If you’ve ever attended various fundraising events, you perhaps know that there are different levels of invitations, depending on the size of your contribution. This is quite reasonable, and the business plan of the event is always calculated based on the number of possible guests and the amount of funds raised.
But what if you were invited to an old friend’sbirthday party, but with the same payment terms? For example, the useru/maricvz, the author of our story today, recently encountered exactly this situation, and decided to take it online to vent about it.
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The author of the post has a friend who recently got elected to the city council and bought a new home as well
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This lady will have a birthday soon – and our heroine was among the invitees
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What drove the author mad was that the birthday girl decided to charge the guests $499 just to attend the party
So, the Original Poster (OP) says that her friend recently got elected to the city council and bought a new home. And this decent lady is also celebrating her birthday – so she sent out invitations to numerousfriendsand acquaintances. But you have to pay $499 just to attend the party, and if you want to bring another guest, be so kind enough to fork out another $250.
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The author’s husband helped that friend in her election campaign, but refused to let her host the party in his establishment
The author decided to take this online to vent about it – and to ask netizens’ opinions on whether it’s appropriate at all
When it came to planning a birthday party, the friend again turned to the author’shusband– but this time he flatly refused, at least because the hosts couldn’t give him a clear answer as to where the guests’ contributions would be sent. “Gotta pay the mortgage somehow,” the original poster is quite cynical.
In our heroine’s personal opinion, this invitation looks completely ridiculous and, after receiving it, she decided to take it online – just to amuse netizens a bit, and ask their opinion on how appropriate it actually is to charge that kind of money just for entry to an ordinary party in a downtown pub.
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“I put out a passionate plea for people to stop charging me to attend their celebrations — such as a birthday or anniversary party or the impending birth of a child,” Michelle Singletary, a personal finance columnist,writeson the Washington Post website.
A few years ago, the Cincinnati Enquirer also conducted aspecial pollamong its readers: is it OK to charge people to come to akid’sbirthday party? The results showed that 88.5% ticked “No way,” while 9.72% believed that it depends on the financial status of the party hosts. And only 1.77% considered this totally understandable.
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