Having people over can really be expensive. I just looked at our bank account, and we spent close to $300 to have 20 people over for dinner on saturday. That's a lot! I mean, it's for turkey, ham, veggies and such and also, booze and paper products. But still, wow, i didn't realize it.
However, that's less than $14 per person (including you and Austin), which is really pretty reasonable. Plus, no tip!
hmm that's true. i definitely agree with the idea of asking everyone to bring something, though.
I've taught Lauren to ALWAYS say "we'll bring dessert". It's so easy - buy some Entenmann's for like $5 - BAM. DONE. Lauren was previously baking for everything we got invited to ... i'm like "let's keep it easy, and focus on eating someone else's food"
maybe i'm a bad influence
No, that's actually good. Jesus said to Martha: โMartha, Martha, you are anxious and disturbed about many things."
yea, that is def true, but when you go out to dinner w/ 20 people, you usually don't foot the bill. haha
it's not that i'm unhappy we did it. Everything was really nice and everyone had a good time. And sometimes i think it's easier to have a bunch of people over at once than 4 or 6 at a time, cuz then it takes a lot longer to get around to different ones in the cong. We are trying eventually to have everyone over at one point or another, and we have 14 elders and 150 publishers, so that'll take a while.
You just kinda deceive yourself when you go to the liquor store one day, sam's club the next and the grocery store the last, you don't realize how much you're spending. lol
Whoa... That's why you ask people to bring something with them. Haha...
Actually, every couple/family that came brought either a side dish, wine or dessert. I do think i made too much food, cuz i'm always paranoid that i'm not going to have enough, so i made a 20 lb turkey and a 12 lb ham, and like 5 lbs of green beans. Haha, i chalk it up to making way too much food because i'm italian and i like to make people eat, but i think it's really because i can't judge it well. lol
Haha... Everyone brought stuff and you still spent that much! Wow...
its so weird. i was just checking my banking account because we had like 20 people over and i'm thinking....wait how much did i spend? was yours because you got the free turkey from shoprite?
dang i wanna have a big dinner and i don't think i can fit 20 people at my house AND i cannot spend $300 in one night in the winter when i have almost no work ha
well, my house is not very big, we just had people in the kitchen & set up a table in the living room.
Also, something that i have to remember is that you don't have to have people over for a big dinner, you can make it at like 7pm instead of 5pm,(like after dinner-ish time) and just do appetizers and desserts or something. I will prob do that next time.