- Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel.
I'm Hannah Witton, and I often make videos
about sex and relationships and dating
and recently I did a video about 10 free date ideas
because dating can be expensive, real expensive.
And on that video I received this comment:
"can you please do more date ideas you can do at home,
"such as game nights, for those of us who have difficulty
"going out due to disability or other reasons,
"such as those who can't leave the kids alone."
Great suggestion and yes I can do a video on that,
and that is what we are doing.
So there were a few date ideas in the previous video
that can be done at home such as game nights,
movie marathon, homemade YouTube karaoke night
and the New York Times' 36 questions to fall in love.
So those were four things that I'd already mentioned
in the 10 free date ideas video, but I've come up
with 10 more for you, so 10 date ideas
that you can do at home,
although not all of these are free.
If you want the free date ideas, go to the other video.
Some of these you will have to spend money for,
not all of them, and not a lot of money either.
Probably still cheaper than going out for a date,
to be honest, so there you go.
Also these aren't just date ideas for romantic partners
or sexual partners or couples or anything like that.
I actually just took a look at this list and I'm like oh,
you could do those with your friends or your family,
your housemates and all of that good stuff.
So these are just great indoor activities
but I would also recommend them for dates.
That being said, I haven't done many of these
because my partner and I just tend to
play video games or watch Netflix.
That's the extent to our like date at home activities,
so I'm definitely going to be suggesting a few of these.
There are some that I'm like oof, I really wanna do that.
So without further ado, let's get into it.
Number one, build a pillow or a blanket fort.
Oh yes, we're getting old school.
I mean there isn't much to say about it
except that this is a brilliantly childish idea
and it's always fun.
Extra points if you have like fairly lights,
wouldn't recommend candles, that could
go horrifically wrong.
I'm now trying to think like where in my flat
we could build a pretty decent pillow fort.
I kinda feel like in this room, there's like lots
of furniture, like there's enough furniture to like
hang stuff over, interesting.
(sips beverage)
Number two, do a jigsaw puzzle together.
This is definitely not something that I will be doing
as a date with Dan because he hates jigsaws,
he does not have the patience for them.
Me however, yeah, bring me that 1,000 piece
Disney princess jigsaw puzzle that I've had
since I was a child, I'll do that over and over
and over again.
The most recent jigsaw that I did was with my parents
and it was a 1,000 piece Game of Thrones
Westeros and Essos map, and oh boy,
is there a lot of blue sea and brown desert.
(sighs)
We did it, it was tough but we did it.
Also this date idea may span over multiple date nights,
it really depends on the size and the complexity
of the jigsaw that you choose or are you gonna
do multiple jigsaws, oh my god,
the possibilities are endless.
If you wanna do a jigsaw, there is gonna be
a lot of work and will take more than one sitting to do
and maybe you have young kids or pets that could
potentially ruin it.
I would highly recommend getting these like
jigsaw mats, it's like a felt thing and you do
the jigsaw on that and it has a roller
so that wherever you're up to you can roll it up,
store it away so none of the kids or the animals
like attack and then you just roll it back out again
when you're ready to continue.
Wow, turns out I'm really into jigsaws.
(laughs)
Number three, bake.
I mean who doesn't love some baking?
My partner Dan, he doesn't even like cake,
but you don't have to just bake a cake
if you're a weirdo like Dan who also doesn't like cake.
You can do cookies, you can do flapjacks,
you can do brownies, you can do pies,
sweet or savoury, you can do crumble.
I mean, possibilities are endless and then
you get to eat it afterwards.
Oh by the way, food is going to be a running theme
throughout these date ideas, there is a lot
more food coming up so if you don't like eating,
there might be some other ones for you too.
Number four, have a picnic at home.
Be so cute, you could even get a basket
like I actually have like a cute like wicker basket.
No, did Dan make me throw it away when we moved house?
Do I still have it, oh, wait.
He did make me throw it away.
He was like when are you gonna use this,
and I was like when we go for a picnic
and that never happened?
Go to the shop, buy whatever little bits of food
and nibbles and snacks that you would have
at a picnic and just lay out a rug on your kitchen floor
or your living room floor, wherever,
and I will allow candles for this occasion.
It's fine, if you must.
Just don't set your rug on fire.
Number five, do some crafting or colouring in book.
Crafting is so peaceful and cathartic
but only if you pick a task that is really easy.
That's the kind of crafting that I like,
something that is simple and that you repeat.
Once your hands know what they're doing,
it's just like cool, second nature,
like your hands are just like do-do-do-do-do,
doing the thing, and then you can chat and just chill out
and at the end of it, you've made a thing,
whatever that thing is, you've got
really cool art project.
I recently went to this event in London called Eroticon
which is for like sex bloggers and sex writers
and things and there is this company called Kink Craft there
and they do crafting workshops for like kinky things
and so I crafted my very own mini flogger,
and I'm very proud of it.
However, I feel like when it comes to crafting
I need someone telling me what to do because I'm like
I have no idea, although I probably could just
go on Pinterest and like find crafting recipes?
They're not called recipes, instructions.
Food is on the mind, but that is why
I included colouring books, because I find colouring books
a lot more accessible and you still get
that just like peaceful monotonous, feel like
you're still creating and doing something crafty
like task and you can just like chill out
and hang out and chat whilst you're colouring stuff in.
I have a couple of colouring in books
that me and Dan have done stuff in and it's
just so nice, I just love it.
These are the colouring books that I have.
I'm pretty sure they were gifted to me, #gifted
but it was years ago and I can't remember who from.
They're called release your anger
and memos to shitty people, and I love them.
The combination of like insults and swear words
and then beautiful colouring in is just,
it's just all that I want.
This is one that I did that I'm very proud of,
it says cum guzzler.
Profound.
There's one that Dan has done in here
but I don't think he's finished it, bollocks.
And then my favourite one is in here,
ooh, there it is, and it just says
fuck me sideways.
I love it, I love it.
Number six, have your own book club.
Maybe you and your partner like the same books,
maybe you don't and you take it in turns to pick a book,
but either way, read the same book and just talk about it.
You know I love books and book clubs
and just discussing books in general but that could be
a nice thing that you do together.
Granted, it requires a lot more planning,
maybe a deadline, oh, you could also read together
or you could get an audiobook and like listen to it
together as you fall asleep, oh, I love it.
Number seven, it is a classic and we're back to food:
homemade pizza and you can do that thing
where you get all flirty and start throwing flour
at each other although maybe not because you're gonna
be doing this at home and you're gonna have
to clean up that mess.
But it's still great, you get to make the dough
or buy pre-made dough, roll out the dough,
put on your bases and your cheeses and customise
and personalise all the different toppings that you want
and then obviously eating it.
You get to eat the pizza and this has just
reminded me that I've got some pizza in the fridge
ready to eat, not homemade but still delicious.
Number eight, this one may be my favourite,
I've never done this but I'm definitely
going to be suggesting this because I really
wanna do this, and it's having your own tasting party,
tasting menu, so you can pick whatever category
you like so you could pick chocolate,
you could pick wine, you could pick cheese,
you could pick whiskey.
You could do whatever you like and you order in
a bunch of samples, samples or whole bottles,
depends on how much you wanna pay to begin with,
read up about each thing, learn a little bit
about its history, where it comes from,
and all of that and then drink slash taste it.
(kissing noises)
And then you can suddenly become one of those people
that like has a favourite whiskey.
Don't those people sound cultured, am I right?
I'm like I like Jack Daniels and then all
the whiskey people are like that's not even a whiskey,
and I'm like oh, I'm sorry!
I feel like I may have held up nine fingers
for number eight, but anyway, this one
is number nine and it is another food one
and it's a cooking challenge slash competition
because I love a good bit of healthy competition
in relationships, bit of points scoring,
bit of rivalry, oof, you know I love it.
So for this one you can kind of make up
whatever rules that you want but what I'm thinking
in my head is kind of like a ready-steady cook style thing
where each of you buy the other person a random mix
of ingredients and then they have to create something
from that.
I already know that Dan would win at this because
he's a very intuitive cook and can just look in the fridge
and go oh, I'm going to rustle up this thing
whereas I'm like I need a recipe or I'm gonna
start having a panic attack.
A dollop of butter?
How much is a dollop of butter?
That's what I'm like when I cook
which doesn't really lend itself well
to that kind of competition but you know,
I'm up for challenging myself, but there are loads
of other different kind of like food cooking challenges
that you can do and you can make up your own rules.
Maybe you're cooking the same thing and it's like
who made it the best or the quickest or whatever it is
or one of you makes the starter, one of you
makes the main, and one of you makes the dessert
because you're in a thropple or polyamorous relationship
because then you've got one person for each course.
Oh, ideal, ideal.
And then obviously you vote on it and then you kick out the,
no, don't, anyway, getting way too into that idea.
And number 10, a cocktail making date night.
You might make something delicious,
you might make something that tastes horrific
but either way, super fun and to me, I kind of see that
as an excuse to start building my alcohol collection,
so I'll be like oh yes, I've got all of this alcohol,
hm-hm-hm, this is the kind of person
that I want to be.
It's like with all my books, I want you to look
at these books and think oh, she's a real cultured reader
where actually I don't read enough by my standards
and I don't drink a lot, so those are those things
but that's obviously the image that I wanna put out there
to potential people who will date me,
i.e. my boyfriend.
And obviously if you don't drink, you can make mocktails.
You can still make some fun concoctions
that just don't have any alcohol in them
and that's fine, because if you don't drink,
what is it, oh my god, I've forgotten my own
like drunk advice thing, if you're not drunk,
be in the spirit of drunk.
There we go, we got there eventually,
that's a throwback, who remembers that?
Thank you so much for watching.
Those are my 10 ideas for date nights
when you're at home, please let me know
if you've tried any of these, how they went,
and let me know your own ideas in the comments,
especially if you've got some specific rules
for a cooking challenge or competition
because I would like to hear those ideas.
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