Cheap or No Cost Dates 51 – 75
51. Make a photo map (photos of the route) for your spouse or someplace, with a picture of a clock set to the time, and be there with a picnic basket / bottle of wine.
52. After everyone else goes to bed go outside and share a packet of hostess cupcakes.
53. Go for a walk in the rain with your spouse.
54. Go to a cemetery at night on a ghost hunt
55. Order some Chinese and feed each other with chop sticks.
56. Serenade her from an open outside window.
57. Get a blanket and lay on the ground looking at the stars
58. Make a table garden together (typically $10.00)
59. Watch the newspaper for free events happening locally. They have car shows, concerts, bike nights, etc.
60. Go to a flea market and have a set price ($10.00) to perchance the other the nicest gift you can find
61. Watch local theaters for $2.00 movie night. Typically there older releases and are offered during the week.
62. Make a slide show with digital photos and play some relaxing music and reminisce
63. Have a NO TV night… play board games, cards, or dance around the house
64. Go to library or bookstore and pick up logic game / riddles book.
65. Take a hometown tour. Many Chambers of Commerce have walking tours or tape‐guided car tours.
66. Visit the fanciest hotel in your area. Tour its public places; enjoy the harpist in the lobby. Soak up the ambiance.
67. Take a “Magical Mystery Tour.” All you need is a car and a coin. Each time you come to an intersection, flip the coin. Heads, you turn right; tails, you turn left. See where you end up. See if you can find your way back.
68. Go parking. Drive to a scenic overlook and enjoy the view from inside your car (in cold or rainy weather) or outside (in warmer weather). Take along some refreshments or some romantic music, and make a night of it.
69. Go out for ice cream. Just get a single dip cone and set there and talk
70. Go to public library and check out a copy of a civil war journal and read to each other the entries.
71. Photo contest. Each person gets to take 10 photos. Print or load on a computer and view what attracted the other person
72. Together go out in a busy part of town and photograph strangers. Ask permission of course.
73. Create a blog together…
74. Go to dinner at McDonalds and order a single meal and share, then go to Burger King and do the same thing.
75. We bought a “Mr. Bill” figurine about 5 ½ inches tall and take him around and do photos with him.