Kids Birthday Parties

[Over the Bar]

A P7 friend of one of my boys had a disco in a local social club, invited town & country and got £400 in birthday money. This kid has got a bright future

Kids discos are pretty rare these days cos of child protection not to mention insurance.  What parent in their right mind would want  to take responsibility of 100 other kids?

[bennydorano]

Kids discos are a very regular occurence in Armagh, most of the GAA clubs run their own. Kids discos organised by parents was new to me i have to say. I sure as f**k wouldn't be doing it.

[illdecide]

Because my cousin has sampled her friends hummus before & it's dire stuff apparently. She put out a healthy option fruit salad platter & white chocolate covered strawberries, for a couple of the kids who don't have a sweet tooth. The cream buns were even gluten free. But she said the hummus tasted like dog food.

Sure that makes them healthy! 

Never got a Birthday party when i was young...too fecking poor

The fact your parents didn't love you either probably played a part.

I only had one parent (growing up) and with 5 in a family and not much money about parties were few and far between.

[Beffs]

And you had to walk 15 miles to school, barefoot, in the snow and it was all up hill, both ways? 

I remember going to a party when I was about 8 or 9 & there was a brilliant game of pass the parcel. Now at parties in my house, the "parcel" was wrapped in newspaper. At this party, it was wrapped in real wrapping paper, the posh kind, that you buy in individual sheets. I remember being mega impressed at the poshness of that and telling my mother about it afterwards. She was scandalised at the "shocking waste of money" of using the paper for a game and just throwing it out afterwards, without it ever being used to wrap something proper. I told her it was used to wrap something, it was used to wrap the game prize, but she wasn't having any of it.

[Tony Baloney]

Was the prize a piece of coal for the fire?

[armaghniac]

Was the prize a piece of coal for the fire?

That's posh, we only had turf.

[Beffs]

No. It was a Mars Bar. They spent all the money for decent prizes, on the wrapping paper. 

[illdecide]

And you had to walk 15 miles to school, barefoot, in the snow and it was all up hill, both ways? 

I remember going to a party when I was about 8 or 9 & there was a brilliant game of pass the parcel. Now at parties in my house, the "parcel" was wrapped in newspaper. At this party, it was wrapped in real wrapping paper, the posh kind, that you buy in individual sheets. I remember being mega impressed at the poshness of that and telling my mother about it afterwards. She was scandalised at the "shocking waste of money" of using the paper for a game and just throwing it out afterwards, without it ever being used to wrap something proper. I told her it was used to wrap something, it was used to wrap the game prize, but she wasn't having any of it.

Well actually...  Ahh never mind... Lol. Majority of the kid's r spoilt rotten these days (mine included) and it's only getting worse.