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But on top of those expenses, we’re spending on a bevy of extras that seem small but can add up. Here are some of the alluring extras we’re committing our communications and entertainment dollars to:

Here’s a look at what you’re paying for

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Cellphones were once an extravagance of only the very busy and important — today the average household in Canada has two. Add in a slew of extras and financial experts say the cost of communications and entertainment goes well beyond the basic monthly rates many of us pay.

“People see their cable, Internet and cellphone bills as a sunk cost. They’re spending $180 per month and it’s like [paying for] heat — they just see it as a lost cause,” says Fabio Campanella, a partner at Toronto accounting firm Campanella McDonald LLP. “Then they start adding additional costs on, like an on-demand movie for $7, or Netflix for $8 a month that they use once a month.”

While 86% of households continue to subscribe to traditional television services, a generation raised on the Internet is increasingly going online to watch.

In 2012, the average Canadian household spent $185 a month on television, Internet, landline and cellphone expenses, according to the country’s telecom regulator.

That breaks down to $67 a month on cellphones, $31 on Internet, $52 on television and $35 on landlines, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said in its annual report on the sector published in late September.