Dating my spouse - 88 Frugal Dates

Decided to take a date? Got a babysitter? Spending all your money on the babysitter? No problem! Here's as many free and cheap dates as we could think of...

1. Swim in the moonlight
2. Attend special Olympics
3. Play in a kid's playground
4. Take a walk - in the woods or on the beach
5. Dress formally then eat at a fast-food joint
6. Attend a local high school sporting or music event
7. Play in bumper cars or drive a go-cart
   
8. Visit a friend in the hospital or nursing home
9. Wax your car together in the park
10. Volunteer at a soup kitchen or rescue mission
11. Take a water color course (or other art course) together
12. Pick local fruit in season, take it home and make dessert together
13. Work out or jog together
14. Play a sport (frisbee, tennis, etc) together
15. Visit local tourist attractions (zoos, museums)
16. Walk through a greenhouse (we got engaged on this date)
17. Visit a local National park or Wildlife refuge
18. Tour a local vineyard or farm
19. Go window shopping
20. Watch people at a mall
21. Take a scenic drive (or tour Christmas lights)
22. Climb a lookout tour
23. Join a political rally
24. Pretend to be tourists, and have strangers take pictures of the two of you together
25. Eat a picnic (outside or inside)
    
26. Visit an observatory, or just watch stars from your backyard
27. Play a board game
28. Grab ice cream from the grocery store, and eat it right out of the carton with two spoons
29. Visit a nearby town
30. Attend a horse show or county fair
31. Listen to foreign music
32. Take karate
33. Eat grocery store samples
34. Visit a pet shop
35. Go horse-back riding
36. Go bowling
37. Go to an open house, or a parade of homes
38. Go to the dollar store, spend $5 and make something out of your purchases
39. Sit in a coffee house
40. Read books in a bookstore (one of our favorites right now)
41. Go thrift store shopping
42. Take CPR together
43. Walk around a college campus - be sure to visit the library!
44. Ride bikes (or mopeds) together
45. Go tubing in a local river
46. Try cross country skiing
47. Visit an antique store, look at the toys you used to have
48. Visit local botanical gardens
49. Beech comb or dig for fossils
50. Roll down a hill
51. Collect natural artifacts -- wild flowers or pinecones
52. Play laser tag
53. Skip rocks on a nearby pond (or whatever body of water might be nearby)
54. Go fishing (dig your own worms)
55. Go sledding or build a snow fort (or have a snowball fight), make snow ice cream for dessert!
56. Be silly in a photo booth
57. Fly a kite
58. Write up survey or interview questions, then interview/survey strangers
59. Play in the rain, jump in the puddles
60. Take a tour of an art gallery
61. Rake leaves and jump in the piles
62. Ride a ferris wheel

And, some for at-home after the kids are in bed.

1. Read Shakespeare together (or any other book -- we often read a marriage and family book, we have friends that enjoy reading fiction together)
   
2. Internet surf together -- plan a dream vacation or look at dream houses
3. Eat dessert by candlelight
4. solve a crossword
5. Reminisce about your favorite "together" songs, and burn a CD of them
6. Pray together
7. Have a water gun fight
8. Carry a Mistletoe around, and use it
9. Make S'more's on the grill
10. Make New Years resolutions
11. Read poetry to each other
12. Bake something
    
13. Finger paint together
14. Have a jump rope contest
15. Tie-dye or paint t-shirts
16. Plant flowers
17. Pillow fight
18. Play with tinker Toys
19. Sing together
20. Share a bag of Hershey kisses
21. Take a personality test
22. Do a craft: wood carving, polymer clay modeling, and wool needle felting are among our favorites. We often do these at a coffee shop.
23. Learn sign language together
24. Write your congressman
25. Sit on a porch swing
26. Read children's books together -- maybe ones from your childhood
27. Play the Ungame for couples

By my count, this is 89 Dates. If you add some comments, we can have 100 cheap dates!

Cheap Dates is a great book on this topic, as is 2002 Things to do on a Date. I haven't read 52 Great Cheap Dates or Dating for under a Dollar, but they look good too.