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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am already paying $500 a summer for membership and that is the full extent of our pool budget. [/quote]

I'm sorry, but that is the most ridiculous excuse I have ever heard.  If you are in a situation where you can shell out $500 for a pool membership, I am guessing that you can find $15 from another part of your family budget to pay for your guests.  If you don't want to pay because you feel you shouldn't have to, that's one thing, but don't pretend you don't have the money.[/quote]

Not the OP, but we do not have $15 in "some other part of our family budget" to host guests at the pool.  My kids don't go to camp, we don't eat out, we don't pay to go to kids' shows or movies, we don't take family vacations, we don't have cable TV: the pool is what we do in the summer and there is no "other part" of our family budget to host guests on a regular basis.  Believe what you want to believe, but not everyone just writes off the pool as one more thing among many that we're spending our enormous piles of money on.  We do have one couple with whom we are longtime friends and with whom we regularly get together for dinner; in the summer those get-togethers often happen at our pool and we do pay for them.  However, that relationship is one where we are often sharing the buying of food or beer/wine, so that is already built into the dynamic of our relationship.

I am happy to offer someone access to our pool that they would not already have, but I'm clear that's what I'm offering, not a "playdate" in the sense that we have an obligation to pay.  Truthfully, the kids are hardly ever in the same place at the same time when we're at the pool, so it's very different than hosting at someone's house.[/quote]

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