My husband and I are celebrating our 7th anniversary this weekend. Due to several large expenses hitting us in July, we don’t think we can realistically afford a dinner out like we had originally planned. What are some little to no cost ideas we can do to celebrate? We would totally just do a Netflix and chill kind of thing, but we have a toddler and baby, so we want to get out of the house for about 2 hours while the grandparents watch the kids.
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With my granddad hat on, would the grandparents be willing to take the kids to their place for a weekend?
I’m trying to remember things we did when I was a young, perpetually broke sailor. Cooking supper together cooperatively was fun. Even more when we moved on to baking chocolate chip cookies. I did it my way. She did it hers. And we ended up with flour kinda everywhere. Iirc, we ran out of chocolate chips, too. But we were both feeling the wine, so it is a bit fuzzy. Lol…. those were the days.
We did massages once. I mean the real deep intimate personal massage. I discovered I love massaging her feet and neck. I’ve never really been a foot person. I think that’s how we ended up with our 3rd girl. I’m not sure it’s been many years now, and the old memories have gotten slippery.
McDonalds value meals and feed each other. Iirc, we actually had Popeyes or Taco Bell. It was cheap eats back them.
One year, when we were dead broke. Grandma took our eldest, and we kept our infant. We cooked supper and cleaned up together. We just talked. We talked about anything and everything. Our hopes and dreams. Our fears. Our memories. Our childhood. Current things. Current events. We talked a lot of the ship i was on and our looming deployments. We just talked. Sometimes, we cried. Sometimes, we laughed. We didn’t argue or fight. We tried understanding each other’s perspective. We looked at picture albums. We just enjoyed being with each other all night. That was a great night. We have had some great dates since then. But that one stands out as one of the best. What I would give to do that again.
Maybe that helps. Either way, thanks for the memories. I miss her so.
Walk in a park, go in a hike. Have a picnic somewhere.
If I was doing a low cost date night I’d:
Grab fancy ice cream and store it in a cooler with dry ice.
Then take a country drive with the windows down, holding hands and connecting/talking.
Find a nice hill top to park the car, open our SUV back and eat ice cream while listening to music and watching the sun set.
Then home to say goodnight to babies and have an are home cocktail(s)/mocktail(s) on the deck.