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Wanda’s rule number 1: Do it now, if you think about it for too long - if you over-plan the party - it will become too much work or it will simply never happen. A party should be great fun for the hosts as well as the guests. 

Wanda’s rule number 2: Never clean the house for a party.  You’re going to have to clean up after the party, so why clean it before?  Just make sure that you invite enough people and have enough going on that no one will ever notice the dirt.  The only person who will be upset about the cleanliness is your mother-in-law, so don’t invite her.

Wanda’s rule number 3:  Always fill the house with flowers, lots of flowers.  Flowers are the WOW!  Be creative, do things with flowers that no one has ever thought of or don’t have the courage to try.   It was over twenty years ago, but I still remember the party where Wanda floated a beautiful gardenia in every toilet bowl in the house (and served beer).  I remember her flower decorated Christmas tree in July, her forest of blooming spring branches (the trees needed pruning anyway), Wanda’s house filled with funeral flowers, including a real casket and casket spray (there were cards attached to every arrangement, each with a different and hysterical message).  Then there was the pack of tacky poodle dogs made of mums and carnations positioned throughout the house.

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