Morgan, Cleaning a month in advance of a MiniMeet!!! Half the fun of a MiniMeet is that you're better off not cleaning before one. I know this may sound terrible, but if the house is spotless then vacuum enthusiasts can't pick up any dirt with the vacuums present!! MiniMeets are such a great social time. You don't have to have a full house of guests to have fun. Just think of it as a small gathering of friends. Could be 3 people and still have fun. The importance is not environment but rather the gathering of people together and sharing knowledge, experiences or just socializing in general. If one is up to cooking they may do that. But food is also secondary. Going out on the town to a restaurant or ordering food in is of course always fun and so much easier on the host as this virtually eliminates clean up. Many people like to cook, but the clean up is the terror. It's your ball park you can do whatever you like!!
I live in a townhouse so having a MiniMeet doesn't work as well. Can't be making tons of noise all day long and definitely not till late. When I do get a house, I definitely plan on hosting one. For now, I thoroughly enjoy going to them though and am more than happy to help if I can. I always try to bring a few machines along to play with. I would love to bring food but traveling 3 hours makes me worry about how it will survive temperature and physical condition so I stocked up on all sorts of pretzels, chips, guacamole, tortilla chips, cheese and salsa dip, candy, etc. for the last one and we filled a whole bunch of Hoover Convertible hoods and bowls with snacks!!! It's a shame we forgot to cut up the cucumbers that I bought. They might have made nice dippers in the guacamole or a ranch dip!! Oh well, that just shows how into the vacuum fun we were!!
Happy Vacuuming everyone!
