Same here. I'm a tightwad from way back and a huge fan of yard sales, thrift stores, and abandoned things by the side of the road. I have been known to darn socks and hem second-hand jeans by hand, draw and paint my own pictures to hang on the wall, strip old furniture, and gladly take whatever my friends don't want anymore.
I'm not energetic enough for all that self repair stuff, but I do still buy most of my books used (Friends of the Library, paperbacks as low as a quarter, go to a few of those and the prices in a normal bookstore become downright shocking). I have no problem with people chosing to save money or reducing their stuff addiction, but I don't like the ones like these hippies that have to pat themselves on the back for it. And of course it's not just a leftist thing, go onto any FR thread about a movie and I garuantee within the first 20 comments will be somebody proudly proclaiming they haven't been to a movie in years.