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Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
Social/cultural participation? Go to a coffee shop for coffee and a cake. It will set you back a fiver a week.
dude if you work for a company they have Christmas parties and they have things like that and you have to go there they have baby showers and they have things like that and they have wedding receptions for co-workers and you are invited and you have to buy a wedding gift or something or a baby shower gift this is what is social participation. You're living with people and working with people you can't just sit inside like a hermit and not go to the office Christmas party for example or the grab bag or the potluck dinner
If you are at a company Christmas party it is typically paid for by the company, not you. And as for Weddings or what have you and you are genuinely struggling then people would understand. Would you really want to force someone struggling to give you their last dime? Or drag them along. Of course not. They would probably pay for their transportation if family or close friends, but........how much of what they say is true.