I spend it in real life because I really like to pay with it, I must say that I don't do this directly with my btc wallet, I use a btc physical credit card , it is also working fine, although not directly, and that makes it a bit more difficult.
I never see a btc credit card but would like to have one. I hope that my bitcoin wallet will think of making some credit card soon. The problem here is I still do not know any stores that will accept it. Since there is no credit card here I am much of spending it through paying bills and patching up my loans.
Xapo is offering that service but I guess it is charging high fees at all just like credit card companies do. I am spending bitcoins in real life for buying variety of services and as well as products. So I do spend it actively and if I have something to buy what I am doing is that I am converting it first because few stores only do accepts bitcoin.