Anonymous
03/14/2019 21:51
Subject: Re:How often do you entertain??
My parents live locally but I’m not counting when we have them over.
I would say for friends every few months.
I would say for friends every few months.
Anonymous
03/14/2019 21:40
Subject: How often do you entertain??
Anonymous wrote:I always wonder about this when I read the Sunday routine feature in the nytimes. All those people claim to have friends over for dinner every single sunday! I’m always like who really entertains that often...? But I guess some people do? My questions are: don’t you get stressed by all the cleaning, planning, and preparing involved? And when do your friends have a chance to reciprocate if you’re hosting that often? And how do you even gather that many people every week? Sometimes it seems like scheduling even one other couple/family to come over is so difficult.
I did it in my single days. My roommate and I would have people over for “Sunday Suppers”, and we’d watch whatever was on HBO, like Six Feet Under or The Sopranos or Sex and the City. Either I’d make a big pot of something, or we’d order in Chinese or whatever. It was a lot of fun. But that was then, and now I have kids and dh is not very sociable and we move a lot so we don’t have many local friends. It was good for that season of my life.
Anonymous
03/14/2019 21:28
Subject: How often do you entertain??
Anonymous wrote:Usually have larger get togethers at our house 1-2 times per month, but host another family more often than that. We love having people over and entertaining. We have a 2 year old and 7 month old
Do you order food or what do you make when you have people that often??
Anonymous
03/14/2019 20:35
Subject: Re:How often do you entertain??
Anonymous wrote:We have weekly dinners with my parents. For friends, we mostly do brunches these days. Way easier!!! Some months, we’ll host three, or even four brunches. And I honestly don’t mind.
What do you do for brunches? I think Sunday after church seems like a nice time to have people over, but I’m not sure it would be way less stressful. Do you buy a lot of the food?
Anonymous
03/14/2019 20:16
Subject: How often do you entertain??
Every couple of months
Anonymous
03/14/2019 20:16
Subject: How often do you entertain??
I always wonder about this when I read the Sunday routine feature in the nytimes. All those people claim to have friends over for dinner every single sunday! I’m always like who really entertains that often...? But I guess some people do? My questions are: don’t you get stressed by all the cleaning, planning, and preparing involved? And when do your friends have a chance to reciprocate if you’re hosting that often? And how do you even gather that many people every week? Sometimes it seems like scheduling even one other couple/family to come over is so difficult.
Anonymous
03/14/2019 20:15
Subject: How often do you entertain??
Anonymous wrote:Never
+1.
Anonymous
03/14/2019 20:12
Subject: How often do you entertain??
We have friends over for dinner 1-2 a month.
Anonymous
03/14/2019 20:11
Subject: How often do you entertain??
A few times a year when people visit from out of town. Never for anyone local.
Anonymous
03/14/2019 20:10
Subject: How often do you entertain??
Never
Anonymous
03/14/2019 20:09
Subject: How often do you entertain??
Usually have larger get togethers at our house 1-2 times per month, but host another family more often than that. We love having people over and entertaining. We have a 2 year old and 7 month old
Anonymous
03/14/2019 20:05
Subject: Re:How often do you entertain??
We have weekly dinners with my parents. For friends, we mostly do brunches these days. Way easier!!! Some months, we’ll host three, or even four brunches. And I honestly don’t mind.
Anonymous
03/14/2019 20:01
Subject: How often do you entertain??
I do it once a week with my extended family, and one a month with friends/coworkers
Anonymous
03/14/2019 19:45
Subject: How often do you entertain??
OP here.. I meant to say “sports” not “spirits” ha!!
Anonymous
03/14/2019 19:43
Subject: How often do you entertain??
How often do you host dinners for others? With kids and so many activities, I feel like we don’t do it often enough. But I love having people over but feel I can’t because of spirts etc. What do you do? I feel bad