Thrift Store theme-party games
Miko O'Sullivan
My wife is a Thrift Store and Yard Sale enthusiast. She also loves
parties that have a theme, so for her upcoming birthday party I chose
the theme "Thrift Stores and Yard Sales". Everyone is going to bring
her a gift from a TS/YS, we'll eat on wonderfully mismatched dishes, and
hopefully I can find an eight-track tape player for those great Andy
Gibb tapes.
I'm posting here hoping you all might have some ideas on party games.
I've been brainstorming for a week now and I just can't seem to come up
with any games that have a TS/YS theme. We're already planning on
playing a sort of "The Price is Right" with each of the presents, but
that's about all I can come up with.
- I keep looking at all those hundreds of coffee cups (and around here
the thrift stores are glutted with the tall fluted glasses a local
restaurant gives away) and thinking "there's gotta be a game in there
somewhere"
- There's gotta be a game involving heaps of old clothes. Unfortunately
the classic "clothes change race" has been nixed because most of the
women at the party will be wearing dresses. Still, what could be done
with fifteen oversized sport coats.
If anybody has any brainstorms I sure would appreciate it. Thanks!
:-)
-miko
Vandy Terre
On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 21:47:54 -0400, Miko O'Sullivan <mi...@idocs.com>
wrote:
>- I keep looking at all those hundreds of coffee cups (and around here
>the thrift stores are glutted with the tall fluted glasses a local
>restaurant gives away) and thinking "there's gotta be a game in there
>somewhere"
Will the base of one fit inside the bowl of another? If so, stack
them up and create a 'champaign fountain' by pouring into the top
glass until all glasses are full then serve. To cut expense and
alcohol difficulties use the champaign substitute of equal parts apple
juice and some clear carbonated soft drink. Lemon- lime works well,
but you may prefer the taste of ginger ale or club soda. If punch of
other than 'champaign color is preferred, try equal parts of
carbonated soft drink, fruit juice of choice. Grape juice and lemon-
lime is an old favorite, but spills create terrible stains.
>
>- There's gotta be a game involving heaps of old clothes. Unfortunately
>the classic "clothes change race" has been nixed because most of the
>women at the party will be wearing dresses. Still, what could be done
>with fifteen oversized sport coats.
Mix odd sets of clothing in various bags or old suitcases. For the
game, have contestants create stories of how these clothes came
together and who the owners are. Try for secret agent type stories,
romance or mystery, what ever is your wife's favorite type of
literature.
>
>If anybody has any brainstorms I sure would appreciate it. Thanks!
Collections of odd kitchen tools or work shop tools can be used in a
'liar's club' story telling spree. Even if the story tellers know
what the item is, they need to come up with the most outrageous use
and story for the item possible. That's not a vegetable peeler, its
an airlock door key for future Moon colonies. It has this odd shape
because storage space is hard to come by on the colony. Each key is
unique to it's lock and not replaceable if lost. If you loose your
keys in space, you are locked out forever and must return to Earth.
This key is here today because the former owner did not find it until
the return to Earth was made. It was then found in his back pocket of
his alternate space suit. Embarrassed by his stupidity, he snuck it
into a yard sale as a common vegetable peeler.
Any significantly advanced scam va...@avana.net
is indistinguishable
from religion. Georgia, USA
R. Ventura
> >- There's gotta be a game involving heaps of old clothes. Unfortunately
> >the classic "clothes change race" has been nixed because most of the
> >women at the party will be wearing dresses. Still, what could be done
> >with fifteen oversized sport coats.
How about making a life-size stuffed doll? Pantyhose stuffed for
legs and arms, a solid color something for the head. If you
want a woman the right size bra. Your guest can help stuff it,
dress it, make up the face, name it, etc. Include your doll
in the rest of your games - bet he/she gets picked first for
every team.
R. Ventura aa...@freenet.buffalo.edu http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~aa742
"Flaming youth has become a flaming question. And youth comes to us
wanting to know what we may propose to do about a society that
hurts so many of them." -- F.D.R., April 1936
Trish Connery
Miko O'Sullivan wrote:
>
> I'm posting here hoping you all might have some ideas on party games.
> I've been brainstorming for a week now and I just can't seem to come up
> with any games that have a TS/YS theme. We're already planning on
> playing a sort of "The Price is Right" with each of the presents, but
In my family we have about 6 birthdays in June alone (with various
aunts, uncles, 2nd cousins, etc.). It has become a tradition to have one
birthday party for everyone, and TS/YS theme is de riguere. You only
have to buy one present, but it must be the ugliest, most unusual, most
offensive eye-sore you can possibly find. There's even a contest: the
person who finds the winning present (and the person they are giving it
to) win. So far I've won 2 years in a row for the gifts I've found for
my father (I have a knack for this sort of thing <g>).
--
Trish Connery
Los Angeles (Hollywood), CA
mi...@idocs.com
In article <3416E0...@earthlink.net>,
conn...@earthlink.net wrote:
> In my family we have about 6 birthdays in June alone (with various
> aunts, uncles, 2nd cousins, etc.). It has become a tradition to have one
> birthday party for everyone, and TS/YS theme is de riguere. You only
> have to buy one present, but it must be the ugliest, most unusual, most
> offensive eye-sore you can possibly find. There's even a contest: the
> person who finds the winning present (and the person they are giving it
> to) win. So far I've won 2 years in a row for the gifts I've found for
> my father (I have a knack for this sort of thing <g>).
>
> --
> Trish Connery
> Los Angeles (Hollywood), CA
How COOL! But now you've got us curious: what were these wonderful
winning items you had the last two years? And in the contest, who gets
to (has to) keep the winning items?
And to digress a little, what are thrift stores in Hollywood like?
- B movie costumes, aisle 2
- stampeding cattle, aisle 3
- attitude, 5 cents a bag
-miko
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Amy Taylor
>On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 21:47:54 -0400, Miko O'Sullivan <mi...@idocs.com>
>wrote:
>>- I keep looking at all those hundreds of coffee cups (and around here
>>the thrift stores are glutted with the tall fluted glasses a local
>>restaurant gives away) and thinking "there's gotta be a game in there
>>somewhere"
I missed the original post so this may not be relevant, but how about
the carnival game where you put all the glasses (the bigger assortment
the better) on a table and throw ping pong balls in. Whatever glass
it lands in you win. There can be lots of space between the glasses
to make it harder. Usually there is one big steine (?big German mug)
in the middle and if you get a ball in that one you win a shot glass.
Amy