S/O: Fun and free dates

~Go for a walk around the block or a hike. We've enjoyed a walk around our closest city at night when everything is closed, we looked into store windows, held hands and also went to the top of the parking garage and looked out over the city.
~We've also enjoyed ourselves when just the two of us went out for ice cream and ate it in the car.
~back when we were really poor, dh would take some of his weekly allowance and buy a six pack of beer, and after the kids were in bed, we'd drink our beers and watch a favorite tv show. This was a weekly standing date for years.

My ideas are:
~Hike and a picnic
~Spooky cemetery stroll
~Read a book to each other while sipping wine on the couch
~Redbox free rental or library movie and some homemade popcorn.
~Ghost hunting ( we like to look up haunted places in our city and go visit them. Even if we chicken out, it's still fun. lol)
~Nice dinner that we make together at home ( budgeted in of course, but I like to have salmon and kale and mashed potatoes for this one. lol) after the kids are in bed

We like walks, hikes and picnics, and we get movies from the lilbrary and have a movie night. We also like to turn errands into fun dates when we can, though this doesn't work for everyone. For example- we've been doing our christmas shopping lately, so one afternoon we might have my mom watch ds, and dh and I will go to the mall, and get a cup of coffee and stroll around chatting and looking at all the decorations. We'll buy the one or two presents we need there, and maybe look around to see if there's anything we want to add to our wish list. Sometimes we go to a restuarant later in the evening after we've already had dinner at home and get coffee and a dessert to share. Some of the parks around here have free concerts in the summer, and the shopping malls sometimes have musical performances in the winter-usually holiday music. We take our own food/drinks so we don't have to buy anything there.

We like to go to Barnes and Noble. We walk around looking and reading a bit and then sit in the cafe part and have a coffee and a treat of some kind and talk.

A good at home date on a friday night is to make a "fun" dinner just for us after the kids are in bed. Something like a bunch of appetizer things (wings, egg rolls, etc.). We eat in on tray tables and watch a movie. Oh, and there has to be ice cream.

If you know someone with an Entertainment Book, you can ask for some of their BOGO coupons to places that you and dh like to go.