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Nov 14, 2016

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"Date nights are so important. In fact they are critical," psychologist and relationship expert, Melanie Schilling, told The Huffington Post Australia. Date nights are a very important part in relationships, plus they’re super fun! However, going to the movies or always going out to eat can get boring pretty quickly, so here are 50 ideas on how to change up your dates this winter, most are pretty cost-effective too. These aren’t just date ideas for boyfriends and girlfriends; they also make for great days with friends.

Drive around and look at Christmas lights
Bake cookies (specifically the seasonal ones with the pictures on them)
Go ice skating
Shop for gifts together
Make a playlist
Go out for hot chocolate
Build a fire and roast marshmallows
Stay in and watch a Christmas movie
Decorate for the season
Have a game night
Write your goals together for the upcoming year
Make (and then eat) a gingerbread house
Go on a nature walk
Visit a Christmas tree farm
Put on some holiday music and decorate the tree
Have a pajama and fuzzy socks movie night
Make something together (some ideas are ornaments, picture frames, a scrapbook, etc.)
Go to a hockey game (or whatever sport is going on at the time)
Attend a holiday parade or festival (such as the Natchitoches Christmas Festival)
Have an indoor picnic
Go bowling
Visit a new town
Write a winter bucket list or just a bucket list in general
Go window shopping
Try on clothes that you’re never going to buy
Go berry picking
Write your New Years resolutions
Put up Christmas lights (or take down the ones from last year that never got put up)
Make your own holiday cards
Have a cook-off
Host your own themed Christmas party (Friendsmas, ugly sweater party, the possibilities are endless)
Take a drive and take turns choosing songs to play
Pick a Netflix series to watch together
Have a Netflix marathon
Visit a pottery place and make each other mugs
Make Christmas wish lists
Pretend you’re tourists in your own town (you never know what knew things you’ll discover)
Go to an aquarium or zoo
Take a trip to a museum
Rather than a movie, go see a play
It’s never too late to carve pumpkins (even if Halloween has passed)
Have a scavenger hunt
Take a carriage ride
Make your own dinner and eat in
Pick a day to go workout together
Take a nap and snuggle (possibly the best idea on this list)
Play hide and seek (you’re never too old)
Look at old pictures and revisit memories
Plan a vacation
Go to a movie or out to eat because sometimes that’s really the best thing to do

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4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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