Try using cash and keeping track of what you spend. I'm not a fan of couponing or the dollar store type stuff, as I think it ends up with buying crap that's low quality and not needed, just because it's cheap, which isn't saving, it's spending.
Set a budget for yourself for the week, say you can have $100 for groceries and $40 for extras (or whatever makes sense for your situation, I'm just making up numbers). Put those amounts in two envelopes and every time you buy something you have to use the cash from an envelope and you have to put the receipt from what you bought back into the envelope with the change.
If you spend on something that doesn't offer a receipt, like bus fare, write it on the envelope, like $1.50 bus to Target 7/17.
That way, you think about what you're spending and you can see exactly what you spend money on so you'll know what you want to cut back on and such or if you need more for a certain category of stuff.
DH and I have just gone to the cash plan...boy was it an eye opener. We learned that we spend a lot of money on food--eating out, getting a biscuit on the way to work, etc. We have only done it for a month now. I spent what we were allowed but told DH that I wanted less next month. I already have a few of my Christmas items purchased. He realized that he need smaller amounts of cash or he would spend $100 at a time on unnecessary things. So I will begin rationing him $20 at a time this next month. All of our bills are paid on-line, we make decent money and should not have credit card debt. Well we do have CC debt and we are sick of it.
last night I was online and looking for a headband to wear to MNSSHP--a headband, what the hell was I thinking. 
Not only do I hang clothes outside in the summer, I hang them inside in the winter too! We heat with a woodstove and I have a couple of those accordian folding racks that I hang stuff on next to the stove. The only times I use the dryer is for whites and if there is an extended period of rain (no worries this year!).
