Money Savers: Party Favors

It is easy to get carried away in all aspects of party planning. One of the easiest ways to save money is in the party favor department. Often at $5-10 per child, they can add up quickly...

Edible party favors are fun, enjoyable, and relatively inexpensive. How about baking a few dozen cookies and icing them with the color theme from the party? They are delicious and they don't brake the bank.

Another fun idea is a cupcake assembly line where the guests decorate their own cupcake. Some cupcakes, frosting, sprinkles and there you have it! You can even have different cupcake liners available to allow for more personalization. If you haven't already, check me out on Pinterest and look for my board: Party Ideas - Cupcake Party.

Have fun putting the favors together, but remember that less can be much more in this department.

An Easy Money Saver

One of the areas that I save on my party budget is on the invitations. Now you might be thinking, "Wait a minute, invitations can really add up!" And that is totally true...invitation costs can sneak up on your budget very quickly.

What I like to do is this: make my own. I have found quite a few free digital scrap booking kits {and I have purchased some as well} that have fit my party theme. Then, in an editing software {I use Photoshop Elements} I create my own. This is fun and I get to make the invitations exactly how I want them.

But where is the money saver? Walgreens. Target. Or any other place that has a 1 hour photo lab. For 19 cents a piece, I get 4x6 invitations that are completely unique, just how I want them, and for a killer price. Sometimes I will have the invitations printed for me on cardstock, which also looks very nice.

So there it is, one of my best kept money saving secrets.