| Article: | Dear Bill Pricey birthday parties astound “I, TOO, was shocked by your column last Sunday on the thousand-dollar kid birthday parties. I’m not an old geezer,” says Marianne Chambers, Bettendorf, “but when I was a kid, all we did was play Pin the Tail on the Donkey at a party. My mom baked a cake, we had Kool-Aid, and the whole works probably cost about $25, if that.” |