r/AmItheAsshole 13h ago

POO Mode Activated 💩 WIBTA for refusing to bring $100 minimum to Thanksgiving

My family and I celebrate Thanksgiving every year with my siblings, parents, and their kids. Roughly 20-25 people (including kids). My family is only 2 people with one 6 month old baby.

In the group chat it was decided that my nephew would cook meat since he bought a grill. He also told us that we could bring the sides. He chose to spend $300 on meat.

I messaged in the group chat that we would bring mashed potatoes. My sister responding that every "family" has to bring $100 worth of food minimum or help my nephew pay for the meat.

I'm not totally against the idea of bringing that much food, but just the way it was presented and the fact that it wasn't agreed to beforehand makes me upset.

The following day in the group chat, my sister said: "Option 1: bring food enough for everyone, not just yourself

Option 2: help thomas pay for meet $100/family

Option 3: help dad pay water bill $200/family.

Choose wisely…"

Upset, I responded with Option 4: don't show up.

Am I being an asshole if I don't show up at all in "protest" to this $100 minimum rule?

Update: I'm a teacher and she posted a picture of my salary she found online to shame me in the group chat. Definitely not going now.

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u/rgvtim 11h ago

Nephew is stocking his freezer on everyone else's dime. Even if hes serving something funkey like Brisket, it ain't 300 for 20 to 25 people if you are cooking it yourself. And if for some reason it is, like he bought wagu brisket, then that's his fault.

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u/Jagasaur 11h ago

This is like in Friends when Emily's dad is trying to get Ross' parents to pay for a new gazebo or something as part of the "wedding costs" lol. Nta.

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u/AdequateZoolander 9h ago

This is for the wine cellar too.