I remember when I was very young. Success of your party was measured in how many plastic picnic tables had to be dragged in by the neighbors to your backyard. Everyone had a clown but they seem to be more tolerated and limited to it just being one.
After that you either had a Chuck E Cheese party or you were alone in not having one.
Oddly enough I think around 12-14 I just stop caring about party’s. I just wanted to have a sleepover at some friends so I would put up with having cake with some balloons with family and then hope it was already the weekend.
Around maybe my 17's and till my age of today I never had a “crazy party phase.” I was just never into those short of things. In fact most time I just wanted to be left alone.
My younger days were crazy I even had a bachelorette party where we hired a male stripper. But of course that's as when I was young. We behave more as we age .buy mothers or not we do need good time with friends as well right @enjar