Anonymous wrote:Wow, this conversation is crazy. I'll one-up you, OP. I'm having a mid-afternoon home birthday party for my DD in January, and I'm only serving cake. I just don't want to deal with the hassle of coordinating and buying other food.

I mentioned it in the invitation, and everyone still accepted!

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Anonymous wrote:What makes a party a "grab fest?" Are you implying that if the party doesn't cost the host enough money, it looks like a gift grab? If the host provides an afternoon of fun for your child, enjoying a good time with his/her friends and the birthday child, you may take offense and think the hostess was selfish and classless if she didn't do it according to your standards? I really hope you keep those judgments to yourself and don't pass them on to your child, complaining in the car on the way home. All your kid wants is to have fun and the host made that happen. It's just that simple.

Exactly dang right. She is classless and grabless and not up to any standard. These are not my judgements, these are accepted social rules of conduct, try reading a bit and not being ignorant. I am certainly teaching my children how to act classy, properly and do things the right way. Nobody raised right would defend classless behavior as you do.

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Anonymous wrote:What makes a party a "grab fest?" Are you implying that if the party doesn't cost the host enough money, it looks like a gift grab? If the host provides an afternoon of fun for your child, enjoying a good time with his/her friends and the birthday child, you may take offense and think the hostess was selfish and classless if she didn't do it according to your standards? I really hope you keep those judgments to yourself and don't pass them on to your child, complaining in the car on the way home. All your kid wants is to have fun and the host made that happen. It's just that simple.

Exactly dang right. She is classless and grabless and not up to any standard. These are not my judgements, these are accepted social rules of conduct, try reading a bit and not being ignorant. I am certainly teaching my children how to act classy, properly and do things the right way. Nobody raised right would defend classless behavior as you do.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, this conversation is crazy. I'll one-up you, OP. I'm having a mid-afternoon home birthday party for my DD in January, and I'm only serving cake. I just don't want to deal with the hassle of coordinating and buying other food.

I mentioned it in the invitation, and everyone still accepted!

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Anonymous wrote:What makes a party a "grab fest?" Are you implying that if the party doesn't cost the host enough money, it looks like a gift grab? If the host provides an afternoon of fun for your child, enjoying a good time with his/her friends and the birthday child, you may take offense and think the hostess was selfish and classless if she didn't do it according to your standards? I really hope you keep those judgments to yourself and don't pass them on to your child, complaining in the car on the way home. All your kid wants is to have fun and the host made that happen. It's just that simple.

Exactly dang right. She is classless and grabless and not up to any standard. These are not my judgements, these are accepted social rules of conduct, try reading a bit and not being ignorant. I am certainly teaching my children how to act classy, properly and do things the right way. Nobody raised right would defend classless behavior as you do.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, this conversation is crazy. I'll one-up you, OP. I'm having a mid-afternoon home birthday party for my DD in January, and I'm only serving cake. I just don't want to deal with the hassle of coordinating and buying other food.

I mentioned it in the invitation, and everyone still accepted!

Anonymous wrote:What makes a party a "grab fest?" Are you implying that if the party doesn't cost the host enough money, it looks like a gift grab? If the host provides an afternoon of fun for your child, enjoying a good time with his/her friends and the birthday child, you may take offense and think the hostess was selfish and classless if she didn't do it according to your standards? I really hope you keep those judgments to yourself and don't pass them on to your child, complaining in the car on the way home. All your kid wants is to have fun and the host made that happen. It's just that simple.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been to and seen birthday parties at the park for kids with ton of food served. OP, you are cheap as hell and grabby.

The OP isn't having her party at a park, but at a venue that prohibits outside food. I imagine she could do a park party with lots of food cheaper than she is doing her laser tag/bounce party. She is giving the kids an experience much more exciting than a standard playground.

Moreover, it's winter. Would you really prefer to have an outdoors smorgasbord picnic in January or February? I imagine the number of invitees who declined that party would make it really cheap.

She's giving the kids an exciting adventure, a chance to play with their friends, and cake. It sounds like a great time for the kids. While kids always welcome sugar, I suspect they would rather play than eat anyway.

What rubbish, she can spend all that money on laser tag but can't purchase some snacks from the place like chips and pretzels? Cheap is cheap, no manners is no manners. I think all the people saying no need to even some snacks are mannerless, cheap a**holes.

You talk about her spending "all that money", but then you accuse her of being cheap. The venue doesn't allow snacks like chips and pretzels.

To me the cheap ones here are the parents who won't buy chips or pretzels for their own kids to eat in the car so they don't go into a party hungry. The ones with a lack of manners are the ones who complains that the nice afternoon someone is offering your child just isn't enough.

Wow, just wow! We should all feed our kids in the car on the way to a BIRTHDAY Party, so cheap ass parents can save a few bucks? It is so sad how little perspective you have and how stupid you sound. It is sad you have kids. She is being cheap, no doubt you are her. It doesn't matter that kids might not eat it, what matters is that she acts like a proper hostess. When you do something, do you it RIGHT, or not at all. If you can't understand that, never, ever host anything.

I'll bet your kids are fat. I'll bet you are fat. No normal human focuses this much on food. Kids can go a couple of hours without a meal.

Hope they don't let you near the cake!

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Anonymous wrote:I have been to and seen birthday parties at the park for kids with ton of food served. OP, you are cheap as hell and grabby.

The OP isn't having her party at a park, but at a venue that prohibits outside food. I imagine she could do a park party with lots of food cheaper than she is doing her laser tag/bounce party. She is giving the kids an experience much more exciting than a standard playground.

Moreover, it's winter. Would you really prefer to have an outdoors smorgasbord picnic in January or February? I imagine the number of invitees who declined that party would make it really cheap.

She's giving the kids an exciting adventure, a chance to play with their friends, and cake. It sounds like a great time for the kids. While kids always welcome sugar, I suspect they would rather play than eat anyway.

What rubbish, she can spend all that money on laser tag but can't purchase some snacks from the place like chips and pretzels? Cheap is cheap, no manners is no manners. I think all the people saying no need to even some snacks are mannerless, cheap a**holes.

You talk about her spending "all that money", but then you accuse her of being cheap. The venue doesn't allow snacks like chips and pretzels.

To me the cheap ones here are the parents who won't buy chips or pretzels for their own kids to eat in the car so they don't go into a party hungry. The ones with a lack of manners are the ones who complains that the nice afternoon someone is offering your child just isn't enough.

Wow, just wow! We should all feed our kids in the car on the way to a BIRTHDAY Party, so cheap ass parents can save a few bucks? It is so sad how little perspective you have and how stupid you sound. It is sad you have kids. She is being cheap, no doubt you are her. It doesn't matter that kids might not eat it, what matters is that she acts like a proper hostess. When you do something, do you it RIGHT, or not at all. If you can't understand that, never, ever host anything.