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What is the worst thing that happened at your teenagers party?

132 replies

NotRainingToday · 25/10/2021 21:56

My daughter is pestering big time to host a party. She is 18. I am determined not to, for lots of obvious reasons.....
What is the worst thing that happened at your teenagers parties? I need ammunition.

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DramaAlpaca · 25/10/2021 23:05

Shock All the above makes me very glad I always said a firm No to my teens holding parties at our house Shock

Cantthinkofaname21 · 25/10/2021 23:06

We had my daughters 18th at home I was terrified!
We kept the numbers very low (on the night a few more people asked) but was manageable. Rather than 20 then they all want a friend and to many people talking about it.
It went ok ..only my daughter was the one throwing up! Hadn’t realised someone added vodka to the Pimms she was happily drinking lots of!
The only bad thing was the sticky floor - apparently due to a marshmallow fight..hungover daughter cleaned it!
It went ok really - restrict numbers - we said 8 ended up with 12 all had a good night !

AnyFucker · 25/10/2021 23:11

All the above makes me very glad I always said a firm No to my teens holding parties at our house

I didn’t know anything about it until after the event !

Mhingmighty · 25/10/2021 23:12

Someone I was at school with - whose father was high profile - ended up in prison because a guy died of a drug overdose at her house. It was all over the papers

Andi2020 · 25/10/2021 23:18

My dd and her friends hired a marquee on night if GCSE results probably about 40 only used house for toilet. I was inside house so all went well except the mess after but was glad everyone got home safe and no issues. We live in country so no neighbours to annoy.
Compromise say your staying in house that's the deal.

DramaAlpaca · 25/10/2021 23:24

@DramaAlpaca

Shock All the above makes me very glad I always said a firm No to my teens holding parties at our house Shock
Reading back my post sounds quite smug, which really wasn't the intention. We've had plenty of teen dramas over the years (15 year old DS1 and the bottle of brandy being a particular low point) just not parties Grin
RobinPenguins · 25/10/2021 23:28

Nothing by 18, we didn’t really take the piss by then because knew we could just go to the pub/clubbing anyway. The wild ones were when i was 15/16.

Szyz2020 · 25/10/2021 23:30

We live in a rural area and all the dc friends parents seem to have barns or field or farms. Best places for teen parties, never have one in your house!

earsup · 25/10/2021 23:33

A washing machine wizzed off the third floor balcony onto a car below...vomit....fights....ironing board chucked onto rail tracks at end of garden....house next door empty so set on fire....i went to a lot of mad student parties in the 80's....dont do it...!!

Rhubarblin · 25/10/2021 23:36

At my 18th house party someone stole 10 easter eggs.

Every teen party I ever went to there was always a lot of vomit.

Pieceofpurplesky · 25/10/2021 23:37

DS came back from an 18th house party on Saturday and when I asked how it went he said 'the usual, a few sick, a few crying and a couple of boys pushing around. Lots of drunk people and crisps thrown everywhere'. DS barely drinks as he hates feeling out of control.

A friend's DD had a party and police were called when it appeared that someone had snap chatted it. The house was wrecked - vomit on the sofa, cigarette burn in the bath and cracked paving stones in the garden

SingingSands · 25/10/2021 23:37

Some of the parties I went to as a teen in the 90s were wild. I remember boys raiding someone's mum's wardrobe and coming downstairs dressed in her clothes, everyone smoking all over the house, curtains being pulled down, pictures being knocked off the wall and smashed, someone finding car keys and joy riding the family car, carpets getting trashed, people throwing up, loads of sex..

I'm now a parent of teens and there's no way I'd let them have a party in my house!

Rhubarblin · 25/10/2021 23:38

My husband tells me he rode a wheelchair down some stairs at one party and somehow lived to tell the tale.

DickeryDock · 25/10/2021 23:38

Whole eggs put in microwave and heated until they exploded. Shed roof lifted off. Sex on the little sisters bed. Vomit everywhere. Cigarette burns in carpets. Toilet rolls from tree to tree in front garden.

Rhubarblin · 25/10/2021 23:41

DH also said someone did a poo on the sofa at another Confused

BonnesVacances · 25/10/2021 23:43

DS went to a party a few weeks ago where someone threw a brick through the window. Sprayed hairspray all over the paintings. And some kids were doing ketamine in the bathroom. Two people asked him for drugs and he decided to come home. Not his scene at all. This is 16/17 year olds! Shock

MumofSpud · 25/10/2021 23:43

I did a thread during my DD's 16th a few weeks ago
Yes to a puker (only 1 and I called her mum to collect her)
There were about 40 teens - the mess was something else but confined to garden / sitting room / conservatory
Make sure you have NO marshmallows anywhere - they turn into glue like substance
We put the pets in overnight care
We provided some drink (Smirnoff Ice and Budweiser but not enough for 1 each - but they all brought their own anyway- spiritsHmm)

VickyLouT · 25/10/2021 23:44

My kid brothers action man got shoved down upstairs loo...flooding it and came through kitchen ceiling, and someone got all the frozen sausages out the freezer and hid them all over the house. We were finding them for weeks after, including in the orange squash we had been drinking.

Winniemarysarah · 25/10/2021 23:47

I remember my sister having one when I was little and away with my parents for the weekend. We came back to a spotless house, didn’t realise anything was wrong until my parents went to bed and found a used Jonny in it. My sister didn’t think to check under the covers before she made it. And the next day my dad found his giant 20p collection jar was missing from his cupboard, it had approx 3-4 hundred quid in it

SickAndTiredAgain · 25/10/2021 23:50

someone got all the frozen sausages out the freezer and hid them all over the house. We were finding them for weeks after, including in the orange squash we had been drinking.

Orange squash aside I think that’s quite funny… although I’d probably find it less so if it happened to me.

MrsAvocet · 26/10/2021 00:07

Not mine, but one of our friends let their DD have a prom after party at their house. At about 2am the hostess realised that one of her friends hadn't been seen for a couple of hours. The house is down an unlit lane in the middle of nowhere so they'd thought it was a good venue, wouldn't disturb any neighbours etc. Ended up with the police, mountain rescue, half the village, and if I recall rightly, a helicopter, searching for a drunken 16 year old who'd had a row with her boyfriend and run off. She was found next morning but it could have ended very badly.

DogCatRabbit · 26/10/2021 00:09

Like you I really didn't want to do it, but not many venues will take 18ths. We got a couple of portaloos on the drive, and the condition was the partygoers used those, entering the garden from the side gate and going no further than the kitchen. I locked doors to the rest of the downstairs and guarded the bedrooms myself - no one had any legitimate reason to be upstairs.

A wooden kitchen floor that will never be quite a same again was the only lasting damage. I think we were lucky. Won't say I enjoyed the party, but DD really did. Great memories. Terraced house so we kicked them all out by about 1am which didn't seem unreasonable.

PS I've since discovered something called Correx, thin sheets of corrugated plastic which builders tape down over hard floors to protect them. Also you can buy self adhesive carpet protector film on a roll. Hide all valuables (in fact I'd strongly recommend clearing all surfaces, knickknacks etc), cover sofas with washable throws and leave a few buckets in corners for the inevitable vomit!

MissCruellaDeVil · 26/10/2021 00:13

I remember going to some in my teens (not that long ago) and there was always lots of vomit, drugs being used and houses trashed. At one particularly memorable party several people were arrested as they set something on fire in the garden!

I wouldn't ever let my teens host a party (though they're a long way off yet, so maybe things will change!)

SallyLondon · 26/10/2021 00:15

The worst thing I remember happening when I was a teen was someone pissing in the host's freezer 🤢 The perpetrator was a real wanker though, horrible self-entitled public schoolboy.
I think if you limit numbers to 30 close friends and make very clear that you're not going anywhere (except upstairs) and it's not a free-for-all, just for invited guests only, you'll probably be ok. Unless your kid is an inconsiderate asshole.

EastWestWhosBest · 26/10/2021 00:22

Taking all the labels off the tins. Hiding random stuff in the freezer. Fish tank full of tat.