Ladies Night Idea – Clothing Swap Party & Potluck Dinner!

I  am so excited about this idea, I saw it on TV and am actually putting it to use soon. I invited a group of my favourite girlfriends and asked them to bring a friend. Everyone cleans out their closets and brings anything they no longer wear. This gives the group the opportunity to pick through the clothes to find some new pieces for their own wardrobes. The leftovers we are going to donate to a local charity. How great of an idea is that?!!?! Gives everyone an excuse to clean out their closets, have the opportunity to add new items to their own wardrobe for FREE and benefits a local charity. I LOVE this idea and I am so glad that everyone was excited to participate. So far, we are up to nine people with the possibility of five more. I have encouraged everyone to bring as much as they have (I currently have three garbage bags full saved up!) I am even more excited about this idea as I have recently lost some weight and need to go down a size or two in my clothes and I can’t afford a new wardrobe right now so I hope there is a lot to choose from!

On the TV show I saw, they made the effort to make the room look like a cute little boutique. My sister is coming over before hand to help me out so we can get our clothes out a head of time to encourage people when they come in to do the same, this way we aren’t digging in garbage bags, it gives us the feel of a shopping for real in a store.

I was initially just going to make a few fun inexpensive desserts for the ladies to indulge in, however, one of my friends suggested we make it into a Pot Luck dinner as well which is a great idea! Less work and cost for me! I LOVE LOVE LOVE potlucks, you always get a chance to try new yummy ideas! We are doing the dinner at 6pm and then the “Swap” at 7pm incase people can’t make it for the dinner.

I am so excited for this. I am borrowing an extra full-length mirror from my sister so we can have two for people to try things on in front of. I am hoping to use just my downstairs bathroom as a change room, may have to open up the upstairs bathroom as a second one (I was hoping to keep everyone downstairs so I didn’t have to clean as much before hand … insert sheepish face)

So excited!!!