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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up working class and am now UMC. I'm the only one of my siblings who is UMC, although two of the others are MC now. I live in DC and they all still live in middle America.

If we are eating someplace they normally go when we're not around, and it's just 1-2 of us from my little family, my parents will often pay. Same is true if they're picking up take out from one of their usual restaurants for just 1 or 2 of us. But if we go somewhere "fancy" then I pay for everyone, including all siblings and their little families. A bill of $40/person isn't a big deal for me, but it would be way more than what they are accustomed to spending. I don't want for them to ever look upon a visit from us as something that costs them money. But I also don't want to be limited in where we eat/go by their finances. I also pay for hotels and often gas money if we're going to do a side trip while we're visiting them in Middle America. Over the past summer when we visited, I paid for everyone to take a weekend beach trip and covered all the major costs. They got their own sodas or snacks along the way. But if say we decide to take the kids mini-golfing at the beach, or rent a charter boat, I cover all of that.

Also, now that the nephews and nieces are preteens, I will usually give them about $40 each to spend during our excursions. My own kid is used to having pocket money for popcorn or other vacation junk, and I don't want for the rest of the kids to feel left out or for him to stand out too much.

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