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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please, please post one of the replies from the mother. I have to know how she defended this craziness. [/quote]

I can't bring myself to post them verbatim but basically my mom friend fired off an email that said to the effect please don't send out invites to a kids bday party that are really home sale parties.  Then went on to talk about  how rude, disrespectful and wrong this was. Follow up emails from other parents started and they said  how this was a terrible thing and shameful, some said they would never send their kid to such a party, how terrible home party sales were, which companies were really bad and why they were bad and then how terrible the parents were to exploit children.

The host mom then sent an email about how she was just tying to give her DD a fun bday party and no one was obligated to buy anything. This went back and forth with parents pointing out that there would be pressure to buy. Then host mom said she thought it was terrible that everyone was sitting on their "f*ing pedestals" and passing judgement on her and her family and[b] how her sister had fallen on hard times and wouldn't anyone do the same to help a family member by hosting a party to help her start her business,[/b] how upset her DD was and was hiding in her room, and how people go to hell for acting this way, and also threw in some more F bombs here and there and then lastly mentioned a couple moms by name who had been pretty mean in their emails that if they had a problem with her that she was free to meet up with her outside at drop off in the morning.  So far no showdown has occurred though.

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OK, so this seals the deal for me. Clearly, the party host and her sister were hoping to make some money, and NOT just trying to have a fun birthday party.

I almost felt bad for the mom there for a second. Had her intent been just to throw a makeover party, with some goodie bags for sale...bad, but maybe forgivable.

I think the worst part about these parties is that the seller pushes her wares by reminding everybody that the host (your friend, sister, relative) gets extra loot if you buy more, more, more AND even more discounts if one of you agrees to host another party. Don't you want to do that for your good dear friend? AND if you host a party, you get awesome discounts, but wait, if you pressure YOUR friends into buying more, and hosting a party, YOU get even more loot! Isn't this so fun? Ugh. I cannot imagine that type of sale to a bunch of 11 year old girls. I know a 20-year-old who agreed to a stupid jewelry party because she was immature and naive, and felt too guilty to say no. (Her mom is my friend, and was the one who wound up doing most of the work to host the party, just begging people to come so it wouldn't be a total disaster.)[/quote]
Had you even thought that maybe the mom said this out of frustration after being backed into a corner by the bully moms? The party idea was a bad idea, it was not a crime, it was in poor taste, but that possibly could have been rectified and changed if someone had just been kind and considerate enough to reach out to her. But hey why do that when you can degrade and humiliate the mom at the daughter's expense. WAY TO FUCKING GO![/quote]

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