Throw a Halloween Party!
Halloween Rocks
The best parties by far are Halloween parties. I am very well versed in the art of throwing a Halloween party. In all my years of experience, I have quickly learned; there is no such thing as a dud Halloween party. One year, me and my roomie even cleared out all of our furniture in a 2 bedroom apartment and created a lounge room in one of the bedrooms, then the rest of the house was the party.
The nice thing about throwing the party at your pad is you don’t have to go anywhere, and you don’t have to drive home. The bad thing about throwing the party at your house is moving furniture, creating space and clean up!
Here are some ideas of how to throw an amazing Halloween Party!
- LOCATION The first thing you have to think about is location. Where is the best possible place to throw a party? What kind of neighbors live around there?
- NEIGHBORS Next, you must notify neighbors and talk them into putting up with the noise. (I have had parties last until 4:30 in the morning). Tell them it is Halloween and a very special occasion for you and bat your eyes, bribe them with candy and compliments etc…
- GET THE SKINNY Talk with all your friends and find out what they are doing. Maybe you will have acquaintances also throwing competing parties. In my experience, it is a better strategy to combine forces with these acquaintances. This way you will have more helping hands, more funds and with parties…the more the merrier!
- INVITES Invites should be sent out at least a week before OCT 31st. It’s not a normal day, people are going to make plans. Nobody wants to be sitting around on Halloween. Give invitations to friends and have them invite people they know. You can make invitations easy and just photo copy them on orange paper. It is always good to put an email and directions on the back of the invites. You can add alcohol will be provided but good karma if you bring a bottle. (Alcohol can get expensive)
- VOLUNTEERS If it is going to be a great party… do not go it alone. You need to hustle up volunteers to help and pitch. Volunteers need to be divided up into two teams. Decorations… and Alcohol.
- TEAM ALCOHOL is in charge of calling and reserving the Kegs, buying gallons of juice (the grocery store tropic punch kind), and bottles of vodka. (It mixes well with juice) I like to put the jungle juice in a cauldron.
- TEAM DECORATION The sky is the limit but shop the dollar stores because there are many good decorations there for cheap. Shop craft stores a few days before a lot of time, the Halloween stuff will be on sale. We have a fog machine that was cheap and really cool. I like to do a smoking cemetary.
- MUSIC Make CD’s that can play for the party and have creepy songs like Rob Zombie’s Living Dead Girl play or have a friend dj
- LIGHTING Switch your light bulbs for black lights and have at least four jack-o-lanterns (The more the better)
- THE NIGHT BEFORE Carve Jack-o-Lanterns the night before and decorate the night before. Trust me you do not want to be setting up with your costume on, and you don’t want to be getting ready while guest are showing up. (That’s what I did in the above pic which is why my hair looks so crazy)
- FOOD Food is not a must, but people always eat it. I like to get a huge order of beans, rice and chips. It’s cheap and good
- THE DAY AFTER Do not let people who are too drunk to drive home drive. Not only are you saving their life, but by letting a few stay over you will have a nice clean up crew! (Better than going it alone…)
With these ideas I am sure you can throw an amazing Halloween Party!
Good Luck, Be Safe, Party Hard and as always, may creativity be with you!
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