Maintain Your Social Life Without Going Over Budget
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Since the trend has become save not spend our money, many of us aren’t going out as often as we’d like to. But that doesn’t mean we have to fore go a social life completely! Instead get innovative and find creative ways to stay in with your friends. You can start by creating a dinner club.
A dinner club is a great way to keep in touch and get a meal out! Get a group of friends together that enjoy some great food and wine. Rotate houses monthly. The person hosting is responsible for a modest dinner and the guests are responsible for dessert and drinks. Establish some ground rules like the meal can’t cost over x amount per person and the wine can’t exceed x amount per bottle to keep everyone on the same page (and from going overboard!) You can bring the kids along and let them play or consider hiring one babysitter for all the kids as the adults enjoy a meal together. You can split the cost of the sitter with everyone who brings their children.
To much mix it up, try creating various themes like “Italian feast” and make Italian food, bring Italian wine and maybe a little gelato for dessert! Or a ” comfort food” theme where you serve mac n’ cheese, and some hot fudge sundays.
As for some activity ideas, you can play board games, watch family friendly movies or play some old favorites like charades or pictionary! Check out PurpleTrail’s printable games for some great group entertainment ideas!
Fabulous and Single? A dinner club is still a fantastic way to keep your social life going without spending your paychecks on $12 cocktails. Each time your group meets, invite everyone to bring a friend, that way you are constantly meeting new people.
If you don’t want to make it a dinner club, make it a dessert club or wine club instead. Any kind of club that everyone is interested in putting a little effort into will be fun.
Keep everyone on the same page by using PurpleTrail online invites. It’s easy to communicate and coordinate a bring along list with PurpleTrail. Bon Appetite!
November 29th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Managed get-togethers is an excellent way to have an excellent social life and not breaking the bank.
How many times did we go somewhere and came back a little disappointed while having spent way over what we should?
This is not likely when events are staged between people who know each other and who have more experience as a group of what is worthwhile in terms of social life value, than taken individually one by one.