Going without luxuries

Here's a list of things that I've either eliminated or mostly cut out of my life since I lost my job:

1. $4 lattes at Starbucks/other coffee shops. Occasionally I do still go to Starbucks, but this is only because I have two gift cards that I now use sparingly.
2. Baskin Robbins/Cold Stone Creamery/other ice cream shops. It's not like I frequented these stores on a regular basis, but I never thought twice about shelling out $5 for cup of ice cream before. Now I can't rationalize spending that kind of money when I can buy an entire half-gallon of Breyer's ice cream on sale at Von's for $1.99!
3. Using credit cards. I haven't touched one since I lost my job (other than to make a monthly payment). I spent my entire 20's living beyond my means and I'm not willing to do that anymore.
4. Manicures/pedicures/eyebrow wax. I used to get these services on a monthly basis if not more frequently. Grand total for a mani-pedi-wax at the cheapest Korean nail place I could find was $30-something without tip. I have to admit that this one kills me the most. I think I could give up Starbucks if I could keep mani-pedi-waxing on a regular basis. And I used to go to Starbucks almost every day!
5. The spa. Whoa is me. This one is tough to go without. I used to go to Burke Williams spa in Orange once a month for a facial or deep tissue massage. As I sit and write this, I have an uncomfortable knot in my lower back above my left glute muscle. The knot has been there all week. Sadly I can't afford to spend $180 to have Jason, my massage therapist, knead the knot out from my back. When I asked Daniel to use his elbow on it, he elbowed me so hard I thought he was going to push his elbow out through my stomach. Personally, I think he did this so I'd never again ask him for a massage...
6. Going out to eat (unless it's McDonald's dollar menu, someone else that is employed has offered to pay, or I have a giftcard). Same goes for going to movies and shopping of any kind other than grocery store shopping, Wal-mart, or the drug store.
7. Buying books. The impact of this has yet to hit me because over the last few years I've taken to buying books in mass quantities and have at least 30 books on my bookshelf that I have yet to read. Someday, however it will pain me to not be able to buy books. Yes, there's the library. But in an obsessive-compulsive sort of way, I refuse to read a book unless I own it. I like to be able to look back to my bookshelf and see what I've read. And sometimes you just need to refer to a passage in one of your books and you can't do that if you read library books unless you want to go down to the library to browse the book.
8. Cooking/baking. Food/baking items have become a luxury I just can't afford anymore. This makes me very bitter. I used to use baking as therapy. Upset? Stressed? Time to make some pies! A few hours later I would have four made-from-scratch pies sitting on my kitchen table. I know if I really wanted to make something Daniel would cart my Kitchen-aid mixer over to his place, and he'd  buy me the ingredients, and I could make pies or cookies or bars or anything. But Daniel doesn't like sweets, and part of the enjoyment of baking is seeing someone's reaction when they bite into what you've made. In the past, my coworkers were the joyful recipients of my baking adventures. Now that I lost my job, I have no one to feed. And that's rather sad in and of itself.