The pages on the calendar are turning quickly as New Year’s Eve approaches. Why not enjoy the moment by planning an easy last minute party? Call up some friends and throw together a fun party. Keep it simple and inexpensive.
One easy way to handle the food is to ask each one to bring an appetizer and make your entire menu from only appetizers. Appetizers are found in your groceries freezer and merely need heating up in the microwave or oven. Serve a variety of chips and dips, cheese, sausage and crackers. All of these are no hassle and easily purchased at any store. As the clock strikes 12 a toast is a major tradition at any New Year’s Eve party. Make sure you have a toasting beverage either champagne, sparkling juice or other suitable beverage.
Decorations can also be very simple. Try and clear as much space as possible so that people can easily mingle. Get some crepe paper streamers, a few hat, noise makers and confetti. These can all be found at the local dollar store and add just the right festive touch to the party and are instant and inexpensive decorating. Tossing confetti at midnight is messy but it is an easy mess to clean up with any vacuum cleaner. Plus, the morning after, it still leaves a festive touch as a reminder as to the good time had by all the night before.
The following is a list of easy activities to keep the evening going:
- Have everyone make a list of what they think will be the most memorable events for 2009. The categories could include politics, music, fads, fashion, social, tv shows, gadgets, and news items.
- Have everyone give a prediction as to what will occur in 2010;
- Pass around a magic 8 ball that provides random answers to questions that are asked by the guests.
- The New Year is synonymous with resolutions so why not have guests write down their resolutions. toss them into a party hat, have someone read each one aloud and the guests try to match up the resolution to the person they think wrote it. At the end toss the resolutions into a glowing fire in the fireplace.
New Years Eve is about remembering the good times with good friends and families. It does not have to be about expensive parties or clothes or food. Have a get together and focus on the wonderful memories and loved ones of 2009 and the great expectations for 2010.
