Comments on: Money Lessons Learned from Birthday Parties http://www.pfadvice.com/2012/01/12/money-lessons-learned-from-birthday-parties/ Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Fri, 24 May 2013 16:46:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cynthia http://www.pfadvice.com/2012/01/12/money-lessons-learned-from-birthday-parties/comment-page-1/#comment-997995 Cynthia Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:53:24 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/?p=8669#comment-997995 We had a lovely birthday party for one of our friends the other day and we made it an Indian themed buffet. We played Indian music as well. The main reason for this was that Indian food is relatively inexpensive to make … mostly lentils and rice (and we like it a lot). We have the good fortune of some good cooks in our friend group, but most importantly, none of us is doing all that well financially. The home party is the norm for us. And we generally express gratitude toward one another with our works rather than our money.

In our friend group it is proper etiquette to bring food to gatherings. When it’s a special event, we bring even nicer food and we coordinate our dishes like we did for this birthday.

Someone who everyone knows is going through a hard time can bring rice, home baked bread or lentils. Someone who can’t cook, can always bring chips or a salad.

We even had a pot-luck for my wedding. Everyone who brought a dish brought it by slightly early and to make everything beautiful by placing it in finer dishware. We have a friend who’s got a large set of matching serving dishes; this helped.

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