Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Do you like throwing a party?

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    #26
    My wife was a bit like ad hoc's, but less so. For me the party itself was very much not worth the 2 days of stress beforehand.
    Very occasionally I like having a couple of people over, but no more than that. I also don't like it when help clean up, beyond just moving stuff to the kitchen. And I particularly hate it if they just assume that they can and do it without asking first.

    Comment


      #27
      Arriving in Australia 30+ years ago my mate and I were stunned to be invited to a workmate's HOUSE for a social event. My mate and I known each other 10 years or so and had been to each other's house maybe four or five times after turning 15. Our socialising was done at the pub. It was a real culture shock to find that changed to home-based gatherings.

      Comment


        #28
        Here, almost always, socialising is carried out in bare and cafes. So I rather enjoy bucking the trend. Dishwashers; discussed elsewhere, are ideal cleaning-up assistants.

        Comment


          #29
          Originally posted by Sporting View Post
          Here, almost always, socialising is carried out in bare

          Those sort of parties are particularly problematic, mainly the cleaning up at the end.

          Comment


            #30
            I do like throwing a party, tho Ms F would probably describe the process rather as ad hoc described his other half's - I certainly get a bit frantic in preparation and always make too much food.

            We usually have a do for my birthday in March and a summer barbecue and something around New Year. We had two big celebrations for our joint 40 and 50, the former upstairs in a pub with a dj, the latter a spectacular triumph in an arts centre with our iPod and a huge guest list from all over.

            We had two parties in our flat in Madrid which went down very well, too - the younger locals we knew didn't seem to have much experience of house parties

            Comment


              #31
              I prefer quiet dinner parties these days (probably because I’m an old fart). I remember many years ago, we had a few couples round and one couple were staying way, way too long for my liking - I had an early golf tee off time the next day. I walked over to the window, pulled back the curtain and said “ oh look, there’s the milkman!”. Oh boy, did I get major grief from Mrs P afterwards for that comment.

              Comment


                #32
                I like the idea of throwing big family bbqs. but my wife is very much against that sort of thing. She's not silly, she knows that most of it will be down to her being a control freak and not ever being able to relax until everyone has gone. She also doesn't like having to deal with a few of my family getting on the drink a bit too much.

                Comment


                  #33
                  I used to enjoy throwing parties. I threw several at my parent's house, at university, and when I lived in London. They were quite varied. I wrote a murder mystery once. When I moved into a small flat with a boyfriend, we knew we didn't have enough space for a big "flat warming" party, so we threw a "flat braising" week, slowly warming the flat over the course of the week with people popping over whenever they could. We had about eight people each night for seven days and did chocolate fondues and toasties and beers. That was fairly exhausting. Another time we hired a big pub next to Fabric nightclub to celebrate mine and two friends 25th birthdays which included Bollywood dancing and amazing Indian nibbles from Brick Lane. We had to hire a bouncer to stop people wandering in from the Fabric queue. Did a big ceilidh once. Got together with my husband partially on the back of a mince pies and mulled wine pre-Christmas party that I threw with three housemates.

                  But, since having children, the idea of having any sort of party in our house is exhausting. The level of cleaning and tidying that is required before letting anyone in is immense. Instead, for kids' birthday parties I've hired community centres or gone to a local farm. Obviously in the last year none of this has been possible so we've had tiny parties with only grandparents waving from the garden, and I do a party food buffet and a fancy cake.

                  I'm hoping it might be possible to hold a big birthday party for my son this year in December with all his class because he hasn't ever had one like that yet.

                  Comment


                    #34
                    If I never see another person in my gaff apart from The Lady I Walked To The Registry Office With, I'll die a less unhappy man.

                    Comment


                      #35
                      I think the reason I enjoyed hosting house parties in my flatshare days was that I genuinely didn't care if anyone was enjoying themselves so long as I was (one girl that has been a friend for 20+ years regularly reminds me that the first time I met her was at one of our parties, when I was throwing her mixtape out of the window because "we're not listening to dance shit at my party").

                      Nowadays I would feel the need to make sure everyone else was happy, particularly if the invitees were from disparate groups and didn't all know each other, and therefore wouldn't enjoy myself at all.

                      Comment


                        #36
                        Originally posted by pebblethefish View Post

                        Nowadays I would feel the need to make sure everyone else was happy.
                        Bollocks.

                        Comment


                          #37
                          Originally posted by treibeis View Post
                          Bollocks.
                          Fair point, succinctly made.

                          Comment

                          Working...
                          X