By Blondie L. Clayton
1. Cook a meal together. Invite others to join you.
2. Make a scrapbook of your activities.
3. Visit local bookstores/Library together. Look for books of interest to
you.
4. Scan the newspapers for community events you can attend together.
5. Visit model homes in your area or other cities.
6. Go to fancy car lots looking for your dream car.
7. Furniture shop at fine furniture stores.
8. Visit electronic and computer stores. Learn about new technology.
9. Enjoy each other’s hobbies together, or go to a basketball game.
10. Eat at your favorite restaurant.
11. Plan a charity evening out. Go the a restaurant and tip the server well.
12. Dress up fancy one evening and go out. Visit friends.
13. Host a food tasting theme party for friends and relatives.
14. Buy seeds and plant flowerpots together. Root some plants in water,
then plant. Give the flowers to a nursing home or to someone sick.
15. Spend
time away from each other. You go off alone for a few hours, if
you are married; or if you are single,
don’t see each other for 48 hours.
16. Take a couple of your nieces, nephews, grandchildren, a friend’s
children to the park for a day, or to an amusement area.
17. Baby sit a child together.
18. Shop for groceries together. Decide on the amount to spend. Divide up
the list. Use calculators. Compare how well you shopped.
19. Send a text message twice a day: “Miss you.”
20. Go for a walk in the park together, enjoy nature trails
21. Ride your bikes together.
22. Watch your favorite old movies together.
23. Learn to play a new game together.
24. Do something each of you have never done before: like parachuting, eat
sushi, etc.
25. Visit each other’s family twice a month, if they are in town.
26. Plan a picnic in the park, just the two of you.
27. Develop a friendship with other couples.
28. Get to know each other’s friends. Invite to dinner. Plan outings.
29. Have a backyard barbeque.
30. Go to the park and take nature photos.
31. Fish together.
32. Go for a walk on the beach.
33. Visit a hotel, sit in the lobby, walk around.
34. Start a business together.
35. Prepare a candlelight dinner
36. Wash and clean the cars together
37. Go to a boat lot.
38. Shop for motor homes.
39. Snorkel together.
40. Visit Outdoor World camping and fishing gear
41. Play a video game together.
42. Table tennis for two. Invite another couple to join you.
43. Eat an ice cream shake at the local Dairy Queen.
44. Visit the local pet store
45. Go to each other’s doctors/dentist appointments together
46. Give each other a small gift once a month.
47. Read a book together and discuss as you read.
48. Have a photo made of the two of you, buy two frames and frame it.
49. Spend a day out making a video as you go.
50. Make cards and send them to each other in the mail.
51. Throw a surprise party for each other.
52. Have a swimming contest, from one end of the pool to the other. Loser
buys lunch.
53. Shop for a gift for a relative. Wrap it together.
54. Pray together before you eat.
55. Go to church together.
56. Plant a garden together.
57. Cut the lawn together.
58. Landscape dream shopping together, or shop for real.
59. Wash and dry dishes
60. Partner to clean the house.
61. Learn a foreign language.
62. Take the clothes to a Laundromat instead of washing at home.
63. Visit a person in the hospital.
64. Go to the theater, see a play
65. Movie night out
66. See a Broadway show
67. Rent a funny movie
68. Blow bubbles together
69. Thrift store shopping. Set an amount and see who can buy the most for
their allowance.
70. Challenge yourself to shop without actually spending the money
71. Explore your neighboring city. Find out what it has to offer
72. Test drive a newer model of your present cars.
73. Eat out at a restaurant other than your culture
74. Study the Bible together.
75. Bake a cake or cookies together.
Blondie
L. Clayton is a Realization Strategist™ author, freelance writer,
publishing coach and speaker. She is also the founder of the Higher
Heights School of Publishing Coaching, a program for authors who want
to make money coaching writers. Free Newsletter and bonuses
at
www.Blondie2Book.com Also the host of the Author’s Spotlight at www.positivechangeradio.com.
