Stay-At-Home Date Night Ideas Under $30
2020 has shepherded in a new era of dating whether we were ready for it or not.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down or severely limited opportunities to go out to bars, restaurants, sporting events, and more. Thus, we have been forced to trade “traditional” first dates for online dating apps, zoom/skype calls, and socially distant walks.
Or maybe, you live with your partner currently and have already exhausted the “usual” stay-at-home date night activities of cooking, Netflix, etc.
Here are some unique, quarantine-friendly activities you can buy on Amazon.com for less than $30 to spice up your next stay-at-home date night.
Cold Case Mystery Game
Put on your detective hat with a murder mystery game night! If you’re obsessed with true crime podcasts or crime-solving TV shows, this is a perfect date night activity.
You can buy an Unsolved Case File game on Amazon and solve a fictional cold case. Each game includes over 50 pieces of evidence which includes: newspaper articles, crime scene photographs, evidence reports, phone records, corners reports, witness statements, and more. Each game costs $30 and can be played with any number of people.
Quarantine shouldn’t have to sacrifice your golf swing form! Mr. Mosby from Disney’s Suite Life of Zack and Cody gives a few tips in this clip when he transforms the Tipton’s lobby into a mini golf hole.
For $30 you can by a Putt Putt Mini Golf Challenge on Amazon and create a 9 hole golf course in your home. It works best on carpet and comes complete with 4 golf balls, 9 holes, and a dry erase scoreboard.
I’m sure a movie night is nothing new for you at this point in quarantine… however, you can order a RedBox movie night care package to elevate your movie night experience.
For $24, the box includes at DVD rental code at Redbox, 2 Act II butter popcorns, skittles, sour patch kids, M&M', hot tamales, black forest gummy bears, reese's, starbursts, and Mike and Ikes.
If traditional movie theater snacks aren’t your style you can also order this $22 non-GMO popcorn variety pack with 3 different types of popcorn with 5 different seasoning flavors.
To create some ambiance for your movie night experince, you can take create a fort in your living room using extra bed sheets and blankets OR splurge on a projector and watch a movie outdoors.
Glamping Night
"Glamorous” + “Camping” = Glamping.
For this date night, you create your own version of glamping by setting up a tent indoors or in your backyard. Make sure to bring along your sleeping bags, deck of cards, and flashlights.
And, of course, no camping adventure is complete without smores! For $18 you can purchase a smores making kit on Amazon.
If the sky is particularly clear, you can download SkyView onto your iPhone or iPad. It’s a free stargazing app and allows you to identify constellations, stars, satellites and more when you point your phone towards the sky.
If you want to get crafty, you can opt to do a wine & paint night for a much cheaper price than going out to a Paint n’ Sip event.
There are a bunch of free tutorials available on YouTube to choose from and you can select your favorite bottle(s) ahead of time!
If you don’t have painting supplies already, you can order a basic set on Amazon for $20. It comes with mutiple paintbrushes, 2 canvases, a painting plate, and a 24 piece set of acrylic paint tubes.
If you have never seen Hot Ones on Youtube, do yourself a favor and binge watch a couple episodes. The host, Sean, invites celebrities like Justin Timberlake, Ken Jeong, and T-Pain onto the show to answer questions and to eat chicken wings with increasingly hotter hot sauces.
You can recreate this at home with your favorite chicken wings and a $30 Hot Pepper Sauce Challenge kit from amazon.
This one is a fun one. You can order a pottery wheel set on Amazon for $30. While it’s made for kid, the pottery wheel comes with batteries, clay, cutting cords, paints, and brushes.
The clay air-dries so you won’t need to fire it in a kiln or oven.
Spa Night
I am a BIG proponent of “self care.” A spa date night is a great way for you and your partner to take some time, relax, and be kind to your bodies.
Currently on amazon you can buy a Spa Life package for $20 which contains two sets of: cucumber aloe face wraps, avocado vitamin E face wraps, moisturizing hand gloves, foot sockies, and cuticle wraps.
Additionally, you can buy yourself an All-natural make-your-own spa kit for $17 to make with your date. It includes recipes for bath bombs, body scrubs, fairy dust, lip Balms, bath salts, and more. You’ll need some basic grocery items(i.e. bananas, oats, honey, avocados, etc) to complete the recipes but most of them should already be in your kitchen.
