off.
• Topshop: Final clearance with some items better than half-price.
• Urban Outfitters: Up to 85% off men's and women's fashions.
• Wallis: Up to 75% off selected lines.
• Warehouse: Many lines now £5 and £10.

If you need to add a bit of light into your life, head over to BHS where you can get up to 50% off lighting products. Table lamps start at £10, while you can also snaffle some floor lamps at up to 30% off the original price!

Meanwhile, if you’d prefer to introduce a bit of luxury into your home, there is a huge Egyptian bedding sale on over at Wallace Sacks. Many styles are half price, with some of this Superior 400 count Egyptian Cotton Bedlinen down to as little as £5, depending on size and style.

Books and games

With the weather still absolutely rubbish at the moment, I’m planning on staying in bed this weekend and reading a good book. If you’re the same, here are some of my favourite deals:

• If you are a fan of the True Blood TV show, why not snap up the newest book in the series, Dead and Gone. Over at Amazon you can save £3.70 – it’s just £4.29.
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebolds has just been made into a blockbuster movie, but if you want to check out the original novel, get yourself over to The Book Depository where you can get your hands on it for just £2.97! That’s a saving of £5.02
• Finally, if you’re a football fan then you need to read the brilliant Inverting the Pyramid, by the phenomenal Jonathan Wilson. Over at AbeBooks, you can get your hands on it for the bargain price of £6.08!

Alternatively, if you prefer a bit of finger tapping action, why not go for one of these brilliant bargains:

• If you fancy a new game for your PS3, then get yourself over to ShopTo.Net, where you can snap up Aliens vs. Predator for £29.85 – saving you 40%!
• Or, if you have a Wii, then you can get the brand new Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers game for £23.97, saving you £11.02.
• And finally, if you’re an Xbox360 devotee, head over to Woolworths, where you can save yourself more than £20 on Bioshock 2! It’s available for just £29.97.

Gadgets & Gizmos

I’m absolutely rubbish with a camera, but if photography is your bag, be sure to head over to Argos. They are currently offering this brilliant Canon A490 camera at half price, down to £64.99 from £129.99.

It has 10 megapixels, movie capture, eliminated red eye and it even recognises faces!

Alternatively, if you want to focus on saving the planet and cutting your electricity bill, why not go for the brilliant DIY Kyoto Wattson energy monitor! Not only does it look nifty, but it measures how much money you are spending on your energy.

Get yourself over to The Green Stop and you can save yourself £17 – it’s available for just £82.99! That may seem like a lot of money for a money-saving device, but this particular gadget is a must-have for gadget-lovers everywhere - it won the number one spot in Stuff magazine’s top 10 gadgets of 2009.

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Film and box sets

There are some fantastic new films out on DVD at the moment, so rather than brave the cold, why not settle down for a watch:

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

Cheap days and evenings out

If you fancy getting a bit of fresh air and seeing some spectacular sights, get over to the National Trust website. Download this voucher and you’ll be able to visit any of the 300 sites the Trust looks after, absolutely free, on the weekend of 20-21 March.

You can also get 2 for 1 on tickets to a range of attractions in London, including the Churchill Museum & Cabinet War Rooms. Head over to the Days Out Guide website for a full list of offers!

Deal of the week

Fancy an amazing four whole months of absolutely free broadband? Sign up to any Plusnet broadband package online from this link, quoting the promo code '4monthsBB' at the checkout and it's all yours! Offer ends 31st March.

Hotels

This week is clearly a good time to be booking up a break away.

Head over to Hotels.com and you can get 10% off if you use this voucher code - HC2RLNMY10NIGHT.

You have to make your booking before the 12th March, but the offer is open to all hotel stays until the end of the year.

Alternatively, get yourself over to Premier Inn, where a whopping one million rooms are available from just £29 over the Easter and Summer period! They also have a load of ‘kids go free’ and ‘2 for 1’ offers on local attractions!

Freebie of the week

Believe it or not, it will soon be Spring, and that means it’s time to get the garden in order. Brilliantly you can make a start, without spending a penny, by heading over to the Britain on Show website and entering your details.

They’ll then send you over some spinach and beetroot superseeds, absolutely free!

Competition of the week

Who wouldn’t want a year’s free shopping at Tesco? That’s the prize available on the link below. Three runners up get £50 IKEA vouchers.

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