Housewarming party checklist
The constraint is that you have lived here for a fortnight and cannot find the glasses. Everything below is built around borrowing, buying cheap and not cooking.
27 items
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The items
- Unpack these first
- Glasses, or buy cheap ones
- Something to sit on, borrowed if necessary
- A surface to put drinks on
- Bathroom: loo roll, soap, hand towel, bin
- Bin and bin bags
- A speaker
- Keep it simple
- Order food rather than cook in a kitchen you do not know
- Crisps, nuts and bread with dips
- Say bring a bottle, and mean it
- Ice×2
- A non-alcoholic option
- Paper plates, this once
- The building
- Meet the neighbours before the party, not duringA knock on the door and a phone number buys a lot of tolerance.
- Check whether the building has quiet hours
- Clear instructions for the buzzer or the door code
- Where to park, if that matters
- Somewhere to put shoes, if that is your rule
- Before people arrive
- Hide the boxes in one room and shut the door
- Clear a path through the hallway
- Somewhere for coats
- Check the lighting, and add a lamp if it is harsh
- Decide which rooms are open
- Put the fragile things away
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Questions people ask
- How soon after moving should I have a housewarming?
- Three or four weeks is common — long enough to find the bathroom things, short enough that people still want to see the place.
- What do I need if I have not unpacked?
- Somewhere to sit, somewhere to put a drink, working bathroom things and a bin. Nobody minds boxes; they mind not having anywhere to put a glass down.