To ask your top tips for a 16 year old's party - this Saturday!!!

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Hi... I've been so chilled about this... so much else going on from GCSEs to work commitments and sick mother ....

But I've suddenly realised I do have 70-80 teenagers turning up at our house to party on Saturday night...

DD has bought disco lights - a mate has done playlist - we're ordering range of beer and cider (and champagne for midnight when it actually turns into her birthday) with not much to munch on beyond crisps, popcorn and sweets and guacamole/hummous.... we're putting away anything breakable and covering the downstairs loo floor as we've been warned by DD and her mates that it "could get really manky".

She's lined up 4 mates to be the "bouncers" if there is any trouble ..and laughingly said all her male mates are small or tall and gentle but the two girls are pretty feisty!

We have guest list - and I'm allowed to be on the door for the first hour and then instructions to vanish so DH and I will be watching telly upstairs - and occasionally glancing out of window to see what actually is going on!

Oh and she's said we should put a "Private" sign half way up the stairs but be a bit relaxed so that only her closest mates go up to first floor. Luckily we have bizarre outside loo (70s decor!!) as well as inside one so should be enough.

They are basically nice kids... but they are 16 and demob happy after exams! And I know some of them are quite capable of getting slaughtered though DD is pretty moderate in her drinking and feeling very responsible.... but she isn't one of the feisty girls, much gentler.

So..... what are your top tips? What have I missed? What do you wish you had known before hosting teens at home?

Well I suspect its a bit late now but an idea that worked at my god daughters 16th birthday party was setting up an adult-supervised bar where the kids supplied their own booze. We took it off them at the door and marked it with sticky labels with their names on. Her gorgeous older sisters and their glamorous friends were responsible for whisking it away in a very charming fashion.We then served them their drinks on request with accompanying plastic cocktail glasses, umbrellas etc.

They all brought vodka.

Very big bottles.

Little did they know that we were surreptitiously siphoning off their alcohol into empty pop bottles in the utility room and watering it down with water.

There were still a few teens crying on the stairs, puking in the bushes etc but it SERIOUSLY limited the damage.

Plus, the next week, we had a proper grown up party with all the excess booze. It was significantly more debauched.

Hope all goes well tonight OP, it's far too late for tips apart from regular supervision

PlanetMJ
Fab idea I am going to steal this

I've just remembered a particularly disgusting cautionary tale for the wannabe sneaky teen.

In sixth form, my then-boyfriend's parents went away for the weekend and we held a mega-party at his house. The next day we absolutely scrubbed that house from top to bottom and cleared the back yard so it gleamed.

We would have got away with it as well except for one glaring oversight.

Boyfriends mum came home from hols, and put the kettle on for a cuppa. The one place we hadn't checked. Why would you? The smell of boiling vomit quickly filled the room and we were rumbled. Some wag had used the bloody kettle as their barf receptacle.

Etymology here's just one reason why it's not a good idea for teenagers to get drunk - it makes them so very vulnerable,

Boiled vomit?! Oh that really is grim (not envy!)

I wonder if we will get an update....

Had the same when I was younger except it was kettle boiled piss!
Lovely 🤢

Still wondering how the hummus, guacamole and grapes are going down?? Update pls op!

I hope the police haven't been required yet op!

Hope all is going well op!

Boiled vom and wee, or guacamole and hummus? Need to know, OP!

God this is a funny thread. We did this. They camped out in the field next to the house. One got stoned and went out like a light under a tree. I fed them lots of pasta, pizza, then again at around 1am, they do get hungry. The little darlings, hid booze in the hedge on the way in. Hah, I didn`t come down in yesterdays shower. One opened the dining room window to puke and did it all over my decking furniture, found the next morning. He went off to his weekend job. I phoned him and said come back and clean it up. He sulked, so I said fine I will phone your parents they can come around and clean it up. He appeared in double quick time. We did live miles from anywhere so no neighbour worries. One came down with alcohol poisoning at another party when they were older so the lads took him off to the hospital.

@Welshmist The great thing about vodka in the undergrowth with pre-16 teens is that you can torment your DC and their friends forever with it. One of mine wanted me to meet her friend's parents at the weekend, not long after a vodka-under-the-wheelbarrow episode. I said to the friend: "Would you like me to mention the wheelbarrow when I meet them?" She visibly paled. A happy moment.

I'm sure they are all quietly and politely enjoying the hummus.

It’s nearly time for the champagne!

Are you crazy OP?!!

Chin chin 🍾🥂

I know this is really sad but if OP doesn’t get back to us to let us know how it went it’s gonna really wind me up!🤨

hope its going well .

its almost champagne time. how many vomiting teens do we think OP has cleaned up after so far? my guess is 4

None they will have had an absolutely spiffing time with the champagne and hummus with the only problem being that Piers has double dipped in it with a carrot stick

I love the idea of taking their drinks at the door and labelling them so they can be returned but in fact the vodka is taken out and the drinks are watered down - then vodka used for adult party

This thread is fascinating. I didn’t attend ANY parties until 6th form and even then there wasn’t supposed to be alcohol (although there always was).

After A’levels I did go to a massive party at a girl’s house which was complete carnage, everyone trashed and stumbling about (hilarious looking back) - her parents were away - and do you know what happened?

The girl hosting it drank half a bottle of gin and had sex with her step-brother.

Ah, memories of a misspent youth. Good times. But oh the horror now I am a parent.

The girl hosting it drank half a bottle of gin and had sex with her step-brother.

there was a definite lack of hummus at this party i presume.

Late 90s. I don’t think hummus had been invented...

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