Foaming soap dispensors.
The ones that are filled with watered down liquid soap? The refills are stupidly expensive, so refill it with watered down liquid soap. (Bet you didn’t see that one coming.) About 4 to 1, water to soap, and you can pick your favorite scent.
Keep another one next to the kitchen sink, filled with diluted dish soap. A squirt of that on a dish rag is about right for washing that single plate or glass.
I never buy liquid hand soap any more. I refill with “kind to hands” dish soap.
And I cut that and shampoo it 1:1 with water because I like to rinse it off more quickly.
I buy sauerkraut and spaghetti sauce in cans instead of jars. Costs half as much in cans.
I just transfer it to old jars I’ve put through the dishwasher.
Whenever I renew my newspaper subscription I call in and ask for a discount. They always have a plan going “for new subscribers only” that they will let you have if you bother to ask.
See if you can score The Complete Tightwad Gazette at your local library. It’s pretty extreme, but that makes it interesting to read, and you’ll definitely find other stuff that you’re willing to do.
Me? Um, I pack my kids’ lunches, and I recently paid off my car…now I’m going to drive it for the rest of my life! Or at least until I feel like taking on a car payment again. I second **monstro’s ** thrift shopping, too…I find great stuff.
Thrift shops are excellent for saving money. I have a jigsaw puzzle habit, and I can usually find good ones there for fifty cents or a dollar. My biggest find was a 3d puzzle of San Francisco, $60 in the catalog, for $10 in the thrift store with its original plastic on.
Bakery thrift stores are good also. There is an Orowheat/Entemann’s store near my work, where I can get bread and breakfast food for half price or less. Not only that, you get two free items after spending $25 over time, and a freebie if you go over $7.
We found after the kids had gone that making a shopping list on Friday night, based on the supermarket ads, and going once for the entire week meant that the right ingredients were always there for dinners, and there was less waste. Planning means you’re less likely to order expensive takeout. You also save money on gas. The exception is if we’re having someting late in tne week with an ingredient that needs to be fresh.
The Times had an article about how cellphone companies tracked how profitable you were as a customer, and profitiable customers got better service and better deals. That might explain people’s varying experiences with them.
A local gas station (that I patronize) has 6 cents off/gallon on weekends-you cannot IMAGINE all of the Range Rovers, M-B, BMW, and Jaguars lining up to save-maybe $2.00 Max.! Why would somebody driving a $80,000 car look to save a few bucks? 
I’ve found that too. I used to have a dog groomer that came to my house and gave me a small discount when I paid in cash. I had the tree’s trimmed in my yard and he gave me a big discount if I paid in cash.
I guess because they might not have to claim it? I didn’t ask.
That’s probably one of the reasons they’re rich. 
Credit card companies take a percentage of the sale when you use them, so paying cash gives companies a bigger profit margin. Of course, there may also be tax advantages to merchants to accept cash, but that would be illegal. . .
I cut dryer sheets in half. There is something that torques me off about a $5 box of dryer sheets. I use less detergent than recommended with no noticable difference in how clean the clothes come out.
Hair color at home.
There’s a trick to having peak/off-peak hours: the meter has to be able to calculate it. Our utility is just beginning a program to replace the old-fashioned analog meters that have to be read by a meter guy to digital meters than can be pinged over the network to report back their usage. At that point, they’ll be able to calculate peak/off peak hours.
If you have the analog meter, it’s going to be hard for the utility to know when you used your 1,000 kWh this month.
Hmm, livin’ cheap–one of my favorite topics!
Pack my lunch, check. Don’t drink pop because iced tea is better, check. Shop at Goodwill, hells yeah! (I’ve scored full length leather coats for 30.00, Pendleton skirts and scarves five bucks with the tags still on them, pre broke in jeans five bucks a pair, books for a dime–thrift stores RULE!) Drive old cars that take cheap parts and have a good mechanic who discounts heavily for cash (and who’s willing to barter computer fixes for car fixes straight across for the labor,) check. No cable TV, just Netflix, broadband (and SO is a genius at making Comcast drop the rate, we’re at thirty bucks a month for the next year) internet and something that rhymes with “florence,” check. Don’t have a thermostat, no central heating or AC, but we wear warm clothes and only turn on the gas heater when we’re awake and running around–right now the house is barely 60 degrees, but we’re used to it. Compact fluorescent bulbs in every fixture, check. Winco bulk food–not only cheap but environmentally friendly due to minimal packaging, check. Chest freezer so I can take advantage of loss leaders and day old bread, check. Grow a garden every year, check. Front yard landscaped in culinary and medicinal herbs, check. Name brands are for suckers. Dye my hair at home–I see lots of chicks with really bad dye jobs they paid up to a hundred bucks for, WTF is up with that? Dollar store shopper, check. Make my own curtains and other household sewing projects, check. I redye items that get faded or stained so long as the fabric’s still good. Nutra Nuggets lamb and rice dog food is nutritionally equal to premium dog food like Iams or Science Diet, but it runs about 16-18 bucks for a 40 lb bag instead of 30-40. Trader Joe’s cat tuna, .29/can and the beasts will take your arm off for it. Trader Joe’s for cheese–costs the same per pound as a lot of the supermarket brands, but infinitely better cheese! I buy veggies and fruits in season and preferably from local sources–cheaper and it puts less strain on the environment than agribusiness produce that’s shipped a million miles, plus it gives a better feeling for the cycle of the year to enjoy the fruits of each season in turn, I think. I also can, jam, freeze, dry and otherwise preserve foods I pick up cheap in huge job lots–I got a gigantic bag of snow peas, probably 3-4 lbs worth, that were a bit tired for a buck, picked through them and froze the lot and had snow peas in my stir fries when others would have to pay three bucks a pound for 'em!
I like living cheap, it makes me feel good, and the few things I will splurge on are the more precious for their rarity.
www.stretcher.com has a lot of great ideas for helping stretch those dollars!