re: How much is responsible to spend on a four year old’s Birthday party?

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$150 max for the cake and ice cream.
$150 max for the pizza.

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this is the way

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If your parents took you to Chuck e Cheese you were ballin. Or Discovery Zone

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Gimme the VIP room at the Pizza Hut with the TMNT arcade game

We were kings .

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Just saw the check my wife cut to the party planner and it was well into the four figures.

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I am in the wrong business.

Time to do birthday parties.

Did they hire the clown from Uncle Buck:

I don’t remember any of my birthdays when I was a kid. I think just a regular family dinner and a cake would suffice for a 4 year old. So in this day in and age, for a 4 year old and 2 parents, dinner, and dessert…probably $1000 at the grocery store

Just went to 5 year olds party. Had cake and chick fil A. Had a good great time.

Yeah we made some food and my wife made a cake. The kids played at the park. 4 figures is the sign of a fricking psychopath.

When my kids were growing up (10-ish years ago) Mr. Gatti’s would charge $50 for a party. It included pizza and drinks for the kids and they each got 3 tokens to play the games with. I would bring the cake and shell out for them to each have a handful more tokens. The kids all had a great time. Idk if Gattis still does parties but think about that for next year. It was just as fun for the kids as the parties where the parents had 3 course meals catered, petting zoos, bouncy water slides, etc.

You can do fun, themed, parties at the house fairly inexpensively if you just put a little thought into it. My wife was amazing at this. One year for my daughter she did a Hawaiian Luau. Made coconut bras with grass skirts and leis for all the girls to wear. We had tiki torches everywhere. Played games like limbo etc.

My son was a big fan of Fear Factor when it was on tv. We did a Fear Factor birthday for him one year. Had “stunts” they had to perform and even made some gross stuff for them to eat. Had prizes for kids that won challenges.

Rented big blowup slip n slide one year and it was fairly inexpensive compared to other things people have done.

Not hard to come up with fun things to do at the house fairy cheap. Hell a couple years when they were still pretty young, we just did it at the park.

I have 4 kids close in age. We had the same party for each of them for about 5 yrs…inflatable bounce house, tray of finger sandwiches, ice cream, cake and drinks. They loved it and had a blast.

People will rip on you, but $1,000 is not hard to spend. A party planner is absurd but $1,000 is not.

Cake, drinks and food at your house for the kids and their parents will cost $200.

Rent a bounce castle or hire any kind of entertainment and it will be another $250-$350.

If you are inviting a whole class of kids, their parents, your family and a few none class guests, you can easily get 30-50 people and will spend $500-$1000 to rent out any kind of venue.