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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Tara King

6 Entertaining Myths That the Hosting Experts Want You to Ignore – and What You Should do Instead

Christmas dining room.

For years we’ve been taught there’s a ‘right’ way to entertain. With rules to follow and etiquette to uphold, striving to be the perfect host – or the perfect guest, for that matter – can be pretty exhausting, particularly over the holiday season, when there are traditions to consider, too.

Year upon year, we pile on the pressure, yet when did we last stop to question whether these rules we work so hard to stick to still apply? With the festivities fast approaching, perhaps now is the time to relegate these to the entertaining myths pile and give your Thanksgiving hosting guide (and your Christmas one too, whilst you’re at it) an overhaul, in line with a more modern approach to entertaining.

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