Basically. I have three boys ages 6-10 who are out of school for the summer and literally every day we're packing up and going somewhere and doing something and on average we spend money on an activity maybe once a week as a special treat, like yesterday we went to a kids' fishing thing for charity that was $10 a pop but they got lunch and a tee shirt with it. But with six of us in the household (my sister-in-law is staying with us for the summer as well) we definitely can't afford paid activities every day...yet we NEVER lounge around inside.  Maybe I should write a book -- 100 free places and activities in the New River Gorge -- to dispelled this myth and help the poor clueless residence of my city. Since it's surely that they just don't know any different. Not just lazy hams being lazy hams. /s [aside: I always seem to write wall-of-text responses to you sorry if it's a bother. -_-;;]