Aldi deals

If you're looking for an advent calendar that you can fill yourself, Aldi is offering wooden Christmas advent calendars with LED lights for £9.99. There are two available – wooden house and nutcracker (both pictured below). There's also a 3D truck, which doesn't have LEDs.

You can get them in stores (find your nearest) from Sun 3 Nov – they're likely to sell out fast, so go quick.

Are they good value?

We've spotted other light-up wooden advent calendars from £18.99 at The Range and £20 at Hobbycraft, and 3D trucks (non LED) for £12.99 at The Range and £15 at Hobbycraft. So if you've had your eye on one of these then you can make a big saving getting one from Aldi. The drawers are empty, so you'll need to buy (or make) small treats to fill it yourself, but it's the same for the more expensive ones.

Aldi's annual kids’ ‘special buy’ is back for its fifth year running, and we reckon it’s worth a look as we’ve seen cheap wooden toys that look similar to much pricier versions you can buy elsewhere. You’ll find toys in all stores (find your nearest), though what’s actually available will vary. If you look online, a few are marked ‘online exclusive’ so won’t be in stores.

As with all Aldi special buys, it's best to go quick if you want something as stock tends to be limited and when they're gone, they're gone.

The supermarket is known for its ‘dupes’ (cheap, lookalike versions of popular branded goods), and the toy event is no different it seems. Aldi's £60 wooden ice cream stand looks a lot like upmarket toy brand Hape's £140ish version. We were also impressed by Aldi's £30 wooden toy kitchen, considering similar-looking ones from Ikea are usually a good buy at £48-£60.

A few examples of toys you might find in Aldi stores:

While the above table should be helpful in suggesting some alternative, similar toys, it's difficult to compare like for like since most of these toys are exclusive to Aldi. Be sure to check out the other toy sales currently running to make sure you're getting the best price. 

If you shop at Aldi, you'll be familiar with its special buys, and red stickers when they're reduced in store. Did you know, there's also a reduced special buys sale section online?

On Tue 12 Mar we spotted:

• £3.99 reusable geometric coffee cup, was £4.99.
• £4.99 nubbed black massage roller, was £5.99.
• £9.99 Crane Ladies black fitness trainers, were £11.99.
   

There's also reduced skiiware and other items. Delivery's £2.95 or free on orders of £20 or over.

Castellore Prosecco Spumante is £5.99 in store (find your nearest) and online at Aldi.

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Castellore Prosecco Frizzante is £5.49 a bottle in store (find your nearest) and online at Aldi.

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Want to beat the back-to-school rush and get the uniform shop done early? If you go online to Aldi or into a store from Thu 11 July (find your nearest) , you'll be able to pick up a full school uniform from £4.50, while stock lasts. Delivery's £2.95 or free if you're spending £20 or more.

What do you get?

• 2x polo shirts - £1.75
• Sweatshirt - £1
• Skirt or Trousers - £1.75

As this will be one of Aldi's 'Special buys' and we expect this to be very popular, you should go quick as we reckon stock will sell out fast. Aldi's confirmed that "once they're gone, they're gone".

Discount supermarket Aldi offers online purchases of wine by the case. Standard delivery is normally £3, but Aldi has told us the free delivery is an introductory offer, which is not expected to end soon.

Wines Aldi is selling by the case include:

• Prosecco DOC - £29.94 for six bottles (currently £4.99 each)
• Rockstone Ridge Californian Merlot - £26.94 for six bottles (£4.49 each)

Thanks to forumite xeonander for the original spot.

Prosecco Superiore is currently £7.99 a bottle in store (find your nearest) and online at Aldi.

We've seen a similar bottle for £11.90, so we reckon now's the time to buy in case the price goes up.

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There are always ways to save money at Aldi, so even if there isn’t a cracking deal out there that works for you, don’t assume you can’t cut your costs.

Ways to save include:

• Exclusive offers for email subscribers. If you sign up to the Aldi newsletter it will email you special promotional offers and competitions, so you can get in there first.


• Supermarket coupons. Make sure you look out for coupons in store as well as newspapers to save on your shopping.


• Check out similar retailers, eg, Lidl and the other major supermarkets. If you’re not committed to buying from Aldi, check out our deals from Lidl, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons and Waitrose, where they may have a better offer


• Try haggling. We polled 1,400 MoneySavers to find out in which shops hagglers have most success. Supermarkets did feature, so it’s worth a go. Find out more in our Haggle on the High Street guide.


• Had a problem with Aldi? There’s a free online tool you can use to complain – it helps draft, manage and if necessary escalate your complaint. It’s offered by a firm called Resolver, which we like so much we work with it to help people get complaints justice – you can use it to complain to Aldi*.

If you spot any hot deals out there we have missed (we are human after all!), please let us know by emailing msedeals@moneysavingexpert.com or via MSE Facebook and Twitter @MSE_Deals. 

Veuve Monsigny Champagne Brut is currently £12.49 a bottle in store (find your nearest) and online at Aldi. If you're shopping online you'll need to buy a case of six bottles (you can mix and match different bottles), so if you just want one, you'd be better off visiting a store.

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