Let Loose and Have Fun!
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[0 Comment]1. Make a list of all the fun things that come to your mind. Think of things you've already done and really enjoyed. There are probably plenty of times when you've both said, "Someday I'd like to do that." Write them down and keep your list handy. When you discover something new, add it. Then at the beginning of each month, pull out your list and schedule a time to do at least one thing before the end of the month.
2. Take a walk in the rain. Stomp in the puddles.
3. Make a gingerbread house. Decorate it—and then eat it.
4. Design your dream vacation. If money and time were no obstacle, where would you go? Okay, if money and time are an obstacle, where could you still go? Grab an atlas and plan your routes and stops.
5. Put on some Frank Sinatra—or Devo!—and dance the night away. Or check out a library book such as The Complete Book of Ballroom Dancing, an accompanying CD, and learn to foxtrot, rumba, or waltz.
6. Have a water fight with your neighbors.
7. Serve dinner backward. Start with dessert.
8. Have a watermelon seed-spitting contest. The loser has to clean up!
9. Lie on the grass and look at the clouds. Make up a story about each formation.
10. Sit under a tree and compose poems to each other.
11. Return to the site of your first date. If you don't live in the same area as you did then, recreate some of the most memorable parts.
12. Enjoy live theater—affordably—by attending a local high school, community college, or university performance.
13. Rent (or borrow from the library) a movie that promises to be truly awful (as in a bad script, bad acting, or bad special effects) and make fun of it together. Or make it a contest to see who can choose the worst movie.
14. Go somewhere local you've never been. Everyone's hometown or area has an interesting site or attraction most locals never take time to see. So experience your area's "main attraction." For instance, one university has a walking tour of the many kinds of trees planted on campus.
15. Experience "The Taste of Your Town." Plan a trip to some of your area's unique restaurants, but order only the least expensive item on each menu. For example, order the cheapest appetizer at your first stop, the cheapest salad at the next, and top it all off with a kid's scoop of ice cream at the local ice cream shop.
16. Bake a batch of cookies together and take them to friends or neighbors.
17. Hold your own "American Idol" or "American Inventor" competition.
18. Begin a new hobby together—one neither of you have done. Try bird watching, pottery, or photography. Or if you want to keep it free, start a collection: matchbooks, rocks, shells, leaves, spare change.
19. Take in a free concert. Check with university music departments for student recitals or church calendars for concerts and cantatas.
Originally published in: Marriage Partnership, 2006, Summer, Page 26
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