Wednesday, December 29, 2010

This book is crazy. Crazy awesome.

Noah Shumway informed me of this book. 
He recieved this from his Father. 
This book is called.  "Dating for Under a Dollar.  ~301 Ideas~"
I will now list... All 301 ideas.  All of them. 

Chapter One:  Activities for Large Group Dates.
Animal Farm
Animal Mix up
Balloon Blasting
Blindfolded Fire Bridge
Body Roll Racing
Capture the Flag
Catch-N-Go
Circle Squishing
Do You Love Your Neighbor?
Elbow Tag
Electricity
Fruit Basket
Furniture Maze
Giant Twistin'
Ha-Ha. (Creative name alert)
Human Cookie Machine
Human Knot
I Love You Honey, But I Just Can't Smile
Jungle Volleyball
Kick the Can
Kissign Buffalo
Kissing Rugby
Lifesaver Pass
Mingle-Mingle
Murder in the Dark
Ring on a String
Sardines
Shoe Scaramble
Three-Legged Soccer
Train Tag
White Elephant Party
Who Am I?
Winkums

Chapter Two: Group Dates  (I really don't know how this is different from the first chapter... But, whatever.)

Advertisings Agents
Alphabet Road Rally
Ancestrial Potluck Dinner
Barter for Bigger or Better
Beach Art
Bridge Building
Broom Ice-Hockey
Campfire Stories
Candy Treasure Hunt 
Cardboard Car Drive-In
Charades
Coded Dinner
Come As You Are Date
Couple's Contest
Cultural Progressive Dinner
Dictionary Date
Disney Night
Double Date with Parents  (I don't like where this one is going.....)
Downtown Foot Rally
Drive-In Movie
Egg Racing
Fashion Show
Field Trip
Find Your Picnic
Finger Pain Pictionary
Frisbee Football/Rugby
Garage Semi-Formal
Gotcha
Hamburger Hunt
Hide and Seek in the Dark
Hide and Spy (Oohhh.  Sounds Stalkerish)
Homemade Movies
Hot Seats
Human Bowling  (Dressing up as elves is perfectly acceptable)
Inner-Tube River Race
It Happened to Me  *Gasp*
Knock and Run
Lady Luck and a Chocolate Bar
Library Scavenger Hunt
Line Dancing
Moonlight Volleyball
Mud Football
Museume Hunt
Music Videos
Object Scaventger Hunt
Old Doll Overhaul
Olympics
Out-of-Season Party
Pancake Party
Perfect Pizza Party
Pig Dinner
Piñata party
Puzzle Party
Quarters Maze
Radio Road Dance
Rainbow War
Record Setting
San Francisco Supper
Scribble Interpreting
Scripture Treasure Hunt
Service Project Scaventer Hunt
Silver Platter Pizza
Slap Cards
Snipe Hunting
Snow Family
Snow Football
Snow Sculpturing Contest
Snow Tag
Sound Scaventer Hunt
Spider Maze
Sprinkler Kick Ball
Story Telling
Supermarket Sweet
(If you guys haven't noticed....
I haven't been blogging everyday. 
But I am suppeost to. 
So I have to make up very long blog posts...
So that I get full credit.
I am amazed if you have made it this far. 
I am proud of you)
Surprise Slide Show
Synchronized Spaghetti Sucking
Table Sundae
Timed Lego Building
Treasure Hunt
Un-Birthday Party
Video Scavenger Hunt
Water Balloon Volleyball
Water Trough Softball
Water Volleyball
Water War
Watermelon Bam-Ball
Who's Who?  (If you are on a date... I would hope you knew before it.)

Chapter Three: Single or Group Dates.  Wait a minute... group dates?  Again?

Around the World
Art Appraising
Backwards Date
Bottling Fruit
Build a Tree House
Catered Picnic in a Cave
Children's Book
Coloring Contest
Compass Hike
Cookies-N-Kids
Costumes Competition 
Current Events Quiz  (I do not recommend this idea.  It makes me think of Mr. James's class.)
Dance Lessons 
Department Store Movie
Deserted Island Dinner
Entrepreneur Night
Environmental Date
Evening with the Elderly
Exploring the Old Frontier
Family Cabin Date
Farm Date
Feed teh Birds
Fiddler on the Roof
Football Cookies and Football Games
Foreign Flight Night
Free Concert
Free Movie
Frisbee Golf
Help the Homeless
Hobo Dinner
Homemade Ice Cream
Ice Blocking
Joke Book
Leftover Delight
Liquid Only Date
Magic Show
Make and Fly Kites
Mall Picnic
Marriage Preparation Date
Marshmellow Fireside
Mechanic Night
Mini-Dinner Date
Modern Fairy Tales
Movie in the Woods
Munch Lunchy
Mystery Camp-out
Name the Tune
Newspaper Logging
Old-Fashioned Fishing
Old Swimmin' Hole
Reverse Tie-Dyeing
I am so surpirsed you have made it this far. 
You are my hero for reading this much.
Sand Castles and Sea Shells
Sesame Street Surprise 
Silent Night
Skip-A-Rock
Sledding
Snow Gold
Snow Shoveling
Showshoeing
Sock Puppets
Special Olympic Date
Squirt Art
Star Search
Straw Creations
Tin Foil Dinners
Toilet Paper Date
Underwater Golf
Urban Camp-out
Wash Your Cars 
White Date (Raciest Alert?  I think yes)
Winter Drive-In Movie
Winter Picnic
Would You Like a Penny?

Chapter Four:  Single Dates

Aerobics
Amatuer Aritsts
Verries and Syrup
Bicycling Tour
Bird Watching
Birthday History
Card House Constructing
Catching Butterflys  (My personal favorite)
Celebrity Spotting
Cherrios at Sunrise  (Noah's personal favorite)
Childhood Revisited
Cloud Breaking
Compose Music
Computer Games
Coupon Date
Driftwood Carving
Fifty Wishes
Genealogy  (Umm..... Boring?)
Grocery Shopping
House Shopping
Impress the Parents Dates  (I would think that is what you are trying to do.... right?  Make a good impression?)
Journal Reading 
Mad Potery
Nature Walk
Night Crawler Hunting
Patchwork Project
Pet Store
Pickup Picnic
Picture Show
Plant a Garden
Price is Right
Quilt Trying
Rainy Day Fun Day
Ramen Noodle Cuisine
Reception Crashing 
Rock Hunting
Roller Blading
Romantic Reading  (When I read this, I thought of Lonny off of Gentleman's Bronco when he goes like... "oooohhhhh.  oooohhhhhhhh." While on the bus)
Sew Crazy
Tent City 
This Is Your Life
Toy Sotre Date
Trampoline and Whipped Cream
Visit to a Friendly Stranger's house.  (Note:  make sure he is not eating his beard when you arrive.)
Who Donnit?
Wilderness Scarbble
Wildflower Bouquets
Yard Sale Date

Holiday Dates:  

Christmas Caroling
Christmas Tree Cutting
Christmas Tree Decorating
Christmas Wreath Making  (These activites will not work if you date is Jewish. Make sure before.)
Easter Egg Hunt
Easter Eggheads
Fourth of July Fireworks 
Halloween Blind Date
Halloween Spook Alley
halloween Spooking
Halloween Treating
Happy Holidays
Natural Easter Egg Dyeing
Pumpkin Painting
Saint Patrick's Day Date
Santa's Elves
Trick-or-Treating  (I wonder what Holiday you do this on.)
Valentines to Eat.

So, for those of you who make it to the bottom of the list. 
You just read 301 date ideas. Some of them good. 
Some of them.... Well.....  Not so....
What do you think about some of these ideas?
From. Spencer.


1 comment:

  1. so.
    I only read the selections from chapter one...
    and, I am thinking I should get this book.
    because I only know literally what 4 of those mean.

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