I am buying almost everything with bitcoins and I can even send them and receive them in my wallet like real money so its definitely money to me as I am getting the goods in exchange of my bitcoins.
Well, you can buy anything with bitcoin, because bitcoin also serves as a medium of exchange on the internet, and its function is very similar to money, even can be said with money. But, bitcoin prices have a much higher price than money, so maybe biicoin is money equivalent to gold