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Date Ideas For You and Your Spouse

Here are some fun date ideas for you and your spouse to enjoy.
  1. Hang mistletoe in several locations in your house. 
  2. Pick fruit at a local grove
  3. Share a bag of M & Ms or Hershey Kisses
  4. Wax your car in the park
  5. Make s'mores over a campfire
  6. Plant a window box or a few flower pots
  7. Ask your spouse out with a formal, written invitation
  8. Dress as tourists and ask strangers to take pictures of the two of you
  9. Set up a TV in your garage, put in a favorite video and have your own private drive-in movie (complete with blankets and popcorn)
  10. Hunt for bargains at a midnight madness sale
  11. Rent a convertible for a day
  12. Request your song on the radio
  13. Write a letter to an advice columnist
  14. Make a special greeting card for each other
  15. Relax in a hot tub together
  16. Read the Sunday comics together
  17. Play footsies under the dinner table
  18. Make a meal entirely out of grocery store samples
  19. Visit a pet shop and let a puppy steal your heart
  20. Shop at a second hand store, flea market, or garage sale
  21. Spread a blanket on the floor and have an indoor picnic
  22. Spend a Sunday afternoon touring the Parade of Homes
  23. Build something with Legos, old Tinkertoys or Lincoln Logs
  24. Pick up litter along the roadside or your neighborhood
  25. Shovel snow or rake leaves for an elderly neighbor
  26. Plant a tree
  27. Take dancing lessons
  28. Give your spouse a massage by candle light
  29. Go for a walk in the rain
  30. Go for a drive and kiss during the red lights
  31. Take your mothers out to dinner
  32. Buy matching shirts
  33. Make May baskets for your neighbors
  34. Host an anniversary dinner or party for your parents
  35. Read parts of the Guinness Book of Records together
  36. Make homemade ice cream and bake a pie together
  37. Roller skate or in-line skate
  38. String popcorn for the Christmas tree
  39. Take turns on a tire swing
  40. Sip hot cider or hot chocolate by the fire
  41. Rent a tandem bike
  42. Float down the river in a canoe or on inner tubes
  43. Visit your old elementary school playground
  44. Look at your high school yearbooks together
  45. Go to a high school play or concert
  46. People watch at the mall or airport
  47. Shop for a special tree ornament that is meaningful to you
  48. Have a fun fight with water balloons, pillows, or garden hoses
  49. Share a banana split
  50. Play double solitaire
  51. Gather pine cones for Christmas decorations
  52. Fly a kite
  53. Challenge each other to a watermelon seed spitting contest
  54. Be silly together in a photo booth
  55. Watch Saturday morning cartoons and share a box of doughnuts
  56. Watch I Love Lucy reruns
  57. Go to an auction
  58. Bake cookies to give away
  59. Enjoy fast food by candlelight on the living room coffee table
  60. Go through a haunted house
  61. Make a jack-o-lantern
  62. Meet at a park during your lunch hour for a brown bag meal
  63. Enjoy a midnight dinner by candlelight
  64. Make a meal from vending machines
  65. Make a homemade pizza
  66. Walk around the neighborhood to enjoy the Christmas lights
  67. Build a sand castle
  68. Hunt for a four leaf clover
  69. Have a rummage sale together and use the proceeds to splurge for a night out on the town
  70. Go to an antique auction
  71. Browse a pet store
  72. Host a pot luck dinner
  73. Visit an animal shelter
  74. While at the mall, split up for 30 minutes and buy each other a fun $5 gift
  75. Eat with chopsticks
  76. Bake and decorate seasonal cookies (Christmas, Valentine, etc.)
  77. Make candles
  78. Plan a vacation together
  79. Snuggle in bed and read a book
  80. Look at old pictures of vacations and relive the memories
  81. Save specific coins for a specific period of time and plan your date depending on how much money you saved.  No cheating!
  82. Plan a special celebration for your anniversary or perhaps a gift with a theme. For example the Hallmark anniversary gifts #1 is paper etc. or assign each year with a letter and the place to eat dinner, a gift and an activity all begin with that letter.
  83. Go to fast food restaurant, order and serve your mate like it’s a fancy restaurant. You might even want to set up a table cloth and flowers.
  84. Look at pictures from when you were dating and share your memories.


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