6 Awesome Date Party Themes

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Date parties were always the highlight of the school year when we were actively in our sorority. We miss those fun nights of meeting at the sorority house with our dates, taking a zillion photos, chanting on bus rides to the venue, and partying the night away. We have been seeing a lot of cool photos online that you have tagged us in highlighting some really awesome date party themes, so we figured why not share them with other sisters. Even if you're not a sorority girl, using the below themes for a party you're hosting with guys and girls will surely set a fun tone. Check out our faves below!

1. 1920s Flapper & Dapper
2. 80s-themed skating party
3. Disney Couples
4. Through the Decades
5. Cowboys & Cowgirls
6. Hollywood Glam

We want to add to this list! Share with us your favorite date party theme(s) below!

ASOS Cyber Monday Dresses Steal!

[1. ASOS Multi Chain Back Soft Midi Pencil Dress][2. ASOS Cross Back Maxi Dress In Green Floral Print][3. ASOS Red Carpet Panelled Long Sleeve Satin Maxi Dress][4. Missguided Sequin V-Neck Shift Dress]

When ASOS says that they're letting you take 30% off at checkout, you definitely start feeling blessed (that's the code to enter at checkout, hint hint!). It's time to shop for those Christmas and New Year's Eve dresses so during our shopping, we pulled some of our favorite dresses from the ASOS online rack. Shop our favorites above and don't miss out on this awesome Cyber Monday sale!

Happy {Cyber Monday} shopping!

TSS Favorite Things - November

1. MAC "Pigment"

2. Diptyque "Votive Candle Set"

3. Sole Society "Bucket Bag" 

4. Illesteva "Leonard" Sunglasses

5. JSlides "Dabble" Flats

6. Adidas "Stan Smith" Sneakers

7. Topshop "Posy" Pointy Toe Flats

8. Herbivore Botanicals "Coco Rose" Body Polish

9. Bow & Drape "You Had Me at Merlot" Sweatshirt

10. Converse Metallic Chuck Taylor

At the end of every month, we combine all of our favorite items of the month together just to share with our readers.  As most of you guys know, today is none other than Cyber Monday.  For all of you online shoppers, it's almost like our second birthday, right?!

Well we have a little bit of everything this month- some beauty products, shoes, bags, all of our favorite things.  Let's get shopping!

7 Cold-Fighting Foods

Tis the season for sniffles! With the holidays around the corner, don't get stuck in bed wishing you could have done things to prevent yourself from getting sick. Aside from getting your flu shot, exercising daily, and washing your hands often, there are also a lot of foods that you can consume to keep your body healthy and in check, helping to fight away an possible viruses. Load up your refrigerator with these foods that are worth it:

1. Garlic
2. Turmeric 
3. Chicken Soup (for the teenage soul. Haha, just kidding! We mean the real chicken soup. Get a crock pot and you can make some awesome, authentic chicken soup, adding garlic and turmeric of course!)
4. Wild Salmon (yum, yum, yum!)
5. Dark, Leafy Greens
6. Sweet Potatoes (bake these in your oven adding brown sugar and prepare to be in food heaven!)
7. Beef...believe it or not!

Stay well!

The Solution To Saving Money With Your Friends-- Qapital App!

If you haven't heard about the Qapital App yet, here ya go!  The Qapital App is the best solution to save money with your friends or partner without having to have a joint bank account! If there's a trip multiple people are wanting to go to and want to start saving for, just decide what your "goal" is and set how much you want it to automatically pull from your personal account and that's it.  Once you've hit your goal, all you have to do is transfer that money into your bank and you're ready to book your flight or whatever it is that you've been saving up for!  Pretty genius, right?

You all are probably thinking this is a paid sponsored post, but we promise it isn't!  We truly love it and have been using it and thought it would be a perfect Sorority Secret ;)

You can read more about the app or download it here!

Must-Read Books For the Fall/Winter Season

It's time to cozy up on your couch and dig your nose into some of our favorite books for the fall/winter season. Now, is the perfect time to get your hands on a Kindle or iPad to make reading a whole lot easier. With all of the holiday travel ahead, we are sure you will need to keep yourself preoccupied on those long flights so we have compiled a list of some of our favorites below. Share with us your favorite books to read this fall and winter season in the comment's section below!

1. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown - This book dives deep into weeding out things in life to focus on only things that are truly important.
2. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff- Fates and Furies is about a couple throughout the years, it's a riveting look at relationships and marriage. Half the book is told through the view point of the man and second half through the woman
3. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train is about a girl who imagines the life of this perfect couple on her daily commute to and from work through the windows of the train ride she's on but turns out the perfect couple isn't so perfect. Very suspenseful and has a "Gone Girl" feel to it.
4. The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy - Plainly put: this book outlines how decisions you make daily is shape your destiny.
5. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey - With over 10 million copies sold, this is a highly popular business-centered book that encompasses a balance between personal and professional effectiveness. Basically, is a manual on how to perform better in both areas of your life.
6. Year of Yes: How To Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes - You may recognize her name as the hit sensation behind the TV series' Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and How To Get Away With Murder. Now, Shonda has a book out that candidly shares her compelling and funny attempts to come out of her shell by saying "yes" to anything that scares her.

5 Things That Can Make Your Basic Outfit, Not-So-Basic

If you're more of a minimalist like us and like your basic tees and jeans we have five things we always wear to still stand out wearing a basic outfit!  It's pretty amazing what one thing can do to your entire outfit.  We believe in the term, "less is more", so we thinking keeping it simple is better, but you can always spruce things up!  Here is our list of items that can make your outfit stand out from the crowd!

1. Lipstick - it's pretty amazing what a simple lip color can do to your entire outfit.  Maybe match a black turtleneck and skinny jeans with a red lip?! So simple, but so cute!
2. Hats - hats can really make you stand out from the crowd.  If you're not really a hat person, just try it out for a day and we promise you're going to be getting tons of compliments left & right!
3. Your Hair-do - if you always wear your hair down, wear it in a cute ponytail or vise versa!  We love a basic outfit with a cute messy bun, pony tail, or even wear it in a braid.  The point of this is switch it up from your usual and it can really make a difference!
4. Shoes - yes, shoes are a girls favorite thing, but just by switching it up and wearing converses or even heels with a basic outfit it spruces things up!
5. Jewelry - now again, since you are wearing a simple outfit, you can go either way with your jewelry! You can keep it simple or you can wear something more detailed- that's the best part about wearing simple outfits!

What are some of your favorite ways to spruce up your basic outfits??