I’ve moved my blog off of Blogger and onto Word Press. So if you’re interested in the frugal birthday party article I’d mentioned above, you can find it here now:

http://suddenlyfrugal.wordpres.....-a-budget/

Thanks!

Leah

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After that, we let the kids decide how many guests, and typcially they would want to have somewhere between 4 and 6 guests, a really manageable number. 8 boys + the birthday boy running around the house can be pretty frenetic!

I agree that parties shouldn’t cost a fortune to be fun, without a doubt. What kid remembers whether all the tableware matched! The dollar store is one of my favorite places for finding birthday treasures. ;)

My daughter is a March baby, and four years ago (I think it was the 13th b’day party) I planned a Spring theme birthday party. We found these great wooden bird houses at the dollar store, bought paint for them and that was one of the crafts everyone enjoyed during the party time. Girls at this age pay particular attention to making their works of art beautiful, and have fun working together as a group.

Thanks for a great post! It’s good to see common sense rule rather than huge excess. Enjoying your blog.
~Irene

The key is planning, plan ahead and you won’t have to worry about anything at the last minute, however, for the rest of the world who forget or do leave it for the last minute, then just use the internet!

We run a online party shop, and the amount of customers who make the fatal mistake of planning late is amazing, yet it doesn’t necessarily mean the parties going to go wrong! Just try and think of every angle.

The best bet is to decide if you want a themed party or not. For arguments sake, let’s say you do. Take Winnie The Pooh for instance.

If you check our section under Winnie, or any other party site for that matter, you will notice the page is organized for the entire party, most sites will have all the other necessary items under that section as well.

The best thing about it is the budget. If you do order your supplies online, then you can pretty much guarantee a great price, or at least we do.

Here’s a link to how we handled birthdays on a budget this year:

http://suddenlyfrugal.blogspot.....udget.html

Great post.

Leah

I’m a moderate, but I still can’t believe NBC chose to censor that children’s show..

-Raymond