Surely, I'm not the only one....?

[purr]

last time I had a pampered chef party I spent more on the food than I got in the free stuff.
I'm an overacheiver when it comes to feeding people.

My daughter says I'm throwing my friend a shower can I have it at your house.

No that would be me throwing your friend a shower!

 

[3peeps]

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It's like friends begging for money, sometimes. I have a friend who has been both a Pampered Chef consultant and an Usborne consultant. Her mom is an Avon one. It's ENDLESS the amount of advertisements that come, and then "offers" to host parties, go to parties, get your friends to go to parties. I also got a formal typed request for tuition money in her Christmas card this year...her third round of schooling. I also got a catalogue passed to me for a party selling adult "stuff". Honest to pete, I am not sitting with ANYONE and admitting to anything, much less making a public purchase with a bunch of freaky girls who think everything should be public knowledge. I respect myself and my husband much more than that. Off of soapbox, now!

 

[BearSwampChick]

Hate showers, hate the stupid games, hate the awful cake, hate the selling parties! Nice to know I'm not the only one.

And, citygirlinthecountry, I think after you've been married 36 years (me), it should be common practice to have separate rooms, at least. The snoring, the bathroom trips in the night, etc. When's a girl supposed to get a good night's sleep?

Man, do I sound crabby!

 

[purr]

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It's like friends begging for money, sometimes. I have a friend who has been both a Pampered Chef consultant and an Usborne consultant. Her mom is an Avon one. It's ENDLESS the amount of advertisements that come, and then "offers" to host parties, go to parties, get your friends to go to parties. I also got a formal typed request for tuition money in her Christmas card this year...her third round of schooling. I also got a catalogue passed to me for a party selling adult "stuff". Honest to pete, I am not sitting with ANYONE and admitting to anything, much less making a public purchase with a bunch of freaky girls who think everything should be public knowledge. I respect myself and my husband much more than that. Off of soapbox, now!

DD used to sell:Athena's . lol I got some good deals

 

[English Chick]

We don't have that kind of thing in the UK, the only showers we have are rain showers..........but I sympathise with you for not wanting to go.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

English Chick, do you have any kind of party or event to fete the bride-to-be, or mother-to-be?

 

[kodiakchicken]

I agree with the overwhelming sentiments here! While I LOVE getting together with friends, I hate the formal, look - aren't we sophisticated parties. I mean, c'mon! I know these women and they are usually blue jean wearing, down in the dirt, cussing up a storm types. Don't sit around a circle and expect me to act differently than I am just because you put on expensive clothes and are sipping wine instead of beer tonight. I don't buy the bull.

My biggest pet peeve though are weddings. I love a good wedding, but I am so sick of going to (and being in) wedding where I have spent money on an outfit, taken time off work and maybe even travelled to have the bride act like she doesn't know me and become a total, raving B-TCH - just because it's "her" day. I have friends who are no longer friends because of their behaviour at their weddings. The last one I went to was for a very good friend and employee of mine but was only 18 years old. I was her maid of honor and after about the fifth time she blew her stack over something stupid and yelled at her mother (who had paid for and busted her behind putting the whole thing together) I told her that if I heard one more word out of her I was going to punch her in the mouth and walk out the door.

I vowed when I got married that it would be just as fun for everyone else as it was for me - and it was. We had our reception in a fair building, put up a minimal amount of decorations, served baked beans, ham and potatoe salad and sang karaoke. It was the best!

 

[purr]

kodiak , are you my long lost sister . punch her in the face , that is sooo me.

 

[English Chick]

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Yes we do, for the Bride to Be, it is a "Hen Night" but not to receive gifts, purely to go out on the "town" with her friends and have a good time. For mums to be - nope nothing - except when she has had the baby we buy the child a gift, no party or fuss. Nothing by invitation, you quite literally call at the house when the mother is back from hospital, (but manners to wait a couple of days before you go) have a cup of tea and hand over the gift for the child. All done and dusted. We do celebrate the child's christening though with a formal party and little christening gifts.

 

[Lunachick]

That's very interesting English Chick, btw, Welcome to BYC!

How about those candle parties? (((YAWN)))

And....I have a neighbor that has a child about 10 yrs old. Every weekend, there is a party to attend. It's all about the gift, who gave the gift, how good/bad it was etc. All trying to outdo the other with the party and gift.

Boy, those kids are learning some good basics in life...