Okay so a while ago there was a party at a friends house and I was feeling ill pretty much the whole day. I wa?

[GAVIN]

What's the question?

Anyway, I don't think it's that unreasonable if you have the money available to chip in, but generally I'd consider myself a giving person so everyone might not agree. They opened their home to guests and damage occurred. No one is going to want to admit that it was them who spilled the drink and the family is probably aware of that and thus decided to just ask for a smaller amount of money from everyone at the party. The alternative is probably them not having parties again. If money is an issue for you, I would personally contact the person in private and let them know that I don't have a lot of money and that I'm sorry for the damage done but that I know with absolute certainty that it wasn't me responsible for the damage.