We have a friend. We'll call him Jeremy. When we first met Jeremy we were invited to his house for a party--and it was a good one. But when we were there we noticed this piece of paper behind a glass cabinet...
Sure, we've made plenty of lists for parties before but this one is unique. This list doubles as a detailed diagram of the party venue (in this case, his apartment). Wanting to make sure that there was proper seating for all of his guests, he sketched out the number of people that could comfortably hang out (21-24 to be exact). We kind of love this. Not only is it a list with essential items (food to be bought, where the drink station will live, who's invited, etc.), it's also a memento. A reminder of an eventful evening with close friends and new aquaintances. It's a blueprint of his old apartment if he ever happens to move. Plus, the drawing would look super neat behind a frame--instant conversation piece.
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Comments (10)
Man of my dreams!! I can't believe anyone else does this besides me. I also make a menu with a list of the serving dishes I'm going to use for each dish.
I make a spreadsheet with all dishes I'm going to make, ingredients i need, serving items, flowers, etc., then sort it various ways to make a shopping list, timeline, menu, overall party/dinner checklist. I can check back later so I won't repeat too many items. I can't do without it.
nene... spreadsheets run my life. excel, the ultimate list machine!
How does anyone survive planning & hosting a party WITHOUT such a list/ spreadsheed???
Well, I´m a list maniac. (Handwritten, never excel, that evil device.) And as an architect, I can´t even move furniture around without drawind a floorplan first... I simply love doing that!
Why would the guy write the room names on his own diagram ... as if he didn't know what each room was. Seems made up for the purpose of a blog post to me.
this is exactly what I do - thank god someone else is as neurotic. but, to place 4-5 people as sitting in the bedroom is quite odd to me, no?
i do this too, only not in writing... and i doubt i'd leave it behind a glass cabinet so my guests could further note my neurosis.
i agree with ridge van winkle... lol
"Seems made up for the purpose of a blog post to me." Why, van winkle, would you inject a dose of negativity onto a blog when all you're presenting is your unfounded, fact-free guess work? I get it-- everyone has opinions. Yours, quite frankly, just seems irrelevant. To insinuate the blogger is essentially lying... well that's downright nasty. Unless you know something that I don't. Do you? Or are you merely on a witch hunt?
WOW. We're fighting alot on here lately aren't we? I feel like I'm on fubar or something.
I do this. I just did this yesterday in planning my son's first birthday party.
Then again, I am an architect...