How does your date nights turn out?

We do not actually have a schedule as to when we have date nights. My husband works offshore so we only get to be together during his RnR, and during those time we even skipped having a date. Not only because it can be pretty expensive, but t can also be tiring. Sometimes we are happy just watching Netflix and eating home cooked meals. But whenever we can, we still go out and just enjoy some quiet couple time somewhere really nice. For me, as long as we don't have to spend more than a hundred I am okay with it, I mean it we don't get to do it often for now, but still the cheapskate side of me cannot take the cost.

We go out in spurts, mainly when we can find the time/babysitter/etc. It's a lot of planning!! Anyway, we love antiques so we frequent antique stores. It's nice just to take your time and walk through them. Sometimes we walk through furniture stores or kitchen stores with our big dream lists of oh wow that would be so great in my kitchen effect. There is also an old market with cute shops and custom shops that we like to walk through. We decided early on that spending money on a date wasn't something that either one of us were really into. There is so much out there that we can just stroll through and enjoy each others company. Now if we're going out to eat that's a different story. Both of us love food so we do treat ourselves here and there. For the most part we just enjoy walking around stores and talking. Sometimes on the nicer days (it's winter here) we've taken the kids down to the park and jogged around the track or threw a football around. I think everything is so expensive and I'd much rather remember the day we were silly in the park or joking around in a store then how much we had to spend to think we had a good time.

It turns out to drive me crazy and also squeezing my brains all the way out totally to make sure to get out every dollar