How many "Christmas Parties" are you going to?

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Just interested as every year the media goes big for "Christmas Party season" and I imagine everyone is going to a string of Christmas Parties every other night.

I'm going to three although none of them will be particularly wild!

Three more than me!

Zero.

I love Christmas, I absolutely fucking hate Christmas parties.

I think 5 Christmas get togethers but definitely not parties!
one is my work Christmas do, meal out at lunchtime and then the pub after.
A couple of dinners out with different groups of friends and a couple of drinks nights out with others.

One party, at someone’s house in a couple of weeks’ time. Already socially anxious about it, and worrying because I don’t know if it will be shoes on or off and my outfit choices depend on that.

Zero

Im going to 3, two work ones and a pal’s one that will be 60% toddlers. That’s quite enough. I’m having my mum and dad over for a pre-Christmas buffet tomorrow night and I’m having conniptions!

I've never been to a Christmas party!
Unless you count the office drinking session on the evening when we closed for the holiday.

I'm not a party person- I don't look good in party clothes.

None!

I'm including drinks parties and work dos in this btw

None

A happy none

None

Work meal and book club meal. That’s it. So not parties as such, but meals out.

None, thankfully!

None. I bloody hate Xmas parties.
Every year I do an informal survey of a few colleagues. How many of you have the kind of magazine xmas that requires multiple sparkly outfits and 'desk to date' make up? Over the last 20 odd years the answer has been precisely zero.

Six. Only one will be wild. The others are just get togethers, drinks or dinners with lovely friends plus a work do. But i like my colleagues so I'll enjoy that too

I'm very thankful to have a lovely collection of friends. The family stuff is what i dread at Christmas (not immediate family. I love them with every bone in my body. The extended collection are mixed!! ).

None. Perhaps no one holds them any more. Not invited to any, certainly. Nothing at work either.

Three. One with work, one with school mums and one with my sisters.

I’m going on a walking weekend with a group.

And a gig weekend with two friends.

Might go to the pub and catch up one night.

That’s it. I’m not keen on parties, so I’ve swerved the work dos (love my co-workers, but it all sounds like hard work!).

One dinner/concert with an octogenarian fashionista (will have to plan my outfit carefully!).

Going away with my dad for NY (DH is working). Away with DH for a week in Jan when everything is calmer.

I've been to one sit down meal and declined 2 standy up party type events. Tbh even the meal was too noisy. I spent the entire night trying to hear people next to me and shouting to try and have a conversation.

Jesus most people on her are miserable!
I have a work Christmas do, book club Christmas meal, school mums meet up, we are hosting a party with all the kids, going to pub Christmas meet up just before Christmas etc. I love it!

One actual 'party', hosting drinks at ours, going out for drinks with a couple of other friends, work Christmas meal...definitely not a 'party season' in the Christmas ads sense of the world

Zero. In fact apart from eating christmas lunch with dh, no events/meals/drinks at all

I’m going to 2 and a dinner

It’s not miserable to enjoy different things. There are ways of having a good time other than parties.

I’ll be going to one, I think. I’m self-employed so no work Christmas parties, but friends are having a celebration on Christmas Eve so I’ll pop along for a bit.