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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed - beaten to death. I'm in the unpopular camp of... Seriously!!!! This is all you ppl have to worry about??? Just buy extra bags, deal with spontaneity, folks that plan poorly or miss multiple emails about kids’ birthday parties. Some of us jugglers are bound to drop balls.

I'm a type A and enjoy hosting parties - and this type of stuff doesn't bother me at all. In fact, I plan for it in advance and project out estimates of no shows, extra siblings, last minute replies, sick kids, etc... in my planning. There's an event planning science to it - and you don't need an exact head count in most cases. If you do, please make that clear in the invite for those of us assuming it's not that important in the grand scheme of things.

In sum, get a life.  :)  Flame away….[/quote]

And how much free time do you really have to accomplish all of that? A simple RSVP from guests by the deadline and no requests to bring siblings (i.e., basic manners) would go a long way. I shouldn't have to guesstimate. And for what it's worth, I've tried everything from paper invites in school boxes to invites mailed home to eVite, all with follow up reminders via e-mail or phone to those stragglers, and NOTHING WORKS. When you discover that your precious snowflake has been left off an invite list, think twice about your bad manners before getting your panties in a twist.

- Signed a Type-A who spends her day doing modeling work (not the Heidi Klum kind, but the mathematics kind) and could easily figure this out but has decided not to because she's freakin' tired of people and their rotten manners[/quote]

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