Charging 20$ a head for a potluck/BYOB

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

Sine they ask that people bring food and drink that they'll consume, no one will eat $20 worth of burgers

Perhaps you will if you paid for $20 worth of burgers.

No, I wouldn't. For the same reason I don't go to Golden Corrale. I eat until I'm full not until I've eating X amount of dollars worth of food.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

$20 per person. For hot dogs, hamburgers, ice, and soft drinks?? With lots of other food at the party, most adults aren’t going to eat “a couple of burgers.” And people are making up that the “host” is paying kids to set up tables and chairs.

Fake “host” sounds cheap. At those prices, she is going to wind up with a lot of extra money.

That's a lot of trouble to go through for what will not be as much extra money as you think.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely tacky! Hosts are hosts because they take on the pain and expense of hosting.

But they're NOT hosting it, they're just organizing it. Someone has to. Are YOU going to?

That’s the point - rich lady is so clueless and cheap that she doesn’t what a block party is. A block party is something the community plans and does together. A PP up thread described it. It’s not one rich lady proclaiming “come to a block party in front of my house for $20 and bring a dish!” That is an extremely badly hosted party , not a block party.

EXACTLY!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

$20 per person. For hot dogs, hamburgers, ice, and soft drinks?? With lots of other food at the party, most adults aren’t going to eat “a couple of burgers.” And people are making up that the “host” is paying kids to set up tables and chairs.

Fake “host” sounds cheap. At those prices, she is going to wind up with a lot of extra money.

That's a lot of trouble to go through for what will not be as much extra money as you think.

SO she is supposed to make money on this now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

Sine they ask that people bring food and drink that they'll consume, no one will eat $20 worth of burgers

Perhaps you will if you paid for $20 worth of burgers.

No, I wouldn't. For the same reason I don't go to Golden Corrale. I eat until I'm full not until I've eating X amount of dollars worth of food.

Hey now, let’s not bring Golden Corral into this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

$20 per person. For hot dogs, hamburgers, ice, and soft drinks?? With lots of other food at the party, most adults aren’t going to eat “a couple of burgers.” And people are making up that the “host” is paying kids to set up tables and chairs.

Fake “host” sounds cheap. At those prices, she is going to wind up with a lot of extra money.

Ha. Had my son's end of baseball season cook out last Sunday. Most dads had two burgers and one dog. You must hang out with little Asian ladies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

Sine they ask that people bring food and drink that they'll consume, no one will eat $20 worth of burgers

Perhaps you will if you paid for $20 worth of burgers.

No, I wouldn't. For the same reason I don't go to Golden Corrale. I eat until I'm full not until I've eating X amount of dollars worth of food.

Then don't go? Host your own block party on your time and dime? View everything in life as a quid pro quo where you must always end up on the upside of the deal?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

$20 per person. For hot dogs, hamburgers, ice, and soft drinks?? With lots of other food at the party, most adults aren’t going to eat “a couple of burgers.” And people are making up that the “host” is paying kids to set up tables and chairs.

Fake “host” sounds cheap. At those prices, she is going to wind up with a lot of extra money.

That's a lot of trouble to go through for what will not be as much extra money as you think.

Exactly. Some cheapskates think this is some grand scam to profit....... $56.93 .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

$20 per person. For hot dogs, hamburgers, ice, and soft drinks?? With lots of other food at the party, most adults aren’t going to eat “a couple of burgers.” And people are making up that the “host” is paying kids to set up tables and chairs.

Fake “host” sounds cheap. At those prices, she is going to wind up with a lot of extra money.

That's a lot of trouble to go through for what will not be as much extra money as you think.

SO she is supposed to make money on this now?

Oh, true, She should keep an accounting of how many buns everyone ate and charge accordingly after the fact.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

Sine they ask that people bring food and drink that they'll consume, no one will eat $20 worth of burgers

Perhaps you will if you paid for $20 worth of burgers.

No, I wouldn't. For the same reason I don't go to Golden Corrale. I eat until I'm full not until I've eating X amount of dollars worth of food.

Then don't go? Host your own block party on your time and dime? View everything in life as a quid pro quo where you must always end up on the upside of the deal?

I'm pretty sure that the cheap, tacky "hostess" is viewing this as a quid pro quo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

$20 per person. For hot dogs, hamburgers, ice, and soft drinks?? With lots of other food at the party, most adults aren’t going to eat “a couple of burgers.” And people are making up that the “host” is paying kids to set up tables and chairs.

Fake “host” sounds cheap. At those prices, she is going to wind up with a lot of extra money.

That's a lot of trouble to go through for what will not be as much extra money as you think.

Exactly. Some cheapskates think this is some grand scam to profit....... $56.93 .

Hey, that Maserati in the driveway isn't going anywhere without a tank of gas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

Sine they ask that people bring food and drink that they'll consume, no one will eat $20 worth of burgers

Perhaps you will if you paid for $20 worth of burgers.

No, I wouldn't. For the same reason I don't go to Golden Corrale. I eat until I'm full not until I've eating X amount of dollars worth of food.

Then don't go? Host your own block party on your time and dime? View everything in life as a quid pro quo where you must always end up on the upside of the deal?

I'm pretty sure that the cheap, tacky "hostess" is viewing this as a quid pro quo.

Why should she foot the bill for an open-invitation block party?

[Anonymous]

I have never, ever, been invited to a paying block party. My (wealthy) street does block parties.

The whole idea behind a potluck is that you contribute in food instead of in money. The host can't have it both ways.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's unreasonable given that they are providing some food and presumably planning, setting up, and cleaning up. You can always decline to participate. You can always volunteer to plan the next one and change how it's done.

I agree. $20 is not going to cover a couple of burgers with all fixings, sides, as well as the multiple drinks most adults will consume.

Sine they ask that people bring food and drink that they'll consume, no one will eat $20 worth of burgers

Perhaps you will if you paid for $20 worth of burgers.

No, I wouldn't. For the same reason I don't go to Golden Corrale. I eat until I'm full not until I've eating X amount of dollars worth of food.

Then don't go? Host your own block party on your time and dime? View everything in life as a quid pro quo where you must always end up on the upside of the deal?

I'm pretty sure that the cheap, tacky "hostess" is viewing this as a quid pro quo.

Why should she foot the bill for an open-invitation block party?

Because she is organizing and hosting it. If you charge people then provide all of the food and drinks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree this sounds tacky. It shouldn’t cost my family of 4 $80 for homemade burgers. And what’s a block party without some sort of entertainment? The ones in our neighborhood have had things like a bounce house, live music, games, an ice cream truck.

IMO the organizer should expect to pay for most of the party but say something like “contributions welcome.”

If it's truly a block party, the organizer should not be on the hook to pay for "most" of it. Perhaps this organizer is overcharging, but she certainly does not owe the community an open-invitation party on her dime.

It’s not truly a block party - that’s the point. The hostess wants the social cachet of being the block party organizer with doing none of the actual work of organizing.

But she's inviting all of you randos. It sounds like she's organizing something. Maybe OP should volunteer to help set up the entertainment.

She should just actually host a party, crazy thought!

Why doesn't OP just host a party?