You use BTC Directly to do those or do you sell BTC and use the USD to do these?
Anyway I mostly use bitcoins as an investment and as a holding method to my hold my investment with a good growth potential, I also use it to conduct online transactions and deal with people online.
Holding bitcoin cannot be considered as using bitcoins, as with holding you are not doing anything with it, but yes if you have invested it somewhere then it can work good for you in future.