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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]We always do it at home.  I'd say that when considering all food, crafts, goodie bags, games . . . about $300-400.[/b]
It's mostly unstructured "go play" parties.  But, all the little things add up very quickly.

We also have a very large neighborhood of kids (most of which are in her grade).  We cannot invite a portion of those kids and not all of them.  Just is not going to happen (for many reasons not important to some of you but very important for us). [/quote]

This is us too.  We always have parties at home and for under 15 kids but it still costs $300.  
Those of you who are doing it for $100, what are you eating and doing???

By the time you get 4 pizzas ($75), make a large fruit salad (easily $20-25), buy utensils ($10 if you go on the very cheap side and much more if you don't), cake ($10-20 just for ingredients unless you're using a straight box mix and then it's still $10), drinks ($10-20 just for non-alcoholic kids drinks) you're already at close to $150. 
Then add in crafts and it can get very expensive, very quickly.  When we did a party of 3 different crafts for my daughter's 6th birthday (with 15 girls) I spent close to $100 at Michael's and Joanne's just to buy the supplies for 3 or 4 crafts for 15 kids.  
Then decent goodie bags (even from Oriental trading where each item is $1 or less) run about $5/kid.  What are you giving out that costs $2 or $2.50 per kid?  I'm genuinely curious.   I'm not extravagant AT ALL and I can't seem to make it cost less.

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