Host a holiday party within your family’s budget

A well-known hotel trick is to place the salads and carbohydrates such as ugali, chapatis and potatoes at the beginning and the meats at the end of the buffet line.

By JOHN KARIUKI

This year’s Christmas will be celebrated mid this week and marking this day can be fairly expensive for many people who don’t have a plan. But planning does not mean that, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ book A Christmas Carol, you should avoid the festivity altogether and walk around with a defeatist expression.