How To Host a Budget New Year's Eve Party

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Go ahead -- invite friends over to ring in the New Year. You can throw an elegant soiree without spending a fortune.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A limited bar
Discounted paper products
Dollar-store snacks
Inexpensive flowers
Tea-light candles

Step 1: Limit the bar

Limit the bar to beer, wine, and one signature cocktail. Have just enough champagne for everyone to take a few sips at midnight.

Tip: Serve Spanish Cava sparkling wine instead of champagne; it's less expensive, but few will be able to tell the difference.

Step 2: Use discounted paper products

Buy holiday-themed paper products after Christmas, when they're steeply discounted. Look for stuff with generic winter themes, instead of Santa or Christmas trees.

Step 3: Skip the dinner

Invite guests on the later side so you can serve drinks and snacks instead of a full dinner. Plan munchies around what's available at the dollar store.

Step 4: Make inexpensive eats look elegant

Make inexpensive foods look elegant by focusing on presentation. Serve the food on decorative platters or in creative ways.

Step 5: Buy fresh flowers

Get several bouquets of an inexpensive flower in one color, and put them in vases around the party area.

Step 6: Use tea lights

Buy tea-light candles in bulk and float them in bowls of various shapes and sizes.

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[Sahtastic]

no more new years galsses in the year 2011.

[HappyGestapo]

the game

[Omari1125]

Get some coke and have everyone snort a line, now thats what I call a budget new years party...

[igotvideogamed]

same here

[JacksonHowell22]

THANK YOU!! my mom is getting surgery on New Years Eve morning so I have to make everything... sparkling wine is awesome (non-alcoholic).

[camnaes]

2020

[MINISLASH0]

wut

[Sahtastic]

or your mum.

:Djk

[0n3m4n4rm33]

lol true

[allabridgedfan12]

theyll go by the ethiopian calender then. so there will be

[MINISLASH0]

what about it?