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I'm so glad that someone started this thread on GC because the majority of times I have been forced to go to at-home parties were from sorority sisters where I buy things I don't need from sisters who use the connection to guilt me into the buy. It has gotten out of control and with two sisters who "work" for the same company and when I go to one's party the other tries to use that to make me go to another.

As an active, though, I am actually sad to say that several of my sisters that were put in charge of organizing COB events decided to use the opportunity to turn it into "parties" for their "business." To me, this totally crosses the line. As an active (younger than one of the offending sisters), I honestly didn't think I could say anything without completely insulting their intelligence. I mean, how do you tell someone that their "part-time job" as they call it, is a big scam and they're using it to push away PNMs who might actually be interested in a sisterhood that doesn't guilt others into spending their money for another sister's benefit. Now as an adviser I am committed to making sure that crap doesn't happen. Period.