Back in the day did you host parties at your house when parents were away?

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

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I recall a few parties I am surprised neighbors did not call the police. Cars were lined up and down the streets, girls were rolling around in the yard, there were something for everyone as part time dealers floated in and out selling their wares of mass obliteration. Psychedelic rock, Space rock and Acid rock could heard around the block and yet everyone kept their cool without incident, sort of like neighbor Woodstock.

We had several parties not as big as the one I described above and my parents never confronted us about them.
 

Never…I wouldn’t have dared to! My mother would have killed me, had me resuscitated, then killed me again! I simply enjoyed the glorious freedom of having my controlling, narcissistic mother absent. I could eat out and call the girl friend, without having my every word on the land line phone conversation listened to!
 
No. I had 6 younger brothers and sisters to watch if there was no parent at home.

Was this a generational or a geographic thing? About the closest thing I can think of would be cousins' graduation or wedding parties, but there was no dope involved.

I can remember illicitly splitting a bottle of beer with 3 cousins once at a graduation party. Pretty daring stuff, I know.
 
Mr. Ed said:
Cars were lined up and down the streets, girls were rolling around in the yard, there were something for everyone as part time dealers floated in and out selling their wares of mass obliteration. Psychedelic rock, Space rock and Acid rock could heard around the block and yet everyone kept their cool without incident, sort of like neighbor Woodstock.
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Yeah... but not *that* kind of party! 🤭 Volleyball, tons of food, music and dancing with mixed gender and then slumber party with pizza, brownies, chips, and whatever else we could find after the boys went home and whispering/giggling for hours.
 
dilettante said:
No. I had 6 younger brothers and sisters to watch if there was no parent at home.

Was this a generational or a geographic thing? About the closest thing I can think of would be cousins' graduation or wedding parties, but there was no dope involved.

I can remember illicitly splitting a bottle of beer with 3 cousins once at a graduation party. Pretty daring stuff, I know.
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I think it is geographic. New England, northern New York in the small towns.
@Mr. Ed I've never been to one of those parties. Rich kids, parents off on a trip somewhere. I heard about them all the time and some that they totally trash the house with unbelievable damage.
Another big thing were bonfire parties with a lot of drinking and drugs. Seems lots of bored kids with few morals and parents who looked the other way. I was involved in those and a couple of smaller house parties. Fun, but alcoholism and drug addiction were not uncommon. Kids died in car crashes, drownings.
 
When I was 16-19 the kind of parties you mentioned were about every weekend. The ones I attended usually had live music. Rock, and psychedelic type music It was the Hendrix, Doors, Credence, kind of people. Musical hippies. We drank a lot of beer and smoked pot. Sometimes the cops came, but I can only remember maybe once were someone got arrested. They did close a couple of them down though. Usually it was TURN IT DOWN! After high school we started having parties in the mountains. Some were almost 30 miles away.

I just thought about how fun they were. Not overt sex, no violence, and a lot of dancing and fun.
 
I never would have dared to have a party when my parents were not home-heck,I wasn`t even allowed to have Mr. R,who was my boyfriend back then,over when they weren`t home.

My kids,on the other hand,were the master party throwers. We worked 130 miles away from home while the last two were in high school. I only went to work 3 days a week,so was only gone two nights,but boy,did they take advantage of that.

Their sister,a few years older and married with a baby,was supposed to have them at her house on the nights I was gone but they talked her into letting them stay at home because it was" too hard to get ready for school at her house":rolleyes: So the parties ensued. Sister would come and make surprise visits on occasion but things didn`t change.

So one day I was in my daughter`s room and her photo album was sitting there so I thumbed through it. I saw pics of 8 or so kids sitting on a couch and thought "Wow-that looks like a party. Then I realized it was MY couch. And the best one was when I was browsing on (must have been MySpace back then) and found a video of a heavy metal band playing in an empty room. The flooring looked familiar and I realized it was MY great room! They had moved out all the furniture and had a band there. That was it-the parties ended.

Funny thing is,over the past 28 years,my daughter (the babysitter) STILL has people say to her "Oh,you`re S`s sister? I used to go to parties at your house all the time! In fact,she is now a driving instructor and just last week the father of one of her students said that. It has been a few years so I thought everyone had forgotten by now....
 
No, but I went to a lot of them, some of the best of them were when the house got trashed leaving the poor putz to explain to their parents why their house was trashed. Especially fun were the ones where some clean, never-been-in-trouble kid was talked into having a party and a couple of carloads of troublemakers like me and my friends would show up about midnight with drugs, and booze then turn up the music, and get the neighbors pissed off, a favorite game was how long before the cops were called.
 
HELL YES!!!! All the time and every chance we got. My parents bought a cottage when I was 12 so went there almost every weekend. My brothers and I partied every single weekend they were gone and loved every minute of it.
Did we get into trouble when they found out?
Yes but we didn’t care. They’d still go away and we’d still party.

My older brothers were 14 and 16 and once I hit high school the parties were even more fun. We had the cops come a few times and tell us to turn the music down which we did.

We drank and smoked up. We had a really good time. The good thing about it was our house always looked better after the party than before. We’d not only tidy up, we’d dust and polish the wooden floors. The kitchen would be sparkling when my parents came home so they’d have nothing to complain about.
 
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