3 Easy Ways to Break Down the List of Things You Need for a House Party

Drinks

The type of drinks and how many you have will depend on how many people you invite to your house party. It would also depend on whether you are willing to offer your guests their preference in alcohol or if you would ask them to bring their own.

If you do decide to offer your guests drinks yourself, then it is best to have the most common ones available

• Wine – red and white
• Beer
• Cocktails and cocktail mixes
• Soft drinks
• Water
• Whiskey if the majority of your guests drink it
• Punch – You can offer a large bowl of alcoholic punch as this could work out cheaper
• Plenty of ice

Ingredients that you would need to make a fruity party punch are:

• Lemonade concentrated
• Fruit punch concentrated or a variety of fruit juices
• Vodka
• Light rum
• Club Soda
• Slices of fruit for garnish

Music

Music is another important part of a house party. The best way to ensure that there is music playing throughout the party is to create a playlist.

For those of you who would like to know how to create the perfect party playlist, we have put together some tips to help

• The first step is to know the atmosphere you want to create with the sound
• Choose a total amount of 200-250 songs to last the entire party
• Make sure you choose songs that you like as well as songs that you know your guests will like 
• Have a good variety of classic, fast, slow and dance songs
• Add songs that are lesser-known in between popular ones
• Arrange your playlist that it starts off slow and leads up to the big hits later on as the party starts to liven up.

Things that you would need:

• Playlist that you created on Spotify, Google play music, Sound Cloud or YouTube.
• A great Sound system with smart-speakers to control it from your phone

House party games

If you looking for something else to help liven up your house party, pull out some of your favorite drinking games or other party games like:

• Beer Pong
• Never have I Ever
• Quarters 
• Flip cup
• Drink-A-Palooza
• Drunk Jenga
• Head’s Up
• Cards Against Humanity 
• Reverse Charades

Capture every moment

It is impossible for any host to be everywhere to capture every moment of your guests during a house party. A solution for this would be to place some disposable cameras throughout the house and ask your guests to take photos for you.

If you don’t like the idea of handing out disposable cameras to your guests because guests who are tipsy can become unreliable. Then another great idea is to create a game out of capturing special moments or items from the house party.

You can make a list of all the things that you would like photos of and give each guest a turn to capture something on your list with your digital camera.

This will need to be done early in the party before your guests have had one too many drinks.

Some Ideas for the perfect photos are:

• Guests arriving at the party
• A certain type of decoration
• Their favorite food dish
• The drinks table
• Guests who are wearing something on their heads
• Guests shoes that you love
• Guests outfits that you love or don’t love
• A surprise photo of the hostess
• A group photo
• The person with the funniest dance move
• Guests who are laughing
• Guests who are eating
• Guests leaving the party

After the house party

When the house party is over you will need to start cleaning up. You will need the following cleaning supplies:

• House cleaning soaps
• Mops
• Brushes
• Brooms
• Washing cloths
• Drying cloths
• Rubber gloves
• Garbage bags
• Vacuum cleaner

Knowing the things you need for a house party can be easy if you plan ahead of time. On your plan, you can break down each part of your party down into sections and under each section list the things that you need to do to bring the house party together. Then write down all the things that you need to make it possible.