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Originally Posted by McheleM  So, I'm playing devils advocate here... Lets say a cap is set and someone goes over it, what happens? Do they not get to do GE any more??
Who will "police" the spending? Will receipts be required?
The gift exchange is optional. No one has to sign up. if you dont want to spend the money, dont sign up. Those who don't have the money this time, often sit out. Those with multiple dogs rotate dogs. I do know that some people sign up and don't fulfill their end of the bargain, and that's wrong, but putting a cap on someone's GENEROSITY??? That's completely wrong. |
No one is trying to put a cap on anyone's
generosity - we're trying to see if there is a way to put a cap on the marked DISPARITY -- so that
so many people don't feel completely priced out of the GE. Like I said in the other thread, as the disparity kept growing over the years, the size of the GE went down in correlation to that, which is too bad (there used to be a huge # of participants). It *is* a reality that there are some people who believe if they spend $250, they should receive the same back -- bc we've seen and heard the complaints about it. Sure, those folks don't understand the true nature of giving, but we can't do anything about that. We can, however, try to at least better manage what has become a big disparity of spending vs. suggested spending. At least then, people can better manage being in the ballpark of the amount spent.
As far as policing it, we won't. We'd hope and expect that people would respect the guidelines and their fellow participants by not going overboard and thereby risking making that person (ostensibly and potentially) feel as if they didn't do enough on their end.