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What are essential things to planning a good party? I'm not rich so I'm NOT providing booze for everyone!
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How to throw a party
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Mac the KNife
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Lots of booze, dance music, and people. Get some munchies too so everybody doesn't die of alcohol poisoning 
Tenacious-V
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Teh Hamburglar said:
Just buy a few bottles of hard shit, and a 24 of beer. Start with shots and then move to the beer, it won't take too too much. I think you're overestimating the amount of alcohol you really need.
But aside from that, you need good tunes, something good for background visuals (good show on TV muted, or MP3 visualizations. Lots of places to sit, spread out if possible for private conversations... AND if people are gonna get hammered or stay super late, then a room or 2 to crash in for a while, or do other stuff in, depending on if you allow it or not.
But this is all coming from a college kid, so if that's not the type of party you're looking for then my bad.
DCharlie
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loads of cheap fruit juice (actual fruit too if you are posh!) , loads of cheap vodka (cleaner fluid if skint)
Put it in the middle of the room, watch the fireworks.
if you are having more than 3 people, you might want to multiply up those numbers!
loads of cheap fruit juice (actual fruit too if you are posh!) , loads of cheap vodka (cleaner fluid if skint)
Put it in the middle of the room, watch the fireworks.
if you are having more than 3 people, you might want to multiply up those numbers!
Throw a 5th party.. Every guy must bring a 5th of alcohol to get in. You provide the mixers!
Be sure to invite a bunch of girls.. The ratio shuld be like 5 girls to every 1 guy. The guys inevitably show up anyways, and some of the girls tend to flake out, so it evens out.
+1 to DCharlie's suggestion. Jungle juice is the best =)
Be sure to invite a bunch of girls.. The ratio shuld be like 5 girls to every 1 guy. The guys inevitably show up anyways, and some of the girls tend to flake out, so it evens out.
+1 to DCharlie's suggestion. Jungle juice is the best =)
I've always found a coupld of bottles of hard stuff and a 24 is enough. Most people bring there prefered beverage anyway. I personally always made sure to have pot on hand. Great parties just grow. The most important thing is women, make sure you have lots of them. As far as music I always just left it open to whatever. The whole stereo and cds are over there, play whatever you like as loud as you like. Insure people understand the skip rule, when someone yells skip you skip to the next track its not a debate. Also make sure you open where ever it is the party is at. People are going to end up fucking in one of the bedrooms anyway might as well just make them comfortable. Make sure the kitchen has room for people to stand, whats up with kitchens and parties?
Tenacious-V
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DCharlie said:
4 26oz bottles (2 vodka, 1 dark rum, 1 rye whisky)and a 24 pack of beer served well for close to 20 people in my small apartment last year. Went from shots, to mixes, then had beer last and it got everyone pretty damn hammered nicely.
As stated above, more people will inevitably come and they'll bring booze with em. Not everyone at the party is a moocher. Just make sure everyone feels comfortable and you'll be fine.
Battlezone
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darscot said:
The kitchen is usually where the booze/food is, and thusly where people usually wind up.
If you're going to have music, and you're going to have women there, clear out a space for them to dance and turn out the lights. I can't tell you how many parties I go to where there's music playing, and no one dancing, and as soon as I turn off a light, people all of a sudden have this urge to dance.
How big is this party, anyway?
DarkAngelYuna
Banned
towels for the puke... lots and lots of paper towels for the puke clean up.. i learned the hardway...
imastalker co.
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#1 Music
bottom line. it doesn't matter how many people are there, and how much booze there is. it's not a party until there's music.
#2 - Girls
if girls are there, more girls will show up because they're under the impression that it's a good party because girls showed up. it's not hard to throw a sausage fest by any means, so always make the priority girls when inviting people. so long as girls come, people off all kinds will come.
#3 - Alcohol
obviously jokingly important when it comes to parties, but not as important as the other two. being that you don't have to worry about it as much. so long as there's girls and music, the booze will come one way or another. obviously, it should be a focus when setting a party up, but it's not as high a priority as music and girls.
themed parties can be really great too. we do this thing called the Millionaires Ball, where everyone that walks through the door has to be dressed in some type of suit or tuxedo, or fancy dress. must have either a bottle of wine, champaign, or cheese & crackers in their hand. or they will not be let in.
anyways, as far as music goes, that depends on the route you wanna take. if you want to set the dance floor on fire though, look no further than...
Groups / Bands: 2 Live Crew, Afrika Bambaataa, Bronski Beat, C-Bank, Company B, Connie, The Cover Girls, The Cure, Daft Punk, Dead or Alive, Depeche Mode, Desire, Devo, Duran Duran, El DeBarge, Exotic Erotic, Exposé, The Faint, The Flirts, Full Force, Funky Four Plus One More, Giggles, Globe, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5, Isley Brothers, Jackson 5, Jellybean, Juicy, Kool and the Gang, Kraftwerk, Ladytron, Lime, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, M, Mary Jane Girls, Ministry (first album only), Namco Sound Team, New Order, Newcleus, One Plus One, Paris By Air, Parliament, Planet Patrol, Pointer Sisters, RUN D.M.C., Secret Society, Sequal, Soft Cell, Spandau Ballet, The Sugarhill Gang, Talking Heads, TKA, Trans-X, The Treacherous Three, Voice in Fashion, Wham!, Whodini, Wild Ones, Yellow, Zapp
Solo Artist: Buffy, Calloway, Chakakan, Cindy Mizelle, Davy D, Debbie Deb, Dr. Dre, E.G. Daily, Eazy-E, Eddie Murphy, Eminem, Falco, Gary Taylor, Gary Newman, George Lamond, Giorgio Moroder, Jermaine Jackson, Johnny O, Joyce Simms, Kurtis Blow, Lil Suzy, Maddi, Madonna, Meg, Michael Jackson, Nayobe, Nocera, Noel, Paul Engemann, Paul Reveer, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Quincy Jones, Rockwell, Saffie, Shannon, Slick Rick, Stacy Q, Stephanie, Stevie Wonder, Taco, Taylor Dayne, Tina B, Tolga, Trinere, Yuzo Koshiro.
uh...yeah, i tend to be the DJ at whatever parties i go to.
but yeah, i can't stress this enough. when planning a party, make girls and music the priority. pull that much off, and the rest will fall into place.
bottom line. it doesn't matter how many people are there, and how much booze there is. it's not a party until there's music.
#2 - Girls
if girls are there, more girls will show up because they're under the impression that it's a good party because girls showed up. it's not hard to throw a sausage fest by any means, so always make the priority girls when inviting people. so long as girls come, people off all kinds will come.
#3 - Alcohol
obviously jokingly important when it comes to parties, but not as important as the other two. being that you don't have to worry about it as much. so long as there's girls and music, the booze will come one way or another. obviously, it should be a focus when setting a party up, but it's not as high a priority as music and girls.
themed parties can be really great too. we do this thing called the Millionaires Ball, where everyone that walks through the door has to be dressed in some type of suit or tuxedo, or fancy dress. must have either a bottle of wine, champaign, or cheese & crackers in their hand. or they will not be let in.
anyways, as far as music goes, that depends on the route you wanna take. if you want to set the dance floor on fire though, look no further than...
Groups / Bands: 2 Live Crew, Afrika Bambaataa, Bronski Beat, C-Bank, Company B, Connie, The Cover Girls, The Cure, Daft Punk, Dead or Alive, Depeche Mode, Desire, Devo, Duran Duran, El DeBarge, Exotic Erotic, Exposé, The Faint, The Flirts, Full Force, Funky Four Plus One More, Giggles, Globe, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5, Isley Brothers, Jackson 5, Jellybean, Juicy, Kool and the Gang, Kraftwerk, Ladytron, Lime, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, M, Mary Jane Girls, Ministry (first album only), Namco Sound Team, New Order, Newcleus, One Plus One, Paris By Air, Parliament, Planet Patrol, Pointer Sisters, RUN D.M.C., Secret Society, Sequal, Soft Cell, Spandau Ballet, The Sugarhill Gang, Talking Heads, TKA, Trans-X, The Treacherous Three, Voice in Fashion, Wham!, Whodini, Wild Ones, Yellow, Zapp
Solo Artist: Buffy, Calloway, Chakakan, Cindy Mizelle, Davy D, Debbie Deb, Dr. Dre, E.G. Daily, Eazy-E, Eddie Murphy, Eminem, Falco, Gary Taylor, Gary Newman, George Lamond, Giorgio Moroder, Jermaine Jackson, Johnny O, Joyce Simms, Kurtis Blow, Lil Suzy, Maddi, Madonna, Meg, Michael Jackson, Nayobe, Nocera, Noel, Paul Engemann, Paul Reveer, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Quincy Jones, Rockwell, Saffie, Shannon, Slick Rick, Stacy Q, Stephanie, Stevie Wonder, Taco, Taylor Dayne, Tina B, Tolga, Trinere, Yuzo Koshiro.
uh...yeah, i tend to be the DJ at whatever parties i go to.
but yeah, i can't stress this enough. when planning a party, make girls and music the priority. pull that much off, and the rest will fall into place.
Battlezone
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phantomile co. said:
Agreed. I threw a huge house party back in January, and a few days later, one of my female friends from work told me that she left because there were too many women there. It was the best compliment I could have ever received about that party.
argon said:
At this one party I was at some random dude who no one knew showed up and after seeing the punch slurred: "Say holmes, gimme somma that there chugachoo!"
It wasn't until years later that I figured out he was actually saying "jungle juice" instead of "chugachoo." The line is still classic to this day for us:
"Say holmes, gimme somma that there chugachoo!"
*passes the salt*
We always aim to have at least a ratio of a bottle of the hardstuff for every 4 people estimated to show up plus several cases of beer. Queue up 5-7 hours of music, sometimes hooking up a visualizer to the TV for it. Snacky stuff for people to eat. Good times after that.
Pranks make the party.
It was well into the evening when everyone was either buzzed or roasted. I was giving a friend evil looks all night but niether one of us said a word to each other. Finally, I blurted out something to the effect of, "I know who you were with last night," in slightly slurred speech. His retort was to call me a bitch. "I'm not the bitch in this relationship. The bitch gets fucked!" At which point I pulled out a gun and fired three shots into his stomach. The squibs didn't entirely match up with the blanks, but the loud noise and the resulting geyser of condom blasted blood was convincing enough. Nothing but silence as he slumped over and fell on his face. I quickly put the gun back into my pocket so no party heroes would take the gun and burn me with muzzle flash. The jock types yelled swears. The girls and a few guys cried softly. More out of fear for themselves than in concern for their dead partymate. Then, my blank stare turned into a smirk, and then into laughter.
Everyone sat stunned for a good minute. As more and more caught on, they began to smile. A few didn't appreciate it at all but chuckled out of peer pressure.
But my friend wasn't moving. "It's over, dude." Not a twitch. "Ben?" I knelt down beside him.
"Oh, right." I said. "It isn't a prank."
At which point I killed them all.
It was well into the evening when everyone was either buzzed or roasted. I was giving a friend evil looks all night but niether one of us said a word to each other. Finally, I blurted out something to the effect of, "I know who you were with last night," in slightly slurred speech. His retort was to call me a bitch. "I'm not the bitch in this relationship. The bitch gets fucked!" At which point I pulled out a gun and fired three shots into his stomach. The squibs didn't entirely match up with the blanks, but the loud noise and the resulting geyser of condom blasted blood was convincing enough. Nothing but silence as he slumped over and fell on his face. I quickly put the gun back into my pocket so no party heroes would take the gun and burn me with muzzle flash. The jock types yelled swears. The girls and a few guys cried softly. More out of fear for themselves than in concern for their dead partymate. Then, my blank stare turned into a smirk, and then into laughter.
Everyone sat stunned for a good minute. As more and more caught on, they began to smile. A few didn't appreciate it at all but chuckled out of peer pressure.
But my friend wasn't moving. "It's over, dude." Not a twitch. "Ben?" I knelt down beside him.
"Oh, right." I said. "It isn't a prank."
At which point I killed them all.
General Zhaoyun
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create a few playlists so you don't have to worry about running to the radio/computer to change the music.Zensetsu said:
Tenacious-V
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CrisKre said:
:lol :lol :lol
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
CrisKe said:
Going to help a friend throw a party tomorrow night, you wanna come?
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Teh Hamburglar said:
A roof. Some cards. Some music. Maybe a beer pong table. Thats about it.
Short answer, nobody knows. The best parties just happen, and over-planning every little detail is probably just going to leave you disappointed. Long(er) answer, if you really want to get into it, is people, music and booze, in that order. If you've got a decent CD collection and a player, you can just let the guests put on what they want, and nearly everyone brings booze anyway, so it all really comes back to people, and lots of them. As many as you can fit in your house, and while you don't have to know every one of them, make sure you know who's accountable for bringing who. As people have said above, more chicks than guys can be beneficial, but don't go overboard, as you want a reason for the girls to show up too.
Music, if you're organising it yourself, depends entirely, and I mean entirely, on who you're inviting. You know your friends, we don't, so you're going to have to set up some lively tunes that they actually want to listen to, setting up a pre-defined MP3 playlist before the start of the night is probably the easiest way to go about this, and if well thought-out can steer the mood of the party in whatever way you want it. Be careful, though, as I said before, the best parties just happen, and this type of pre-prepared playlist can be exactly the kind of over-planning that gets in the way.
Being a booze-salesman myself, I can heartily recommend cheap beer, vodka/rum and mixers. You'll have to know the best value beer in your area for yourself, but even though it doesn't taste quite as good as the premium brands, if you get a cheap one that goes down easy enough, after one or two people won't even notice the taste, anyway. Hence you'll be able to afford a fair bit (at least enough to keep the moochers happy) without much funds. Vodka and rum are great, because, with mixers, people won't be able to tell the paint-thinner from the gourmet shit, so you can skimp on the spending as much as you want, and a good selection of mixers won't cost hundreds either. A fair few people have mentioned wine, and while this is great if you can get it, seeing as you say you're on a budget, I'd say it simply isn't a cost-effective (aside from the really shitty stuff) way of getting people drunk. If you can afford to spend a bit more on the wine, then a few bottles of Montana Sauvignon Blanc and Los Vascos Cabernet Sauvignon will do very well, as they aren't prohibitively expensive, but are very good wines and people (especially the ladies) will more than appreciate you putting in the thought and effort to pick out some good wines. But, if you're not willing to shell out much cash, you're best off just leaving the wines to whatever guests feel like bringing.
Oh, and while this isn't really relevant to the actual planning of the party, I've noticed that all the best ones end up with the police being called out, whether it's for half-naked outdoor saxophone playing at 3am, or accusations of murder (both of which have long stories behind them that I don't particularily want to go into).
Music, if you're organising it yourself, depends entirely, and I mean entirely, on who you're inviting. You know your friends, we don't, so you're going to have to set up some lively tunes that they actually want to listen to, setting up a pre-defined MP3 playlist before the start of the night is probably the easiest way to go about this, and if well thought-out can steer the mood of the party in whatever way you want it. Be careful, though, as I said before, the best parties just happen, and this type of pre-prepared playlist can be exactly the kind of over-planning that gets in the way.
Being a booze-salesman myself, I can heartily recommend cheap beer, vodka/rum and mixers. You'll have to know the best value beer in your area for yourself, but even though it doesn't taste quite as good as the premium brands, if you get a cheap one that goes down easy enough, after one or two people won't even notice the taste, anyway. Hence you'll be able to afford a fair bit (at least enough to keep the moochers happy) without much funds. Vodka and rum are great, because, with mixers, people won't be able to tell the paint-thinner from the gourmet shit, so you can skimp on the spending as much as you want, and a good selection of mixers won't cost hundreds either. A fair few people have mentioned wine, and while this is great if you can get it, seeing as you say you're on a budget, I'd say it simply isn't a cost-effective (aside from the really shitty stuff) way of getting people drunk. If you can afford to spend a bit more on the wine, then a few bottles of Montana Sauvignon Blanc and Los Vascos Cabernet Sauvignon will do very well, as they aren't prohibitively expensive, but are very good wines and people (especially the ladies
) will more than appreciate you putting in the thought and effort to pick out some good wines. But, if you're not willing to shell out much cash, you're best off just leaving the wines to whatever guests feel like bringing.Oh, and while this isn't really relevant to the actual planning of the party, I've noticed that all the best ones end up with the police being called out, whether it's for half-naked outdoor saxophone playing at 3am, or accusations of murder (both of which have long stories behind them that I don't particularily want to go into).
Teh Hamburglar said:
WTF? How can you have a good party if you're not suppliyng booze for everyone. That is the essential thing to having a good party. Supply the booze or the party will suck. Whenever I throw a party some of my friends are cool enough to bring shit too. But if they don't, you're responsible.
DarkAngelYuna
Banned
Psh, just make it byob, it works out a lot better than you think 
Music is definitely important, so don't leave it to yourself to chop and change and fuck it all up. Buy a couple of good DJ mix CDs and party down to that, the Fabric and DJ Kicks series are particularly good.
Oh, and don't listen to all this "you have to supply the drinks" rubbish. You're already supplying a venue, you don't owe them anything else.
Oh, and don't listen to all this "you have to supply the drinks" rubbish. You're already supplying a venue, you don't owe them anything else.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
What you could do is get a keg and charge enough per cup to pay for it depending on how big the party is. But yeah BYOB is not a big deal at all.
TheQueen'sOwn
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Goreomedy said:
ahahahahahahah
omg
I have never laughed so hard reading this forum. :lol
Bravo!
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