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Tips For Planning An Elegant But Thrifty Holiday Get-together

If you’re set on combining being a perfect host or hostess with being frugal this upcoming holiday season, the following strategies can help you use a tiny budget to produce impressive results everyone will remember:

Create your own party decorations

Many very festive holiday decorations can be made at home with just vintage Christmas card images and other images available online. These can be printed, cut out and displayed throughout the house, including on the table as place cards and in flower arrangements. They also make festive garlands, if you print related images and fasten them together using ribbon in holiday colors. There are also free printable holiday decorations, which usually come with instructions that make them simple to create. If you want to get fancy, try using a little glitter glue to make the finished decorations sparkle.

Make your own invitations

There are plenty of winter holiday invitations that come in all shapes and sizes. Simply find the look, size and message you like on the Web and then run it through your printer. Remember, though, if you want to mail them you’ll need to print the artwork at a size that will fit standard envelopes, such as 4 3/8″ x 5 3/4″ (A2) or 5″ x 7″ (A7). Also, make sure to use the heaviest card stock your printer can take.

Serve foods that deliver big impact for little money

It doesn’t require a lot of money to create wonderful food. It’s all about the recipes. When planning your party, look for dessert recipes with ingredients that are cost effective and also display well. One example of this is to serve a low-cost dip in a hollowed-out cabbage bowl, or filling pre-baked puff pastry cups with pre-packaged herbed cheese mixed with Tabasco sauce or any type of filling you prefer.

I’ll bet there are plenty of other ways to keep your holiday entertaining budget down. Just be sure to keep your guests in mind and don’t let your focus on saving money cheapen the party. If you maintain a certain feeling of class about the occasion, no one will know that your Christmas get-together was actually put together at abargain price!

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