This is not a long list, at all. My guess is that you have something fun to do together that you could add to this list.
- Take a walk
- Ride bikes
- Visit some historical places
- Have coffee in a coffee shop and talk
- Go to a museum. There are some great free ones around
- Take a small boat onto a peaceful lake
- Make a picnic basket and go to a park or somewhere with a view and sit in your vehicle
- Go to a free home improvement show and dream
- Put the kids to bed, make popcorn and play board games
- Meet your spouse for lunch and take a walk together while eating a sack lunch
- Go sledding
- Go for a drive. Fall is a particularly beautiful time of year for this.
- Put the kids to bed and have a picnic in the living room, complete with blanket
- Go bowling
- People watch somewhere busy. Doesn’t have to be the mall. It could be at the hospital!
- Do your grocery shopping together
- Play miniature golf
- Go shopping at the dollar store
- Go to a local event that is free, such as music in the park during the summer
- Park somewhere with a view or at the airport (to watch the planes come in and go out) and talk
- Go to a friend’s or relative’s concert or performance. Rate them using the star system.
- Give your own concert for friends or family.
- Check out your favorite childhood books from the library and read them to each other.
- Go hiking
- Sit on the beach
- Pick up a $5 pizza and go park somewhere to talk
- Have a bonfire. Make sure the local laws allow.
- Pick up a box of specialty ice cream and two spoons
- Visit a book store (some have coffee shops and dessert items)
- Go to the Saturday market or a flea market
- Bake something together then eat it
- Go to a local high school game
- Play in the snow
- Check out the rehearsal of a local play, as they are free to the public
- Visit a friend in the hospital. Bring them something special
- Write out your Christmas card list
- Plan your child(ren)’s next Birthday party
- Sit outside and view the stars with, or without, a telescope
- Give each other a back rub
- Go caroling (more fun with a group)
- Play mini golf
- Visit thrift stores
- Visit the library
- Go roller skating
- Dress up to the nines and go for dinner at McDonald’s
- Visit a home improvement store and dream
Have some more to add? Leave me a message.
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Christian Moms
Hi,
I saw your comment over at TLH and thought I would stop by and check out your date ideas. They are great and inexpensive ideas…thank you for sharing! We have also saved up our quarters and gone out to a local arcade or a similar place and used quarters to pay for everything. It was fun and I did it as a surprise for dh, who loved the idea. I think I found the idea in a little book by the Rainey family from Family Life Today.
Blessings,
Tammy
Ruth,
I just found your site somehow through Money Saving mom and I wanted to say THANK YOU for this blog. I’m learning many things, and find you informative, enlightening, and warm. Almost like a mother or grandmother passing wisdom. Please keep this up, I love it…. write a book even!
Love your ideas!! You have mini golf and miniature golf both. For my birthday this year we bought a bag of balls at driving range-very affordable.
-Go to an antique car show-usually free admission.
-Bring take out Chinese home, send the kids to bed early w/ books and flashlights and have a romantic dinner w/ candles, homemade dessert, etc