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25 (Affordable) Dates of Christmas

Holiday season date ideas that you and your checking account will love.

Cailin

Dec 27, 2018

University of Connecticut

Cailin Whitehead

Holiday season date ideas that you and your checking account will love.

1. Make hot chocolate or eggnog from scratch

2. Have a gift-wrapping competition

3. Attempt to build and decorate a gingerbread house

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If you have the patience.

4. Go to a Christmas lights display

5. Go skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, ice skating, sledding- enjoy the outdoors

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6. Go to a hockey or basketball game

7. Have a spa night

Make your own face masks

8. Host your own wine and cheese party with friends

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9. Go for a walk or hike

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10. Sit by the fireplace

11. Have an all day cookie-baking marathon

12. Make a home-made wreath

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13. Make a festive dinner together

14. Buy a disposable camera and have a winter themed photo-shoot together

15. Do random acts of kindness

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Pay for the car behind you in a drive-thru line, shovel a neighbors driveway, or donate clothing together

16. Try to fill each other's stockings on Christmas Eve, without getting caught

17. Take a bus or train to the city and spend the day sight-seeing

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18. Attend a holiday dance

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19. Visit a local craft fair

20. Spend all day in pajamas watching holiday movies

21. Attend an ugly sweater party

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22. Go hot-tubbing

23. Make your own holiday-scented air fresheners or candles

24. Write letters to each other that won't be opened until Christmas Day

25. Make your own holiday tradition!!

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25 (Affordable) Dates of Christmas

Holiday season date ideas that you and your checking account will love.

1. Make hot chocolate or eggnog from scratch

2. Have a gift-wrapping competition

3. Attempt to build and decorate a gingerbread house

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5. Go skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, ice skating, sledding- enjoy the outdoors

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