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[quote=Anonymous]The rental property suggestion is a great one. Even if you still host actual Thanksgiving at your home (or even a “welcome dinner” or brunch one day or something as well) but it can be the “home base” for the rest of the weekend. Everyone should gather there, the rest of the time.. If you can find one large enough? You have lots of notice?

Otherwise I like the idea of enlisting the help of your most reasonable sibling. They could plan a block of hotel rooms together perhaps- ideally somewhere with indoor pool, bar etc  (which will encourage people to hang out there more- and gather there rather than your house all of the time). Same sibling should also get a headcount & make some lunch/dinner reservations for the other days to add structure- which will also help to minimize time at your house. Also optional planned outings for some of the days (and people are more likely to follow thru if tickets have been purchased ahead). You could also offer to host an additional dinner or brunch etc at your house IF you want.

IME the whole “dividing up the responsibilities” thing probably won’t work well if you continue to use your house as the only home base for that long of a time frame.

My DH comes from a very large family and his sister (thank goodness) handles all of this stuff and usually uses the “organize a hotel as home base” strategy. Because there are really too many people to find a suitable rental house. One time she actually rented out an entire very small hotel in a vacation area and divided up the rooms/fees.   [/quote]

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