Does anyone share my view that Christmas parties are overdone? I'm finding it a strain just keeping track of invitations let alone responding to them all and attending a reasonable number.
I'm grateful that people think to invite me, but in a town the size of Kalgoorlie it's a similar guest list at most of the events.
It would be better, I think, to have one giant, shared Christmas party where all the corporates could get together and mingle. The Middle Island Fishing Club banquet was something like that, I suppose.
Then there could be another one for New Year.
Throw in your own company's Christmas party and that would mean three must-go events instead of a dozen or more individual parties.
Note: I'm writing this from WriteToMyBlog as an experiment.
I didn’t even go to the work Christmas party. For some odd reason they decided to have it at the local Trotting track where there’s food to be had (and I had heard the food there was really bad… later confirmed by workmates who did go). It just was not my idea of what to do at Christmas and I rather think I have permanently offended the organisers.
Twitter: mgorey
says:
That’s part of the problem … if you turn down an invitation it could be misinterpreted as a snub.
It’s not easy and not healthy to attend all of them if you have multiple invitations.