i have a friend who is kind of casual. meaning we talk maybe once every 2 weeks, or if she is dating someone it can go to once every 2 months. Basically we hang out when her social life is not as active or she is not dating anyone. Heres the thing during those brief visits with each other she always asks me to make stuff for her, stuff that takes me hours even days to do. for example she saw a wedding video i made, its edited very well to music, it took me a long time to learn how to do it, even now that i have mastered the editing program and process it still takes a good 7 to 9 hours to make a 5 minute video. so she asked can you make me one of her little sister through the years, growing up, ect... she offered no money cause i guess she figures im a friend so i should not charge her. I personally could never ask a friend to do something like that, and she knows it takes me like 9 hours of computer work another thing she asked me is when she saw a sweater of mine and said wow! this is so nice i said thank you it was harder then i thought it took 4 days to make it, and she replied can you make me one? again she already knew it took me like 4 days to make that sweater and offered no money. so what should i do? its a lot of work for me and i get very burned out from doing these freebies. what should i say to her?
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