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Money Saving Monday: Party Planning

October 19, 2009 at 7:25 am 2 Comments  

money-saving-mondayWelcome back to Money Saving Monday! Our family has 3 different parties that we are hosting in the next few weeks, in addition to the family reunion I have organized for this weekend. I can’t wait to hear all your fabulous tips for party planning on a budget. I’ve got the basics down, but with so many parties on the horizon I’m looking for new unique ideas.

I do have the advantage of Halloween to help with our upcoming birthdays (November, December, January!). I’ll use the clearance sales in early November to stock up on candy and items for the goody bags. Of course, I often skip those altogether. If I can tie a larger gift or project into the party, I just forgo the goody bag junk. My oldest hosted a Fashion Diva party last year. Our gift to her guests was the tie-dyed pillow the girls created during the event. My youngest celebrated her 3rd birthday with a truck party so, of course, each of the little guests took home their own Hot Wheels truck. I haven’t come up with anything fitting for this year’s marshmallow party (um, I didn’t get it either) so Halloween candy it is!

Now, we want to hear your own ideas! The rules are simple: write about saving money on the given topic, mention MSM and link back to Inexpensively in your post, then come back here to add your permalink in the Mr. Linky. Be sure to grab the banner to let everyone know you’re participating! If you do not have a blog of your own, you are welcome to share your tips in the comments. Then, check out the great tips from our contributors and readers. Join us again next week to share frugal tips on cleaning—for me, it’s probably the hardest part of hosting parties! Come back next week to share your favorite frugal cleaning tips to help get me started.

Filed Under: Entertainment Tagged With: Money Saving Monday, party planning

About Heather Sokol

Heather Sokol is the founder of Inexpensively. She has been married to Spencer for many, many years. Together, they have five kids, fourteen pets, seven fish, and a web development company. What they lack is sanity.

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    October 19, 2009 at 10:27 am

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    October 26, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    […] I know—it all looks good from the outside. I’ve got the coupon system down, I’m an excellent event planner and I’m a pro at controlling the calendar. But the rest? Yeah, that’s a big ol’ […]

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