Quote Originally Posted by JenBKR View Post
OK, those of you with kids - did you guys make treat bags for the other kids coming to you child's birthday party? We had decided to do little treat bags for kids 10 and under for Ty's party. Somewhere along the way it spun out of control. Shawn has a large family, with a lot of kids, and we invited a few friends with young kids, so I am doing 18 treat bags now. Last night we spend $60 on party items, the majority on treat bags items! And that wasn't all, we have bought other items for the bags in the last couple of weeks. Is it just that easy to get out of control? Or are we just out of our minds?

I did that when the kids were younger also, they expect those at birthdays, on top of that the birthday party was somewhere expensive to boot. This year my daughters sweet 16 costs about 350.00 to take 10 of us to a nice restaurant. Not too bad considering the cost of some sweet 16's I guess. I think the whole thing is kind of silly but yes we got sucked up into it