We ALL know that life gets so busy. I heard this quote today: "If it's important to you, it will happen. If not, you'll come up with an excuse."
I thought about how many "important" things I make up excuses for {yes, FAR too many}. One of those things, sadly, is having a weekly date night with my husband. I realized while compiling this list that my excuses really are inexcusable and I'm going to do better!!! There are many things that cost NO money and still make an awesome date night!! See for yourself...
{Use this list to generate ideas, or even as a list of all the dates you're going to go on in the next 2 years. Yes, some ideas sound totally stupid, but seriously, you'll have fun doing them!!!}
At Home Free Dates:
1. Candle light dinner in your house after the kids are in bed
2. Breakfast in bed
3. Watch the sunrise and make breakfast
4. Watch a movie in your back yard on your laptop or tablet (a mock drive in)
5. Make up a puppet show for your kids (or your nieces and nephews)
6. Play a midnight "one on one" football game
7. Rent an old movie or musical
8. Make a decadent dessert-- or any dessert together after the kids are in bed
9. Talk back and forth using the dictionary to find big words
10. Dictionary game- if you don't know a word then fake it, try to call the other person's bluff
11. Sky gaze- watch the stars or the clouds
12. Wash each others cars (then turn the hose on him)
13. Watch General Conference online together
14. Make a video for your posterity and post it on youtube (advice, funny, serious, whatever)
15. Learn to decorate cakes together
16. Play frisbee or frisbee football
17. Make old time taffy
18. Water balloon fight- or ambush someone (such as your kids with them)
19. Have a bubble gum blowing contest
20. Play poker with candy (or clothes--married people only :))
21. Listen to the other person's favorite songs. Add songs to ipods
22. Watch the other person's favorite movie
23. Plan a trip (even if you don't get to go for a few years- start dreaming and planning)
24. Put a puzzle together and talk
25. Play card or board games after the kids are in bed.
At Home Dates that may Cost a little or even a lot- it all depends:
26. Design and build a tree house or play house for your kids or future kids (will take several dates)
27. Paint a wall or reclaim an old chair, dresser, etc.
28. Make an art or craft project together (it may surprise you how fun this can be)
29. Put together model cars
30. Renovate or decorate a room in your house over a series of dates
Free or Cheap "Go Out" Dates
31. Rent or borrow a bicycle built for 2 and go for a ride
32. Hike to the top of a mountain top and leave a flag, revisit the spot later and see if the flag's still there
33. Each of you take a camera, go to a beautiful spot, take and compare pictures of nature
34. Bird watch
35. Climb trees
36. Go for a walk in a rain
37.Go for a walk and talk: Each of you make a list of 20 questions to ask each other
38. Go wading in a creek
39. Go fishing
40. Take a bus tour around your city and discover something you didn't know
41. Visit a rest home together- visit someone who is lonely
42. Pick wildflowers, then dry & press them. Then make book marks or cards
43. Go for a hike and picnic
44. Visit your city landmarks
45. Tubing- ride inner tubes down the river or snow
46. Go iceblocking
47. Taste test at local bakeries
48. Visit a planetarium or atrium
49. Take a walk through the canyon
50. Motorcycle ride
51. Bike ride
52. Play tennis
53. Frog or toad hunting
54. Visit a local lake or nature preserve
55. Explore a cave
56. Learn to shoot at a shooting range
57. Museums (there are probably several in your community)
58. Roller skating
59. Art Gallery
60. Visit your state capital building
61. Walk around a grave yard at dusk
62. Visit a genealogy library and look up your ancestors
63. Tour a farm or dairy
64. Visit a church or temple of another religion
65. Visit a church or temple or religious ceremony of your own religion
66. Swim
67. Hot tub
68. Go on a hayride
69. Tour a local mine
70. Visit a fish hatchery
71. Play pool
72. Act like tourists in your own city (discover something)
73. Window shop at both of your favorite stores
74. Hike to a waterfall
75. Go thrifting or antique hunting
76. Go people watching
77. Go to the next town and find something you didn't know existed (monument, store, restaurant, etc.)
"Go out Dates" that may Cost
78. Go to the Theater or play
79. Find a local train ride and go
80. Have dinner in the back of a pick up truck at a drive-in movie
81. Train for and run a 5K or "mud run" together
82. Play golf
83. Water ski or snow ski
84. Go to a local melodrama
85. Go for a canoe ride
86. Go kayaking for a evening
87. 4 wheeling (at the sand dunes if possible)
88. Horseback riding
89. Snowmobiling
90. Try a local ma and pop restaurant
91. A tram ride at local ski resort
92. Parade of Homes
93. Snorkeling or scuba diving
94. River run
95. Symphony
96. Taste test and find the best hamburger, pizza, taco, or ice cream in your community
97. Go Christmas shopping (at ANY time of year)
98. Take the other person on a surprise date-- have babysitting all arranged
99. Learn to fly an airplane together
100. Shop at both of your favorite store and get something you WANT (not need)
XOXOXO,
Nancy
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