| Inexpensive
Dates with your Mate |
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Fun
and creative ideas for time alone as a couple.
| From:
KASIE113 |
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One
of my very favorite dates is one we just had recently! We took a
trip to the snow (about an hour drive). We packed a lunch of
homemade chili, string cheese, rolls and apples. We also brought
hot coco. We brought a portable grill to heat the chili on! When
we got to the picnic area there was 4 or 5 inches of snow on the
table. My hubby cleared off 1/2 the table so we would have room
for the grill and a place to eat. As the grill was heating we frolicked
in the snow. Snowball fights, building a snowman (LOL I think
this must take practice!! Not an easy thing to do!) Then we
warmed up by the grill ate our hot homemade chili and drank the
hot chocolate.
Picnicking
is by far our favorite thing no matter the weather! A sunset
dinner on the beach or a rainy picnic in the car by the lake. I
think most important is to take the time to make out!! Like you
did before there where kids!! Keep the passion burning!! Married
17 years!
Kasie
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| From:
JANAFRED |
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My
idea for an inexpensive date is just to window shop in a new store
and possibly share an ice cream sundae. |
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| From:
SONYALYNN |
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One cheap date
that my husband took me on a few years back: He came home with
Taco Bell food, and then drove us to a local park. We ate on the
grass, and had time to talk with no real cooking or clean up!
I believe
this was before children, but now this could still work by finding
a friend or family member to keep the kids for as little as 90
minutes! We get out, and don't feel like we're leaving the kids
forever!
We have an
expensive date this weekend though, we're going to a marriage
conference. We are splurging for the full treatment for 3 days!
Sometimes that's important to polish the marriage before there's
trouble! (plus it's more fun to go and have fun knowing things are
good, rather than going when there seems to be no hope!)
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| From:
HUTT5 |
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On
the once-in-a-while occasion that the kids have a sleep over at a
grandparent's house, my husband and I like to share a nice long
bubble bath. We've just renovated our bathroom and added a Jacuzzi
bath (big enough for two! *wink*) We cut up some type of little
snack (whatever's available in the house), something to drink, add
a little bubble bath and just r-e-l-a-x! |
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| From:
CARRIEFADEN |
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For
a really cheap date (or more just to connect to each other), every
Tuesday and Thursday when the two youngest take Karate, we go
together to drop them off. Then we choose somewhere close for an
hors d'oeuvre. We split the platter and have coffee.
Also, we have
a floating dock near us on the Delaware River and in the summer
months we'll go and get take out Chinese and plastic forks and go
to the dock and eat Chinese while the sunsets. VERY romantic!
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| From:
PERSKIN |
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One
thing my husband and I do is switch off with another family. One
night a month, we take their kids while we have time alone. Then
we do the same for them. We do anything from a dinner out to just
spending time alone at home. It doesn't have to be anything more
than a home cooked meal (maybe you can make it together) and some
conversation to help you get closer together.
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| From:
MECHELEB |
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My
husband and I go and rent a movie. We wait for the kids to go to
bed, make our own popcorn and enjoy our movie snuggled together on
the couch.
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| From:
MEREIH1 |
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My
favorite romantic outing is a picnic in the park,
or a trip to the drive-in movie theater.
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| From:
NANCYLONG |
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My
husband and I have very limited "extra" monies. When
we do have extra funds we like to go to a large book store like
"Borders" and browse and different books and
magazines. Somehow I always end up in the homeschooling section.
Then we will just sit and drink a coffee and talk about what's
on our minds.
Also at
least once a year we make it a point to go somewhere
"big" together. We like amusement parks. Our kids are
too young to go, so they don't complain much about yet. |
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| From:
GARZETTA |
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My
wife (she's the teacher, I'm the principal) dislikes surprises,
so it's very difficult to be overly creative. However, last
Valentines day, after cashing in a long-forgotten Omaha steaks
gift certificate, picking up an inexpensive bottle of alcohol-free
wine, and placing a three-line message in the local classified
paper, I asked my wife to drop off my daughter at Grandma's.
When I got home, the steaks had arrived, I put the wine in the
fridge for chilling, heated up the stuffed potatoes I
"splurged" on , and left the paper open on her chair
to the ad promising I wouldn't mention politics, the Mets or
work if she would let me spoil her for a couple of hours. Total
cost out of pocket - $8.75 - but the value was much greater to
remind her of her worth to me and our student. |
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