General Advice - My First Birthday Party?

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Okay, so I've never had a birthday party with friends before, it's always been with the family alone. I'm turning 18, so I admit never throwing a birthday party to be pretty sad.  :'( :'(

Today I made invitations and passed them out to a small group of friends whom I knew well enough to invite. I hope that one or more of them RSVP with pick up information or come on their own.

My question is, what do you do at a birthday party with friends? How do you entertain them? What if they get bored cause you have nothing to do!!!? What are things I CAN do to entertain them at my house with a modest budget??? I just don't want my friends to come to a snooze fest and complain that my party was boring. I mean, as lame as it is, I have no idea what to do with friends I have over.... :'( The major problem is that I'm shy and not very funny, so using myself to entertain is questionable at best.

[WingedZephyr]

Depends on what your interests are.

I'm very inexperienced with birthday parties as well, but wanted to have one this year. I invited my three closest friends, and we just hung out and played video games all day, and went out to eat for dinner. Was a good time, and didn't need to be that elaborate or anything.

Watching movies (at home or at a theater), playing board/card games, browsing YouTube or something together, going out for a walk, going shopping, going out to eat, sharing stories... There are several things you could do to pass the time and have fun.

Also, having snacks and drinks ready for everyone to munch on is good.

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Haha alright. I actually requested on the invitations that they bring things like  board games or video games/consoles if they wanted since I don't have much of my own. Of course I feel terrible cause the hostess is supposed to supply games, not say bring your own, but I have no money or time to get some myself.

Is a GameCube considered lame? I have plenty of controllers for my Cube, and Sonic and Mario Party and Melee but I don't want to look lame for bringing it out when they have fancy PS3s and stuff.

The fam is actually throwing me a barbeque, so food will be provided all day and they are free to dig into the icebox. 

[Self-sain]

Dance parties, always fun, as long as your music selection doesn't suck >w<. As Zeph said, movies and games, for games I would say something like ddr becuase people can still have fun, just watching, unlike with others. Monopoly, you'll have hours of entertainment, until the 2am crash were everyone is like "is it over yet <"

And smash is hours of fun to

[x]

I WISH I had DDR.  ._. .....But yeah, I remember parties at their place with board games that were fun just because we were doing them together. I remember insane Truth or Dare sessions, walking to the school dance, walking for the heck of it, Apples to Apples. Actually now I think of it, anything is fun with friends, so long as they don't expect me to do the talking!

And YESH Smash is the bomb.

[WingedZephyr]

Gamecube is great, especially if you have those kind of multiplayer games. I actually played Melee at my party too, and it was loads of fun.

[Zaspher]

Well it depends what type of friends do you have? Try doing something your not really allowed to do but not something too extreme. Things like prank calls, ding dong ditching and stuff like that usually gets the fun going for me. At home I play some loud music and play something like Twister, Truth or Dare, Spin the bottle party stuff like that. Try getting some soda and some food that you like.

Me I've never really had a birthday party. But I have hosted posted parties before. You don't have to do things your not supposed to just don't be afraid to stretch a few limits a bit.

    My Idea of a perfect party is taking me and my friends down to the moshpit down the street. But I'm guessing your not like that

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I live on a dirt road out in the boondocks. Taking people places no worky and the lake is too cold for swimming. But yeah we tend to 'push the limits' when playing games....I remember getting a cold sore from a guy cause I was dared to kiss him in TorD. But it was also lame cause I was the only one who went for the dares everyone else little chicken and always go 'I'm not doing that'

[Zaspher]

Yeah my friends here are the best. One time they dared me to put a hot Iron on my well... backside. I still have the mark. I can tell you a lot about them but that would be getting off topic.
            Ever thought of manhunt or a scavengar hunt. That seems to work. Maybe a campfire with smores and little weiners.

[HyperKat]

With my friends..as long as we have food drink...sometimes something to watch on TV we pretty much entertain ourselves...

Our current fave has to be I Have Never which can be played with soft drinks...if you haven't heard of it then look it up cuz it's pretty fun...it's like TorD without the dares I guess x3

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We like to play something similar, 'never have I ever,' but it's a bit different than TorD.