Superbowl Parties on a Budget

We are all struggling right now due to the bad economy, everyone we know has been affected in one way or another. We decided to put together some great tips, recipes and ideas to host a great Superbowl Party on a Budget, so even in these tough times we can all still get together with friends and family for a great American tradition.



Superbowl Potluck Templates

An evite or email is a cost effective way to send out an invitation, just look for one with a football theme

Decorate with flags and other signs of your favorite football team

Use plastic footballs as bowls for chips and dips

Put out a large tray with chicken wings and pigs in a blanket

Order a few pizzas and a salad

If you have kids at the party, give away sports bottles as favors for them.

Fill with different sport items, don't bother going crazy but some sportfruit snacks or something along those lines.

Get some black face paint and tell the kids there will be a face painting. Of course all you will be doing is adding the black football lines under theeyes but the kids think it is a huge hit.

Use your Jersery's as chair covers, and it doesn't matterif they are a winning team or not.

If you want balloons, pick your favorite teams colors and just make a fewgroupings of them in the room..groups of 5 tied to a football or a helmet inthe corner is always a nice touch.

Make little ham and cheese sandwiches shaped like footballs and a punch bowl and name it Touchdown.

Check out Entertaining Escapades for great Superbowl Tips and Recipes Ideas.

For an Adults only party group together with other families and hire 1 sitter rather than having each family hire a separate sitter - http://babysitters4hire.com/

MyPunchbowl.com is a critically acclaimed event planning website that has helped hosts throw amazing Super Bowl parties since we launched in January 2007. Anyone can sign up for free.

Check out Celebrations' Super Bowl parties page, on which you'll find an article titled "Cheap Super Bowl Party"



We had so many great recipes that we wanted to share with you they need their own page! Click here to see some great Superbowl Recipe Ideas.

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It's SOOO Cold Outside

Having a really hard time tonight. It is SOOO cold outside all I want to do is curl up under a blanket and sleep. Hubby is already in bed (he get's up for work at 3:30am), my Baby Girl is sleeping and I wish I could curl up in her crib next to her. She has a really bad cold and I feel so bad, I wish there was really a magical Mommy kiss that could make it all better.

For the last hour I have been trying to work my way through the hundreds of emails for our Valentines Event. We have loads of great sponsors already and are gearing up ready for a big event filled with some fabulous gift ideas and even better - so many giveaways! This will be the biggest giveaway event we have had so be sure to join us - the Party starts Feb 1st. Pick up our Party Button from our sidebar and invite all your friends!

Now I'm going to curl under that blanket - hope everyone stays warm tonight.

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We're Back!

Well, you will see that things have been quiet here since Christmas. We took a few days off during the Holidays and then our DSL was disconnected in error by AT&T. Let me tell you it has been very difficult having no Internet access for over a week, I guess we don't realize how much we rely on it until it is gone. We are now back up and running so you will see lots of things coming in the next few days.

We would like to say a big Congratulations to Shanda and Rusty at Parents with Style. They are expecting a new Baby in August. CONGRATULATIONS! We hope the sickness stage will be over soon!