HELLO FABULOUS LADIES AND GENTS!
WELL, I HAVE A HOT NEW TREND THAT CAN HELP YOU SAVE LOTS OF MONEY AND YOU WILL HAVE LOTS OF FUN TOO!
I KNOW IT IS HARD WHEN YOU ARE ON A BUDGET AND YOU JUST WISH YOU CAN GO ON A SHOPPING SPLURGE. WELL, I HAVE A GREAT IDEA!
HAVE A SWAP PARTY! WHAT IS A SWAP PARTY? SWAP PARTIES ARE THE HOTTEST TREND TO SHOP WITHOUT SPENDING A DIME. A GROUP OF PEOPLE GET TOGETHER (I.E. MIXER - HAVE FRIENDS OVER!) TO SWAP ITEMS. (I.E. CLOTHES, ACCESSORIES, SHOES, KIDS CLOTHES, HANDBAGS, ETC. ETC.)
HERE IS SOME INFO I FOUND ON SUITE 101:
Swap Party Rules
- Invite 25 people and ask each person to bring one friend. Remember that when 25 people are invited, the usual response is 1/3 of those invited will actually attend.
- Each person attending must bring five nearly new items from their closet. Popular items to bring include: unworn or lightly worn shoes or sandals, purses, blouses, dresses, jeans, jackets, vests, jewelry, scarves, and hats.
- Each attendee will also bring a tapas, appetizer, dessert, or salad. This should be cleared with the hostess prior to the party. Very organized hostesses will ask for recipes to be printed out to go along with the dishes for party goers to take home.
- Each person attending will leave with five chosen items.
Setting Up the Swap Party
A great way to set up the party is to have appetizers in the kitchen along with drinks, while desserts are placed on the dining room table. Clothes can be hung on racks or placed all around the house in a creative fashion. Each swap party hostess will decide how to display the items.
Clothing sizes should be grouped together in rooms; small (sizes 2, 4, 6 Ladies) should be in one room, medium (8, 10, 12) in one room, and large sizes (14, 16, 18, and larger) should be grouped or hung in another room. This allows the party goers to move freely about chatting, looking at the items up for swap, and snacking on appetizers and desserts.
Shoes and sandals should be lined up along walls in order of their sizes. Small (5 - 6), med (7 - 8) and large (9-10) can be set up with their s-m-lg clothing groupings.
HERE IS AN INVITATION IDEA!
Swap and Shop
Once the party goers have had about an hour to mix, snack, look at and try on the items up for swap, the group will be asked to sit down and numbers will be passed out to all the attendees.
Number one will go first and pick one item from the entire grouping, then number two, number three, etc. until all attendees have chosen one item to take home. This will continue until each person has chosen five items to take home. The party should last about 3 hours or at most, 3 -1/2 hours.
SO THERE YOU GO! START PLANNING YOUR DIVA SWAP PARTY! THIS WILL BE A GREAT EXCUSE TO MINGLE WITH YOUR GIRLFRIENDS AND SHOP FOR FREE!!!!!!
SAVE SAVE SAVE!
MUAH!
LA DIVA!
