Planning & How-To

A Kids’ Pool Party on a Budget isn’t about cutting corners—it’s about cutting waste. The $800 party isn’t automatically better than the $120 one. In fact, it often delivers less…

Hosting twenty guests feels manageable. Hosting fifty? That’s a Large Pool Party — a whole different operation. Actually, in some ways, a large pool party comes with its own advantages….

The first pool party I hosted that went well was my fourth. The first three were fine — people came, we swam, there was food, and everyone went home without…

Most communication suffers from information overload, and a pool party flyer is no exception. More often than not, a pool party flier tries to be a graphic design portfolio piece,…

More often than not, pool party favors for kids are a collection of items, hastily assembled in the final twenty-four hours before the party, stuffed into a clear plastic bag,…

Here is the inconvenient truth about a pool party supplies list: they have a way of multiplying like confetti in the wind—fast, dazzling, and impossible to contain. You start with…

A kids’ pool party is one of the easiest parties to overcomplicate, but also one of the most forgiving parties to get right. Children do not arrive with a critical…

The above-ground pool gets a bad reputation it has not earned. Somewhere along the way, the above-ground pool became associated with a certain kind of backyard — the kind where…

A small backyard is not a reason to skip the pool party. It is a reason to plan it better. Actually, some of the most memorable pool parties happen in…

There is a version of an adult pool party that everyone has been to at least once. Warm beer in a red cup. Chips that have been sitting out since…