People Share 25 Ideas For The Perfect Date And It's Totally Awesome

My favorite date night usually consists of us walking to the store together and picking out ingredients for dinner. Then we'll go home and put on our favorite pandora station and cook together and talk and teach each other new things. Then after we eat we do the dishes and if we're feeling super romantic light some candles and hop in the bathtub.

I love making dates of the things I would usually do by myself. It exposes both of us to the little things that we otherwise never would have realized about each other. Plus, it makes for a very layed-back, personal date.

Besides that, frozen yogurt or ice cream dates are some of my favorite. OH! movie/video game date nights. Theres a place in town that sells old dvd's and video games and we'll get a couple of movies and ps2 games plus candy and snacks and have a sweet night of cuddling and gaming and watching movies.

Picnics are always fun, especially if it's preceded a museum or zoo date! Oh, once me and my boyfriend did a tye-dye date and that was fun!

There's all sorts of stuff you can do, and depending on your location you could also always try going to a show or concert, a festival or carnival or rodeo, just pay attention to the local events in your area and keep an eye out for what might suit you.

SmokeTheToes

FWIW. I really don't like dinner and a movie as a date. Never have.

Museums are awesome. Learn things, discover your partner knew things or loves thing you had no idea.

Make things. Find a project around the house, or scour Pinterest/Instructables for a thing that looks like fun. I know it's cliche, but I can't touch my painting jeans (with husband handprints on the ass) without smiling.

Husband and I will occasionally go be mall rats. Just wander, window shop, but mostly people watch. Silently judge, or merely observe. Whatever floats you boat.

Do dinner and a movie in. Cook something delicious together, and binge on some Netflix. (This is a treat for me right now. He's doing firefighter training, so I see him 2-3 nights a week)

Have a Minecraft night. Seriously. Sit at your table, or next to each other on the couch, and make a house in Minecraft. You end up asking for help gathering materials, watching your back for creepers, finding neat stuff.

Or if you're an extroverted couple who loves to do lots of things with other people... I can't help you. :p

arayanexus

We dont have date nights per se,

but every friday/saturday when the kids in bed, we sit in the kitchen, get spotify on and drink till midnight whilst talking about the week and what not.

cant really remember the last time we actually watched any tv on a weekend...

Edit: it's always the throw away comments that get seen the most... Thank you for the gold. I will be sure to bring this up during tomorrows kitchen session...

Based on the votes this has got, i expect a few more people around the world will be stopping off to buy some booze tomorrow after work... Happy kitchen drinking everyone!!

Pat_Mustard2

There is a spa not too far from us that's fairly priced. We will go and swim, soak, steam and lounge together for a few hours.

We like to yard sale, flea market or check out antique stores. Occasionally we buy something, but mostly it's about spending time together and geeking out over the fun stuff we find.

For her birthday next month, I'm going to take her to a sensory deprivation tank place. She read about it somewhere and was so excited that I'm going to give it to her for her birthday.

We also both really enjoy museums. If we're skint, I try to book a Thursday off early, as the museums are free on Thursdays.

She loves long drives, so sometimes I'll pick a place I've never been to on the map that's about an hour or so outside of where we live and go there. Other times, I will just take random exits and roads and see where we go. We spend the time listening to music, talking or just enjoying the silence.

We have four kids so we don't often get to spend a lot of time just the two of us outside the house. Two of them are toddlers, and are a real handful so it's hard to find someone we trust (and the kids trust) that can also handle them.

frank_skeletor

My wife and I kind of ran out of ideas to do things that we both like, so we instituted a date day/night plan. We would alternate weeks where one spouse would choose what to do and not tell the other spouse. So we ended up doing a bunch of things that we have not tried before because one of us was always disinterested in that activity or place to eat. Worked out great for me a s my wife is picky. I wanted to go to the horse races but she always poo-pooed the plan, problem solved. Take her to lunch then head over to the track for a few hours, and she enjoyed it.

I highly recommend this for everyone.

Damn, 2000 karmas for a little idea.

Homer1s

Go to the record store, pick out the record/cd/whatever with the funkiest cover, go home, drink some wine, and dance to it.

Drive around looking for the prettiest wildflowers, make the biggest, or prettiest, or most ridiculous bouquets, then leave them on random people's doorsteps.

Have a toke/drink/whatever and play with sidewalk chalk. More fun than one would think.

Depending on the strength and dynamic of your relationship, teach each other a skill you have; for example, I teach my lady guitar, and she tutors me in psych.

Use all of your available couch cushions, pillows, mattresses, linens, and even laundry/clothes, and build an elaborate soft castle for fucking and eating and whatnot. The more complex, the better.

WhyImNotDoingWork

Every couple of months we go to Barnes and Noble and pretend we don't know each other. We have pretty different reading interests so we split up and browse for a while and eventually one of us finds the other and we pretend we're meeting for the first time. We make up different characters for ourselves every time we go but we always end up making out in the stacks and then we leave together still in character. We have great sex when we get home.

For some reason, even though we live in a suburb, several people in our area have goats. One family has goats, sheep, donkeys, ponies, and a horse. Sometimes we drive over there and pretend it's a petting zoo.

We go antiquing a lot too. This is more of a date day activity, although if you try you can definitely find places that stay open later. My two favorite places are open til 8 on Thursdays. Most of the time we don't buy anything, but it's a lot of fun just to look around. We've been together for more than 3 years now but every time we go antiquing we learn new little things about each other because we see stuff that reminds us of our childhoods. We actually just had engagement photos taken at an antiques mall yesterday because we had gone there on our second date and it's a really special place for us. There are usually lots of nooks and crannies for making out, so it's more private than Barnes, and the books are cheaper too!

olympic

The first friday of every month my SO and I have a standing date. Our city's downtown is open late and we go for pizza and walk around the shops (whether or not we intend to buy anything) and then stop by the wine and cheese shoppe for a special beer flight.

Each month the manager of the features either a specific brewery or designs the tasting around a theme (Weird beers was my favorite so far - Necromangocon was yummy).

Sometime our kids join us for Pizza and then split up from us to walk around on their own and meet up with friends. They drive separately and go home whenever they want.

hendricks1212

We do picnics. Wine in a thermos, berries, both of us have our knitting projects, and we pick up smoked salmon and salami. We sit out on a blanket and turn off our responsibility cortexes.

We make up movie plots for how we imagine the people around us on the street, or for ourselves if we want to make fun of each other. The movies can get more and more detailed for hours, and we can't stop laughing.

We go to McDonalds an hour before they close, get a bit to eat, and sit for the whole hour getting free refills from the machine with a million soda flavors.

We window shop in home furnishing stores. Sometimes... we buy a single fork.

pennycenturie

Go play pool at a hotel bar with good cocktails. The ensuing competition is hott. Same for ping pong, darts, batting cages, or other games at a place that will bring you beverages while you play.

Also enjoy finding new weird things to eat that other person is wary of -- ethnic cuisine, oysters, new vegetables you cook together (fennel!), sushi... I successfully got my boyfriend turned onto all these things.

Museum, nighttime farmers market, go for ice cream cones and a scenic walk, visit a park after dark, bike ride, visit a store featuring one of both of your interests (music, antiques), go to a play, really anything that facilitates bonding and conversation.

culturalxpatriot

Video games, board games, planning things like home improvement projects/trips, looking up strange facts, and doing things near each other.

I will explain the first and last.

Video Games: Does my wife love first person shooters and/or twitch reflex pvp? No. Does she enjoy rpgs like Persona 4 and Mass Effect (games with interesting characters, dialogue, and plots)? Yes, she really does. Typically I play and she watches. Some games, like Persona 3 and Jeanne d'Arc she likes well enough to reverse it.

Doing different things with each other: I want to watch a show she doesn't really like? She will knit. She wants to watch a show I don't really like? I will browse Reddit or something. She has her feet in my lap and I can hold her hand. It's better than being in separate rooms.

Dust45

I think a movie is a great first date. Here's why: after the movie, you go grab a drink (or coffee or ice cream or something small). You now have the movie as an experience in common that you can both talk about for a while before it transitions into regular 'get to know you' conversation.

Now, if the conversation is going poorly and you just really aren't feeling it, you're at an okay point to finish the date and go you separate ways.

BUT. If it's going great and you want more time, this is when you would suggest your are hungry and want a bite to eat. Or a perfect time to tell her you are basically a pro mini golfer when you have a few drinks in you and would she like to go?

Obviously during the movie you can't really interact but I think it's awesome because you meet at the movie theater, say hi and have some small talk before the movie starts, and then you have a couple hours to focus on something else that will then be a mutual topic of conversation when it's over. Just my thoughts :)

ayyygeeed

During my dating days, I twice I asked a girl to a sky party and both times they accepted. What is a sky party? We have a nearby science museum that has "Sky Parties" on Fridays where people bring their telescopes.

Everyone is invited even if you don't have a telescope. Telescope owners like to geek out with their scopes. They'll point it to something cool in space and tell you about their 10 inch schmidt. Before I say, "ask her to a sky party", let me throw this question out to the ladies:

Ladies, if a guy you were interested in asked if you wanted to go to a sky party, would you go?

FatuousOocephalus

Been with the same woman for a decade and the Coin Game never gets old. You come up with two choices, and flip a coin to decide which one to do.

For instance, you can start with "walking (heads) or driving (tails)." Let's assume you get heads.

After you walk out the door, "turn left or turn right."
Stop at a "bar or restaurant."
"Put tobasco in your water or your food."

Goes on as long as you want - always keeps things spontaneous, let's you explore together (which is especially great in a world where you Yelp and Google Maps everything).

KAtusm

Things I love doing with my boyfriend:

-local MMA fight nights (especially the ones where you have to dress up, makes it even more fun and ridiculous.)

-midnight drag races at the motorsports track near our city. Even more fun if you have a fast car you can enter and race!

-instead of going out to dinner and a movie, order a pizza and look up a fun drinking game for a movie that's on Netflix. (We did Top Gun recently and about died laughing.)

-exploring. Honestly, some of my favorite dates have just been times that we grabbed a couple gatorades, threw our tennis shoes on, and found a trail to hike or a canyon to explore. We try to do this every Sunday, and I LOVE it.

relations

Daytime rather than night time activity, but I am convinced that apple picking is the perfect date. (If you live near an area where they are grown).

It's a crisp fall day. You and your date take a nice drive through pastoral country roads. You pull up to a farm and each buy a bag to fill with apples, and you can spend a good long time deliberating over the varieties, it's light physical activity, and a little chilly so you can warm up with hot cider and donuts after (and it makes for a good opportunity for you to give her your jacket/put your arm around her).

Then a drive home, and (if you are so inclined) perhaps bake a pie together right after. It's a bit of a long date, but it's not expensive, you get to talk but also do an activity together, and you also get to eat food. It sounds like the perfect day to me.

I_Implore_You

My wife and I do something called "Thanksgiving breakfast". When we get home from church we start pouring mimosas/beer/bloody mary's and start making breakfast food. We don't stop until our kitchen table looks like thanksgiving. Bonus points if we can have sex after. (Hint: we can't haha)

Also, comedy shows are a blast. We've found a couple bars we frequent/are regulars at that are fun and comfortable and cheap.

The other night we played strip gin and skinny dipped after in my mom's pool. That was fun.

If you do get married, make sure it's to your best friend and pretty much anything you do can be a date.

RadicaLarry

We take a lot of one-off classes together. Tree Identification was really fun, but we also have done croquet, history and architecture.

Picnics are huuuuge for us. I never had so many fucking picnics before I met this woman, and it's great. Deviled eggs are so delicious.

Finding little art galleries and print-making shops is kind of her thing, but I always enjoy it.

Stand-up comedy is my thing, but she enjoys it.

But I mostly love staying home and dancing around acting like dorks because nobody else is around. And drinking so much tea. Black tea with milk, no sugar.

And I've come around to apple-picking. They have really good fresh cider-donuts at those orchards, man.

And we tour a goat farm every year because baby goats are the FUCKING BEST. They're like extra goofy dogs.

relationshi

We are married with a kid, and not really anyone around that we trust to watch her on a regular basis. We have a couple with a child close to ours in age and they are awesome, but we do not like imposing often.

So we have at least one weekly (stay-in) date night. We play video games and table top games together. Current favorites are Worms and Eldritch Horror. Sometimes, when we play videogames, we stream.

We also watch some TV shows together, like Mythbusters and @midnight, as well as some YouTube channels. We tend to do things alone while still being around each other (he plays games while I sit on the laptop, etc), but these nights are specifically for doing activities together.

Catbunny

Go dancing. The western bars here have free classes if you go early. -Go shooting. We have our own firearms but most indoor ranges rent or even have classes. Lots of fun and great stress relief.

Go fishing. You don't have to catch anything but it's fun to throw a line out and just talk.

Random recipe cooking. Open a cookbook to the middle somewhere and make it.

Food truck nights. There are several where we live, usually at parks. Like a picnic and sunset viewing all in one.

Car meets. We have a couple different kinds of cars with big followings. Typically meet at a bar or restaurant or do cruises nights where you meet up and just drive around.

Museums. Just search your city or area and museum and you'd probably be surprised how many there are close to you.

Bicycle/paddle board/kayak. Most parks rent all of these now for a couple dollars a day, super fun to explore.

These are just a couple things we do, most of which can incorporate drinking

Line_Trash