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[msmemory_archive]

Color me Old Codger. I'm having sticker shock today over the prices of Twelft [sic] Night and Birka. Yes, I know that each is charging just a smidge more than a first-run movie ticket, and I couldn't eat anywhere nicer than Friendly's for a sum like that feast fee, but I am unused to these numbers - or to the notion that advance registration doesn't give a discount.

(If anyone knows for sure that the 12th Night feast is sold out, let me know so I won't bother sending an onboard reservation.)

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[msmemory.livejournal.com]

I don't mind a pay-as-you-go dayboard. If one of the subgroups in the barony, or a neighboring group, want to run the dayboard as a concession (eggs 25 cents, slice of mushroom tart $1.25, etc.).

This time I'll probably pack a picnic lunch. The odds that dayboard will overlap with one of the peerage meetings for me or jducoeur, or that court will run late and we'll be peckish, are excellent.

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

We weighed the option of feast vs going out - since blaecstan and melvh will be spending the weekend with us, it seemed more feasible to plan in advance for dinner out.

It's not that I don't want to support my own Barony, but it is simpler to go out when guests are staying over so we can spend time with them, if that makes sense... Plus the cost of this feast plus site fee is the cost of a dinner at one of the chain restaurants. I know we're talking apples and oranges for food taste, but it's more of a budget issue for us.

[artisticphoenix.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the option to pay the dayboard either. In most instances if it is included in the site fee, I never get the chance to eat it because I am in a meeting, or on the fencing field. There are some rare events that actually brings the dayboard to these places and I am eternally grateful (Mudthaw comes to mind). But otherwise, for me, I would much rather pack my own lunch rather than pay and not get any, or the last remaining bits.

[rosinavs.livejournal.com]

The dayboard as concession is fairly common in Meridies, as I recall from my four months in the SCA there. Most events had a dayboard run by another group raising money to get funds to run their next event.