She Put Her Foot Down And Refused To Shell Out Nearly $1,000 For Her Sister’s Baby Shower
While it’s great to assist your close friends and relatives in planning big events like baby showers and weddings, you shouldn’t be pressured into spending too much money on them.
One woman recently had to put her foot down and refused to spend over $1,000 to help her little sister pay for her baby shower venue.
She’s 31, and her younger sister is pregnant with her first baby. She’s very happy for her sister and thrilled to become an aunt.
Unfortunately, she doesn’t get to see her sister as often as she’d like since she lives on the other side of the country from her family.
However, she decided to do whatever she could to help her sister during her pregnancy.
A few months ago, even though she couldn’t attend in person, she was asked to help plan her sister’s gender reveal party.
She did everything from the other side of the country, virtually inviting guests, purchasing a gender reveal cake, decorations, customized T-shirts, and more.
She attended the party virtually, and when it was finally over, she had spent around $300.
After the gender reveal party, she figured most of her expensive duties were over with, but as it turned out, her sister expected more from her.
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“My sister and mom have begun the baby shower, and I’ve been included in conversations here and there to see what I thought about the theme and food ideas,” she explained.
“Let’s just say this baby shower sounds like it’s going to be expensive.”
Although she had done so much for the gender reveal party, she wanted to volunteer to do a few things for the big shower, so she volunteered to buy stuff for fun games and bake some desserts when she arrived in town.
Then, she found out that her mom wanted to rent a venue for the party so they could host more people. The venue ended up costing $1,600 and would serve food.
Then, her mom suddenly called her and told her their family would be splitting the cost of the venue. She, her mom, and her grandma were expected to split the venue price while her sister didn’t have to pay for it.
The cost of the venue would be a little over $500 for her share, and she was shocked to find out that this was the plan.
“I think it’s unreasonable to expect me to shell out that much money for the venue and food costs when I’m already going to spend [over] $400 to fly across the country, and I’m already helping out with games and desserts,” she explained.
She explained these feelings to her mom and said she was going to put her foot down because she felt like she was being taken advantage of, and she was upset about how she was expected to spend more money than everyone else.
Is she being unreasonable, or was she right to refuse to pay for the venue?
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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