It's been about a month since I've posted anything...I bet everyone thought I disappeared. I haven't, it's just been a crazy busy month for me.
Anyway, I held my first party in over 10 years. It was a lia sophia jewelry party. Well I kinda got roped into it. So hears the story
Lori (coworker), had a lia sophia party about a month ago and invited me. I love going to parties of any kind so I attended this one. Being a jewelry party I knew it was going to expensive, I just didn't realize how expensive. I was shocked to see items over $100!
I'm a practical person when it comes to money and spending that much money on a piece of jewelry was not something I was willing to do. So I didn't spend a dime...I know sucky of me but there wasn't anything that jumped out at me and scream at me.
So then the next day at work Lori was going on and on about all her "hostess items". It was crazy! However in order for her to get the top hostess items she needed one more person to book a party. So she almost begged me to host one.
I cringed a little because these type of parties are not my thing. But then as she was telling me about all the hostess items I thought why not. I figure I would walk out with at least a free bracelet. So I sent out about 25 invites hoping to get a small group together. The party was very small, only 4 people but we had a good time.
We busted out the alcohol and I fixed some dinner for everyone and we all sat around looking a jewelry, drinking and enjoying each other's company. Everyone stayed until 10pm....which shocked me. I was also able to show Pauline (coworker/friend) my recently installed patio and my remodeled bathroom. Pauline was around when I was installing my patio and she heard all my pains and tears about getting it done. So she truly appreciated the effort it took to install the thing:)
In the end I ended up selling enough to get the following hostess items
20% of the sales to purchase regular priced items
4 -bonus items which are any item in the book for a ridiculously low price (examples $88 bracelet for bonus price of $15)
5 -1/2 price items
1 item free up to $100
Now here's the catcher....I'm having a hard time using all my hostess items! After everyone left I stayed up until midnight picking out all the stuff I liked. Then I woke up this morning and re-evaluated everything and still couldn't use all the hostess items.
So I called my mom to see if she wanted to use a 1/2 price item but because she purchased some items last night she didn't need anything else. Well crap..then Mitch called and I was telling him all the stuff I was looking at getting and he reminded me that we are trying to save for some ski trips and asked if I really want to spend all that money on jewelry....well crap again!
I hung up the phone, took a deep breath and paired everything down. I went from spending $150 down to about $78. I've selected two necklaces, two earrings and three bracelet's. Now that I've paired everything down I have even more hostess items to use. I went from only having one 1/2 off item to having five 1/2 off items.
So, I think I'm going to go back to all the ladies that showed for the party and see if they are interested in ordering anything else at 1/2 off. I figure they were all nice enough to come and actually order stuff they should get some of the benefit back.
If no one wants to take the items then they wont be used. If I had more money I would definately purchase more but I'm on a budget:(
Over all I enjoyed myself more than I figured I would.
