Meet up groups etc costing loads of money?

[girlfriend44]

Am I the only one to think that all meet up groups seem to revolve around drinking and eating out and they are constant?

You wouldnt think there was a cost of living crisis all the time and the organisers are relentless in their suggestions? Constant we've arranged this all the time, they dont seem to pace it?
I havent joined any but im a member of a few and see it alot come up.

AIBU to think it would be good to have some cheap or free activities instead of everything revolving around the pub or cafes etc and maybe not so often.

Could you suggest to organiser a dog walk meet up?

So basically “other people shouldn’t arrange to spend money in a hospitality setting because I don’t want to go that often”.

Okay, sure.

Wow, the OP gets worse with every update! I am going to save this thread and refer to it next time I encounter a bit of an arse in my volunteer organiser role, and be grateful they aren't as entitled as this!

OP "Surely a good organiser though should not just put on events they want to go too? A good organiser puts on a variety of things.
It's the frequency too of events I notice. Always something expensive going on."

sadly, I think you are serious.

they are not, I presume, in a paid role as your PA.

I notice there's always something expensive going on at the Royal Opera House.

I think you should complain.

I think you're looking for a concierge service, not a local group run by volunteers.

If you are so busy doing something else, then why have you actually joined the meetup group.
Also curious what kind of low cost activities you would like to squeeze into your busy life ?
Trip to the library, hang around the bus stop with a bottle of cider ?

Surely a good organiser though should not just put on events they want to go too?

Well if it was only the organiser who wanted to go to them then it would not be a 'thing' would it. so obviously more in the group want these kind of meet ups.

Why would someone invite total strangers to their home? That's a great way to get robbed.

Not everyone is short of money op. If I'm going out I generally want to eat and drink, my choice

I've just had a look in my nearest city and there's lots of free activities eg book club, walking, badminton, pick up football, lectures and free concerts

Or she could organise it herself 🤷🏻‍♀️

I dont get your point about me needing a new social group based on my statement that if someone doesn't want to do what an established social group are doing then join another one...that's exactly what you did isnt it? Ditched NCT for church halls?

Eh? What if the organiser doesn't have a dog?

If the OP wants a dog walk meetup, she can search for that kind of meet up, or (if there isn't one) she can organise one herself.

The organisers are not there to provide exactly what the OP wants.

There isn't 'an organiser'. People organise what they want to organise.

That would be like going to a taekwondo class in the community centre and saying to the instructor could she do cake decorating on Thursday.

I ran a meet up group once
The whiney whinging types luckily didn't tend to last.
Organising is bloody thankless!
We were quite a large and successful group, it costs the organisers money to use the meetup website.
No one is forcing you to go. If you want it done your way, open your own group.
I used to suggest this to people that saw fit to complain at me. They never did.

This. Honestly we were very inclusive, but I ended up inventing rules to boot whingers like the OP
"We are not a democracy!"
My group, my rules.
Most people agreed with my decisions.

@girlfriend44 stop attending, I've a feeling you won't be missed!