This might sound bad, but as a family we spend an awful amount of kids' continuing extracurricular activities. I am not saying the kids shouldn't do anything, I just think a lot of money goes towards lessons for our kids that we could probably, if more motivated, take upon ourselves or just say "it's complete". From my perspective, they know how to swim, and how to skate well enough to avoid a) drowning, b) injuring themselves, etc). My better half sees potential a) Olympic athletes, b) concert pianistic, c) Chinese diplomats, etc.
I am not sure if there are any huge money savings to be had outside of cancelling home phone and cable and only having internet. It can't be understated how rich our library is for entertainment resources beyond just books - audio books, dvds, etc. If there was a money crunch, we'd definitely cancel cable and maybe the home phone and just use our cells.
We also spend somewhere north of $100 for a family membership to the rec. centre.. We don't utilize it nearly as much as we should, but as a family of 4 to go swimming, skating, wall climbing once or twice a week would cost a lot more than $100. But on the other hand we could also find something else to do.
I also seem to spend a lot on cheese.
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