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10 Cheap Dates to Keep your Marriage Strong
Time spent having fun together is a must for a healthy marriage. Check out these inexpensive ideas
for some valuable one-on-one.
- Look in your own backyard - Keep plugged in to your community. Check your community Web sites or local newspaper for free events like outdoor festivals or concerts and plan a day around it. Pack your own snacks and have a ball!
- Go on a picnic - Scout a romantic, scenic location. Pack sandwiches, grab a blanket and go.
- Go antiquing or garage sale-ing - Find your local antique shops. Or get up early on a Saturday
and visit garage sales. Take $5 along with you, in case you find something you just have to have.
Or better yet – buy each other a present.
- Find an arcade - Save up your extra change for a couple of weeks. Then, take your quarters
to an arcade and have a skeeball contest.
- Be a kid - Go to your local playground and push each other on the swings. Maybe you’ll get a
kiss under the jungle gym!
- Be one with nature - Take a hike or, if you are lucky enough to live near the ocean, go to the
beach!
- Sport it up! Play Frisbee, ride your bikes, have a free-throw contest, play catch.
Not into competition? Make it a “no rules/no score” day and play for fun!
- Share your knowledge (and your love!). Know something that your spouse doesn’t?
(We’d all like to think so, right?) Spend a day respectfully teaching each other a new skill.
Reward each other for accomplishing that skill – in any manner you choose!
- Tour a local museum - Museums often have at least one day of the week that is discounted or free.
- Make a memory - Do any of the above things, or any other fun dates you can think of.
Buy a disposable camera and take turns documenting your day. Take it to a one-hour shop
and voila – instant memories.
“10 Cheap Dates to Keep your Marriage Strong” ( National Healthy Marriage Resource Center), Available: http://www.healthymarriageinfo.org/indiv_couple/keepstrong.cfm#dates (Accessed: 2008, February 18).
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