Tomorrow is the 15th, so that means grocery shopping day. That makes today meal planning, grocery list-making day. We also have plans to go swimming at the Y with our friends, and today is Andy's last swim lesson for the summer. He's done SO well with his lessons.
As Y members we paid $45 for 8 25-minute lessons, and we got a $10 discount for signing up for a subsequent session. That works out to about $5 a lesson, which I don't think you could find anywhere else. Since we do pay for a Y membership we try to really use all the advantages of it. They offer a lot of extra family programs that you couldn't get with a regular gym. My kids attend a fitness class for kids two days a week, and enjoy playing with their friends in the childcare room while I work out. We use the pool a lot, and take advantage of their monthly cookouts, and lunches they have. They usually have programs for the kids around holidays, as well. Since having a membership somewhere is kind of a frivolous thing, I want to make sure we get the most out of it that we can.
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- I'm Shirelle. I live in Fort Worth, Texas with my wonderful husband, Michael. We have two boys, ages 6 and 4. We are digging out of a ridiculous amount of student loan debt using the Dave Ramsey plan. I've always been frugal, but I've gotten a lot more radical since we started on our road to debt freedom. My sweet grandma, Jammy, always calls our family "the little family", hence the "frugal little family." Thanks for checking out my blog!
2 comments:
Interesting- maybe we need a Y membership. We just "froze" our gym memberships, which we pay over $60/month for, again because neither DH nor I have used them in over a year. :( I want to cancel, but I'm afraid if we ever wanted to go back, I'd have to pay $200 start up fee for each of us again. grrr
Melissa, twice a year the Fort Worth Y's do "pay the day" for membership fees. It is usually in January and May-June. You only pay whatever day of the month it is ($1 on Jan. 1, $2 on Jan. 2, etc.) for your joining fee.
Being the frugal person that I am, I'd definitely cancel if you don't use them. If you haven't used it in a year, you've paid $720 for a service you never used. You wouldn't want to do that for two years in a row! And $200 is a lot less than $720!
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