It only happened once. A fair few years ago, Master W decided to have a party at our house while Mrs W and I were away in London.
Suffice to say it got a bit out of hand and I think it was a week before dried vomit had been cleaned up from every nook and cranny (we just kept finding it in the most unlikely places).
It was the last party ever to take place at White Towers. There had been gatecrashers and this had put Master W and Miss W off from considering a repeat.
Fortunately, however, the numbers of uninvited paled by comparison to those in Project X, which pushes the boundaries of a teenage birthday celebration to the absolute limit.
Here, 17-year-old geek boy Thomas (Thomas Mann) has been left home alone on his 17th birthday.
His parents accept that he is going to have a 'few friends over' but not in their wildest nightmares have they imagined what Thomas's best friend Costa (Oliver Cooper) has in mind.
His invite to a pool party has gone out to virtually every young person in North Pasadena. And not only do they turn up in their hundreds but they all seem out of control.
Thus, this ends up making Animal House look like a bar mitzvah.
Of course, Project X is not aimed at the likes of Mrs W and myself. As parents of two children of this age our first inclination is to be appalled at the reckless behaviour which includes glorified drug-taking and young women wearing even less than they do on the streets of Nottingham on a Saturday night.
Also, there's not much to like about the two lead characters. One is pale and wimpy, the other is a brighter but more charmless version of the sort of role Seth Rogen has been playing for the last few years.
However, while it is easy to condemn is misogyny, I am sad to say the teenage lads' view of sex and girls would be reasonably accurate and the way the girls respond by flaunting themselves is too.
Is that culture inspired by films like this or does it inspire the making of the film? That's an interesting debate.
Project X has had a bag of criticism but what I will say is that at least it is different from any other movie I have seen during either everyfilmin2011 and everyfilm2012.
It is along the lines of Animal House/Porky's but, with the majority of it shot through found footage, it has an edgier feel.
And, even Mrs W and I did laugh a few times.
Laughs: Four but the young people in the audience had a lot more.
Jumps: Two
Vomit: I remember two clear incidents but Mrs W reckons there were more in the background.
Nudity: A lot of young women. Too many to count. To the point of making me feel a bit uncomfortable.
Overall rating: 5.5/10