How to Have the Most Stylish Memorial Day BBQ Possible, in GIFs

Keep your holiday get together as swagged out as possible.

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BBQ, cookout, whatever you want to call it, chances are you and your friends and family are getting together at some point over this long weekend to grill outside and commemorate the first official weekend of summer. But instead of having some lame-ass get together where people can't wait to dip out of at the first opportunity, you want to host an affair that will be soaring past 11 likes all over the 'Gram the next day. Follow these steps on How to Have the Most Stylish Memorial Day BBQ Possible and you will succeed.

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List

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Make a list of people you want to invite, and make sure the lucky invites keep it quiet.

You don't want someone to show up with a +4 and fuck up your bun count game. Plus, if a struggle clinger-on photobombs a 'Gram, their abyss of swag will definitely result in half the likes the pic could've gotten. When all you're serving is hot dogs, this is a hit your BBQ can't afford to take.

Supply run

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Lace up and head to the store for supplies in a strong outfit.

The grocery store is going to be one of the most crowded it gets all year long, and most dudes are going to be in their grubbiest garb. Here's your chance to stand above the rest and perhaps impress a few girls into accepting a last-minute invite to your cookout. Just don't let them see the massive jar of Pepcid AC you're copping.

Clean up

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Clean your disgusting crib.

It doesn't matter how fresh your 'fit is or how charming you are. If your home is grosser than the factory that made the sausages on the grill, then no one's going to leave impressed. Go beyond just wiping down the floors; try to make your home an actually dope looking abode with just a few minor touch-ups.

Cook

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Cook that shit!

You can open your home to strangers, have a well-stocked bar, put on the perfect playlist, and have the dopest outfit, but if you don't grill up a storm and provide the best goddamn bounty the squad has ever tasted, then what's the point? Don't lose sight of a barbecue's most important element: the meats.

Classy

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Kick up the class a notch.

If we're lucky and the weather is lovely, everyone's gonna be rocking tees and shorts. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but throwing on a button-down or a premium polo will only look cooler when you serve up perfectly medium-rare burgers and crack open a cheap beer.

White

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Don't wear white.

No-brainer. A BBQ offers like seventeen different opportunities to ruin any shirt that’s even off-white, so just ignore that urge from the jump. While you’re at it, resist rocking those all-white kicks you’ve been dying to un-deadstock too, unless you’re a sadistic motherfucker who loves grass stains.

Nighttime

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Keep a sweater nearby for when the sun goes down, and a few extra handy for cute girls and VIP homies.

It’s still only May, so chances are whatever heat we’re blessed with this weekend will be gone by like 8 p.m.. You went through all this trouble (somehow) convincing mad shorties to come through, make sure you have the necessary items to keep 'em comfortable unless you want to spend your after-hours catching the end of the "Law & Order" marathon.

Outfit

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Have a second outfit in mind for when you head out to go get turnt.

Your top chef alphet was on point but regardless, you spent the day sweating over a grill, bruh. No amount of steez can combat the heavenly odor of burger meat that you’ve been wafting in. When it’s time for the after-move, don’t bring the day charred smoke and mustard stains with you.

Fun

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Stop giving a fuck about what you're wearing and have fun!

You have a belly full of processed meat and a fridge full of leftover beer. This is literally as good as it gets. Whether you're at the BBQ or the bar after, stop scowling in the corner worrying if enough people are realizing how dope you look and hit the dance floor or mingle with some babes. Prosper, young man, prosper!

Dry clean

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Dry clean whatever you were wearing the next day.

Even if you're smoother than Don Draper, there's no way you escaped a day-long meat and beer bacchanalia without a few stains. Shed those clothes ASAP then drop em off at the dry cleaner and consider the extra few bucks as the last cost your successful bbq will set you back. Until next year...

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