This Woman Charges Her Family For Eating Christmas Dinner at Her House and I Just Can't Deal

My most favorite Christmas tradition is gathering everyone around the table to enjoy a glorious Christmas dinner together as one giant family.

But, there is one mom who has a Christmas meal tradition that might have you rethinking the spirit of Christmas.

I’m just saying, I’m super glad my family doesn’t practice the same tradition this mom of 5 brings to the Christmas table.

What does she do that is so weird?

She charges her family for Christmas dinner.

Yep. I’m serious!

According to The New York Post, this mom is in the practice of charging the adults in the family up to $18 for the meal.

I log into my bank account and check who has made their Christmas dinner payment in November.
Caroline Duddridge

Her 12-year-old and three 9-year-old grandchildren are not immune from the fee for dinner. They have to dish up $6 to sit at the Christmas table.

Once my ‘naughty and nice’ tally is done I do a quick ring around chasing my ‘delinquent depositors’ and remind them to meet their payment date of December 1.
Caroline Duddridge

She even has two 3-year-old grandchildren, and they are each being charged $3.

The adult women pay a little bit less “because they have families and work part-time.”

It’s a phone call my five grown children aged 37, 34, 32, 29 and 24 are used to. I know some will moan and I will get excuses like ‘my pay hasn’t gone in’ or ‘my bank account is frozen’ and ‘can I leave it another week?’ but I will eventually receive cash from them for the meal.
Caroline Duddridge

I can’t imagine possibly missing Christmas dinner with my family, because I can’t dish out the $72 for my family of 4.