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We're nearly recovered from the party. Washing the kitchen, dining room, and back room floors today was my big achievement. I took a bunch of the leftover soft drinks down to a homeless shelter. We had a 36-can carton of Pepsi leftover from Artcon last fall. They were out at Artcon, they were out at our New Year's Eve party, they were out for Saturday's party, and there were still 33 cans left! I know there are people who *love* Pepsi, but all I can say is, they must not be coming to our parties. The 36-can carton of 7-Up wasn't quite as dire, but nearly, only 8 or so gone. So both of those went to the shelter, along with all the diet sodas because they don't keep (or so we've been told). We don't drink most of this stuff ourselves, so it just sits around for the next party. The Coke I'm willing to keep since a goodly portion of that always gets drunk. Mostly people drank fizzy water, juice water, plain water, wine, Coke, and little bit of diet Coke. Boring but true. (But if you're reading this and there's something you wish we stocked but didn't, let me know.)
What I always find perplexing is the 2-liter bottles of soda that some folks bring but then don't drink. I would think they're bringing something that they like although maybe it's just to satisfy the need to contribute something. Possibly the problem is that the individual-serving soda cans are on the back porch in buckets of ice, whereas the big bottles usually end up in the refrigerator near to where the glasses are (surrounded by wine bottles, of course, but a few non-alcoholic items do appear as well). Maybe I should try putting them in the ice buckets too, even if people have to go back inside to get glasses? Will ponder for next year.
Not much food left over, which was nice. But three containers were left, one of them Tupperware even. What are the odds of anyone reclaiming them? In the past I've tried to keep them somewhere and remember to put them out at the next party in hopes someone will recognize and claim them, but mostly to little effect. I'm very tempted to just donate them to Goodwill if I don't hear from anyone in the next, oh, week or so. What would you do?
What I always find perplexing is the 2-liter bottles of soda that some folks bring but then don't drink. I would think they're bringing something that they like although maybe it's just to satisfy the need to contribute something. Possibly the problem is that the individual-serving soda cans are on the back porch in buckets of ice, whereas the big bottles usually end up in the refrigerator near to where the glasses are (surrounded by wine bottles, of course, but a few non-alcoholic items do appear as well). Maybe I should try putting them in the ice buckets too, even if people have to go back inside to get glasses? Will ponder for next year.
Not much food left over, which was nice. But three containers were left, one of them Tupperware even. What are the odds of anyone reclaiming them? In the past I've tried to keep them somewhere and remember to put them out at the next party in hopes someone will recognize and claim them, but mostly to little effect. I'm very tempted to just donate them to Goodwill if I don't hear from anyone in the next, oh, week or so. What would you do?
