when your party kicks a$$
every host/hostess wants the ultimate reward - to know that their party kicked a$$ big time... here's the top clues:

folks still talking about the party 2 weeks later, 1 month later, a year later or more....

folks who weren't invited and weren't there still talking about the party 2 weeks later, 1 month later, a year later or more....

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people saying they wished they were at your party who missed it

strangers sayng they wished they were at your party

twenty years down the road - people still saying the party kicked a$$