With valentine's day around the corner, I've been looking for fun gift ideas... as I'm sure ya'll have been doing! One of the things we've been meaning to incorporate is to go on regular date nights. Unfortunately, we don't have mucho $$ so cheap dates are the way to go... although when it comes time to plan, we seem to draw a blank. So I had this idea to put all of our ideas into a jar and when it comes time to plan our date, draw out the idea and we'll be good to go! After tons of looking through blogs and finding a bunch of lists that consist of "20" or "50" cheap date ideas, I got on a roll making my own and before I knew it, I had over 100! Here's my list! Anything you'd like to add?
1. Snuggle up and watch the sunrise at the beach
2. Movie marathon! (choose a trilogy or sequel!)
3. Ice Cream Sundae Night!
4. Massages and a movie
5. Go on a picnic (indoor or outdoor)
6. Go sledding(winter) OR go to a park (summer)
7. Go on a “photography trail”: Each take a camera and find the beauty in the little things; see how different your perspectives are!
8. Play dress up in a costume or costumes!
9. Play "theme" scrabble - this one could be dangerous!
10. Go to the dollar theater and let HIM choose the movie
11. See a scary movie @ home in the dark
12. Go bowling OR go on a bike ride together
13. Go on a long walk around the neighborhood and discuss your dream house
14. Go on a progressive dinner (3 restaurants. 1 for appetizer, 1 for main course, 1 for dessert)
15. Prank another couple (or two): TP a car? silly string? other ideas?... Be ninjas together and have fun!
16. Go to the art gallery
17. Go for a hike/go to lazer tag
18. Play tennis (wii tennis if it’s too cold out)
19. Play raquet ball
20. Go swimming
21. Play strip poker
22. Go to the animal shelter and pet the animals
23. Go to an improv night
24. Go to karaoke... dare e/o to get up on stage!
25. Puzzle and wine night!
26. Puzzle and chocolate night!
27. Puzzle and maguaritas night!
28. Mancala and wine night!
29. Scrabble and Scotch night!
30. Draw eachother (can choose pose/outfit!)
31. Goodwill run… $5 each and choose e/o outfit a gift!
32. Pinterest Dream House night: Sit down and look through houses to plan your dream home...
33. Pretend you don’t know e/o and meet in a bar (I don't know if I have the guts for this one but it seems hysterical. At the very least, we'd have a good laugh).
34. Hit golf balls at a driving range
35. Youtube video night
36. Have a nerf war w/ each other
37. Go roller skating!
38. Take a bubble bath together
39. HER choice: Go someplace that means something to her.
40. HIS choice: Go someplace that means something to him.
41. Go sledding (winter) or go for a hike (summer)
42. Go to the farmers market
43. Go out for coffee and talk TOPIC: where we want to be in 5 years
44. Go out for coffee and talk TOPIC: where we want to be in 10 years
45. Go ice skating
46. Make desserts for each other
47. Go to the drive in theater
48. Design mugs for each other: Need sharpies and an oven... bake @350 for 45 min
49. Mini golf (summer) or Arcade (winter)
50. Go karting (summer) OR video game night (winter)
51. Play truth or dare
52. Build a kick butt sandcastle!
53. Coffee date TOPIC: Write out our bucket lists
54. Indoor rock climbing
55. Play pool @ chocolate & vines
56. Dinner @ fast food joint and get a movie from the library
57. Reading date: snuggle up and each read your own books… SNUGGLE!
58. Smooching date: get at least 10 pictures of ya'll kissing!
59. Take a tour through real-estate open houses
60. Take your dog the dog park and bring a flask of yummy stuff
61. Go to the zoo
62. Go to a cooking class
63. Last Name photography project: find things that look like the letters of your last name to make a sign
64. Make a NEW gourmet meal for eachother
65. Do a blind food tasting
66. Research how to give a foot massage and practice on each other
67. Go to the mall and try on outfits for each other – the other one pick!
68. Go to a ball game (summer) or hockey game (winter)
69. Make a birdhouse for the garden together
70. Go to a wine tasting
71. Pick out a bunch of music and have e/o listen to it and tell the other why it makes them think of it/them
72. Create a mattress on the floor by the fire and snuggle up and read
73. Bring out the blow up mattress for a movie date night
74. Get random magazines and cut out “dream pages”
75. Have a chocolate dipping party! Go to Wegmans and get a bunch of fun stuff to dip in chocolate fondu
76. Have a “Draw Something” competition night
77. Salad competition… who can make the best salad?
78. S’more night! (either over a fire outside or inside over the stove)
79. Get a gift basket together and bless a neighbor or friend while playing “ding dong ditch”
80. Bake a bunch of cookies and leave them on friends door steps playing ding dong ditch
81. Have a card making party (just the 2 of you) and put them in friend’s mailboxes
82. Make mixed tape or CD for the other to listen to in the car
83. Play trust games
84. Play “that’s what she said” all night for points… Pick a prize!
85. Go to the dollar theater and pick a movie you’d never see otherwise
86. Challenge e/o to putt putt (summer) or Tiger Woods golf (winter)
87. Go out for ice cream
88. Go to the pier and talk; draw pictures in the sand
89. Make stepping stones for our garden
90. Write notes for each other to keep in our Bibles
91. Go to all the places to re-enact dates/engagement
92. Go to a sentimental place that reminds HIM of his childhood
93. Go to a sentimental place that reminds HER of her childhood
94. Have an “all about HIM” night with all his favorite things: food, movie, etc…
95. Have an “all about HER” night with all of her favorite things: food, movie, etc…
96. Pick out favorite photos and get them printed and put somewhere in the house with fun captions on the back.
97. Walk around the mall and people watch
98. Print out iron-ons for e/o to make t shirts... Print on wax paper and it's a cheap iron on project!
99. Make or get a gift for your little one and figure out a fun way to give it to him/her/them…
100. Make a meal and give points for “presentation”... Have a competition!