"I want a housewarming, just without all the people!" - Minnie Ntuli

Moving into a new home can be super exciting.

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Once you get past all the stress of moving furniture, making sure everything in your new place works, and really settling in.

But as soon as you've made yourself comfortable enough, you feel like it's time for you to open your house (or flat) to others and have them join you in this great space.

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Since its origin, housewarmings have changed a lot.

A housewarming was taken quite literally when they first started, as friends and family would bring firewood to new homes to help the tenants heat them up, by creating fires in every fireplace throughout the house.

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These days it's much more of a party.

This means things can go wrong, as they often do at parties, and no matter how civilized the get-together, there will definitely be a mess that you, the new homeowner, would have to clean up.

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This leads us to the predicament Minnie Ntuli currently finds herself in: she wants the housewarming and the gifts, but not the mess.

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