Do you charge your family for their Christmas Dinner?
@Albain (237)
Edinburgh, Scotland
December 23, 2022 5:38am CST
Do you have family over for Christmas Dinner? Many people do. But surely an invite to dinner shouldn't come with a price tag! Well, apparently, there are some people who charge their family a fee to attend their home and tuck into the full, traditional Christmas turkey-fest. I can understand family members wishing to contribute to a family gathering at any time of the year but I just can't get my head around someone who would actually put a price on my attendance at their Christmas Dinner. After all, they are the ones who invited me!
Sure, organising and paying for a Christmas Dinner can get expensive especially when the numbers attending rise to double figures but if you can't afford it then why organise it in the first place? And how would that work? Would there be a charge for each individual course? Do I get a discount because I don't take the starter or the pudding? Any family member who invited me to their house for Christmas Dinner and included a price list would receive a polite refusal - or maybe a not-so-polite refusal depending on who it was!
This story is worth reading:
Some think Caroline is a "Scrooge" for charging her family-of-12 but she says it is "fair".
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@RebeccasFarm (89231)
• Arvada, Colorado
23 Dec 22
I would never dream of it. Course no one comes to us anyway.
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@RebeccasFarm (89231)
• Arvada, Colorado
23 Dec 22
@Albain I am glad you have sense now to start wrecking their places
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@Albain (237)
• Edinburgh, Scotland
23 Dec 22
@RebessasFarm No-one comes to you for Christmas!?!?!? That's sad. In our younger days we always had a houseful but nowadays we go to our daughter's house and wreck that instead!
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@Albain (237)
• Edinburgh, Scotland
23 Dec 22
@snowy22315 That's exactly how I see it 
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@wolfgirl569 (104153)
• Marion, Ohio
23 Dec 22
I have seen many stories like that from weddings to birthdays. I would tell they they are a greedy a$$ and not go. If I choose to cook dinner and invite people thats my choice.
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@wolfgirl569 (104153)
• Marion, Ohio
24 Dec 22
@Albain I hope I remember that if I get one of those invites 
@xstitcher (32075)
• Petaluma, California
23 Dec 22
What!?!?! Anyone who invited me and charged would receive a polite decline as well. That is just ridiculous.
@porwest (87794)
• United States
23 Dec 22
Never in any world I would ever live in would I ever consider charging anyone for any event I am hosting nor expect to be charged for one someone else is hosting. Right there with you. "No, I won't be able to make it" would be my only RSVP.
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@Beestring (14358)
• Hong Kong
23 Dec 22
For our family dinner, if we eat out, each family member pay for his/her share. However, if a family member host a dinner event at his/her home, members who are invited to attend won't be charged.
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@Albain (237)
• Edinburgh, Scotland
23 Dec 22
@Beestring I agree. Sharing the cost of a restaurant meal is OK but charging family and friends for admission to a party you are hosting is just not on!
