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So was I, realistically happened a handful of times in many years.

• SoftTalker 2y ago
  Yeah I remember my parents hosting a few dinner parties when I was young, but after I was maybe 8 or 10 years old they just stopped. It is a lot of work and I don't think many of the guests ever reciprocated.
  • epolanski 2y ago
    In my case absolutely none bar family reciprocated. Tons of work, before and after, expensive. I think that between families getting smaller, a tendency to spend much less time socializing in general, and economic conditions making it cost effective to just take people out rather than cooking for them it's not worth it. Even my family in the south of Italy were gathering 20/30 people together was common is now limited both in frequency and attendance (few generations that didn't have 3/4 but 1/2 people each shrunk the party considerably).