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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]16:34, the beautiful thing about an invitation is that you are free to accept or decline. If an event feels like too much hassle to you, all you have to do is check "decline" and you're done. voila - your day is now free to do your "daily activities," and the hosts will save the $75 or $100 that they were going to spend on your child's attendance at the bat mitzvah. [/quote]

Its a huge imposition to expect the parents to drive and drop off two different venues and find something to do during that time while the child is there.  OP should do back to back and rent a bus if no parents are invited.[/quote]

It's a huge milestone lifecycle event for a jewish child. In addition to the kids coming, lots of extended family come in from out of town. It's not a 7 year olds pizza and bowling party so please you sound insane saying its a "huge imposition" the family is having an evening party with the morning service.[/quote]

I know what it is but if you do not include parents you should provide transportation to the party site and be reasonable.  For a best friend fine, but not a classmate my kid is barely friends with. [/quote]

It's very nice your kid was invited. Your kid is not required to say yes to the invite. Think of it as 2 parties --- because let's be clear they are feeding your child two meals. A bus costs an additional 600 for our event on top of the 40k for everything else. What are you giving as a gift $36. Be thankful they invited your child. Some people are obnoxious and you seem like one of them.[/quote]

I wouldn't brag about crappy catered food that has been sitting for hours.  My kid would not eat it so its a non-issue and we'd feed before they went.  If they choose to spend $40K that is their choice and an extra $600 at that point is no big deal.  That is why we are not having one.  That's a year's worth of college.  [/quote]

Hey you are the one that is complaining on here about driving to the synagogue and the night party. I am always happy to drive my child to a bar or bat mitzvah so they can experience this life cycle event. Sounds like you have some internal issues around not having a bar/bat mitzvah and party for your own child. I know several people who didn't want to spend the money on synagogue dues, religious school and in your case driving to those things and later when their kid was invited to other kids bar mitzvah parties, all of a sudden their kid wanted one. The good news is you can be 80 years old and have a bar mitzvah then! As to your comment about 40k for college instead of a bar mitzvah, how about saving 160,000 per kid for college and I think it's 260,000 to raise a child until age 18, just don't have kids. Be child free and you want have any kids expenses.[/quote]

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