Sisanie's Sister Is Hosting, But Wants the Family to Split Thanksgiving Cost

Is this fair or tacky? Sisanie's sister wants the family to help pay for Thanksgiving dinner costs.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, Thanksgivings almost here. Also, by the way, if you're
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So Thanksgiving is upon us.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
You know.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
For me, we're all in different places trying to get
everybody that can get together together.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
But my sister goes with her husband's family.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
You know, my parents don't travel as easily as they
used to travel, and so you know we will be
in as many places as we can, but also in
different places too. So if you are separated from family,
do you like should have put up.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
A screen and eat with them on the screen. On
the screen good?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Or you can go with like friends, go with like
another family, be the guests.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I was just gonna be alone.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
You can come over with us.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
No, I'm not gonna be alone.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
I was like, you can come with us too.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
I would love to come with both of you guys.
If I were to come to yours, sistanty, what would
it be.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Well, you'd have to pay cover fee?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh are you charging?

Speaker 4 (01:06):
I am not charging?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
So my sister claimed Thanksgiving like she usually does.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
She called it. She called it.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
She's like, oh, I would do all host thingsgiving great.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
So that was that.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
And then she decided she.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Doesn't want to cook, so she wants to order all
the food this year, which I've done in the past.
I'd like when I host, we end up like the majority.
Sometimes we just order from Whole Foods or another place,
but we're hosting, so we provide the food for our guests.
So she's because she's buying so much food. She told me.
My brother's like, hey, can we all split it three ways?

(01:37):
And originally I was like sure, whatever, And then she's
making my brother because he has a blended family. His
girlfriend has two kids of her own. He has three
of his own, so she has so he has more.
They are like a party of seven or nine.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Which they pay extra.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
So she's making my brother pay extra.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh no, I understand covering the cost, but don't offered
to host.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
That's what I told her.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I was like, you're the only human that like host Thanksgiving,
and it's making us pay to come inside home.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
To be fair, when we host Thanksgiving, we don't ask
people to pay, but we ask people to bring everybody.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Was her argument. So this is when I told her.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I was like, I'm going to talk about this on
the radio, by the way, and she was like, go
for it. I don't care.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
I stand by it.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
And I said, look, I'm like, she's like, this is
they're reasoning. She said, well, it's like you would bring
a bottle of wine or like a dish, and that's
going to cost you money to make or work and whatever.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
So it's just your kind of be your portion.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
And I'm like, my kids barely eat.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Look, I understand her view, but you and she doesn't
have a fair point about the value of a cast role. Sure,
the value of a side dish plus the time it
takes to prepare.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
And she kind of got a point. How many people
total will it be?

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I think it's probably gonna be somewhere around like twenty
five people.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well that when you have a family that big, you
need some help.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah, for sure, I guess.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
But I would never think to charge people if we
like when we've hosted Christmas, thanksgivings all the things, and
we buy the food.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
You buy the food.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
My brother does it.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
He bought the food.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Should be a entrepreneurial on this and make a profit.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Or you offer to host Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, maybe maybe, but no, it's too much work to
always do it, and that's a lot of people I wouldn't
want to.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
We did Christmas last year and it was like thirty
people had to get a big long table and it
was just.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
You know, a lot.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
I'm like regretting we decided this year not to host
Thanksgiving just because we have so much going on. We're
trying to save money, and now I'm like majorly regretting it.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Like I'm like sad, where are you gonna go? We're
gonna go to San Diego and have dinner just with
my parents. Don't you tell them that?

Speaker 5 (03:36):
No? I mean I'm excited obviously for the quality time,
but I feel like I like hosting the big having everyone.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, I like things starting at eight, the aromas, the preparation. Yeah,
me and my slippers and my matching. You've seen my pajamas,
haven't you.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
I'm I've seen the matching run, the blue ones.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
The blue ones, the blue Yeah, I'll wear my blue pajamas.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh, there's gonna be great football too, and we know
not Thanksgiving is that on Christmas Day?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
One of those?

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well both, I guess Thanksgiving but I was thinking of
a the Beyonce one for Christmas Day.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
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