I’ve been thinking lately of selling some product from home, preferably board games. But to do that I would need to host parties to sell items. Here’s one tip I found about hosting home parties that makes a cute way to give away door prizes and get your pens back.

First let me say that I love my pens. Some of my favorite pens are marketing pens, and I never want to part with them. If I bought pens and then passed them out to use at these parties, I would want them back. Buying new pens would be an expense that I just wouldn’t want!

So, what you do is tape a number to each pen. Then pass out the pens at the party. At the end of the party, have the hostess draw a number. The person who has the pen with that number wins a prize. Once all door prizes are given out, this makes for a window to collect the losing pens.

I’m not set on selling products but if I can get in on something for relatively cheap and sell it online, then I might give it a try.