Stay Home Date Ideas & Giveaway

December 13, 2010 By Michelle Barneck 151 Comments

As much as we love to go out on extravagant date nights, sometimes budget and or time constraints just don’t allow for it. The hubs and I have found a good alternative to going out for these times when you still want a fun date night, but just can’t make it out. The stay home date night. May sound kind of lame at first, but trust me it can be just as fun as going out. Here are some stay home date night ideas to get you started. Just put the little ones to bed and enjoy the time to yourselves!

Candlelight Scrabble Date

I actually surprised my husband with this one and set it all up while he put our son to bed. He loves word games so I chose a few of his favorites to have as options. Then, I spread a blanket on the floor, turned off the lights and surrounded it with plates of candles.

There is something about candlelight that makes everything special. He chose scrabble and it was an extra long game. We melted the candles all the way down.

Then the hubs threw in a twist of his own, pulled out one of his old college books (he was an English major) and read me some Shakespearean Sonnets. Some were romantic, some just kind of weird, but all fun nonetheless.

Chinese Date Night

I was inspired by this Chinese Date night idea from Love Actually. A trip to the party store (Zurchers) and the Dollar Tree and I had everything I needed to pull off our Asian theme. Ours had a little Christmas flair with the green tablecloth. I would do black if it were not December. 🙂

On hand: tablecloth, red ramekins, river rocks, battery tea lights

Dollar Tree: Serenity Garden (thing with rocks sand and rake), place mats, dishes

Zurchers: Asian hat, chopsticks, black take out boxes, fan, Chinese finger trap

Amazon: Asian spoons, Smashburger: Take out boxes

Smith’s: La Choy fortune cookies (in the black boxes)

I spent about $25, but it is all stuff I can use again.

I adorned some of the items with little notes, like “You’re stuck with me” on the Chinese finger trap and “I’m so fortunate to have you” on the fortune cookie box. I realized later I should have put “I’m your biggest fan” on the fan. 🙂

I am still in easy dinner mode so we started out with egg drop soup and then tried an Orange Chicken meal kit by Wanchai Ferry. It actually turned out really good. The directions were easy to follow and all I had to have on hand was chicken and water. The rest was in the box. Nice! Sometimes that’s about all we have in stock these days. 😉 The flavor wasn’t really orangey, but had a little spice to it. We would totally make it again.

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