"Treat"

[Ginfizplease]

If you get invited out for a treat for your birthday or other special occasion, should you be expected to pay for yourself? For example, invited for a birthday meal out as a treat or to have a beauty treatment?

Erm, no?

It depends who's doing the inviting.

A friend. Wants to do something to celebrate an achievement of mine. Just the two of us as treat. When something similar happened a couple of years ago the friend wanted to treat me to something but when we were there the freind just paid for themself

ive been invited out for a birthday treat on monday but i had to pay out for something over the weekend so told my sister i may have to cancel, she “oh il pay for you then” which obviously meant she wasnt going to originally. It depends on the person i guess.

I wouldn’t expect to pay if someone said they would treat me .

However , you know your friend doesn’t think this way , so if you go , remember to take your purse !

Perhaps she means celebrate the achievement with you but can't afford to treat you?

Yes your probably right. Maybe friend can't afford to. Thing is, I'm not too bothered about celebrating it!

Well to treat someone means to pay for them, as in “ this one’s my treat” , or “ Don’t worry I’ll treat you”.
But “ a treat” is also doing something nice, so there is some ambiguity. Kids get treats all the time, when their whole life is funded by others.

I'd just say, "Sorry, bit broke at the moment" and see what she says. If she's treating you, she should be paying, otherwise it's not a treat, is it?!