Don’t let food snobbery put you off here … there are some great deals online just now, with a range of ‘freezer essentials‘ at just 75p. We’re talking ready pizzas, Young’s Ocean Crumble, Shepherd’s Pie and the like. Fantastic value. If cooking fresh food isn’t your thing, these could be the perfect freezer fillers for impoverished students … which brings me onto our main piece this week.
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This deal comes from Tesco wine club, which has a superb online selection from every wine producing country you can name plus a few besides … Welsh wine anyone? Go to tesco.com and search for winestore and you’ll find details on the Autumn promotion. No voucher codes, but there are fantastic deals here, including 50% off selected champagnes and cases of wines, great deals on mixed cases. I’ve got to say, it’s increasingly hard to see the point in hopping over to Calais for bargains when there is this much quality at these prices.
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Slug and Lettuce is one of Britain’s most recognisable bar chains, doing very good meals as well as booze. Register with your email on their website and you can print out Slug and Lettuce vouchers entitling you to £5 off a £10 spend. And the August 08 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine (the regular not the handbag size) has a voucher with 50% off food bills for up to eight diners, and valid until the end of September. Well worth the cover price of the mag, we think.
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Deal of the week comes from long-established high street jeweller H Samuel. Again, not voucher codes but some startling reductions, with 50% off loads of gold, silver and cubic zirconia items. And unlike the famed Ratners quote, these ones are definitely worth more and will certainly last longer than a Marks and Spencer’s sandwich.
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The Orange mobile phone site is also a great money saver … all of it. We posted a great deal recently whereby customers signing up to a £35+ per month contract got a free iPod touch. That deal will have expired by the time you hear or read this but there is LOTS more onsite, with terrific reductions on handsets, talk and broadband contracts. Orange appears to be fighting the recession with some great clearance bargains on slightly older handset models … well worth a look.
Related links: www.orange.co.uk, Free iPod touch from Orange, Orange Wednesdays
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We’ve found some great deals on printers, phones and other electricals from Currys. The electrical giant seems to be having an almost permanent sale just now. Again, you don’t need a code for these ones … they are just fantastic price cuts. A random selection brings up £100 off the Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop; 50% off the Hoover Freespace Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner, and £10 off the Lexmark Z1380 Inkjet Printer – which is now an astonishing £19.99 …. a great budget printer for the home office.
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The DIY and home improvement stores are feeling the pinch. With fewer of us moving, fewer of us are fitting new bathrooms. Their hopes that we’d stay put and invest in our homes are looking very optimistic with most Britons stubbornly refusing to spend. Bathroom Heaven have taken an admirably aggressive approach with its Summer Madness sale. You’ll find reductions of up to 80% on mirrors, cabinets, bathroom lighting, wet room screens and much more. And we’re talking everything from pocket change basics to top of the range bathroom fittings costing thousands. Well worth a look at www.bathroomheaven.com, and no voucher code required.
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Free iPod touch from Orange: Blink and you’ll miss this deal. UK Orange mobile phone network Orange is offering a free iPod touch player when you sign up for a £35+ mobile contract on selected handsets only from orange.co.uk.
This deal is only valid Monday 18th August until Thursday 21st August, so you’ll have to get in quick. For more on this free iPod touch from Orange, go to the Orange website.
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No, you don’t have to assemble them yourself … in fact you can even keep your old number. In the spirit of doing everything cheaper than the competition, furniture giant IKEA this week begins its Family Mobile pay-as-you-go package, which promises to be 25 per cent cheaper than comparable offers. The IKEA pay as you go phones have no contract and a flat UK call rate.
The IKEA pay as you go phones package is available exclusively to ‘IKEA Family’ loyalty card holders, and they will be charged 9p a minute for UK calls and 6p for texts. The deal is being offered in tandem with Mobile Partners UK, whose MD Teddy Pederson described the UK as ‘a price jungle.
Get free trades from Paddy Power: a lot of independent traders are staying out of the stockmarkets just now, spooked by the ‘will it won’t it’ behaviour of the FTSE 100 in particular. Over the last few days, the FTSE has repeatedly flirted with the psychological barrier of 5400 points, dipping below for coming back up for air. It’s not all bad (honestly), as there are some good deals on offer for us small fry. In particular, lots of the online trading companies are offering freebies just now, as they feel the chill too.
A very good one caught my eye today, with big online bookie Paddy Power offering you £75 in free trades to sign up for an account. You can get free trades from Paddy Power by going to their website and fulfilling certain conditions (but of course).
You have to place €250 (£170 in your account) and place four trades by 31 July 2008 and then you’ll get free trades from Paddy Power to the value of €150 or £75. Incidentally, if you’re a nervous newbie to training, the Irish bookmaker has a pretty good demonstration account to get you started. Trade for imaginary money – great fun if seriously addictive, and definitely the best place to learn.
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See our Walletwatcher financial deal of the week archive for more great deals.
