FEATURE

Affordable date nights for two — or just you

Illustrations by Kaitlyn Carr

By Claire Convis
Deputy Editor

With A Partner Or A Friend

– Look for cheap tickets to sports games

– Try ice skating

– Go thrift shopping! Even just trying on silly outfits can be fun

– Have a cards and board games night

– Get drive-thru, Chinese takeout, or split a pizza

– Go buy $10 worth of snacks and have a picnic

– Hiking—it’s best to go with someone else for safety. Bonus

  points if you take a dog

– Have a mini photoshoot! Get some confident content for the gram

– Do a puzzle together—the true test of a relationship

– Volunteer at an animal shelter. Show some love to furry friends in need

– Stay at home to take some fun online quizzes

– Go for a drive, and turn up that playlist for some car karaoke

– Go to the arcade, but don’t blow your savings

– Visit a botanical garden

– Split a couple of drinks or smoothies

– Trivia night at a coffee shop

Take Yourself On A Date

– Time for some bath bomb business! Light candles and set up your laptop    

  outside of the tub to watch Netflix

– Throw on a face mask and bake some muffins or cookies

– Go to a museum—when you’re solo, you can go at your own pace

– Go to the movies—sure, it’s fun to go with friends, but sometimes you just

  want to gaze at Michael B. Jordan in peace

– Attend a poetry or a book reading

– Hit the gym or attend a new exercise class, if that’s your thing

– Journal about the last year, reflecting on what was good, what wasn’t so

  good and what you learned from it all

– Download a meditation app, or look up yoga poses online

– Painting or sketching—who cares if it’s any good? Just have fun

– Make bracelets, or any jewelry, really

– Write a letter to yourself to open in a year, or five

– Have a dance party with who? That’s right. You know just the

  right songs to play, too

– Take yourself out for dessert

 

Valentine’s Day Playlists

For the lovesick romantic

Galentine’s Day Power Anthems

Single And Killing It

It’s So Over

For Crying In Your Bed With Some Oreos

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