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The Home-On-New-Year's-Eve Thread
01-02-2015, 02:53 PM
Went out, wish I wouldn't have, though I did have fun with friends.
Got drunk, terrible hangover Jan 1, because no food before drinking and no water bc drinks were so hard to come by.
Wish I would have Uber'd instead. Great summary Roosh...
Quote: (01-01-2015 10:00 AM)Roosh Wrote:
Total time out: 2 hours
Total expense: $45
Total approaches: 1
For me,
Total time out: 3 hours
Total expense: Under $50
Total (half-assed) approaches: 1
Terrible hangover
Lost Income from Uber: $250 (estimate)
That's way more than enough for another trip to Chicago to go out with some like-minded RVFers and improve my life. Dammit.
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The Home-On-New-Year's-Eve Thread
01-02-2015, 04:59 PM
I don't knock someone deciding to skip the holiday, but I couldn't imagine doing nothing at all myself. I stayed home, but:
Last year (I had just started dating my gf) I co-hosted a party with my buddy extremely last minute. He mostly failed getting anyone to come but due to my spamming and a couple close friends we managed to have a good ratio and probably 25-30 people in my buddy's nice beach house a short walk away. It was really memorable especially considering it was crazy last minute, we basically roped in all the stragglers/last minute no plans people. It was really unplanned and we just threw alcohol and people together and it worked out well.
This year I decided I was going to have a New Year's Eve Party at my small beach house and that I was going to do it in style. I spent a couple hundred dollars in alcohol/mixers re-stocking my bar and a few hours getting the place ready. My girl came over and with the help of another girl decorated the whole place really nicely (talking store bought + custom made decorations). Other friends sourced and donated badass glassware for the midnight toast. I invited a lot more people and with significantly more notice than last year and only had maybe 30-35 RSVPs so I didn't know exactly what to expect. I asked people to bring champagne or beer if they'd drink it and an appetizer if they wanted. If they wanted any specialty liquor/mixers to bring that too. I also had a simple theme that allowed for some creativity without it being too difficult/expensive.
The results were excellent overall, my high points:
* Very solid ratio (even though I have a gf, nobody likes sausage-fests)
* Best turnout of any party to date. My place is NOT big, yet I did a head count before we peaked and it was well into the mid 50s. We probably peaked at 60 or more and total headcount with people who came through then had other parties or who went out to our local nightlife for the ball drop must've been in the 70s/80s.
* A surprisingly on point theme response, amazing creativity and people looked phenomenal.
* Great music (mostly my good friend and his girl DJ'ed on my powerful home theater setup).
* Great guests overall. All the friends of friends were cool/respectful. The only problems were usual issues for parties that size (spills, minor breakage, etc...).
* My bar got hit hard but it also got refilled almost equally (maybe more so...haven't done a bottle count) by people bringing alcohol. Friends jumped in and played bartender throughout the party so I didn't really have to do shit.
* My beer fridge started out almost completely empty and is now fully stocked.
* Since most of the things were taken care of I got to hang with a lot of people and spend plenty of time dancing/grab-assing/kissing my girl.
* The cops never showed up to my party despite me shutting it down past 2 AM. This is with music playing nearly at club-level volumes. Awesome.
Low points:
* There was some various drama at the very end of the night, but fortunately I was able to address it, people got over it, or those people left.
* Some people never showed that were supposed to bring even more girls, but it would've just been good to see them, no big deal. We probably didn't have room for them anyway.
* My place was pretty trashed, but my friend's helped do basic clean up at the end and the next day other friends helped clean up a lot of the rest. Nothing major damaged, just dirty/messy and a lot of trash and a little glass to clean up.
Then the following day (in the afternoon) I went diving with my buddy and watched the first sunset of the year while exiting the water and climbing up to the cliff overlooking the ocean. Then we ate a mexican food feast while defrosting and passed out while watching the Rose Bowl. Pretty nice start to the year.