Inexpensive Activities and Romantic Ideas

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I would be interested in hearing about any inexpensive activities or romantic ideas that you all have in regards to spending time with your spouse! We used to go out ALL the time when we dated, and now that we’re married and on a budget…being creative is hard to do.

But that’s okay 🙂 We also don’t have many friends here, which I think is half the battle…we loooooove spending time together, but it’s fun to have good Catholic friends to hang out with, and that is hard. We are both used to a lot of friends. This will change in several months though, hopefully.

So, any ideas would be great to hear. Part of the problem is that so many of the things we’re used to doing become difficult when the weather changes. (Sports, picnics, grilling out.)

This is how we usually spend our time:

Go to movies
Rent movies
Dinner out (very occasionally)
Take long walks in the park or around our neighborhood
Work out together
Play kickball or soccer with neighborhood kids
Frisbee
Picnic when the weather is nice (it’s no longer nice…)
Bake together or make elaborate meals together
Picnic indoors
Take the train into the city and see sights
Go to mass, pray together, do our bible study
Talk and cuddle 😉
Play board games
Long drives into the country
Mini golf and bowling (rarely, as i find this totally boring)
Rent bikes to ride
Drive to the shore/hang out on the boardwalk (rarely)
A weekend trip (very rarely)

Any other ideas???
 
Before I got busy recently we used to enjoy the really neat hobby of letterboxing. It is basically a treasure hunt (geocaching is similar) and involves problem solving and hiking (sometimes more of a nice walk, sometimes a really challenging hike). Letterboxes are hidden all over the US and in several countries. It started in the mid 19th Century in England and became popular here within the last decade or so.

It takes **no money ** to get started – although you might want to buy an inexpensive compass if you don’t already have one. You’ll need a notebook, a pen/pencil, a rubber stamp, and a stamp pad. Oh, and maps/directions to various letterboxes – which are free on the Internet.

Go to Letterboxing.org for great instructions and to see where letterboxes are hidden in your area.

'thann
 
Well, I’m not in Philly, so I don’t know what to do there. In Chicago, cheap dates would be things like:

*The Zoo
*The Cultural Center
*Main Library Branch
*Navy Pier
*Bumming around downtown
*Museums
*Coffee House
*Book Browsing (or Record Browsing)
*Concerts or Theater (not necessarily the big production kind, but small company stuff in the neighborhoods and community centers or local establishments)
*Activities made available through local schools and universities
*Taking a drive to see another neighborhood (especially in the coming weeks with Christmas lights going up)
*Touring local architechture or history spots
*Cemetaries (particularly where famous people are buried)
*Riding the L
*Ice Cream
*Dancing
*Minor League/College/High School Sports
*Sitting on the porch and maybe listening to the radio while watching the world go by
 
Thann,
I am so intrigued by the letterboxing suggestion!!! Seriously, I am going to check it out.

Chicago,
We used to live in the city (philly) but moved an hour outside of it recently. We love the mueseums and sites and the cathedral and rittenhouse square, etc.

We also spend HOURS in bookstores and often go see live music in coffeehouses or wherever on weekend nights.

Thanks for reminding me of those suggestions. I think we are suffering from city withdrawal. 🙂
 
birding, all you need is a field guide for less than 10 bucks, and find somebody who has binoculars you can borrow, best bet is to join a birding club so you can go with a group who can teach you to identify the birds by sight and sound, and whose members will already own the expensive spotting scopes and be delighted to give you a look-see. back-yard birding is a great place to start, all kinds of web and magazine resources for inexpensive do-it-yourself feeders and nesting boxes.
 
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