{"id":51,"date":"2013-07-17T01:49:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peatix.com\/article\/!CDATAparty-favors-for-the-discerning-host"},"modified":"2015-05-11T05:17:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T09:17:55","slug":"party-favors-for-the-discerning-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/party-favors-for-the-discerning-host\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Favors for the Discerning Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think hard. Have you ever received a party favor that you remember? Fondly? If you\u2019ve given out party favors, did you put anything more than a perfunctory amount of thought into what form they would take? Of course you didn\u2019t. And that\u2019s nothing to be ashamed about&#8230;yet. Because if you come away from this post without entirely transcending your entire worldview on party favors, you probably should be ashamed. As should I, for having failed you.<\/p>\n<p>Onwards!:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Something practical: A mini vacuum cleaner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/usb-retro-vac.jpg\" alt=\"USB retro vacuum party favor\" height=\"400\" width=\"470\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A party favor must be above all cute, and above all except cute, small. This mini vacuum cleaner meets those criteria gloriously, and your guests\u2019 enduring cleanliness will be a constant reminder of how awesome you were and are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Something utterly random:<\/strong><br \/>\nEither a picture of or gift certificate for a ride on this thing:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/Polar_bear_balloon_ride.jpg\" alt=\"Polar bear balloon ride gift\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Something alive: <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>a. <\/strong>A fish, not so large that it won\u2019t make a good pet, but not so small it doesn\u2019t make a good meal. <br \/>\n<strong>b.<\/strong> A greyhound puppy, so that your attendees can continue to cultivate the relationships they\u2019ve forged at your event by getting together and racing them at some future date<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/Cute-greyhound-puppies.jpg\" alt=\"Greyhound puppy party favors\" height=\"469\" width=\"625\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Something retro: <\/strong><br \/>\nEspecially good if your guests are coming from far away and have a long trip ahead of them. You can probably get like 50 Gameboys for $10, and you can invite those who have no use for them to bring your event to a close by smashing them ceremoniously on the floor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/Gameboys.jpg\" alt=\"Party Gameboys\" height=\"316\" width=\"630\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Something socially useful:<\/strong><br \/>\nHave all of your guests write down an idea for a service project, hold a vote on which project the guests would most like to see carried out, then give the money you would have spent on party favors to fund this project.<\/p>\n<p>Wow&#8212;-that last one was almost too serious for this list. At least no one can say I didn\u2019t give you a variety of options. Now that you have the tools to not be lame with your party favors, go forth and be completely ridiculous.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think hard. Have you ever received a party favor that you remember? Fondly? If you\u2019ve given out party favors, did you put anything more than a perfunctory amount of thought into what form they would take? Of course you didn\u2019t. And that\u2019s nothing to be ashamed about&#8230;yet. Because if you come away from this post&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,17],"tags":[20],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/organizer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}