Plan Your New Years Eve Party
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Play Games!
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Download "New Year Playing Cards" on your phones
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Print or write cards with fill-in-the-blanks for New Years Eve resolutions
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Have everyone write hopeful resolutions for someone else in the group, and throw the them in a hat. Everyone then picks out a resolution and reads their New Years fortune aloud.
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Snaks
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Finger foods, like bruschetta, crostinis, chips & dips (guacamole, salsa, cheese or bean), nuts, mini sandwiches, etc.
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Drinks
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Bubbly, wines, tea, hot cocoa, house-made punch, and any hard liquor preferences + mixers
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Dessert
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Dessert bites, like chocolate bar fondu with savory & sweet dips, pound cake, lemon squares, pecan pie squares, chocolate truffles, etc.
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Party Favors
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A classic gift of good fortune in the southern tradition is black-eyed peas.You can offer these inside a nicely wrapped plastic gift bag or box
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2-4 pack of Godiva chocolates
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Chinese fortune cookies
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Party horns and hats
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Confetti pops
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Background Music Playlist
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"Fly me to the moon" - Frank Sinatra
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"Golden years" - David Bowie
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"It had to be you" - Harry Connick Jr.
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"Mas que nada" - Sergio Mendes, featuring the Black Eyed Peas
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"Night time is the right time" - Ray Charles
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"Put your records on" - Corinne Bailey Rae
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"Rock steady" - Aretha Franklin
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"Save the last dance for me" - Michael Buble
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"The best is yet to come" - Tony Bennett
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"Twiggy twiggy" - Pizzicato 5