21 Signs You're a Hostess With the Mostess
You've memorized all your fave cocktail recipes, and you're considering buying a letterpress to manage all your handmade dinner party invites. You might just be a real-life hostess with the mostess.

By:
Erica Reitman

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1. Your cheese plates have their own Instagram account.
2. You like to stock enough wine for any occasion that might pop up. Yep, A-N-Y occasion.

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3. You have so many vases and dishes, you have to color code them.

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4. The thought of having a dinner party without place cards makes you feel panicky.

5. Your vintage corkscrew collection keeps getting bigger and bigger, and you’re not even sad about it.

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6. Paper napkins? What the heck are those?

7. You have a signature cocktail — for every week of the year.

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8. Forget fruit-infused water — you’re all about fruit-infused ice cubes. For, uhm, your signature cocktails, of course.

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9. You collect pics of your favorite table centerpieces instead of family photos.

10. You joined Spotify just so you can make dinner party playlists.

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11. You know seven foolproof ways to remove red wine stains.

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12. Instead of a junk drawer, you have a “balloons and confetti” drawer.

13. Family and friends who get an invite to your Thanksgiving dinner feel like they've won the lottery.

14. You have a platinum card — at your local party store.
15. There is a special section in your closet for hanging all your handmade garlands.

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16. Setting up a hot toddy station is a normal Tuesday night for you.

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17. Some people have personal trainers or accountants. You have your own handwriting/letter artist on call.

18. You’re seriously considering replacing your family photos with pics of Julia Child.

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19. You’re on a first-name basis with the dude at the gourmet cheese shop.

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20. Your martinis have five different grades of “dirty".

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21. Iced tea spoons, oyster forks and individual salt cellars — you own them all, and you don’t care who knows it.

Nicole Caudle
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