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Where you organize your thoughts, ideas, and plans for your parties? (Guests, decorations, room themes and details, food, etc.)

I'm not sure the best way to get everything out of my brain and organized somehow!

I keep a word file that contains the basics (menu, ongoing projects, etc). I also keep an excel file of the guest list. I mark whether or not the people came to the party. That way I can refer to it when planning following year and see what our guest count was and who was invited. I also like to mix up the menu so having a record of past menus is nice.

Organize......LMBO!!!!! THAT is a good one Here and there and everywhere, both computers have so many Halloween pic ideas that Im suprised they havent crashed (Id die) half finished projects.... speaking of... wonder what I did with that......

Last year, I got a 2 inch binder and filled it with blank typing paper. Printed off the pics that I really loved, used a glue stick to paste onto the blank pages, sometimes with typed how to instructions as well. Then you can sub divide the binder with different tabs, separate into themes, etc and put everything where it needs to be. Was a big help for my last years theme. Haven't yet done it for this year, but I need to soon.

HTH
Kaye

PS- I also created an album on here last year with other people's props and ideas that I liked so that I could have all the pics in one place as well.

I kept notes of food, games, and lists of what is needed and what to make. this helped me plan the Halloween party better and better every year.

What I have been meaning to do... still have yet, is to burn a copy of my computer Halloween folders and keep them in a disk folder. I would put all the computer photos into folders, then burn each folder on a separate disk that way when I was looking for something specific I could just take out the disk that goes with want I’m looking for.... did that make any since????? SOMEDAY LOL

[QUOTE=Girl;713979]Where you organize your thoughts, ideas, and plans for your parties? (Guests, decorations, room themes and details, food, etc.)

I'm not sure the best way to get everything out of my brain and organized somehow![/QUOTE



I too keep everything in a word document. Menu, invites, ideas, etc. There are so many thoughts to keep up with. If you make note of them, it's so much easier to keep track!

I keep track by computer, by notes in a paper notebook and a ton of post-it notes.

I use my computer as well and I do have a binder that I draw ideas in and will sketch the yard how I think I want it to be set up. I really need to do the sketch this year as I want more of a walk through graveyard this year. Without people really walking through. I really need to decide what kind of set up I will be doing this year.

I start thinking of Halloween so early in the year, I start writing stuff down in a notebook so I will remember when I start putting things together in Sept. I pretty much keep a file on my computer and keep a notebook handy solely for the purpose of Halloween stuff. What I find hard is remembering on this forum where I see really cool recipes, pics or ideas. If I don't write it down, it's almost impossible to remember where on here I saw them.