Understanding that nobody should be alone for Christmas, Whitsunday local and retiree Michael Thomas recently posted on Whitsundays Noticeboard inviting fellow locals to an ‘orphans’ Christmas party.
He expected a group of people to be interested, but you can imagine his surprise when the post garnered 440 reactions and 151 comments.
“It blew way past my imagination!” laughed Michael.
“I'm still doing lunch for Christmas but it is going to be limited to 40 people in my backyard.
“If I can make 40 people happy on Christmas Day, you don't want much more than that.
“I just thought, I had put money into Christmas funds before, but this year, I thought I'd like to do it myself.
“I don't want to go to the pub for Christmas, I would like to at the end of the day go, yeah everybody enjoy themselves, that's what I want to see.”
Michael is asking for a contribution of $40 a head, but said this Christmas party is not for money, he just wants to “make it happen”.
Due to the response Michael said he is going to start monthly meets.
Naturally Michael cannot host over 400 people in his backyard, but the Facebook post has shown that there is demand for groups to meet.
“We really need to do something about this and just get some people together, just so that they can make new friends,” explained Michael.
“I think it will get people together, maybe make new friends and you never know what could happen out of it.”
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