Being a child at your parents' parties

[sandie76]

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I'd forgotton about those little plastic coloured swords. My grandad had a sideboard and one of the cupboards was full of those fancy glasses that looked like they had coloured sugar around the rim, the plastic swords, coloured drink mixing sticks, cocktail umbrellas and the cupboard also contained a Rubix cube - probably why I was always in it.

[victorbrunswick]

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Does anyone else have memories of being a child and going to adult parties?

Geesh, that was my entire childhood. Though my parents didn't throw parties themselves they would often visit their friends and of course I would be dragged along. To put things into perspective I'm an only child and most of my parents' friends either didn't have kids or if they did they were much older than me and that included almost all of my cousins except for one who was only a baby back then. so here I was -- surrounded by all these adults -- the odd one out.

[sf1378]

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My parents used to have people over for drinks and small parties in the 70s before I was born but they stopped doing it as they felt it was a pain in the backside all the clearing up...lol. They became more of a unit of two, happy in each others company than socialising - happens to a lot of couples.

My Mum also had one of those tiered 70s serving dishes for parties, hers was orange. Still got it with box in the old cocktail cabinet in the dining room...I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same as the purple one mentioned earlier.

[havasack]

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I remember hiding under my mam and da's bed with a can of brown ale (Newcastle that is) and a friend to share it with at a new years party, then my parents came into the room to bicker about something, we couldn;t hold our giggling in and got rumbled. We were about 8.

[havasack]

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My parents always had parties in our house,usually on a saturday night. Everyones kids would come to our house and sleep over with us. We would take it in turns to run down the stairs and bang on the door to draw attention to ourselves and peep round the door at everyone. How annoying we were. My mum would creep up the stairs and bring us food and lemonade. I can still hear the voices and laughter and sounds of boney M and rose royce drifting up the stairs. lol

and the car keys being swapped ?

(don't regularly post here and want to put a smiley at the end of that but don't know where they are)

[Sly]

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I hated adult get togethers. Normally I'd be allowed to knock about until it was time to watch the lewd comedian video someone had brought. Then I was cast out, only able to listen to the muffled swears on the tv followed by laughter.

[Trickyvee]

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They became more of a unit of two, happy in each others company than socialising - happens to a lot of couples.

Same as my mam and dad. They never had parties and only mam would occasionally have a friend or neighbour round during the day. They also never went out in the evenings, together or separately, but did before I was born. I always found it a bit odd. I'm not a huge socialiser but I think I'd go crackers stuck with one person day in day out!

It's become even more pronounced now that they are much older. They have a car and get out during the day, but never go out at night and don't have any friends.

That said, I like going to other people's houses but don't like people coming to mine and I'd never throw a big party.

[battyrat]

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I don't remember any real partys so I don't think they held any.I had a relative that used to do toy and tupperware do's and parants allowed him to use our livingroom a couple of times.We were quickly sent to bed before every body gathered.But I can clearly remember people comming to these events bringing their own kids which used to run around downstairs.Always was a gutting feeling of why are they allowed and not us.I suppose it was a case of out of sight out of mind for us back then.

[battyrat]

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Sorry to say that I never saw tupperwear do's as partys,as too many people turned up for the food and the rest to buy.Partys to me are get togethers without any real motive then wanting to celebrate something.

[themilkman]

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Loved my parents parties............that's the only time I was allowed a small glass of lager shandy

[Richard1978]

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My cousins used to drink shandy long before I started drinking, they once got in trouble for making it with my Uncle's Ruddles County Bitter!

[themilkman]

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My cousins used to drink shandy long before I started drinking, they once got in trouble for making it with my Uncle's Ruddles County Bitter!

My friends parents went out one saturday morning, me and my mate raided their spirit cabinet and made cocktails...........we were only 7 and got in a whole lot of trouble when his mum and dad got home

When I say 'cocktails', I meant we just mixed a load of whiskey, vodka etc together.