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17th birthday ideas
17/f
My 17th birthday is in two weeks (in winter). My mom just lost her job so i cant do anything to expensive. Please of you have any ideas of what i could do ?
I was first thinking me and friends go to this new tramploline place and then i thought of having a fancy high tea at night outside with fairy lights and stuff but i dont know what all we would do and how to keep it not expensive. Please help
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You must be from the southern hemisphere as here in the north we are coming into summer. I'm sorry to hear mom has lost her job. Hopefully she will find a new one quickly.
This may sound old fashion given your advanced ages. lol I'm thinking of a pajama party. You take over the basement or living room. You ask your friends to bring sodas and snack, their favorite videos and you spend the night doing girlie things.
It could be fun and with everyone bringing something it would be very inexpensive. A 17th birthday is not considered a milestone event, at least here in the States. Here we see milestone birthdays as a girls sweet sixteen, her 18th birthday, her 21st birthday and her 25th I'm not sure why the 25th is a milestone event but for some reason it is.
The point I'm trying to make is that circumstances prevent mom from throwing you a birthday party this year. Frankly once you have your sweet sixteen the next big party to celebrate your birthday would be your 18th and 21st. The birthdays between 18th and 21st would be low key family things with a cake at dinner.
For my sons twenty first birthday, which is the legal drinking age here, his friends decided to take him out drinking. We had a cake at dinner for him and his best friend joined us for dinner. At 9 O'clock a limo I hired arrived to pick him and his friends up to take them into the city to have fun.
For his 18th Birthday his friends came over they gave me their car keys and in the basement were several 6 packs of bear. In the morning, it was more like noon, they breakfast if I deemed them sober they got their keys back. If not I drove them home.
There are lots of ways to celebrate a birthday without spending a lot of money. I'm almost positive mom has all the ingredients to make a cake from scratch in the house. It is in expensive and it would be some good mother and daughter time if you baked it together.
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I like your tea idea. Tea doesn't cost much. You could go with just dessert or also have small tea sandwiches. This is like making a sandwich but cutting them into diagonal quarters, more of a snack to sample different sandwich fillers. When a person bakes at home rather than purchasing at a store it is cheaper, so if you bake a dessert and a couple of friends do, you could have a variety of at least 3 different desserts to offer. So of course, this involves the help of friends.
I can't say about the trampoline event as there is likely an entrance fee. If you can't afford to pay for friends to go there, they'd have to pay their own way. I'd check first to see how many can pay their own way before you book that. If a couple people can't pay their way, it might be easier to do what a lot of my daughters and their friends did for birthdays, let all friends know that the plan is only for them to bring cash as a birthday gift. Once you're all there, your mom and maybe one of the other moms drive you to the shopping mall where your friends get to help you decide how to spend your birthday money. Also, not making it a specific amount they should bring means that if all they can offer is 3 dollars and another can give 20, all can participate. Teens love to go to malls. This could be done first with a designated pick up time to coincide with when you want the back yard tea to occur. All would have fun, it will be memorable for you and also be low cost.
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