Frugal Friday

Highlights this week include half-price beds and mattresses, a free Blu-Ray player with a HD-ready TV, £100 off Casio Gold Digital Cameras, 55% off Gordon Ramsay's World Kitchen, the entire Friends Collection for less than £40, free motorcycle rides and the chance to win a year's free supermarket shopping at Tesco.

The weekend is almost upon us once again. If you plan to hit the shops - or indulge in a spot of online retail therapy - here's our round-up of all the very best bargains of the week.

Fashion and homewares

As always there's a vast array of sales on the high street this autumn. If you're looking for some fantastic frugal fashions, look no further...

• Barratts: A further 20% off selected footwear with £20 off boots for women and £30 off boots for men on selected styles.
• Bhs: Save 20% off kids' coats, 30% off selected men's jackets and coats, and £10 off selected women's coats.
• Burton: Take an extra 20% off all jackets, coats and knitwear, and get two pairs of jeans for £35.
• Debenhams: Up to £100 off selected men's outerwear and up to 20% off women's outerwear.
• Dorothy Perkins: Up to 70% off selected fashion and up to 20% off special autumn offers.
• Faith: Up to 30% off selected new season footwear styles and up to 70% off in the mid season sale.
• Hobbs: Up to 50% off selected coats and boots.
• House of Fraser: Up to £25 off selected women's fashions, up to £30 off selected men's fashions and up to 20% off kids' knitwear, coats and jackets.
• Jane Norman: Up to 50% off a range of fashion and accessories with more lines added this week and 25% off selected coats.
• La Senza: 25% off all full priced items.
• Marks and Spencer: Clearance sale now on with up to 50% off womenswear, lingerie, nightwear and kidswear. Buy one get one half price on men's luxury shirts.
• Moss Bros: Up to 70% off men's shirts, ties and suits.
• Next: Selected items half price or less on all fashions and homeware.
• Oasis: Up to 50% off selected fashion.
• Office: Up to 60% off a range of footwear. Final week of the sale.
• River Island: Sale now on with some items just £3!
• Schuh: Up to 75% off selected footwear.
• Schudoo: Up to 70% off shoes and boots, and free delivery and returns.
• Topman: Many sale items now just £5.
• Wallis: Up to 50% off a range of fashion and accessories.
• Warehouse: Final reductions on the mid-season sale with jewellery starting from just £1.

There are loads of great deals to be had at Argos this week including up to half price on bed frames and mattresses. Take a look at this Caversham Solid Pine Double Bed which is 50% off at just £107.99. And if you need some new bedding Debenhams is worth a look with up to 50% off selected duvets and pillowcases.

Staying at Debenhams, massive savings continue this week on dining room furniture, kitchenware, and items for your bathroom with selected lines up to 50% off. If you're looking for some space saving dining room furniture, don't miss this Flip Foldable Dining Table now just £152.10 - reduced from £339.

Gadgets and gizmos

We've got some fantastic deals for the gadget-lovers among you this week.

Save up to £120 off selected Casio and Fuji cameras at Boots. You can save a massive £100 of this Casio Gold Digital Camera. It's now just £139.99 and if you have a Boots Advantage card, you'll earn an extra 556 advantage points too.

If you're after a new TV, check out the range of Sony HD Ready Televisions at Marks and Spencer. You can get your hands on a Sony Bravia 32'' HD Ready LCD TV for £699 - that's £150 off the normal price and get a free Sony Blu-Ray Player worth £229 chucked in.

CDiscount.co.uk is still offering great bargains this week on a range of gadgets. If you don't want to pay top dollar for a new MP3 player, you can get a tiny Archos Clipper MP3 Player with 2GB internal memory storing up to 1,000 songs for just £17.99 - a reduction of 28% off. Don't forget, good things come in small packages!

CDiscount.co.uk is also offering a fantastic netbook offer this week. Get an Acer Aspire One at the bargain price of just £206.99 - that's 31% off the RRP.

Books

What could be better than a Sunday morning with a nice cup of tea and a good book? Here's my pick of this week's best bargains for bookworms...

• Don't miss the many brilliant deals at Amazon this week with up to 50% off favourite biographies, annuals, audio books and favourite children's books. And once again make sure you take a look at Amazon's deals of the week. This time Gordon Ramsey fans can pick up Gordon Ramsay's World Kitchen for just £9 - that's 55% off.
• Buy one of the best-selling books of 2009 and get another one completely free at Waterstones. Choose from a list of well over 100 titles including A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre and The Associate by John Grisham.
• Topping the bestsellers list this week is the final volume, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest in Stieg Larsson's trilogy. The best price can be found at Amazon where you can pick up a hardback copy for just £7.99 - a saving of 58% off.
• Finally, you can also get up to 40% off Books of the Month for November from Foyles.

Games

If gaming is your cup of tea, check out the top bargains on some of the latest releases this week:

• The football manager series is back for another season with Football Manager 2010 for the PC. You can pick the game up for just £24.99 from Blockbuster - that's a saving of £15 off the recommended price. This game is selling out fast, so be quick!
• If you have an Xbox 360, check out new release, Borderlands for just £29.73 from The Hut and save yourself 34% off the normal price of £44.99.
• For those who like combat games, Tekken 6 is now out on the PS3 for just £32.99 from CoolShop. That's a great saving of £12.
• And finally, topping the Nintendo Wii chart is Don King Boxing which you can pick up for the super low price of just £7.95 from ShopTo.net. That's a massive saving of 73% off, but hurry because there are only a few left.

Film and box sets

The weather can be pretty unreliable this time of year, so it's always a good idea to have a few DVDs in reserve for the days when your outdoor plans are rained off:

Eating out

Run out of inspiration in the kitchen? Why not treat yourself to a meal out and check out all the latest restaurant bargains in our Frugal Food round up. Read more

Eating in

If you'd prefer to stay in, check out our very own Frugal Recipes series to find out how you can cook delicious meals on the cheap. Read more

Cheap days out

If you're in or around Bristol this weekend and looking for some family fun, why not get your skates on at Bristol ice rink where you can get 2 for 1 skating with this offer from EnjoyEngland.com.

Alternatively, you can enjoy a medieval experience for less with 2 for 1 entry to the Canterbury Tales also available at EnjoyEngland.com. This offer is valid until 31 December.

For some great evening entertainment, check out all the latest dinner & show packages at Lastminute.com. There are some great savings to be had, including dinner at the Palm Court Brasserie in Covent Garden followed by tickets for Hairspray at the Shaftsbury Theatre for just £22.50 per person on selected dates.

Freebie of the week

This week's top freebie is for all the daredevils among you. If, you've never been on two wheels before, why not try a totally free one hour motorcycle session? Book your ride at GetOn.co.uk at centres up and down the country. No licence required!

Mobile phone deal of the week

If you're not looking for a fancy new handset, Omio is offering some fantastic 30 day SIM only deals on Vodaphone this week.

For example, with package 1 you'll get 300 free minutes and unlimited texts for £15 a month. Or, with package 2 pay £20 a month and you'll get 600 free minutes and unlimited texts. Even better, you can also get a free Nokia 1208 handset when entering the code 'freenokia' at the basket stage. Find out more.

Competition of the week

Finally, this week's competition: these days, we have no choice but to spend a fortune on our grocery bills with food price inflation rising fast. So what could be better than a year's free supermarket shopping?

Have a great weekend!

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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