East Valley Tribune:
Home sales parties have grown since the introduction of Tupperware in 1938 and the Tupperware party 10 years later. There are home parties for cooks, collectors and jewelry lovers, to name a few. Women who didn’t want a full-time job found they could be entrepreneurial. But some partygoers were put off by the feeling that they had to buy something so their hostess would be rewarded.
But the home parties and the sales consultants have evolved. The goal is to make the parties more of a “girl’s night out, sales will follow.”
Sazdanoff’s Let’s Do Tea party was organized by home sales consultant Debbie Patterson of Scottsdale, who makes her living selling tea. Patterson likes to focus more on the tea and the founding principles of the Denton, Texas-based Let’s Do Tea company — health and hospitality.
