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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m so out of loop I guess. 5K for a bar mitzvah is considered budget ? [/quote]

In 1988, my sister's bat mitzvah cost $70,000. There were 200 people.[/quote]

And hopefully you realize that was way out of the range of normal![/quote]

It was actually completely normal and in line with all the bar and bat mitzvah's I'd been going to my entire life up to that point, and all the ones I've been to since. NY, NJ, CT, MA and LA do these on a different level.  [/quote]

70k/200 people has never been normal. Maybe in your small circle of very wealthy people. [/quote]

These are just UMC and MC families. Not "very wealthy" people. There are people who saved for years to provide that. If that's not your way, it's fine. Everyone does what works for them.[/quote]

No they were not MC families. That is over $250k in 2024 dollars. [/quote]

Did you miss the part where I said some people saved for years? MY parents were middle class, living in an UMC area. They saved for almost ten years for my sister's bat mitzvah. We, as a family, sacrificed a lot for that weekend. [/quote]

In my experience as a 50-year-old Jew who has only lived in the biggest, wealthiest cities in the US, middle class Jewish people don't save for years for a party they can't afford. They save for years for educational expenses and for their homes, but not for blow-out parties.

Maybe your parents were lousy financial planners, PP? I've only seen really expensive bar mitzvah parties from actually wealthy families. [/quote]

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