My husband and I gave up our gym membership when we started tightening the household budget several years ago.  It was the first thing to go, as a matter of fact, because it was the most expensive item of spending that we had control over.  It’s not as though we couldn’t work out still because we do have some exercise equipment at home that was given to us for Christmas.  The home equipment is limiting, however, and without weights our home gym is pretty inadequate.  We missed the gym membership a lot, and although it made us sad to let it go, it certainly helped toward paying off some debts.…