“Am I Wrong For Pricing My Custom Cakes So High, Just To Discourage People From Asking Me For Cakes?”

There are two conflicting sentiments that most of us have heard before: “do what you love, and you’ll never work another day in your life” and then there’s its polar opposite — keep your hobby as far as possible from work not to ruin the fun in it. But when you’re exceeding at your hobby and people start peer-pressuring you into doing more of it, and they don’t take “no” for an answer — something has to be done before things get out of hand.

A Redditor by the name of ‘cakedupp3‘ never intended to turn their love for baking cakes into a profit. In fact, they tried to avoid it entirely. However, similarly to those who were (kind of) forced to turn their knitting and crocheting pastime into full-time operations to help out with the shortage of surgical masks, more and more started asking the author to shower various celebrations with their yummy buttercream delights. They may not save lives, but at least they can make them much better.

Sensing that their beloved hobby was getting out of their mitts, the author deliberately placed a reasonably high price tag on their services to see if that might help to return things back to normal. To their delight, the plan has worked… But not without breaking some eggs.

Concerned whether they have done the wrong thing, the author turned to the trusted ‘Am I The [Jerk]‘ community to settle their conscience once and for all.