Halloween parties can be a blast and a great time to let loose and have some fun.  From my own parties in the past I have one suggestion of something you may want to be careful with or avoid entirely.

Alcoholic Punch:  This is extremely tasty, and looks awesome displayed on the table, expecially sitting in a container filled with dry ice for that creepy fog rising effect. 

The problem with the punch is that it’s sneaky.  Sneaky booze is booze that everyone loves to drink and you can barely taste the alcohol in but it’s extremely powerful.  Before you know it, your house is full of overly intoxicated adults spilling and yacking in your yard or worse all over your bathroom toilet.

That’s not even the worst part.  The worst part is the next morning, because you will have sucumb to the beast of the punch bowl yourself and have no clue of the mess in which you are about to receive.

You stagger down the stairs knowing a mess is what you are about to see, but are totally unprepared for the horror and smells you are about to attain. 

You groggily take a step off of the stairs onto the kitchen floor and your foot sticks like a fly to fly paper.  Your nostrils fill with the odor of old fruit, rum, and beer mixture. 

You wonder to yourself “What the hell is this?”  Then the previous evenings events begin to flood your pounding head.

Your floor is covered in a sticky, icky mass that once was shiny and clean.  The sparkle of the linoleum floor is gone replaced by stagnant fruit juices and alcohol that once were a hauntingly beautiful table display. 

You will have to scrub your floors several times and open the windows immediately.  That smell isn’t going anywhere for quite awhile.

So think twice before you serve alcoholic punch.