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Kid’s End of Season Sports Party!

   It’s the end of your kids sport season, it’s time for the party and you’re the one in charge of planning it. I’m guessing the first thing going through your head is location; where to hav

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Kid’s End of Season Sports Party!

Classroom Valentine’s Day Parties

Parent’s, it’s getting to be that time of year again for classroom parties at your kid’s school. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, it’s time to prepare! When it comes to kids, it

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Classroom Valentine’s Day Parties

Super Bowl XLVI: The Good & The Bad

This year’s win went to the New York Giants who beat the New England Patriots 21-17 with Eli Manning, Giant’s quarterback, being “named MVP for completing 30 of 40 passes for 276 yards, a touch

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Super Bowl XLVI: The Good & The Bad

Saving Money for Most Occasion’s

     Happy Friday! Now that it’s just about to be the weekend, everyone’s starting to make their plans and   as it also gets warmer, there are more parties being held meaning our wallets are

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Saving Money for Most Occasion’s

Groundhog Day 2012: 6 More Weeks of Wint

      It’s that one of the year that everyone counts on a famous small animal to tell us whether we should keep on our winter coats or start bringing out the sandals, its Groundhog Day. Early t

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Groundhog Day 2012: 6 More Weeks of Winter

Halloween Time is approaching

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by on July 31, 2008 at 11:38 am

Halloween is approaching.  Make sure you send out your invitations to a ghoulish party with enough notice so that others don’t take your date.

On a related note, the 4th book in the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer comes out Saturday at 12:01 am.  If you haven’t picked up her first novel Twilight then I would suggest you do.  I read the first three novels (each over 500 pages) in about 2 weeks.  And then I got 3 office co-workers hooked on it!

Having parties all the time is tons of fun, but don’t forget to read, learn and enjoy simple pleasures.  A friendly reminder from Windy City Novelties, Inc.

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Article uploaded to KNOL

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by on July 29, 2008 at 9:24 am

Google’s new KNOL service has an article based on our How do Glow Sticks Work.  KNOL is a great knowledge based engine that returns highly relevant articles on specific topics.  To view the article follow the link below:

http://knol.google.com/k/jeffrey-schrimmer/how-does-a-glow-stick-work/2x8iqef61w057/2#

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Light Up Ice Cubes

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by on July 28, 2008 at 10:38 am

Sit back, relax, go outside with a nice tall glass of Iced tea and enjoy the evening.  Just remember to add a lite up ice cube (litecube) to make sure you can find your glass in the beautiful cool evening…

Wait, you don’t know what a lite up ice cube is?  Oh man, and here I am enjoying the coolest drinks around, not only because they taste grea,t but because the drink literally lights up from my glowing ice cube.

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A lite up ice cube is exactly what the name implies.  It looks like an ice cube, and even cools your drink down (if you put it in the freezer before hand) but the real impressive part comes from turning it on!  Press the button on the bottom before inserting the lite up ice cube in your drink to choose from 3 settings:

  1. Fast blink
  2. Slow blink
  3. Steady on

I’ve gotten some questions in the past about the safety of putting this in your drinks.  Let me tell you a few things:  These are made out of the highest-quality components.  They are FDA certified for food use (that’sdice cubes Light Up Ice Cubes because they are completely sealed).  Their battery has no connection with anything outside of the plastic encasement, and can only be activated by a secured, rubber, water-tight plunger on the bottom.

What’s also great is that they are available in a variety of shapes and sizes, allowing you to customize your own special event.  Throwing a big game party?  Then use our Football-shaped Lite up ice cubes.  We also have stars, dice, golf ball and traditional shaped lite up ice cubes.

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To find this and many other awesome items visit us online, Windy City Novelties Inc.

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Fusion Badges

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by on July 23, 2008 at 2:13 pm

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Fusion badges are sweeping the nation! Well, not literally, but they are darn cool!  Right now you should be thinking to yourself… “WOW awesome!” “Where do I get them?” “Can I buy tons for me and my friends!!!?”  I did say what you should be saying.  Instead you’re probably saying, “What is a Fusion Badge?”

The answer is right here.  A Fusion badge is the newest light-up accessory.  It’s literally a medallion that you wear around your neck and it lights up in different patterns.  What’s great about them also is that the large circular center leaves a huge spot for personalization!

I’ve seen people use them as name badges, team identifiers for night sports, and even as picture frames to light up the image!  These things are really cool.  The pictures don’t always do them justice so here’s a Fusion Badge video clip.

To find this and many other awesome items visit us online, Windy City Novelties Inc.

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How are our prices so low

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by on July 22, 2008 at 8:42 am

I’ve been asked how our prices are so low in comparison to local party shops and other online retailers.  While there are lots of answers to this question I’ll stick to the main points:

  1. We buy in bulk, now when I say bulk I mean by the container loads. Those big semi-trailers driving down the highway? There’s a good chance they’re coming to us.
  2. We have a lower overhead then traditional party stores since they have to maintain a high rent in a retail market.  They also have to worry about items being stolen from their stores.
  3. Volume selling. Most of our items are packaged by the dozen, 2 dozen, or gross, this allows us to reduce the price to the consumer while still eking out a profit.  Many times, our dozen price is the same that a party store would charge you for 3 or 4 of the item (seriously, go check).

The next question is always: What about your quality? Do you sacrifice it to give us lower prices?

NO. We don’t. This is a family run business and we sell to families.  If an item comes in that we don’t think we would have at one of our own birthday parties or celebrations, it doesn’t even make it into our warehouse. Simple as that.

That being said we do sometimes sell these substandard items in our CLOSEOUT section or the Some Do Some Don’t section, both of which clearly state what the reason for the firesale on the items.

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