People are always polite and won’t say to the host that they didn’t enjoy a party, so I’ll delude myself into thinking that I did a good first attempt. Living in a tiny apartment has made me develop a massive hosting debt which I shall have to struggle to work off. Regardless there’s always room to improve.
Things to do/improve on before the next party:
- Get more seating! Standing around all day is tiring, and sitting on the floor is hardly desirable.
- Get a cooler! A modest variety of beers and soda fills up my fridge, and that’s without a variety of food that’ll take up far more space.
- Cook! I just had snacky things, and no actual real meal items, so those that were there for an extended period were certainly hungry. Getting a grill certainly would help facillitate this.
- Get a recycling bin! We do have recycling in VA, and having a visible place for people to toss their recyclables makes for easy sorting later.
- Setup a music playlist. In general my reconstructed legal music collection is pretty consistent, but the occasional track(from musicals for example) breaks the flow.
- Be more aggressive about getting people to eat/drink. I got a fair amount of stuff expecting people to feel free to partake in it, but it seems that many people are leery to potentially overstep their welcome and thus need a bit of prodding.
