CF or am I being really tight?

[BudgieIsAHelicopter]

I’ve made face masks for my own/families use. A friend has seen the ones I’ve made and has asked if I’d make him a couple using a fabric of a particular film series if he bought the fabric. I’m happy to do this.

He sent me a link of fabric, I said it wouldn’t work because the pictures on the fabric were too big and it wouldn’t look right when I cut it up so sent a link of one I thought would be better suited. He replied that looks great, do you want me to give you any money for it?

I don’t know why this has really annoyed me 😂 I feel like I’ll look really tight saying yes transfer me the £6 for the fabric so think he knows I’d say don’t worry about it.

If it was me I would have just ordered the fabric myself and not assumed anyone else would pay for something I wanted. For what it’s worth, I would never have asked for money for making the masks, time spent or the elastic that I’d need etc.

I feel annoyed that giving my time to make them isn’t enough, now I need to pay for the privilege of doing it too. And yes I know I’m over reacting and don’t have anything worse to worry about 😂

Value your time and assume that he wants to pay. Of course the ones you made for your own family were for free! This guy’s asking for a bespoke service, cost up the extra time plus the fabric and ask him to make a contribution by paying in advance- like everyone else has to when ordering! You could set up a side hustle! You might surprise yourself 👍🏼

Why do you think your being tight, your doing him a favour, why should you be out of pocket. You said he was a cheeky chancer

@BudgieIsAHelicopter

Thanks everyone for all the replies, I know I’m being a bit silly about it!

The reason I think it’s about him not buying the fabric and not expecting to pay me for making the masks is because he’d already know I wouldn’t charge anything for the time spent making them. If he wanted to pay for the fabric he would have just replied with ‘I’ve ordered that one’ rather than do you want me to give you any money for it.

He also knows I’m not ordering fabric for myself at the moment because I’ve just finished making masks for me and my family, I’d already said to him I’d run out of the elastics so would have to buy more, which I don’t mind buying because I would be able to use any left over for myself later on but I wouldn’t use the type of fabric he wants for anything else.

The link I sent was for the right size of fabric, postage was only a couple of pound so it’s not like it was worth waiting for a bigger order.

I don’t think I’m interpreting his words wrong, he’s done similar things before to get out of paying for stuff. Asked me if I’d get something for his birthday and he’d order it with things he was already getting from the same website. I said great, happy to get him something he wanted. When I asked him to tell me how much I owed he gave me the price of the item plus half the postage costs because we were both ordering something! It was only a few extra pound but that really annoyed me because he’d asked then used me saying yes as a way of him paying less.

I haven’t replied yet, I’ll send a message saying order it directly to me to save having to bring it round!

In that case I'd also add the elastic and say remember to add it to his order as you've run out and the extra elastic will count as payment enough :D

What?!! Just ask him for the £6 😂😂 More fool you if you don’t.

Any update @BudgieIsAHelicopter

I don't think he's being cheeky. He wants to pay for the fabric and other costs probably like elastic and that but doesn't know how much, so just tell him how much they are. If it was me, I can't sew very well so I might ask someone to do it for me and I would be grateful. It'd seem better to me if they ordered the material to get the right amount and then I'd rather just transfer them the money, all of it, not just the material. Can't you just say £8 or £10 or whatever is fair for the costs if you don't want to charge for your time?