Hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Cheddar
News. I'm Baker Machado and I'm and for time
now for stretching your dollar. Yeah. Guess what
? Shan it is? Graduation season and for families
who want to celebrate their new graduates. Don't worry
, we've got you covered on how you can throw
a party without breaking the bank. Take a look
at this. Congratulations graduates. You did it and
now it's time to party. So for some inexpensive
ways to do that with a lot of sparkle,
we needed some help. Lindsey Pierce. Thank you
. This is gorgeous. Thank you for having me
. I love crafting with you, Janice. Look
at this such a party moment. We love a
big wow decor moment. This step and repeat is
literally poster board and tissue paper, black squares and
then cut up gold ribbon left over from holiday ribbons
and look you have a photo step and repeat moment
posing with your grad. These are my favorite.
They're floating balloons with polaroid pictures of the grads on
the end. All you do is have your grad
snap some pictures of their friends pre party. They
love a Polaroid and then tape some magnets on the
bottom, poke a hole and they kind of float
around the room. It's so easy to do and
have fun. Right? All right. You did
this a very sweet ending. So, first of
all, this is a hack. There are so
many graphic design apps that are free. You can
download. All you have to do is type in
what you wanna say and it looks like a professional
party page planner did it and go Yes. Our
sweet ending. Look, it's liter literally just squares
of chocolate and a peanut butter or a marshmallow cup
. You put it on the cupcake. Use a
little frosting as your glue frosting in between. And
then I added, I cut up Twizzlers and added
them with frosting as a tassel. So cute.
Looks like you ordered them from an expensive bakery,
right? Worm. Oh Yeah, I love that
. That's so cute. These little worm. Everyone
loves a candy bar. You can do this so
inexpensively. I love the smart cookies. Financially 100
grand. Everyone will love the look of it and
it's a fun party favor. Right? Totally fun
. Now this so all you do is you take
tissue paper, fold it in half and put some
tape around, make it like a tassel. Then
have everybody line up, put a glue dot on
the back of that, put a bandanna around and
try and pin that tassel on that adorable grad,
right? How cute is that? I love it
. Thank you. Yeah. And to keep the
cost down even further, why not go in with
friends and family and do a joint party and share
all the expenses? Well, congratulations Graz, you
did it. I'm Janice Lieberman. And that's the
real deal. Right. Our thanks to our consumer
reporter, Janice Lieberman for that report. By the
way, I would never let my mother fly with
a party like that. I mean, because I
was like, I was so like, I know
because all my friends were having really cool parties.
I was like, mom, we have to like
, have a cool one. How did, how
did you, your graduation? I know it was
back when the Flintstones were on a long time ago
. We didn't have cameras. I was able to
pick up a can't wait to see it. She
, she, she, she, we are college
graduates. This is college graduation. Oh my God
. Look at Shannon Lanier right over here. Shannon
you actually have not aged. You look exactly the
same. I, I'm doing our graduations. Oh
, my God. How old is this photo Ansary
? Is this weekend? Oh, my God.
Congratulations. Oh, my God. We love it
. Your wife too. Yes, indeed. Happy
anniversary. Right. So I have to show you
guys mine, I mean, mine is probably just
as old as yours. This is me right over
there. So I had really long hair and I
even had an eyebrow piercing back when I was in
high school. Um, my mother, like,
my mother lost her mind. Yeah, I zoom
in closer guys. I, you could probably still
see, like the scar that I still had for
that. Um, but yes, I was a
rebellious, very handsome, skinny teenager back in the
day, if you do say so. Well,
congratulations to the graduates. We got more chatter news
coming up next. Oh, yeah. Those were
the days Shannon.