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1. You'll need some really big outdoor gamess
2. A creative homemade beer bong.
3. Friends who drink.
4. You'll need an awesome 4th of July T-Shirt
5. A pool, so if you don't have a pool, make one.
6. A giant slip n slide.
7. A really awesome party grill.
8. Red white and blue EVERYTHING.
9. A lot of really happy people.
10. Lots of random cool places for people to park it.
11. One drunk guy dressed as Uncle Sam.
12. And I mean, just TONS of sparklers.
