As you can see, Betty Boop is pretty budget conscious when it comes to throwing a good halloween party. What can we learn from this Fleischer Bros. cartoon? Here’s what she did to maximize the fun and minimize spending:
1.) Easy Home Made Invitation: Ms. Boop’s invitations were hand written and blown by the wind, which is pretty old school, it was 1933 after all. I don’t recommend that you send invites via blustery gale, but you can pass out some home made hand bills or use internet methods to spend no money and get the word out.
2.) Budget Decor: If you have a tiny cat that can pop out of the ceiling to egg beat the guts out of your pumpkins, so much the better. But if you don’t: do everything you can to make stuff out of stuff you already have, like milk jug ghost faces or cutting bats out of black construction paper.
3.) Supplying Cheap Snacks: The ONLY thing anyone’s eating in this cartoon is apples. I think you can do a little better than that, but you get my drift? Fruit is just a starting point, veggies and dip if you cut them yourself are a huge money saver, home made cakes taste better and cost wayyy less. If you purchase your libations in bulk you save lots of cash. You can also try making it a potluck, people love trying new recipes!
If you can get your hands on come cat paint or witch paint, that stuff’s worth its weight in gold, and it helps fight any party bullies that might show up, so get some ASAP, I hear it flies off the shelves!
