re: How often do you “entertain” at home?

We have folks come over from time to time but I ain't entertaining them. Its bad enough that we feed the frickers, now we are supposed to sing and dance for them????

Who has time? And when did people get to the point where they had to drink to excess anytime there were more than 4 non family members together? We used to do Sunday dinners when we lived near or on military bases.....everyone would bring something, usually themed like Italian Sunday or something, and we would try to get unaccompanied enlisted personnel and officers to at least come eat even if they didn't bring something or did not have time to socialize. It was a lot of fun. We would drink some but it wasn't about drinking, it was just about a bunch of Americans living abroad getting together and eating and socializing a little. We live in a military community now and when we first moved back to the area we started up Sunday dinner....had the active duty people who lived in our neighborhood invite those who lived on base. It wasn't nearly the same......LOT of drinking. Lots of it. I am not a prude but I swear 30 and 40 somethings, at least associated with the base close to us, are like we were in high school....I am talking black out drunk on a Sunday afternoon with their kids in tow. I have no idea why it was different but we stopped doing it. We still try to get as many enlisted folks on base to come eat holiday meals with us but very few do so....we have met some incredible people doing it but its usually only a couple to 3 or 4 who show up and they are very uncomfortable initially. I would like to do it more regular but to get any sort of numbers would require involving the neighbors who are still active duty and that was eventually going to be a problem.....