I have an idea to share for entertaining. It goes like this.
HOW TO THROW AN EXTRAVAGANT DINNER PARTY
When I was in college I lived in a student co-op. We met a budget of one dollar per person for dinner. i.e. we fed 20 people for $20. We had some fine-ass meals, too. Sometimes the cooks would do something simple like a bean bake and fresh bread, and because it didn’t take long they’d also set the table and make Kool-aid with oranges sliced up and floating at the top of the pitchers. Sometimes we’d decide to eat outside and haul all the food up the kitchen basement steps onto the side yard. Fine times, fine times.
I went back to visit the co-op a few years later and they were living in, well, extravagance. They were feeding people on TWO dollars per dinner. They had meat, even!
So, here’s my idea. Throw an extravagant dinner party where you feed everyone on $2 per person. 4 people = $8 dollars. If you absolutely must adjust for inflation since I last checked this out in 1996, you might go to $3 per person. I’m looking to try this out.
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