The main ingredient to hosting a successful house party is three simple words: Planning Planning Planning! No seriously, a party can succeed or fail before even the first guest arrives.
Be festive by including decorations or even customized banners for House Party.
First, for a house party invite your friends and neighbors (this is especially crucial since they are the ones that can get your party in trouble if you get too loud, inviting them makes them feel like they were included), decide before hand if you want to let friends bring guests or to keep it just to who you invite. Any party can get out of hand if too many people show up.
A great way to keep track of if the people at the party were invited or if they were able to sneak in is with neon paper wrist Bands. You know, the type you have to cut them to get them off. Like these:
Second, decide on what people are going to do for food and drinks. It doesn’t matter if its sodas, a keg, or even wine and cocktails as long as your prepared for the quantity needed. For beer or sodas assume everyone will drink about 4 servings, this takes care of those that drink a few sips and then forget about their cups, and those that have one and call it quits.
Third , clean your place and remove anything that is a) valuable, b) breakable, or c) you’d be upset if it was broken; you never know when crazy Dave will accidently topple over a vase etc. Also have plenty of garbage receptacles around the house, so your guests can help clean up during the event by throwing away garbage instead of leaving it around.
If you don’t want to have to worry about lots of garbage use cups or plates that people will want to hold on to, and not just throw away. Some good examples are Glowing cups, Glow knives and forks, or even themed paper plates that people will want to keep on using.
Fourth, organize music or entertainment. I’ve been to some pretty cool parties that have had DJ’s, a local band playing, or even Poi / glow stick twirlers. People come to socialize, but they also want to have something neat going on the side.
Fifth, having games prepared can also be fun. These can be as simple as bean bag tosses, frisbee, a limbo line or any other easy to plan game. While it might sound lame, having some games ready can help keep a party from loosing it’s ‘mojo‘
Some other pointers: Never let anyone drive home who has been drinking, or who hasn’t waited atleast an hour for every alcoholic drink. Find out what your city’s noise regulations are. Be mindful that neighbors might not be on the same schedule as you so be sure to invite or at least inform them (see 1 above).
Besides all this be safe and have fun, it is after all a party!
Believe it or not there are many different types of glow bracelets and glow necklaces. The main differences here are the thickness and length of the tubing. Generally thicker tubing carries more “glow juice” more juice means a brighter glow with better coloring.
Its like painting a deck or a house, the first coat is nice but the color really starts to show with more coats, here with more glow juice.
There is no question that thicker glow is better. Besides glowing brighter it also lasts longer since there’s more chemical to go through. To get an idea at the differences take a look at the picture below it shows the different thicknesses and what they look like
At our company alone we have two different types of Glow Necklaces, Superior Glow (at 5mm) and Premium Glow (at 6mm)
In Glow Bracelets we have Superior Glow, Premium Glow and Deluxe Triple Wide Glow (a huge 15mm wide). Now for most simple occasions Superior Glow is fine and dandy. You’ll get good coloring, bright glow, and it will last for about 6 hours. Premium Glow will be brighter, and will last 8 hours or more. Also with Premium Glow you’ll get a high end molded plastic connector that is UV reactive and cool on its own. But the best and brightest glow is the Triple Wide. Just as in the photo above it is CONSIDERABLY larger and brighter. The color obviously looks the best in this piece because of the glow size itself.
To get a better view of this watch the youtube video below that demonstrates the glow of the Deluxe Triple Wide.
Always be wary of other companies that try to claim they have the cheapest glow. Make sure to ask what the diameter of the necklace or bracelet is! If they respond that they don’t know then BE WARY! Also its not unusual to see 4mm or even 3mm glow out there, this will not last long nor look as good as even our Superior Glow at 5mm after 2 hours of GLOW!
It is undeniable, finally, that summer is here. How do I know this you ask? Well for starters the birds are back but more importantly so are the summer festivals.
Vending time is upon us. Summer fest, Independence days, Carnivals, Concerts and picnics are here and that means large concentrations of families out enjoying the evening together. This is a perfect situation to go out and start vending GlowLED Novelties or other items.
Now some are asking “what do you mean by vending“, what I mean is this is the perfect time to go raise tons of money for your club, sports team, Firefighters brigage, Fraternal order of the Police, or just even Yourself!
$50 of product can net you over $500 in an hour, and if you think I’m exaggerating then you’ve never done it. Why else do you think places like Disney World, or Six Flags hire tons of people to go out and sell inexpensive fun items?
The key to this, besides getting local government approval i.e. a vending license, is to make sure that what you’re selling is a good deal and that the kids are happy when the get the items. The best situation you can be in is for your customers, and their parents, to be happy to see you and get something that they’ll love. To this end LED items or Glow sticks are perfect, they entertain and occupy the kids while not annoying anyone else, stay away from noisemakers! Do this and you’ll have plenty of repeat business to keep your pockets full all summer.
For a video on how to vend, and how to organize others to vend, click here or simply look below.
Windy City Novelties, Inc. can be found online at http://www.windycitynovelties.com.
You can also reach us by phone at 1-800-442-9722 between the hours of 8:30 am - 5:30 pm CST.
We are located in the Chicago area.
