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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if people don't like to host in their homes, they should definitely invite you out to a restaurant to reciprocate.[/quote]

I can’t afford that. I make less than half what most of my friends make. Much less than half. I can’t afford the wines you’re going to order. We don’t eat meat or appetizers when we go out to eat. My friends know we have different means, but I suspect they don’t completely “get” it.[/quote]

Then invite them to your house for cocktails.  Open a bottle of wine and put out some cheese and crackers from Aldi.

It's not hard.[/quote]

Have people over for cookies and cocoa on a weekend afternoon, a few people over for a weeknight dinner-that gives a good excuses to say "it's just going to be super casual with salad, bread, and soup, but we really wanted to spend time with you." host a potluck-I know it's very divisive on DCUM but I get invited to plenty and enjoy them. This is probably harder to pull off if you are a young single. If you have kids, it's easy to keep it simple and say your doing it for the kids. But, if you have no friends who would enjoy some kind of budget gathering, you need to make some new frienships.[/quote]

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