Woman Tells Friend Not to Come on the Group Trip Over Small Budget

A woman is stirring conversation on the internet after sharing that she’s told one of her friends not to come on a group trip due to her budget.

In a post shared to Reddit, the anonymous woman writes, “We’re just in the early stages of planning this trip now, but it’s supposed to be an almost week long girls trip.”

“There are six of us who would go, but the problem is that one of the girls (let’s call her B), doesn’t quite have the budget for the trip,” she continues. “She can afford the flight and hotel room, so it’s not like she literally can’t pay for the actual trip itself, but because her overall budget is lower than everyone else’s she’s not going to be able to afford all the activities I, and the rest of the group, want to do.”

The woman adds that she hinted to the friend “that maybe she should reevaluate going because of money concerns,” but the friend “brushed it off.”

“But based on past experience I know once we get there she’s going to start saying stuff like ‘omg guys the restaurant is so expensive, what if we just went to that cute food truck we drove past earlier,’ and even through the cute food truck does end up having good food sometimes you just want to go to a fancy dinner,” she adds.

She continues: “Eventually I said this to her straight up, and she got mad because she technically can pay for it (the actual ‘trip,’ like flights and hotel), but I feel like she’s going to be dragging the rest of us down by making us obligated to only do things she can also afford.”

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Now, the woman is turning to the internet for advice on what to do next.

Other Reddit users are chiming in, with one saying all parties need to come to a compromise. “You need to get together with friends and maybe discuss it,” they write. “This is why I only travel with certain friends, we’re all going [to] have to compromise at some point, but not ALL the time, it would be an unfair trip for both her and you and the rest of the party. Like you don’t need to go to expensive places, every single time. You guys need to decide what you are willing to give up and do.”

Others say the situation is “uncomfortable,” with one writing: “income disparity in group settings are uncomfortable. My husband and his friends make substantially more money than I do, and when they want to do expensive s—, I tend to excuse myself because I can’t contribute equally.”