Enter daily through March 31, 2010 for a chance to win Restaurant.com’s Ultimate Dining Experience Sweepstakes which includes:

• Roundtrip airfare for two to Las Vegas, NV
• 2 nights’ stay at Mandalay Bay Resort
• Private dining experience
• $1,000 Restaurant.com gift card
• $1,000 spending money

When you’re entering don’t forget to play their Scratch & Win game for a chance to instantly win a $10 Restaurant.com gift certificate.

Restaurant.com is also offering 80% off gift certificates through 3/16/10. A great birthday gift idea if you’re having troubles thinking of one.

Save 80% Off Restaurant.com $25 Gift Cert. orders. Use code BITE and Pay $2 thru 3/16/10.

Good luck with the sweepstakes!

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Don’t we all love surprises? Wouldn’t it be great if you could enter to win a birthday flower arrangement for someone special to you? Well, here’s your chance! Today, 1-800-Flowers launched their Birthday Shoutout Sweepstakes which is only open for a few hours! Those entered must have a birthday that falls between January 25th and February 25th and have a chance to win 1-800-Flowers’ adorable Cupcake in Bloom arrangement valued at $24.99.

Be quick about entering though! This sweepstakes closes at 5:00pm (EST) TODAY!

The Birthday Shoutout Sweepstakes is open to people at least 18 years old that reside in United States with entries only being accepted through 1-800-Flowers FaceBook Fan page -  http://bit.ly/winflowers

Good luck!

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That’s right…you read right! Parents can book a FREE birthday party for up to 8 people at Golfland’s Sunsplash in Mesa for a limited time. When it comes to birthday freebies, this one is quite a whopper! Just look at everything they are including for kids’ birthday party:

• FREE Party Server
• FREE Birthday Invitations
• FREE Standard Party Supplies
• FREE Birthday Announcement
• FREE 45 Minutes of reserved table time
• FREE Free Video Games in birthday arcade
• FREE Miniature Golf
• FREE Pitchers soft drinks
• FREE Goodie Bags
• 10% OFF additional food purchases
• Discounted prices for all Golfland Attractions

Additional details:

• Parties available Monday through Thursday from 3pm-7:30pm.
• Additional guests are $10 each.
• Reservation required and $25 deposit required. Deposit refunded at time of check in.
• Limited spaces available, please call for more information.

In addition to their fabulous free birthday party, Sunsplash Mesa will also be transforming into a Winter Wonderland on Saturday, December 5th with 8 tons of real snow, lights and a visit from Santa! Visit their Santa Calendar for all the details.

Thanks to Arizona Republic Deals for sharing this awesome freebie.  They are on Twitter as well: twitter.com/azcdeals

To find local businesses offering birthday discounts & freebies for adults, kids and pets, visit: Free Birthday Treats.

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As the weeks wind toward Halloween, perhaps your family would like to make its own spooky house this holiday season. This spooky house could beckon the trick or treaters to take a tour before they receive their treats (or tricks?) or to spook up some holiday fun the weekend before the big night in the neighborhood. Whatever your motivation, here are a few tips to bring the haunts alive:

• Decide on the space you want to use. This could be your yard, your home or just one area of your house, like the basement.
• Plan your entrance and exit and think through what types of spooks and scares you want to include in your plan.
• Get help — to not only transform the Haunted House, but to participate in spooking it as well.
• Don’t forget to add eerie lighting, scary sounds, and darkness. Throw dark sheets or black garbage bags over the windows so no light will be able to get through.
• Replace your outside bulbs with orange bulbs. Also, you could have a black light bulb for your porch light if you have some glow-in-the-dark decorations hung close-by.
• If you have some leftover Tiki torches from your summer parties, use those to light the path to the front door of your haunted house.
• Alternatively, string clear or orange Christmas lights, or if you are going for cuter, rather scary, try these fun spider lights.
• Hang spider web netting all throughout that your guests will get entangled in!
• Hang a “dead guy” in the front entrance: stuff a pair of jeans and a shirt with newspaper, and use an old bleach container cut out into a face.
• Top with an old hat.
• Decorate your doors to look like coffins, using butcher paper and paint
• Using large appliance boxes, you can make coffins, fake walls, crypt chambers, etc.
• Set up a spooky dinner table, have a silver tray with a Jell-O brain mold atop, finger food or a severed hand or head. Set a Monster dummy or a real person at the table about to eat the feast. Creepy!
• Hang wet yarn from the ceiling for your guests to walk through.
• Have bloody hands lying around.  As a DYI, fill surgical gloves with sand and tie them off with a rubber band. Add the effect of blood with red paint on the fingers. Creepy!
• Spritz cold water on the guests as they enter the Haunted House.
• Use dry ice to make a boiling cauldron or for a foggy effect, but be very careful to not let the dry ice touch anyone! A better option would be a fog machine … it is a bit pricey, but you may be able to rent it out to others throughout the year!

Some helpful tips:

• Small children may be afraid or may not be able to handle going through the scary house. You can always alert your actors to be “gentle” and take off their masks and hand out treats to make the spooky house a friendlier one. You can also set an age limit for entrance. Although it will be dark, make sure you have enough light for people to see their way through. Again, clear Christmas lights placed strategically will work well if you are on a budget.
• Don’t let the dry ice touch anyone! It can cause serious injury! Do not use candles or other flames — too much of a safety hazard. Try battery operated candles or glow sticks instead.
• Make sure that the actors don’t touch anyone as they make their way through the haunted house … just play their acting role, i.e. looking creepy, playing dead, etc.
• Make sure your space has adequate ventilation.
• Make sure you have enough help!

Happy Haunting!

By Lisa Kothari, Peppers and Pollywogs

Amazing things can happen through Twitter and this is one of them. It all started with a simple tweet from Lisa Kothari, founder of Peppers and Pollywogs, asking if I’d be interested in a feature on her website. Never one to turn down free publicity, I responded back with an affirmative. The phone interview was amazing! Lisa and I hit it off right away and discussed how we could help each other.

With that goal in mind, I am very excited to announce that Lisa will be a weekly contributor to FreeBirthdayTreatsBlog.com! Lisa brings with her an impressive history of party planning and passion for helping others as evidenced by her bio:

Lisa Kothari, party planning expert and author, has a passion for planning creative and entertaining parties! As Founder and President of Peppers and Pollywogs, a kids’ party planning company, Lisa provides parents with ideas, entertainers, and interesting web-based tools to make children’s party planning fun and easy!

Drawing from all of her gained knowledge and her brilliant imagination, Lisa has organized her excellent tips and original ideas about throwing a wonderful celebration for any occasion onto her website and in her book: Dear Peppers and Pollywogs…What Parents Want to Know About Planning Their Kids’ Parties. Her main party planning belief is that no matter the budget or amount of time a parent has, an incredible party can always be thrown, keeping children cheerful and parents stress-free during their wonderfully planned celebrations! Her passion is helping parents achieve this with minimal time and effort.

Please help me in giving Lisa a warm welcome to FreeBirthdayTreatsBlog.com. I am sure that like me, you’ll be excited to read her weekly posts!

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As I child I remember running all over our neighborhood, even in the wooded areas at the end of the street. We just had to check in at certain times so our parents knew all was ok. Nowadays, I sit outside with my kids to make sure all is ok. We’ve tried to instill in our kids how to keep safe and yet still be independent.

Life is not what it used to be many years ago and we, as parents, have every reason to be concerned, but there are some things that we can do to help protect our children and keep them safe.

There is a new service being offered by InstantAmber. God forbid your child should ever be abducted, InstantAmber can deliver critical data and photos to law enforcement which can greatly increase the odds of successfully recovering your missing child!

Here is a detailed video on how it all works:

The cost for this service is $29.95 per year for each child and right now they are offering a 30 day Free Trail. For more information or to sign up visit:

I did it! I’m finally putting up my first post on my new blog! I naively thought that it would be cinch to put up a blog, but I should have known that I tend to complicate all matters and this project wouldn’t go by unscathed! Needless to say, I finally got it done and I couldn’t be happier! I decided to create a blog because I wanted to provide more and it couldn’t all be accomplished through my website.

In January of this year, I launched Free Birthday Treats, which is a free and easy to use resource to search for local free and discounted birthday treats for all ages, including pets. Browse through over 2,000 treats nationwide and sign up directly with the businesses which usually give a sign up freebie as well as other offers throughout the year. Just be sure to set up an email account for your treats otherwise you’ll have an overflowing mailbox.

I was recently asked in a TV interview, is there disbelief and is this just too good to be true when I chat with others about Free Birthday Treats.com? The answer is YES!!!! Most people associate a free birthday treat as a free dessert, but did you know about the free birthday dinners or the free skiing at Arizona’s Snowbowl? Not looking forward to washing your car? Get a free birthday car wash or how about a free birthday pet toy for your pet dog or cat?

Tough times are upon us and every penny saved is a victory. With soaring gas prices and food costs shooting out the window, celebrating birthdays has understandably taken the back burner in our lives. This gets especially tough when kids are involved. They don’t understand why they are not doing as much as last year. Granted, I’ve spent way too much in past years on my kids’ birthdays so I wouldn’t say cutting back isn’t unwarranted, but not celebrating at all…that’s hard.

Whatever your budget might be, why pay full price with all these free and discounted offers just waiting to be grabbed up? So what are you waiting for? Start signing up for these offers and let your email box fill with savings!