81 Frugal Date Ideas!
This Sunday John and I are celebrating our 7th anniversary since our first date! I can not believe it has already been seven years. The past seven years have literally flown by in a blink of an eye. I was thinking back on what it was like when we first started dating compared to being married.
When we were dating we……
-Held hands walking through Target
-Sat next to each other at dinner instead of across the table
-I got butterflies in my stomach when I saw John’s name on my phone
Now that we are married…..
- We power through Target and divide and conguer our list
-We sit across from each other at dinner and normally have a to do list we are working on
- I now smile each time I see John’s name on the phone and feel a sense of contentment and love
I really want to focus on making sure we are not taking each other for granted this year and bring back the feeling of giddyness you get when you are dating. I decided to come up with a list of frugal date nights that we can enjoy through out the year. We started doing mystery dates a few months ago and they have been fantastic. I wanted to add to these dates and find ways that we can spend time together and not have it cost a ton of money.
81 Frugal Date Ideas
1. Movie night at home complete with popcorn and cuddling together
2. Tour a local park
4. Free museum days
5. Scavenger Hunt through town
6. Picnic
7. Wine Tasting
8. Relax at a coffee shop and listen to live music
9. Outdoor class (REI, Parks and Rec and other city parks offer them)
10. Cooking Class
11. Bird Watching
12. Visit a public pool
13. Use a Restaurant.com gift card to save.
14. Historic tour of the city
15. Breakfast in bed
16. Movie Marathon/TV Series Marathon
17. Dance party at home
18. Star gazing
19. Local farmers market
20. Bookstore, travel dream date
21. Visit a playground
22. Local comedy club
23. Poker night at home
24. Sledding
25. Poetry reading
26. Tour a local brewery
27. Fly a kite
28. BBQ in the snow
29. Visit a local festival
30. Bowling
31. Watch a sunset
32. $10 at the local arcade
33. Smores by a fire
34. Water gun fight
35. Karaoke Bar
36. Play tourist in your own town
37. Progressive fast food meal, appetizer at one restaurant, entree at another restaurant, dessert at another restaurant
38. Iron Chef Competition
39. Test drive a dream car
40. Outdoor concert at a park
41. Geocaching
42. Cheap dollar theater night
43. Yard sale treasure hunt
44. Coupon Date, everything you do must have a coupon for it
45. 80′s movie night
46. Spa night at home
47. Watch and entire TV series in your PJ’s
48. Cult movie night…Rocky Horror Picture Show
49. Frisbee
50. Driving Range
51. Find a movie filmed in your town and visit the sites from the movie
52. Dollar Store challenge. Each person gets $10 to pick out a specific portion of dinner.
So I planned on stopping at 52 frugal date ideas……but there are just way to many fun ideas so I had to throw in a few more
53. Board game night, challenge each other at your favorite games growing up
54. Go to a local high school football game
55. Go on a hike in a State Park (I highly suggest Riverside State Park -Spokane)
56. Play tennis
57. Visit the Drive In Theater
58. Visit the batting cages
59. Go roller skating
60. Grab a football and play keep away
61. Go camping in the back yard
62. Get a milkshake and fries at a local diner
63. Visit a shooting range
64. Daily Deals Date (everything you do must come from a daily deal site like Groupon, Amazon Local or Living Social)
65. First Friday Art walks
66. Horse and Carriage ride
67. Theme night
68. Snowball fight
69. Build a snowman
70. Ice skating
71. Play hide and seek
72. Make home made pizzas
73. Go on a bike ride
74. Play Laser Tag
75. Around the world dinner
76. Build a fort in the living room
77. Paper Airplane competition
78. Do Mad Libs together
79. Go on a mud run
80. Visit a corn maze
81. Take a dance class
What are your favorite frugal dates?
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Happy anniversary to you both. Wishing you many more years together.
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Thank you!!
Your ideas rock! I love, love, love the cooking class idea! SO doing it!
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We did a group date cooking class a few months ago with some friends and it was so much fun. We made an entire Italian meal from salad to dessert together.