Do you enjoy entertaining?

No. I like having people over, but I never truly enjoy it because I'm always worried about everything being perfect and that I'm communicating with everyone and that everyone is happy and isn't in need of anything. I feel like I may be the only one not having fun. Now, DH enjoys it, so I let him take the reigns.


FYI- we don't entertain much at all. Maybe 2-3 times a year for more than 2 people. We're not like every family on HGTV that needs and entertainment house.

I too am jealous of people that are so at ease with entertaining. I'd love to be a "drop on by anytime" kind of hostess. I can be social and like to talk and laugh with others, but the introvert side of me kicks in when it comes to having people over to my own house. I am trying to break out of it a bit this Summer though. We have a pool and want to have some get togethers with friends.

I like having my family for Christmas and the odd person or two at Thanksgiving. Other than that, no. I seem to be an extrovert a lot of the time, but in truth, I'm more introverted.

No. Never. 

When I belonged to a book club I'd have them over here when it was my turn. Otherwise, never. I'm one of those 100% Myers-Briggs "I" people, married to another "I" (although he's not 100%). My job requires me to talk to people all.day.long. When I get home I want nothing to do with anyone. 

I love to entertain! I love the planning and getting the house spruced up all at once. It does take a lot of work to have everything look good all at the same time since we are pretty much on a cleaning schedule that spreads chores out over a couple of weeks cycle.

But I love having a group ever, whether that group is 2 or 20!

I'm a party goer, not a thrower!

100% no, I do not enjoy it.

I don't like to entertain people, but I love to plan parties. So my kids get to have lots of parties. I get to plan the fun stuff, but they do the entertaining. I stay out of the way and just refill snacks as needed. This also gives me great Intel on their friends.

Entertaining sounds a little more formal than what I enjoy, which is having people over.

I'll do Thanksgiving and Christmas but those aren't my favorite days to have anyone over because so many people have very firm expectations of what will be on the table and we eat at a formally set table. I love summer dinners with proteins from the grill/rotisserie and a few salads, finger foods and desserts. I don't over think the menu, usually serve buffet style and eat outside. I do stress if it we are having someone over I've never met before but experience has taught me the evening usually turns out fine.

We love entertaining. Honestly could not imagine myself being with someone who hates people. We have people over at least once a week. We get everything ready and set up but once guests are here, we don't cater to them. Everyone's pretty self-sufficient so there's no need to worry about them. I'd find life pretty boring without entertaining and enjoying time with the people we care about.

We used to entertain a lot before we had our son. We don't have family where we live so it was with friends mostly unless we had family visiting. With the ebb and flow of life little by little it stopped until it became infrequent 3-4 times a year. For us the opportunity for going out was more important than staying in. Now we are at a stage where we are looking forward to entertaining again.

Yes I do enjoy it after the house cleaning is done.  I live alone so my house is pretty easy to clean and I don't do anything different as far as cleaning if I am having guests.  I just don't enjoy cleaning house anytime.  I threw some great kid parties when my son was a young boy if I do say so myself and have done a couple of birthday parties for my best friend at work.  But I have had some things that didn't go as planned like the time I was making Red Lobster biscuits and the batter ran over in the oven and caught on fire right before my guests arrived for dinner.  The smoke alarms were blaring when they rang the doorbell!  It was in the summer and I had to open all the doors and windows and use fans to rid the house of smoke.  It didn't ruin the evening.  We just didn't have any bread with our meal and the house was a little hot but everyone still enjoyed the meal and fellowship.  But oh my what a time I had cleaning that oven the next day!

Me too, aka thy.  We're having 3 couples over tonight for burgers on the patio.  Each is bringing a dish, and my house hasn't been cleaned in over 2 weeks, but I decided long ago that friends don't do a home inspection when they come for a meal.  Good food, good wine, good fellowship .  That's what I enjoy.

I wish. We just hosted a huge party for our entire neighborhood yesterday and the only reason was because we are one of four houses in a row that have no fence between them and have large patios with plenty of seating. We ended up being drafted to do all the grilling since we have an outside kitchen.

On one hand, it's why we built our patio the way we did, but on the other hand, it's one heck of a lot of work to prepare, host, and clean up.

I'm a good host (probably go over the top) and I have a good time while hosting, but I am not a natural host. I really dislike it, I'm anxious about it, and I'm always relieved when it's over.(Last night as the last of the stragglers were hanging out drinking and talking, I kept thinking "Please go home; we've been outside working in 90+ degree heat since 10 a.m. and it's now 11 p.m. and damn, we are TIRED and still need to clean up)

I used to live next door to someone who I swear could pull stuff out of her freezer and host a party for 100 people at a moment's notice. Literally. I saw her do it over and over again. It was like it was no effort to her at all. (BUT - she grew up in a large Italian family and I think that hosting large crowds was something she grew up with)