Date Night on a Dime: Thriving Together for $20

[@marking-time-gardens]

One year my husband and I planned to give "homemade" gifts for Christmas and we worked on projects together throughout the year to get it done. Best Christmas ever!

[@pikecreekfarm]

That sounds like such a special Christmas!

[@myissagcreations9729]

My husband and I go shopping at Sam's club. Lol He's a truck driver. So he's on the road a lot. But we do get together once a month with 2 other couples from our church. We head over to Jan's house and fix a meal together. Fellowship and sometimes play some games. It's a nice time with our friends, and really inexpensive. We each bring over supplies for a different part of the meal. I remember well all the snow in Michigan. I grew up there. Once in awhile, I miss the snow.

[@pikecreekfarm]

I love the idea of having each person bring a part of the meal. What a fun night

[@tizmehere492]

All good ideas. We have discovered our local senior center. Our local library also has a number of activities and our local nursery (the crazy expensive one) has free classes. We have even gone for walked through our “Natural Nursery” as you do not have to buy things to just enjoy all the growth they have. Kurt us posted on what you do!

[@pikecreekfarm]

Love those ideas! So many fun and inexpensive things to do. I will check out the nurseries around here! I thought of the extension office too. They do events sometimes too!

[@WillowsGarden]

Hi Renee! My husband and I always got something we needed for the house or around the yard as Christmas presents. We had everything we really needed, it’s the wants that we sometimes splurged on something. We traveled and always went cruising, so that was a covered area. We sacrificed when the kids were young and after that we thought we were teenagers again, lol. We used to go camping or to the lake for the weekends. We used to go to Ole Timers weekend and really enjoyed that. Date night sounds fun. I hope everyone has a very blessed night!

[@pikecreekfarm]

Wow, you two did a lot!!! So cool. Jim doesn’t like the idea of cruises. Maybe some day lol

[@citygirlhomestead]

those are great ideas

[@pikecreekfarm]

Glad you liked them!

[@katescaringcorner6765]

Going to a play is nice. High school plays are less expensive. They may be $10-$20 a ticket. You can keep an eye out to hitch schools around you. The high school in my town a ticket is $5 the one in the town over is &20. Shop around. There may be free concerts in the park come Spring. ❤

[@pikecreekfarm]

I’m love plays!! We have schools that have performances plus a local community theater. I got him to go once to see “Escanaba in Da Moonlight”. lol. Great suggestion

[@katescaringcorner6765]

@ if he enjoyed it once, he may enjoy another!

[@pikecreekfarm]

Yes!! They have one coming up in March.

[@lynnes-over-it5887]

One of the things hubby and I would do was go to local Chinese take out then sit in car and eat and people watch...many laughs and good times. Beautiful sunsets or just cloud watching.

[@pikecreekfarm]

People watching is the best! What a fun time together

[@jeannejett2299]

Great ideas! Thank you Renee 🌹

[@pikecreekfarm]

Thank you!

[@wendyzimmerman6002]

We go out we get a small pizza this year. We drink water instead of buying them we can get out of the pizza place under $20.

[@pikecreekfarm]

Great tip!

[@debbiealtman5373]

Once in a while we go out to eat dinner or lunch. We live in an area of Oklahoma where there isn’t much to do unless you drive 2-3 hrs away. We have a state park few miles down the street but it usually full of stickers everywhere. Dirt gravel and thorns. We get goat heads bad sometimes. But Oklahoma is boring 🥱. I told Bruce our real date night is a trip every 6 months to our doctor’s appointment. lol. With fibromyalgia, scoliosis, and so forth and Bruce’s issues with hips , knees blood pressure even though he works as a truck driver . In Colorado where we are from there was plenty to do. Just too expensive a state to live.

[@pikecreekfarm]

You definitely have to be creative!! Colorado is really expensive I have heard. I lived in California and it was too. It is challenging!

[@debbiealtman5373]

@ oh my California is twice what Colorado is and Colorado is expensive. Oklahoma isn’t the cheapest state to live but one of them. Top 10 I seen on internet.

[@deannakunz3257]

It is FREEZING up here too. Now Son & I are sick. Thank God the pantry is stocked with bone broth I made not long ago. And apple sauce, pineapple I canned…hopefully when my appetite returns, I have pea soup and stew on the shelf. I’m listening to your great ideas. Laughter is the best medicine after all!

[@deannakunz3257]

Just thought…..lots of Public Libraries have tons of games that you can borrow for FREE!

[@pikecreekfarm]

I will check!! Ours has puzzles. So glad your pantry is stocked with so much yummy stuff!

[@Gina-de8gb]

Sounds nice

[@melaniek9845]

hey Renee!

[@tammyr2966]

I have a shirt with the same print that’s on your cup, except my shirt says, “ I just want to stay home.”I love all your ideas! Low cost fun! If I were Jim, I’d do all of those ideas! Going on a picnic in the Spring and Summer is fun, Drive in movies, backyard summer movie night, thrifting and lunch, a short road trip to a new place, with a picnic lunch you bring along, and as long as your together having fun, the sky’s the limit! You have so many great ideas of your own, I’m taking notes!

[@pikecreekfarm]

Awesome!! There are some fun ideas I have for summer in Michigan like the ones you mentioned. We need to get better at gathering with friends too.

[@elsybesma2001]

Love your ideas. We need them too. Thanks

[@pikecreekfarm]

Thank you!!

[@nikkinorth6910]

Love this concept! I look on the city calendar of events website (and sometimes the cities north and south of us) for things to do. We discovered a small little Civic theatre this way, and despite not really being into plays/musicals, it's so fun to go! It's cheap ($10/ticket!!!) and very close by. And the auditorium is so small it's a very intimate feeling with the actors being so close. Happy date nights!! ❤️

[@pikecreekfarm]

I love community theater!! Ours is having a play the end of February that I would like to go to

[@suzie2080]

I totally understand the part of not being as social when you retire or change jobs. I try to find things for myself to do because my husband literally would never leave home if he didn't have to. We live in a small community and there isn't much going on. I am hoping to get him out this summer to sit by a river and fish and take a picnic with us. That was one of the things we used to do and we loved it. He doesn't like winter events because he worked all his life out in the elements no matter the season. Can't wait to hear what your husband picks.

[@pikecreekfarm]

I hope you can get out for some fishing and picnics this summer! That’s a great idea and I had thought of it too. My husband isn’t as social so it is tough sometimes

[@marthabrickett3298]

Here in this house it sometimes sounds like @And you will have fun!!!”♥️♥️♥️

[@pikecreekfarm]

I think so too!

[@dahliasrosese9671]

This was a very nice video.

[@pikecreekfarm]

Thank you!

[@deannakunz3257]

Sorry to be off topic…..but have you been able to see the Canuary video for today (Jan24) by Bug Valley Living? I’ve yet to see it…just thought I’d ask. Thanks!

[@pikecreekfarm]

She is having some technical issues and having to redo some things to hopefully get it to upload

[@deannakunz3257]

@@pikecreekfarmoh thank you so much for the info my Friend! I hope she gets the technology fixed. Cheers🎉