thinking about throwing a house party (high school senior)....tips and advice please!

eagle08

Hey guys and gals,
I graduated from high school (woot) last saturday and went to an awesome party on sat. night and now I'm considering hosting my own party this friday night at my house (my parents will be out of town). I live on 20 acres on a road that's a good distance from town, in the country (GA). The biggest party at my house had about 20 people (my brothers party). I'm worried about cops, because the last party I was at had around 150-200 people at it (which is probably the same amount for mine), and the cops came. But the weird thing was they stayed for about 15 minutes then left and no one was arrested or anything. So what do ya'll think? Some good tips maybe? I heard that it was good to put notices in neighbors mailboxes telling them that I'm hosting a graduation "get-together" and there may be some loud music and give them my phone number so they can call me if things get too loud. Any other advice? There will be alcohol at the party, even if I didn't want there to be, but I do .

Lulu

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cani

lock up the valuables,
did u see Risky Business with Tom Cruise?
clear out most of the furniture,
extra porta johns would be a real necesity,
give your friends some duties,
like being in charge of the ice
oh, i'll be needing the address,
i'll be dropping a few bales of weed from the 'Island'
good luck, and have fun!

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you sure i wasnt there lu

TeeBox

Have you told your parents about your plan? Now that may seem like a really stupid question but as a parent, my advice to you is to discuss it with them. If you are not talking to them because you know they would say no, then you should also know that if anything goes wrong the repercussions will be even more severe.

I returned to a house following a party that wasn't supposed to take place and continued to hear stories about the party from community members for weeks after we thought we knew everything.

Let see how much I remember:
TV Control: All the buttons were shaved down flush with the face of the controller.
EMT Jacket: I found it on the roof of the garage.
Widow Neighbor: Her house was hit with bottle rockets
Food: Gone. I mean everything that could possibly be eaten by itself was gone.
Cigarette Butts: I had a 4' diameter lazy susan in a closet with spare dishes and storage containers. Several dishes and containers were used as ashtrays still in the closet.
Personal Injuries: Son was sucker punched during a fight defending his sister and had his orbital socket fractured in many pieces.
Liquor: Gone

With the crack down on underage drinking and the increased scrutiny by law enforcement on drunk driving at this time of year, all it will take is someone to get so drunk they suffer a physical problem or worse should someone leave the party drunk and cause an accident where some innocent person is injured or heaven forbid killed and your life will never, ever be the same. And just because your parents aren't there and may not know anything about it, don't think for one minute that some attorney representing an injured party arising from your party will stop at nothing to get as much from your parents as they possibly can, savings, retirement, house, anything. Is the party so important that you would risk everything your parents have worked for all their lives?

I will get off the soap box now. If you decide to have the party, I hope it is safe and everyone has a good time. But don't kid yourself into thinking that something is so outrageous that it could never happen to you; believe me it will.

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zombiehooker

If I were you I would think about making it a smaller amount of people. With 200 people, there are going to be a lot of people who don't know you and don't give a shit about your house. 20 drunk friends can do A LOT of damage, just think of what 200 would do. I would hide anything valuable that someone would steal or break. I threw quite a few ragers in high school and people would show up at the house with the intention of stealing your alcohol and whatever else they can find when you aren't looking and then take off. People I don't know aren't allowed anymore unless they are a friend of a very close friend. I would recommend keeping the party to just certain rooms in the house (make your parents room off limits), and if your parents don't smoke cigarettes, don't let people smoke cigarettes in the house! A bunch of people ashed all over my parents room one year, the whole carpet was stained and it reeked. Just remember...you will have to clean up the mess in the morning, it will be a really big mess, and you will be hungover as fuck.

I didn't mean to write this much (sorry I'm baked, and every thought that enters my head is getting written down) Basically to sum it up: if you do have 200 people, prepare for complete chaos, and prepare to get bitched at by your parents, because your house is going to be destroyed.

I hope all goes well, congrats on your graduation, and have fun!

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kiwi

i am with Lulu and TeeBox on this one..... don't disrespect your parents by having a party in their home. You only need one person to turn up and trash your parents home....yip thats all it takes is one person to start a chain reaction.

This is your parents HOME we are talking about here....

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Psycrow420

Word of advice from a pissed off former roomie of a dude who threw parties when he was gone.



NUMBER 1: Dont let ANYONE you dont know come to the party, make it small like 20 friends or something (why the hell would you want 150 people at your place anyway, you cant babysit that many and you WILL end up having damages and stolen property)

Number 2: TRUST the people you invite, my ex roomie thought he trusted several of his friends, I came home to find playstation games missing, valuable hot wheels cars either missing or the packaging destroyed rendering them worthless, several party light fixtures broken (broken strobe, black light, disco ball, spotlight for a mirror ball, and a nice trippy pattern light stolen) baseball cards stolen, including a valuable rookie card of a Hall of Famer. 200 dollar painting destroyed (apparently paint canvas can double as a dart board for pocket knives)

Number 3: Lock all valuables, dont even think about leaving the keys to any room out, my ex roomie left his car keys in the middle of the kitchen table, his car was parked out back where theres no lights, he had a 1000 dollar stereo system stolen out of his car right under his nose. He might not have cared but if they had stolen MY system, the roomie would be a dead roomie.

Number 4. LET YOUR PARENTS KNOW. Trust me, if you're going to have alcohol at the party, theres a 100% chance your parents are going to find out about the party, 20 16-21 year olders can damage a house in a heartbeat when they're drunk.....imagine what 150-200 could do. If the parents say no, thats it, end of story, going behind their back would only make things worse. Haven't you seen Dazed and Confused where the parents found out the 18 year old was having a party??

5. Who cares how big the party was, who cares how awesome it was, 10 years from now, you really wanna be known as the guy who "Threw the awesome bash" trust me, when your 28, its not a badge of honor anymore. Bigger isnt always better, the more people that know about the party the more chance it gets busted, parents find out, or someone gets hurt. I've been to parties where I had to drive someone to the er due to alcohol induced stupidity.....trust me, you do NOT want to be known as the guy who had the party where so and so got wasted and hurt someone.

6. Last of all, if you're going to have a bunch of 16-20 year olds there, I suggest NOT to have alcohol, or at least take everyone's keys when they get there, I hate drunk driving and I hope you realize that YOU can and probably will be held responsible if someone from your party drives home drunk and crashes or kills someone or something of that sort.


Yeah it sounds like I'm poo-pooing your idea, but I'm just trying to warn you that not everyone who shows up at a party (especially big ones) is going to respect your property, if you have the big party and you have a playstation 3 or a wii or an Xbox 360 and all kinds of games and gadgets and the like (i pods, cell phones, hand held game systems etc etc etc) prepare to notice some things missing from the party.


oh yeah one more thing, my roomie had a party one time and even though my room was off limits, somehow someone got into my room and was smoking CRACK in there, I worked nights at the time and I came home that morning, I knew there was a party before I even got home because of the cars parked along the road, I got to my room and I nearly puked at the stench of crack, I guess you could say if there was no one from the party left there that morning, my ex roomie would be in a lot of pain or perhaps rotting in the basement of our old duplex.


have fun, just be careful

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I had a great house party in High School with my parents out of town and never realized I had that many "friends".. That party was one of the biggest mistakes of my life.. House was trashed, of course parents found out, wasn't pretty!!! Then I had a graduation party, parents were home, and things never got out of hand, much better party.. Sounds like a great idea at the time, everyone will love you for having a party, till it starts and they get drunk and then its fun to put a rubber with spit in it in your parents bed, or hide beer cans so your parents find em later..
My advice, DON'T DO IT!!!!!

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eagle08

I'm gonna only have the house open for girls that need to pee and I'm gonna make everyone bring their own alcohol and have the whole shibang outside.

PeacefullyStoned

Good idea. I use to live out in bum fuck nowhere and i had a couple of parties outside. It totally rocks, get some music and an awesome fire going. Just make sure that the house is off limits, make it well known to everybody, except of the peeing girls, lol.
I hope you have and awesome time.
Congrats on your graduation.

Peace and Pot.

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