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[quote=Anonymous]We have my daughter’s friends with us at our beach house for weekends all the time. We are doing it again this weekend. My text to the parents was “hey, if you could send your kids with money for breakfast at a coffee shop both mornings and any souvenir they might want, that would be great. We will handle everything else.” If any of these parents think I’m tacky, I don’t care. They certainly continue to let their daughters come over and over.

The coffee shop thing is because my daughter gets them all at of bed early to watch the sunrise and walk on their own to a coffee shop. These girls feel super independent (this started in 6th grade). The parents is usually send snacks and drinks on their own. They usually offer to Venmo me also, and I just point back to my “just some money with your kid for breakfast” statement.

To the point about a girls trip, I agree with this poster also. One of my best friends brings her family every summer to our beach house. They fly across the country. They don’t think I’m paying for everything during that week. That would be stupid. I don’t even know which one of us brings it up but we end up each paying for different things. Two of my girl friends come one weekend each year at the beach, I don’t pay for everything.

I think people who are all “you are hosting and this is so tacky” might be the same people who are so caught up in formality they end up with less social life. I realize there are exceptions. But generally, if you are willing to be like “hey come over, pot luck style” you will have a much larger social life. My husband and I function like this and we have six couples over once a month, host a huge game night once or twice a year, have movie nights with small groups, I host book club a few times a year, etc. I wonder if a lot of people who talk about having a hard time making friends get too caught up in formalities. Your house doesn’t have to be perfect, you can just order pizza and you can ask people to bring their own drinks — everyone will survive and likely have a great time.[/quote]

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