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i used (my wife and i) to love hosting having our friends over to entertain , it was great fun , but when it's all said and done  we wind up with this giant mess , with what seems like very little gratitude, Now our days i rather be the guest, not that we're ungrateful , we always show up with a nice bottle of wine as well as a homemade dessert treat,. but the beauty is when we are tired and want to go it's so much easier than when your hosting and saying good night to guest while their still there.

This is a hard one to call... I used to be the party thrower but the list of invites has grown shorter.  So, I'd like to be the guest now days and cook something really impressive to make all the other guest exclaim!

I love being the hostess.  Decorating... planning, list making... baking and cooking.  My favorite part is when the guests arrive and the house comes alive... more than it normally is.  Which is a lot lately.

This is a difficult one! .....  Every Christmas we are highly sought after by our three grown up children, thier partners & our Grandchildren so we have to have a strict rota. We do spend hours playing with the grandchildren too. We do however on boxing day have an open house (buffet style) for all family & friends which we really enjoy hosting - not the same as hosting a full christmas meal though. We both love the hosting bit. We aways do the washing up too lol.      

My Children and their children always come to Grandmas house for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. They tell me it is not the same if they don't come to Grandma's house. I love having them. there are twenty of us. I do have the biggest house and the most parking. I do however think when they become grandparents I am going to their house. We all help in the food prep and the cleanup and everyone gets along. The only booze might be a bottle of wine with dinner for 9 adults.

We still laugh and giggle like crazy, We are blessed. So I guess I like to be the hostess but am looking forward to being the guest.

I would much rather be the hostess ... It's all about C O N T R O L!!   {{heh-heh}}

I'm always the host. I sleep better blasted in my own bed. Drunks NEVER leave my house.

I love to host parties and I also love to attend parties. A little bit of both worlds keeps a nice balance!

The last bash we had was our daughters 43rd birthday.We had over 50 of our (&her) dearest friends over.We had a great BBQ & set up a dessert stand with strawberries & cream & ice cream & put the 2 littlest kids in charge of it.That was a smash hit. We loved it & loved doing it for our girl.

Agree with ed, I used to love parties at my place, lots of food  and vino, nobody left until the the wee hours and it took us days to get over the hangovers (and the hanger honers) I still love parties and get together s but  I'm too lazy  to clean up and too old to stay up, I like to go home when I feel like it instead of having my bloodshot eyeballs hanging out on sticks these days, the days of snoozing on someone else s lawn are gone, like my own bed