1. You don’t have to serve dinner to have a dinner party. Snacks can be dinner. And if those snacks run out, pizza is always a phone call away. 

2. Rather than a hard start time, give people an arrival window: “Come over anytime after 6:30—we’ll eat around 8.” This framing accomplishes a lot: It tells people they can expect drinks and snacks before dinner; it gives them flexibility if they need a little more time; and it conveys an actual deadline for them to show up by. All in one clearly communicated sentence!

Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…