New Year's holidays are quite long for most Russians. If you recklessly spend all your money on souvenirs, succumbing to the pre-holiday craziness and consumer excitement, or on a festive table replete with a variety of expensive delicacies, then there is a possibility of sitting on water and breadcrumbs for the rest of the month - which, of course, you will not wish on anyone. Therefore, it is worth spending your funds rationally during the New Year holidays.
To plan a budget, you should immediately decide on the number of gifts that are best purchased in advance and gradually. It is better if it is an inexpensive but useful thing than a souvenir. Or, if you have creative abilities and skillful hands, you can try to make a gift yourself.
The next step in planning a budgetary New Year will be choosing a place, company and table menu. The event can take place at home, at a party, in a cafe, in the country house or in a house rented at a tourist center. Typically, this kind of celebration takes place with family or friends. The festive table should be discussed together with all participants in the upcoming party. Let everyone suggest their favorite dish and wish for drinks and desserts.
Depending on whether it is a corporate event or a home holiday, you can offer the following options for inexpensive solutions.
Corporate Sabantuy
Celebrating the New Year in the office with colleagues is relatively cheap and cheerful. The toastmaster is chosen from the personnel of the personnel department, as assistants - activists and jokers, the number of small prizes for all participants in the corporate party is thought out. The table is laid together. The music is organized on its own. It is possible that someone from the staff plays the guitar well. In the end, nobody canceled karaoke, there would be a computer with speakers and a microphone.
Country rest
Departure to the camp site by a friendly company - involves the cost of delivery to the destination and renting a house. But it will come out inexpensively, tk. the total cost will be divided by a large number of people. This option compares favorably with the change of place and the ability to save on the table, limiting ourselves to kebabs, tangerines, champagne or tea on the fire and mulled wine. And the fun outside the city is much more varied: a snow battle, sledding, going downhill on ice floes, etc.
New year in a public place
You can choose a cafe as a place for celebration - although it is not the most economical option, as it might seem at first glance, but you do not need to think about dishes for the festive table, and even more so about the fact that you have to clean up dirty dishes after yourself. Based on the budget, choose a cozy place where there will be no New Year's program, but music promises to be all night. It is worth taking care of the organization of such a celebration in advance - a few months before the celebration. Then you will be able to save a lot, because just before the New Year, the prices in the cafe become several times higher.
New Year with the family - learning to save
The most budgetary option is to go on a visit or hold a celebration at home. The menu should be discussed in advance. Let each invitee prepare something. Then the cost of groceries will not hit your pocket. But it is worth remembering that all salads, snacks and other goodies should be in small quantities so that in the end you do not have to throw out uneaten and already spoiled food. Try to limit your appetite for overseas snacks and expensive delicacies.
When celebrating the New Year with your closest people, you can agree on gifts in advance - for example, offer to give each other something inexpensive, but useful. These presentations will greatly save your budget. You can do without gifts at all. Then, on the rest of the holidays, you can spend the saved money on entertainment: a family trip to the ice rink, to the cinema, sightseeing and exciting trips.
