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This week's tip was submitted by Lori.

When renting a hall for a family holiday party that you'll be catering yourselves, you can take care of the decorating costs by organizing a table decorating contest.  If you're splitting hall costs with family members, ask each family to buy a table that they will then decorate.  Each person attending the party will contribute an unwrapped gift toward the prize.  Everyone at the party votes for the best decorated table. The winning table gets to pick out which gifts they would like first.  The remainder of the gifts can be distributed either in order of most to least popular decorated table or by playing games.

Thanks for the tip Lori!