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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m always happy to contribute and I think most parents want to. Asking for money is tacky though. If you really want people to contribute, I’d do a grocery list in a Google sheet and ask people to sign up to bring things. It’s annoying to have to buy and pack groceries to send but as a parent, I’d still gladly do it knowing that my kid will be eating there all week. [/quote]

It’s not about money, [b]choosy beggar, [/b]it’s about sharing the effort as a group. I guess you’re the mom that makes Google spreadsheets. To be fair, that’s more embarrassing than asking teens to buy what they want to eat, but you do you. It’s dumb, but don’t let that stop you from doing it next time you’re hosting seven for a week, which will never happen anyways, because as we all know choosy beggar generosity is very limited.

The rest of us sane people will take the teens to the grocery store in the first day, everyone puts in the cart what they want to eat and in the end divide the bill fairly. No need to “gladly” bring groceries from home, no expectation for you to send scented candles and aromatic oils, or to have your kid treat everyone with frozen pizza one of the nights to show their appreciation, or to set up a Google spreadsheet trying to figure out who wants what cereal in the morning.

It’s obvious you’ve never done a hosting like this, so it’s funny how you have all these cumbersome ideas and suggestions on how the host should run her house on top of judging and badmouthing her as tacky. If you want to see low class, cheap, trashy and tacky, look in the mirror. [/quote]

Every time you type this idiotic catch phrase, you look dumber and dumber. If that’s your goal, please, do continue.[/quote]

You are a choosy beggar, it’s pretty much the textbook example. A choosy beggar wants something that is expensive, the beach vacation, for free, and complains when they have to contribute a small amount that only befits themselves, the groceries.

How is that not choosy begging? It is 100% choosy begging.[/quote]

The kids are not asking for the trip.  Op is offering the trip to entertain her child. It’s not expensive as they own the house and are using it.  You can get $7 pizzas at pizza hut.  5 pizzas is not very much.  Get a few boxes of pasta and sauce.  $10-15 max.  Eggs and pancake mix, $10 too.   It’s not hard to feed kids cheaply.  [/quote]

What are you talking about? Of course the kids are asking. They aren't 5 and it's not like OP was going to go alone to the beach and needs all these people to entertain her kid. You're in some kind of little kid mindset because that's your life.

This is like if a group of friends decided to take a weekend trip together and discussed various resorts or AirBnBs until someone said "why don't we use my beach house". The takers in here would appear to think that means that friend is "the host" and now all expenses are on them. Versus that person just offering up the house to save everyone else some money and hassle. This person was never going to foot the bill for this type of trip. The right thing to do is offer chip in for all the food and supplies and if they were actually nice the friends would cover the home owners portion as a thank you for sharing her home.[/quote]

This isn’t similar to a group of adults taking a vacation together.  Op owns the house and invited the kids.  And, now wants to be paid for it. [/quote]

Nope. The kids clearly came up with this plan. 17 yr olds make the plans you don’t have an older teen.[/quote]

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