I agree. Maybe they are just grumpy Scrooge types who didn’t want to bother anyway. Everyone brings dishes to share, the typical dishes are not expensive, just doesn’t make sense.
Well exactly - there’s enough misery in the news to fill a stadium and then some. ...so I see this article as a ploy to increase that misery - certainly not to encourage people.
I’m so glad I was raised to be inventive and improvise. ...also to be challenged. We may have been poor but as kids we didn’t know that.