Use easily cleanable or disposable items
At every birthday party, using everyday items to serve and accommodate the guests’ needs can lead to a tall tower of crockery in your sink. It’s exhausting to clean up so many dishes, even with a dishwasher. However, you can avoid this hassle by using disposable plates and glasses. You can also place plastic table wrap on tables before serving food to avoid stains. Once the party is over, collect everything, dump it in a trash bag, and you’re done!
Prepare ahead
When planning a birthday party, people tend to delay preparations, often to the last minute. They are inherently quite simple to plan. But, instead of underestimating a task, you should always be prepared ahead to avoid any last-minute catastrophes.
Perhaps one of the most significant sources of a mess is clutter around your house. People invited to the birthday party will move around your home and are very likely to trip and fall while also spilling drinks and food. So, clean up your house of all the clutter before the birthday party. Furthermore, you should also put away valuable and fragile items if any children are invited. The little buggers can be quite challenging to control, and you’d better improvise. Moving large furniture away is also a good idea, but maybe some other day!
Gifts and hampers are another E S S E N T I A L component of pre-planning a birthday party. Consider pre-ordering them in case you forget at the last moment. Birthdays party is more fun with birthday hampers and gifts and especially help to keep children interested and away from making a mess. However, it would be best to get them for everyone, regardless of their ages.
Avoid too many balloons
A birthday party might indeed seem incomplete without balloons. However, many people bring in TOO MANY balloons, and they and up all over the floor. It makes the party area look and feel congested, which gives a messy feeling. Not to mention, excess balloons can also be a major fire hazard if they’re inflated with flammable gas. Even a few days after the party, there are still pieces of busted balloons hidden around the house, making it difficult to clean up the mess. So, you should avoid bringing in too many balloons. Instead, you can place a few balloons in some areas and especially keep them off the floor.
Order the right amount of food
As a rule of thumb, never waste food! Often people make the mistake of ordering too much food, which leads to a big mess. Children tend to leave leftovers here and there, which is messy and difficult to clean up later. Most importantly, much of the food ordered goes to waste. So, remember to correctly estimate the amount of food needed to serve all your guests attending the birthday party. The best way is to add 2-5 heads more to the total number of people at the party so that no one complains about less food either.
Move the party outdoors
If you’re too worried about your house getting all messy, move the party outdoors. There’s not enough space inside to accommodate sufficiently for many of the activities like games anyway. Furthermore, spilling drinks and food droppings lead to irremovable stains on many furniture pieces. If you shift your party outdoors, there will be a lot of space for birthday activities with minimum spillage. The post-party cleaning ritual will also be much easier, and you can enjoy the cleanliness of your indoor house later. Moreover, outdoor parties are also safer than indoor events, according to research. Lesser chances of birthday candles burning your entire house to the ground!
Conclusion
Birthdays come only once a year; hence they hold immense importance. If we don’t plan this joyful day correctly by reducing all the mess, we might end up ruining this once in a year experience. So, make sure to use the tips mentioned above to avoid a messy birthday party effectively. Indeed, you will have one of the most memorable birthday parties of your life. A birthday party is one of the most joyful and memorable experiences we have and should be celebrated with passion as they only come once a year. However, they’re often memorable for all the wrong reasons! Be it ordering the wrong cake or snow spray catching fire, something almost always goes wrong and ruins the fun. Not to mention, cleaning up clean up after the party is quite tedious in itself. Hence, the joyful experience of a birthday party quickly spirals down into a messy nightmare.
But that’s still no excuse to stop celebrating them. Instead, here are some tips to help you prevent a birthday party from becoming a mess.
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