What are you doing with your monthly memberships with Covid-19?

[mommyoffive]

What are you doing with your monthly memberships right now? 

Paying full price?

Freezing memberships?

Freezing memberships but making donations?

Something else? 

[SounderChick]

We are just continuing, but we have no loss of income and no fear that we will lose income.  

[KatieJ]

Our gym froze our membership.

[mommyoffive]

Ballet school-  Fees are being frozen until they can start classes again

Rec dance for the littles- haven't heard what they are doing yet

Violin and voice lessons- they have gone to online lessons so no change

[SKL]

I paid up my kid's horse lease through May, even though she can't ride right now.  I figure they have to feed the horses.  I don't know whether other leasers did similar.

[TheReader]

Our fencing club allowed members to borrow equipment to use at home, and is posting videos, so we are continuing to pay the monthly fee. I was advocating to do that, anyway, since we could. 

Our homeschool co-op (paid, once/week classes normally) has switched to online, so still paying those teachers. Oddly, I don't mind paying them, at all, for my son's classes.....yet I feel very odd about asking my students (I teach K & 1st there) to keep paying me. Even though I am putting in more work to provide as much instruction as normal; I feel like half of why they send their kiddos to K and 1st is for the social interaction, which they are not getting. (Policy of our co-op is that tuition is still due....)

Those are the only two we have. 

[Guest]

I am continuing to pay for DD’s piano lessons-they’ve gone online, and her teacher has lost the income from her church job and her preschool job. I am extending the pre-paid piano semester by 4 weeks and offering online classes or distance learning options. I feel weird asking parents to pay for online lessons when it just doesn’t seem as good as a regular lesson. 
 

One of the software packages I use for piano is giving us 3 months free and suspending payments, which is nice. 
 

I actually broke down and added Disney Plus. I wanted lots of fun nostalgia.

Edited March 27, 2020 by dmmetler

[Jean in Newcastle]

Our YMCA has sent out letters asking people to (if possible) keep their memberships and the fees coming.  They are using that money to provide free childcare for first responders and for other programs specifically designed to help people in the community.  I am happy to keep my membership active with that in mind.  (But dh is an RN and his job continues unabated so we can do that.)

[sassenach]

I froze our Y for the month of April and I will cancel after that. We are going to lose income. 

[Matryoshka]

I had suspended my membership to my gym (expensive because it's all classes, not just show up and use machines).  But the very day my suspension was due to start, the gym closed and suspended everyone's membership for at least a month, and also committed to paying its staff for that period, and we're getting home workouts from them in the meantime.  Normally, we can suspend for up to two months, and I had already planned on paying after that even if we weren't back, because I don't want them to go under.  

Already paid my club membership to my rowing club back in January - likely no rowing this summer.  Hope that also helps keep them afloat.

Most problematic is youngest's rent.  She lost her roommate, who was an international student and had to go home (lost job, no visa for working off-campus even if she could find another job right now).  We're committed to pay her part of the rent, and have even offered to pay a bit more if the landlord will forgive the roommate her share.  Don't know how that will go, but we can't pay the whole thing.

[Loowit]

The only one we have now is a gym membership for DH and I, and the gym froze that one themselves.  I would not have bothered to freeze it myself.  I am not sure what I would do if DD was still doing dance or other similar things.  I would like to think I would keep paying, because the studio still has expenses and I had budgeted the money.