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Saved extra napkins from restaurants to use in the car when something spills or we needed a tissue.

My Mom saved everything cause there was 7 of us. Here's some just a couple of her frugal ways I've picked up:
-Buy clothing off-season. It is much cheaper.
-Buy multiple qty of items if on sale. I do this for clothing, shoes, food, paper, etc.
-Buy bulk. You can never have too much paper products.
-Freeze. If you purchased bulk, freeze what you can not use before food expires.
-Save paper bags/plastic bags. Great for throwing aways diapers, food scraps, using as liners for wastebaskets, etc

I can keep going cause I'm definitely my Mother's child.

Wash and reuse Ziploc too! And tinfoil.

Get paper at the store for groceries, and use it for everything from lunch sacks to fire starter.

We wore hand-me-down clothes, and my mom would also make us clothes.

I don't remember my parents doing those types if things to save but they never wanted to spend money on anything. They never went out to eat, bought very few things, didn't have any hobbies, etc but just worked and worked and saved all their money.

I reuse Ziploc bags too but I do it more for the environment!

My mom used to wash and reuse ziplocks too. She got that from my grandma. She also reused aluminum foil. She never used the clothes dryer even in winter. After she fried stuff in oil, she would pour the oil into a jar and it for next time. she would mend the holes in our socks, instead of throwing them out. She would wash and save all glass jars and use them for different things around the house, as well as for storing leftovers. Once she couldn't mend my dad's undershirts anymore, she would cut them up and use the scraps for housecleaning.

My dad refuses to pay for parking. He'll pay hundreds of dollars on a ticket to something and then make us walk miles to save $5 on parking.

Reuse plastic grocery bags for a small trash can or any other kind of use.

Save ketchup packets.

Save napkins to keep in the car.

On vacation, while driving to the destination, we'd eat a packed lunch instead of eating food we could buy.

My mom used to save all the tiny leftover pieces of bar soap and put them all in a pantyhose and use that to scrub her body in the shower.

My mom used to make clothes for me and my sister! Anytime we needed a party dress, halloween costume, etc. instead of going to a department store she would head right to the fabric store! I also never saw the inside of a restaurant until I was 8 when my Dad's career started to take off. Before then we ate at home every day. And I look back at videos of our birthday parties, all of the favors were somehow always made from paper grocery bags!

my parents weren't too frugal. i wish they were. i'm a lot more frugal than they are.

@Mrs.Bee they had a BUM equipment shirt that was a total knockoff from Hypercolor! Except instead of the whole shirt being temperature-sensitive, it was a cartoon guy drawn in the middle of the shirt (the BUM guy?) and different parts of his outfit were Hypercolor. Man I got made fun of!

First new clothes I got when I was in third grade, and it was a $3 outfit from Dollar General. My shoes were ALWAYS too small. My parents showered together, my brother and I would share bath water, we grew our own veggies, caught our own fish, and hunted some of our own meat, my grandma did ALL of our babysitting... Once my dad got out of the Air Force, things weren't THAT tight any more.

@MrsBrewer: Not at all, I do too!! I guess I never thought of them as "frugal" actions... more just like habits I picked up and common sense (in my mind). Things like saving napkins to keep in the car... they come in handy ALL the time, haha. And buying in bulk, saving plastic bags, etc...