I had one when my folks went away. Thought i was very well organised. Packed away all the valuables and breakables, and drew sketches of where they all stood, so could put them exactly back. Locked the bedroom doors, Locked the booze cupboard, Locked the doors and kept the keys under control so that we didnt get lots of gatecrashers.
All was going well, till a lad i had invited, asked if he could let someone else in who i had invited, and the keys went missing. Loads of crashers from his rugby team turned up.
Finally got rid by saying the police were coming. But OMG the mess! People had thrown paving slabs and hanging baskets in the swimming pool, which i had to go in and fetch- it was october, the water was freezing cold and green, and had to feel around with my feet to find everything.
People had taken tins of food and stuff, so the shelves were empty, found a tin of olives had been opened, and someone had carefully put an olive in each section of our lattice fram window. Someone else had tried heating a yogurt in the microwave, my mums badminton racket was bent at 35degrees, people had evern pulled up the concrete road sign outside the house, and much much worse, the complete set of door keys was missing, so someone could come back at anytime.
Me and m mates managed to put alot right before they got back next day, but i couldnt restock the shelves, find the keys or fix the racket, so they knew something had hapenened. They just didnt know how bad!
A policeman who knew my dad even commented that there had been a mad party that weekend "in our area", and that you wouldnt catch him letting his kids get away with it. Luckily dad didnt cotton on..
I was paying off the �250 of damage for some time!!