(Writing for a friend who needs advice)
Me and my partner are the first ones who have an apartment. We have a group we hang out with most of them live with their parents. We usually don’t do dinner party’s since to much work and cleaning and it costs money. So we usually have a party here once a while. One of my guy friends asked like «yea when are guys gonna invite over for some christmas food?». Me and my partner do this lil thing where we treat ourself with some good homemade christmas food every year in december. But we had no plans in dinner parties with others, I told my friend that its to expensive and he asked «but what if everyone payed their share?»
My other friend agreed with me that its expensive. And we can rather do something else that dosn’t have to be expensive. I guess some people like the thought of coming to a fully set table with food and drinks without doing anything.
I thought it was normal for the host to invite to these dinner stuff not the guests inviting themself and try to plan in someone elses home.