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A Recession “Get Out Your Aggression” Party

Party411.com wants to help the masses let off a little steam this Halloween and do it on the cheap. Invite friends to a recession Halloween party and let them vent!

1. Recession Halloween Party Invitation Ideas:

Use email. Or, oh gosh, the telephone! Or better yet, download the Party411™ Stock Certificate or Foreclosure Notice invitations:

(click to download the PDF)

2. Party Location Ideas:

Use the hallowed halls of a closed bank or empty brokerage firm office (e.g., Lehman Bros.) that has paid their utilities. Or buy a house on Ebay for $2.50 and let the party double as a housewarming!

3. Recession Menu:

Government surplus cheese, Subprime Subs, day old bread from your local bakery outlet and some pork, of course.

4. Make Yourself a Stiff Drink:

Stock your bar with the regulars but rename them just the same.

Bull Marketarita (margarita)
Gin and Bear It
Wall St. Wallbanger
Nasty Nasdaquiri (daquiri)
Foreclosure Fizz
In the Red Wine
Bailout Brandy Sour

5. Recession Halloween Décor:

Outside at your entrance create a cemetery with cardboard tombstones for all of the lending institutions and investment firms that have gone belly up.

Inside use sticky notes indicating where you would put different décor items (e.g., jointed skeletons, cauldrons, body parts and more) if you had the money to pay for them. Done.

6. Set Up a Photo Opportunity:

Everyone wants a souvenir, so set up some black dowel rods to look like prison bars and add a sign that says, “Debtor's Prison.”

7. Recession Halloween Costumes:

What’s Halloween without costumes? Suggest these to your guests.

Come as 1/2 of a 401k
Come as the deficit (and grow throughout the evening)
Come as a rate cut
Come as fictitious capital
Come as a red down arrow
Come as an ARM
Come as a breadline (blow-up dolls are cheap!)
Come as a golden parachute
Come as pork
Come as a leading or trailing indicator

8. Recession Themed Halloween Music:

Music is almost as important as food. Playing the blues is obvious, but these aren’t so.

“Eve of Destruction”—Barry McGuire
“It's the End of the World As We Know It” --R.E.M.

“God Bless This Mess”--Sheryl Crow
“I'm Busted”--Ray Charles
“Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)”--Randy Newman
“Ain't Nothing Going on but the Rent”-Gwen Guthrie
“Money (That’s What I Want)”—The Beatles
“Living on a Prayer”—Bon Jovi
“Money Money Money Money”--The OJays

9. Activities/Competitions:

This is the venting part. Create competitions and activities that let your friends get out their frustration; these will help.

Build a House of Cards Competition
Karaoke Competition (Brother Can You Spare a Dime)
Dart Competition (Burst the Bubble of the US Economy)
Credit Card Cut Up Competition
Piggy Bank Smash
Gas Can Piñata Beat Down…empty!
Make Your Own “Bindle” (a hobo's bundle on a stick)
From Main St. to Wall St. Message Mural
(all you need are felt tip markers and a wall of paper)

10. Halloween Party Favors:

Can’t have a party and send guests home empty-handed—take it from the Party Girl - so do something that won’t set you back!

Vegetable seeds to feed you and yours
A Tin Cup (with or without pencils)
“The Best 50 Brown Bag Lunches”--Beth & Rick Renaud ($1.99)
 

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