Melba's Jammin' wrote:

In article ,
ospam (DJS0302) wrote:

You don't have to "pay" us some sort of reward in order to be
invited in. The only thing I ask is that you reciprocate the
invitation.

So there IS a cost to an invitation to your home.

I find the issue of reciprocity to be far more burdensome than
bringing a gift. I feel that my job as a guest is to try to be
interesting or amusing, whatever. Not sit there, like great, now
I have to make as good appetizers as they did, etc. Just want
to have a good time, not be like I'm creating a debt I will later
have to pay.

nancy