New Year's Eve Headbands To Buy At Bargain Prices, Stock Up Or Save post 458

 

New Year's Eve headwear. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

 One of the questions in the impromptu speaking session at a Toastmasters club in London was, if you could spend New Year's Eve anywhere in the world, where would you go?

I started thinking about past New Year's Eve celebrations I had attended. What were my favourites? 

I have fond memories of New Year's Eve at The Tanglin Club in Singapore. I remember it because I still have a New Year's Eve headband. It can be saved from year to year.

Santa Hats

At Christmas, on one side of the tree was a large carved wooden armchair for Father Christmas who would arrive in his read and white costume, later to sit and stand alongside excited children and their parents for photographs. Wandering entertainers included a stilt man.

Every child received a tote bag, toddler size or adult sizes.. At Christmas it was a red Santa Claus hat. At New Year's eve it contained handband or plastic or cardboard spectacles. 

If you were lucky, and keen, you might spot an abandoned bag at the end of the evening. Or an abandoned hat. Some people might have left a bag behind by accident. More likely, they did not like the contents or had no further use for it.

I worried whether abandoned items, being cleared up by staff, were their perks. I asked which items were kept, or returned to the supplier, and which would be merely thrown away.

When I learned that some of the items were merely being thrown away, I was keen to collect them, saving the memory, using them again, saving filling up landfill.

Headgear To Try

A free photo booth had a table of hats, masks and funny spectacles to wear for a photo against a choice of three backdrops, and three sides of an indoor awning, it's back wall, right wall, or left. 

Now the Tanglin club is taking bookings for Chinese New Year. starting January 19th 2025.

Buying Bargains

If you keep a stock of items such as table decorations and hats and headgeat to wear for Christmas and New Year's Eve, now is the time to pick up bargains from supermarkets and corner shops and online clothing and party shops. Headbands with the date help you date photos of the participants. However, ones that simply say Happy New Year can be saved for the next year. 

Useful Websites

Private Clubs - eg The Tanglin Club

https://www.tanglinclub.org/events/calendar-of-events.

New Year Headbands eg Partyrama

https://www.partyrama.co.uk/happy-new-year-assorted-headbands-pack-of-4/

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