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i'm having a house party at the weekend because my parents are going away- to people who have had them, any tips on how to make your party good/prevent your place getting trashed whilst still having a good time? i've only invited people i know and trust so hopefully won't get out of hand!
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talking from experience here.
i've had alsorts happen, from my car being crashed into a tree in a garden, front door hanging off, garage broken, broken windows.
all good fun at the time and all paid for by the people who did it, but its a pain in the arse at the time and takes a shine off the night that went before.
Have stuff to do like singstar, games etc, rather than just all drinking.
:yes: You might also find TheSite's house party checklist helpful.
chances are a few extra people are gonna show up, only allow em up if you have faith in the person who wants to bring ems judgement!
be prepared for multiple spillages, odd thing knocked over and your fridge raided etc .. not to sound sexist but i made sure i have a few females on standby the next mornin to tidy up
try not to let any headers in .. last party i had resulted in a lunatic in the middle of the street with a huge kitchen knife and 5 police cars ..
I can guarantee that if you're under 16 word about your party will have got out, and the 15 trusted friends will become 30-50 gatecrashers.
Seriously though, get the number for the local police handy, you will get gatecrashers and the only chance you've got of getting rid of them is calling the police early instead of at 4am when your house has been set on fire.
Oh, and hide your valuables.
About 80 kids turned up (well, I say that - 3/4 were 13/14 year old girls and there was a group of much older guys - perverts with drugs and drink no doubt). We wouldn't let them in so they started trying to climb over the fence, banging on the door, throwing stones at the windows... real zombie movie type stuff. The police came but didn't arrest anyone, they just move people on and confiscate the alcohol.
We were left to clean it up.
It's not a watertight method, but if you keep yourself in the hostess role and have you answer the door, you can attempt to limit who comes.
just in case.
I'm not over-reacting, I'm retelling from my own experience it's a bad fucking idea. A girl my sister knows who lives round the corner had a house party - all her mums jewellery that was hidden away in a jewellery box in the wardrobe got nicked at a house party. Apparently about £4K worth!
I've had 'parties' or more like socials. Where there have only been 5-10 people. Involving chilli, and computer games, and TV, and normally towards the end of the evening silly spin the bottle games. But those who are looking for a massive house party, well in my experience it's going to all end in tears.
The only decent house party is one held in somebody else's house.
I think a factor in this was that we are all in our 20-30s...
Just keep the invite list strict, and only invite people you know. No guests, unless explicit prior permission has been sought, but even then...
We had a few people try to walk in off the street, but due to the party being fancy dress (always a good 'security' measure), and these guys were not dressed as such, they were quickly turned away at the door and politely told to fuck off.
I was 16!