I bake all my own bread. All the food I eat I prepare entirely from scratch. No meat, lots of fresh vegetables, eggs, whole grains, and dried not canned beans, or dal. I even make my own corn tortillas by hand. I save the good foods like pesto (made from scratch, of course) for when I’m cooking for my GF. When feeding myself, I live on a lot of potato curries, latkes, dal & chapatis, and most of all corn pone & beans for frugality’s sake. Also cause I know how to make em taste good. I’m chowing down on my onion pone recipe for brunch right now. I just invented it. I have like 2 dozen variations on corn pone.
Our library doesn’t have a good selection of DVD’s. Netflix has a great selection and isn’t too expensive.
I know, right? Like she’ll take a used plastic baggie and throw it away instead of washing it to re-use it? Or use brand-new saran wrap instead of wrapping the thing in a plastic grocery bag? I hear, you brother.
Yes, this kind of thing is an occasional discussion at our house. I prefer the term ‘tightwad-American’, thank you.
We’re fairly extravagant on a lot of things, but I’m weird about clothes. I will either buy at thrift shops, or haunt my neighbor’s garage sales (they have nice stuff). My hi-school daughter is on the homecoming court this year, and I have to escort her onto the field. I’m renting a suit from a recycle store for the event, because I’m too cheap to buy one.
I spend more on craft beers in a month than I do on clothing for a year.
I wonder if anyone read the blog I linked to - Early Retirement Extreme - it’s really interesting, folks otter consider it. 
maybe it deserves to be it’s own thread but I also wonder if anyone here lives “off grid”.
I never ever, waste food.
And when traveling I buy paperback books from charity shops because I’m going to give them away after I’ve read them.
Little things come to mind. I got this one from my mother: When I open a new scrubbing powder I take the peel-off and reapply it covering half of the holes.
I reuse paper towels. If I pull one off just to dry my hands I let it dry out and use it again. A gal in VT taught me that one. Lately I’ve been doing that with tissues too as I’ve been blowing my nose like mad–just clear stuff. I lay it on the counter or something and I’ll use it again maybe 2 more times.
Oh and I save the sauces from take out Chinese. I tend toward the spicy stuff. There’s always more sauce than the actual dish. Then I add it to a curry soup or something. (But maybe this is more of a cooking thing.)