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No, we don't have people over on a regular basis. We live a bit far from the rest of our friends! I would love to host a party though...

We LOVE having people over. Our house is laid out perfectly for entertaining and DH loves to cook. We'd rather have people over than have to get dressed up and sit in noisy, crowded, expensive restaurants or bars pretending to be comfortable. We usually have at least one couple or our family over for dinner every few weeks where DH and I make food or we carry in. Every few months, we'll have larger get-together to watch sporting events or a friends "reunion" around holiday times. For those, we usually do heavy appetizers or have people bring a dish. The best part is at the end of the night, we just get to walk upstairs and fall into bed!

I LOVE to entertain people at our house. It's a lot of work, but I love planning the menu and appetizers. We have people over for football games (big deal around here) and always have BBQs in the summer. We also do game nights with friends, where we all bring munchie foods and relax and have fun. Really saves money on going out to dinner/drinks at restaurants and bars.

We have people over once a week. I keep things casual. Make simple dinners, grill, etc. DH is always around so when I need to put the baby down or feed her, he takes over entertaining.

Glad we aren't the only ones who really don't- I've always wondered if we were anti-social.

My family never had anyone over when I was growing up, but we also had a double-wide trailer without any space.

We are planning to have a get together when the boy is a month or two old since we never had a local shower. I'm definitely a little nervous about putting it together for the first time at such a crazy time! But I think it will just be a pizza and beer type party

I wish we could plan parties but since we never know what my husband's schedule would be we can't plan anything more than a few hours ahead of time and even then he might end up working. We tend to have spur of the moment gatherings where I end up cooking a big meal of whatever we have on hand or we all meet somewhere. It doesnt help that we live 45 minutes away from all of our friends.

We've had two major dinner parties at our house in the past week. First we had my sister, her boyfriend, my dad's cousin, and his girlfriend over for a Hanukkah dinner last week. We made latkes and a roasted chicken. Then yesterday we had some of my friends from work over for a dungeness crab feast for Boxing Day. DH and I love cooking, and we love sharing food with friends.

My parents rarely hosted dinner parties when I was growing up, and hosting really stresses out my mom. It's a little stressful for me b/c we have to clean before and after, but overall I really enjoy hosting.

I love hosting!! And our group of friends love potlucks, so we have them periodically at the various homes. We're hosting New Year's Eve this week!

I'd love to find a group of friends to do this with. I love hostessing. My parents always hosted dinner parties when I was growing up- usually through groups organized through our church to rotate through different people's homes.

No. I wished we had people over more.

I like hosting stuff, but we are the only married couple in our local social groups (aside from one guy whose wife avoids anything with children - she's not anti-kids, but her son died last year. So, for social purposes, he's pretty much single.) Plus, my local friends include a woman who won't eat dinner unless it includes meat and a vegan, and we aren't close enough for me to invite the meat-eater and not a vegan/vice versa. We have one bachelorette friend who is apt to randomly back out on things (it's not personal - she does it to EVERYONE) so planned events are not really an option, and she's a vegan so it's hard to spontaneously throw together a tasty and filling meal. I really want to put together an RPG group from our friends. We're in a military town, and hubby is job-hunting... so we're just in a tough spot socially.

We love having people over, especially now that we have a kid-- lots of our close friends are childless so it's so much easier to get them to come over than to find a sitter and get out of the house. We love having barbecues and we do a lot of potlucks as well. We always have paper plates, cups, and plastic utensils on hand in bulk quantities. People always give us platters and serving things as gifts, saying "since you guys are always hosting parties"... that made me realize we have people over a lot!

We are HUGE board game people, and in order to play a board game you have to have a group of people, so we sometimes lure people in just to get them to play board games with us. Ha.

My parents always threw dinner parties almost every week when we were growing up. I think that turned me off. I don't mind hosting a couple or a few friends, but a full out party, probably not.

We have people over for board game nights pretty frequently. It's always a really casual thing though so there isn't really much prep beyond a little tidying up and making sure there are drinks in the fridge.

We have our best couple friend over often, I throw dinner parties a few times a year... bbQs during the summer, dinners for special occasions... we also host Thanksgiving every year, and have our parents over for dinner a lot.