Throw a Party and Hide It from Your Parents

If your parents are going away and you want to throw a party, you'll have to be smart not to get caught. Here are some things to keep in mind.

Steps

  1. Find out when your parents are leaving and how long they will be gone, but do not act suspicious when finding out this information because parents can just vibe that stuff.
  2. Gather a group of friends to help you remove valuables that may get broken or stolen during the event. Store them in a safe place, and remember or record where all of them go. Many people will notice if something they see every day is even slightly out of place. A good tip is to take a picture of each room so you have something to look at when you're trying to put the room back together.
  3. Try to remember where everything goes so your parents don't know you had to move items. Taking pictures with your cell phone can be helpful in remembering how beds with decorative pillows are made and how the house looked before. Just remember to delete when you're done!
  4. To prevent the party from being busted by the police, leave exterior lights off, draw all the blinds in the house and instruct attendees to park cars far away, such as at a nearby parking lot or on an adjacent street.
  5. Be relatively quiet and don't crank up the tunes so loud that it will wake up the whole neighborhood.
  6. To minimize the presence of cars further, carpool. It saves the environment, too!
  7. Use a separate trash bag for alcohol-related trash and throw it out in a nearby business's dumpster.
  8. Tell guests to smoke cigarettes outside. The smell of cigarette smoke in a house is irreversible and will stay there forever.
  9. If using the Internet to communicate party plans, erase the related logs from your instant messaging client if your parents use your computer.
  10. Do damage control. Broken items have to be replaced before your parents get home!
  11. Be responsible. The worst thing that can happen is having a drunk friend drive home. This will ensure that not only does he get jail time, but that you will get caught for the party and others could be injured. Your parents are likely to be liable.
  12. Lock all doors (if you have keys) of rooms you don't want anyone to enter.
  13. After the party, clean up everything and put back all the valuables prior to parents getting back home.
  14. Relax until parents get home.

Tips

  • Never throw the party the day before they come home. If it doesn't work in the movies, it's DEFINITELY not going to work for you.
  • Designate one bathroom for the party, so all the bathrooms in your house don't get trashed.
  • Make sure parents will not be coming home early. Possibly call them on their cell phones to find out this information. Make it seem that you are just interested if they are having a good time.
  • Make sure you have ample time for cleanup. If your parents are going to be home at six a.m., maybe this isn't the time to throw a party. You may think your friends will be respectful of your property, but once they get some beers in them, hell can break loose. Make sure you've got at least three hours to make the house look like it did before the party.
  • Don't invite like 500 people through Myspace or Facebook. Preferably don't use social networking at all, it's too easy for people to invite friends of friends, then people you don't know WILL turn up and they WON'T care about you or your house and you will very quickly lose control of the situation and something WILL go wrong!
  • Throw away the party. Get a big black trash bag and put all the empty containers for alcohol and any other strange things that may have been thrown out during your party. Get in your car and take this big bag of trash to a dumpster behind a fast food joint or somewhere else public. This way your parents won't say "Why is this trash can full?"
  • If possible, try to throw the party when your parents will be out of town for two nights in a row or when they are at least coming home late the next day.
  • If parents call to notify of early arrival, get everyone out of the house, and ask a couple buddies to stay and help finish cleaning.
  • Don't clean up TOO much. Use your judgement on this, but it should look like you've at least been living there while they're gone, if you're normally somewhat messy, make a typical mess for yourself.
  • Check the ceiling for food being thrown upwards.
  • If you have alcohol at your party., offer those who are clearly drunk to sleep over for the night, this will minimize drunk driving/walking/etc. and therefore minimize attention from neighbours.
  • Ask people to bring their own alcohol so the levels in your parents supply don't get too low, but if they do fill them with water. Asking people to bring their own alcohol will minimize costs.
  • Phones with a GPS feature can often be monitored remotely, either via the Internet or another phone of the same brand. This requires the phone being monitored to have a privacy setting changed to automatically accept this from a specific phone (consult your owner's manual!)
  • Make sure you have enough beer. Tell everyone to BYOB if you don't have at least a hundred dollars for booze. Even so, buy a couple cases of Ice House and a few bottles of vodka. You cannot have too much beer. You will not have any left over, so don't worry about that.
  • If you're under the age of 17, drink soda at guests' instead of asking for a beer.

Warnings

  • Some parents leave instructions with a relative, friend, or even worse, a neighbor. Be aware that someone might come by the house, or be watching the house. It's safest to have party guests enter a side or back door.
  • Lying will sometimes make the problem worse. If your parents question too much, and you sense they know what's going on, tell the truth (unless you are a spectacular liar).

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