Is it just me?
I am wondering what some other opinions are about this....so far everyone I have talked to agrees with me... but then I have not talked to the direct party as of yet...only in an email response.
I have a large extended family and we are all very close. Next month we are all going to Idaho and renting a "house" on a lake for a week long vacation. We are all going in on it and sharing in the cost. I guess you could say that there are 6 families going.
The families are defined as...
1. Myself and Steve
2. Rachel (my sister)
3. Trevor (my brother)
4. The Smiths (family of 3 including 2 adults and 1 school age child)
5. The Johnsons (family of 5 including two adults, 2 school age kids, 1 baby)
6. The Petersons (family of 4 including two adults, 2 teenages)
I got the email today letting us know what the costs were and notifying us that the money needs to be paid by the first of the month.
From: Mrs Johnson
I need to collect $460 each from the Smiths, Petersons and Kylee. Kylee I think we told Rachel and Trevor that they were to pay $100 each. I need to pay the balance by the 1st.
MMMMM does that seem extreme to anyone else? I was moody at the time of the email and said ok but that I will have to skip the next family vacation. Myself and Steve can not afford to pay equal amounts to the other families. I have full time daycare costs and receive no support. I was very moody...but I think the fair way to do this is to either pay equally per adult or pay equally per head not counting the baby. But maybe I am not thinking about this realistically.
I already talked to Rachel and we agreed that if Trevor agrees we will combine our total amount and split it 4 ways. I think that is fair for us anyway. I really kind of don't like to stick up for myself and I don't think I did it correctly here...but I said something instead of just taking what I thought was not really fair.
What do you think? How would you handle it?
Thanks
I have a large extended family and we are all very close. Next month we are all going to Idaho and renting a "house" on a lake for a week long vacation. We are all going in on it and sharing in the cost. I guess you could say that there are 6 families going.
The families are defined as...
1. Myself and Steve
2. Rachel (my sister)
3. Trevor (my brother)
4. The Smiths (family of 3 including 2 adults and 1 school age child)
5. The Johnsons (family of 5 including two adults, 2 school age kids, 1 baby)
6. The Petersons (family of 4 including two adults, 2 teenages)
I got the email today letting us know what the costs were and notifying us that the money needs to be paid by the first of the month.
From: Mrs Johnson
I need to collect $460 each from the Smiths, Petersons and Kylee. Kylee I think we told Rachel and Trevor that they were to pay $100 each. I need to pay the balance by the 1st.
MMMMM does that seem extreme to anyone else? I was moody at the time of the email and said ok but that I will have to skip the next family vacation. Myself and Steve can not afford to pay equal amounts to the other families. I have full time daycare costs and receive no support. I was very moody...but I think the fair way to do this is to either pay equally per adult or pay equally per head not counting the baby. But maybe I am not thinking about this realistically.
I already talked to Rachel and we agreed that if Trevor agrees we will combine our total amount and split it 4 ways. I think that is fair for us anyway. I really kind of don't like to stick up for myself and I don't think I did it correctly here...but I said something instead of just taking what I thought was not really fair.
What do you think? How would you handle it?
Thanks
posted by Kylee at
6:36 PM
4 Comments:
Very kind of Trevor and Rachel to do that. However, it really shouldn't have come to that. You should be also paying the $100 like your brother and sister. Blind freddie can see you are being unfairly treated.
If you can afford to split 4 ways, then do so....and make sure Mrs Johnson knows!!! Otherwise, i'd pull out, that is just ridiculous, but i think you already know that!
Well, unless you're getting the master suite with a private deck and hot tub, plus your own private pool- then i'm with Michelle and Rose.
Divided per person sounds like a very fair idea; how its divided now is NOT.
Crazy, I think it should be spread out equally. How hard is it to figure out the total amount of the bill divided by the amount of people going. I think that is a more fair way to determine the cost. good luck!
how handy for the johnsons that a family of 5 pays the same as a family of 2...
i say if rachel and trevor are adults, they ought to be paying more.
seems fair to set a certain price per adult, a lower price per kid, and divide it up that way.
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