'Charged for dinner?': Friend insists on "$7 per person" for last-minute dinner invite

Have you ever, in your whole life, had a friend charge you money to eat at their house? I really haven't, with the exception being takeout food. If you order takeout with your friend group, someone's going to have to send out those Venmo requests for that pad thai. But that's different than inviting your friends over for an off-the-cuff dinner, and then insisting they need to pay for it the next day. 

It's not always cheap to host a party: all those ingredients, beverages, and decorations can really add up. A good way to offset the cost is to ask your friends to bring a dish or some drinks. Another suggestion is to note in the invitation that for a small charge, your friends can have unlimited drinks, and if not, they can bring their own beverages to sip on. 

This person, u/Pinkishrabbit, had a friend invite them over and then request money for it the next day. They took to the r/etiquette subreddit to ask for advice, and the internet basically told them that their friend was being pretty weird and tacky. If you're broke, just say that; if you're a millennial, the chances are all your friends are broke, too. You can all be broke together, ordering the cheapest Chinese food around and splitting the cost as a group, instead of acting rather miserly the day after your homemade meal. 

Next up, these siblings were trying not to argue in front of the kids, but they cannot agree on who owes who money.