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[quote=Anonymous]We budget so we can be generous- in situations where it is needed- and don't accept invitations or events where covering the whole check or whatever would break our budget.

It's not about the budget. They are just cheap. Budgeting is saying this is what I have, and this is what I am comfortable spending and making decisions based off of those parameters. Including whether to accept invitations or not.

We dont host for lots of reasons: the size of our house, the lack of backyard amenities, etc. I do drop off baskets for new mothers and have dinner delivered/donations made for other types of life events. We do bring gifts or small tokens to the hosts and offer to bring food/drink to daytime events. If we go out to evening events, we will usually buy a round or cover the taxi, etc.  We have gone to dinner for a birthday and then been surprised by needing to chip in to cover the birthday couple, an event that has never been reciprocated for either of our birthdays. The latter is an invitation we won't accept in the future because instead of a 100-125 dinner plus babysitter we ended up close to 350 plus babysitter. The "budget" got adjusted for that and so did our future responses for similar events because we do not budget $500 for a Friday night out with friends. And because of our incomes and other financial responsibilities $500 is a lot. Some people may find us cheap because we balk at a $500 dinner.

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