How do I save even more?

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I don't like to spend a lot of money. Scratch that. I LOVE to spend money. I just have this nagging voice in my head that politely yet annoyingly knocks when I think about spending and asks me if I REALLY need whatever it is that i am looking at. Most of the time I sigh and say, "No" and walk away. We have a cell phone but my MIL pays for it- says we need one "just in case". Otherwise we wouldn't have one. We don't have cable or satellite. I want it but I know I don't NEED it. Inside-my-head-knocker tells me so all the time. In the past year I have spent a total over less than $150 on clothes for the ENTIRE family. Mostly we get hand-me-downs from family and friends. When I do buy I am very very cheap and picky. Our house is FILLED with donations from family. A lot of it we are very grateful for because we needed it. Other things, not so much. Like that third book on relationships. Really didn't want that. But we have never bought a large piece of furniture. I comparison shop at the grocery store and buy in bulk when there is a really good deal and I have the money. Soda is almost always generic when I do buy it. We do splurge on fast food. Our phone bill is never more than $25 a month. We have basic telephone service with no caller id, no call waiting and our long-distance is disabled with a passcode that no one (including ourselves) knows. We have energy-efficient light bulbs. We turn out lights we don't use. We never set the heat too high and the a/c only goes on when we can't stand it anymore. And then it doesn't go too low. We do a lot of energy saving things in our home, when we can. We splurge a little here and there, like when I take my shower and stay in for 25 minutes. My boyfriend and I agreed that we cannot life-diet without cheating a little somewhere (for fear of it backfiring or course), so we have our monthly spending habits. Mine is Blockbuster Online and his is Everquest 2. So I am asking how a cheap-o can get cheaper. Where do you save money? Any good tips I might have missed? What are your favorite frugal ideas?