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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The same amount you'd have given if you'd gone. I've never given less than $200.

A lot of people here are cheap though, because they're from the Midwest and they'll wear to you that $18 is totally fine. [/quote]

Excuse me.  Your comment about people from the Midwest is bigoted and simply untrue. Who else do you unfairly stereotype.  Care to share?? [/quote]

I disagree.  I think it is bigoted and absolutely accurate.  [/quote]

I would agree that that is the mindset of Midwesterners being one myself, but it isn't about being cheap. It is about both valuing the correct things (people not money) and recognizing that [b]no child of 13 needs a gift of that size for any occasion. It is vulgar especially in conjunction with a ceremony that is supposed to one that is a celebration of the spiritual.[/b] [/quote]

I don't think you truly understand what a bar/bat mitzvah is.  You're just pulling excuses out of your ass to justify your cheap, Midwestern ways of thinking.  It's not vulgar.  Kids put this money away for college - nobody's blowing it on Starbucks.[/quote]

So wait, please clarify:  Is this a celebration of a religious milestone or a go fund me for college? You don't have to agree with me but I am of the opinion as are many others that it is vulgar to raise children both with the expectation that people are to just give them money and that their sacred religious milestone is essentially a money grab. [/quote]

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