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10 Inexpensive Ways To Celebrate New Year’s Eve

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Many people do not have enough money to arrange something lavish for New Year’s Eve because New Year’s Eve falls so soon after Christmas. However, everyone wants to have fun in full without spending the last money.

Therefore, we want to let you know there are many ways to celebrate the New Year without going broke. In this article, we’ll share some fun and easy ways to save money on celebrations.

10 Inexpensive Ways To Celebrate New Year’s Eve

Skip the trendy dining experience in a posh setting and stay at home

Celebration of New Year’s Eve is usually done in posh places or attending loud parties for which you need to buy expensive outfits and gifts. Instead, hold a house party at your home to save money. You can send your friends New Year cards along with a dinner invitation.

By the way, instead of buying invitations for each guest, filling them out and then having the expense of mailing them, you can record a video greeting and invite them to your place using video. Record a short video at home, tell about the planned events that will await each guest. After recording, don’t forget to edit your video.

A simple but very effective Windows 7 video editor will help you with this. It offers a lot of functions for adding effects, overlaying music, and synchronizing video sequences.

Plus, you can create an outfit idea for your home party. As an alternative to buying expensive outfits, you can arrange an ugly sweater party, a pajama party, or ask everyone to wear whatever is most comfortable for them and forgo a dress code altogether.

10 ways to celebrate new years

Organize a location to take photos

Photographs from a New Year’s party are often the best memories of the evening. This statement holds especially true for those who do not know how to control the amount of alcohol consumed.

At parties, there are always photo booths or beautiful locations, as well as professional photographers. You can arrange such a place at home. Of course, there are a few handy secrets for perfect photos too!

homemade photo booth

The first step is to find an empty corner in your home and decorate it with the tools you have available. Create an instant photo booth by hanging an inexpensive curtain over a cleaned out closet.  You can find many stylish items at low prices when you visit a discount store.

If you don’t want to buy expensive accessories, you can decorate the corner with balloons, decorative paper, and ornaments. Create photobooth props by printing them off on your home computer and cutting them out!

create your own photobooth

Purchase Supplies in Advance

Everyone knows that buying food, alcohol, decorations, and household items are very expensive. Before the holiday begins, retail chains increase prices for all related products to get the maximum income.

To save money, you must make a list of everything you need for your home party. Make lists for groceries, specialty decor items, and more.  Save time and money by leaving your Christmas decorations in place for the New Years party.

Try to buy canned food in advance that you can store for a long time. You can buy anything that needs to be fresh, such as fruit or veggies, right before the event.

Furthermore, consider buying some items in bulk for a much lower price. For example, you can buy napkins, paper plates, cups, champagne glasses, straws, and more. Purchasing supplies ahead of time will help you get a great price and save those items for other upcoming holidays.

personalized wine champagne glasses
Personalized Wine & Champagne Glasses

Zoom with Friends

During flu season, many are worried about their health and do not want to attend crowded parties, where close contact can spread colds. In this regard, you can throw a Zoom party.

For the health and well-being of everyone, this is a fantastic option. In cases where someone must be in quarantine and unable to attend an event, Zoom is a great alternative. In addition, we can all make our own meals, which allows us to save a little on food and drink.

Get your Game on!

Board games will be an excellent way of entertainment. If you are hosting a party at your home, ask each guest to bring one board game for the whole group to play. Board games are pretty popular, so everyone can find a fun game for a large company. This method will allow you to save on expensive entertainment, but you are guaranteed a good mood and energy boost.

Play a family board game! Pictionary, Alias, Twister, Imaginarium, Highlights of the Year or Two Resolutions and a Lie are wonderful choices. If your family is a little more creative, try card games like cards against humanity.

game night

Organize a progressive dinner

A progressive dinner is a meal where everyone brings dishes that go along with the dinner’s theme. The dishes are served family-style by rotating them around the table to each person. As a potluck style dinner, it is an excellent option if you don’t want to spend a lot of money on groceries.

One example would be if you’re eating Indian food, each person should bring one Indian dish, such as curry, lentil soup, rice or naan, Tandoori chicken, etc.

The other people at the dinner should do their best to at least try everything they are served to try out dishes from different cultures.

You can organize an evening like this with your neighbors. First, each participant prepares a side, appetizer, or dessert; then, you can prepare and provide the main course. Progressive dinner parties will help you get to know your neighbors better, visit their houses and have a great New Year’s Eve.

dinner party ideas

Arrange a movie marathon with your family or loved one

If you do not want to go to parties where there will be a huge number of people, then you can organize a party with your family or couple. But, instead, spend this night revisiting classic New Years Movies.

You can also spend time watching Netflix. There are selections of modern New Year’s films that will give you hope, confidence in the future, remind you of warm feelings for your loved ones, and amuse you heartily.

To create an atmosphere, dress up a Christmas tree, hang fairy lights and New Year’s decorations all over the house, and decorate Christmas balls. It is a great idea to buy colorful balls to write what good happened to you this year or mention bad things that you want never to happen again. Finally, don’t forget to prepare a snack and delicious food for watching movies.

Happy New Years

Write a letter to your future self

Surely you have experienced a lot of events, both good and bad, during this year. You have learned a lot, become older and wiser, and have drawn some conclusions. Writing a letter to your future self will be a great chance to motivate the following year.

You can schedule all the events you want to happen next year. Maybe you want to do yoga, take photography courses, or master the art of cooking. Make plans and give them a deadline. You can also write tips for yourself that you learned from the past year.

For example, how to treat people, call and take care of your loved ones more often, be more decisive, and set clear plans. You can save this letter, and in the new year, when you find yourself in a hopeless situation, you will read this letter and find motivation.

write yourself a letter

Dine-in a restaurant, Then host a cocktail party at home

A great way to have dinner is to celebrate the New Year at a restaurant if you don’t want to cook all day. You can save money by bringing your cocktail party home.

Cocktails are expensive in restaurants and bars and, therefore, you can have a delicious dinner out, and then go home to create unique fresh cocktails with your favorite alcohol, cordials, and fruits.

Be sure to buy a shaker for perfect cocktails. You can become a bartender for the night, preparing classic cocktails. You can also come up with new ways of preparing drinks with fresh ingredients, like these deletectable cranberry champagne cosmo’s!

champagne cosmo new years cocktail
Champagne Cosmo

Head out into town in the evening to watch the fireworks

On New Year’s Eve, the city hosts many festive events, in which you can take part for free and have a great time. You can go ice skating in the evening, lay a blanket under the stars beside a fire, and drink delicious hot mulled wine.

You can find your city’s official page, where you can find a full schedule of upcoming New Year events so you can choose what you want. Most of the daytime activities are for children, while you can find activities for adults in the evening. Thus, you will be able to enjoy the festive atmosphere without spending a cent.

Additionally, find out where the fireworks will be launched. To not go to crowded places, look for an area with a clear view of the fireworks launch to watch it. Then, you can gather your closest group of friends and have a small picnic.

Conclusion

The coming of the New Year can mean spending a lot of money, especially after shopping for gifts for Christmas. You can save your money by following our tips.

Celebrate at home and invite your friends, arrange a meeting on Zoom and talk all night with your friends and family, and do not forget to play board games to cheer up.

Pay attention to writing a letter to the future that will save you in dire straits. We hope you have an unforgettable New Year’s Eve!

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