How much money do you spend for your Kid's party supplies?
@asuniqueasyou (354)
United States
March 15, 2007 8:54am CST
Hello everyone, I am in the middle of planning my kids birthday parties. My son and my daughter are 5 years apart but one is on the 22nd and the other is on the 23rd of the same month. A boy and a girl so have to have two different themes. I am buying all the stuff and making a lot including personalized wrapped chocolate bars, personalized goody bags, etc. I just reserved the inflatable thing and money is just flying out of my pocket. For just one child I am already at over $250 dollars. I am curious how much others spend when putting together children's parties and also what kind of things do you buy?
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@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
15 Mar 07
OMG that is insane. We never paid that much for my nieces parties (I help raise her). I think at the very most it may have been close to a $100. Then again we didn't personalize anything. That was probably the big thing that cost you. We bought just the basic streemers, balloons, a pinata, the goody bags (which I never heard of until a few years ago. I never got one as a kid) we made up ourselves with things from the dollar store. We had pizza, drinks, and a cake. That was it.
@asuniqueasyou (354)
• United States
15 Mar 07
out of curiosity, how many kids were at the party? did you feed the adults too or just the children. the personalized stuff was not expensive because i did it myself. the inflatable rental alone was $125. then food, party supplies, etc. we will have over 60 people and i always feed the adults too. it would be nice to just feed the kids though
@camar_lyn (1028)
• Singapore
25 Mar 07
Hi asuniqueasyou, my usual budget for a party is sgd200 so that is about a little more USD100. I think you are saving a lot for the inflatable since you will be using it for both parties.
I normally try to save money by buying generic goodie bags at the wholesaler in large quantities. During the off season sales i bought toys at half their retail price. I've never had inflatables but i always have activities that the kids can do to fill in their goodie bags.
For example, i let them personalise the goodies bags themselves, I have games so that they can win prizes that they can choose to fill in their goodie bags and have a huge birthday (card made of cardboard) thay each child or adult can fill in birthday wishes.
Hope this helps. - Lyn
