There is so much value in the little things. I never really understood this until I started living with my boyfriend, until we made a house a home. I never realized the weight of the tiny, almost unconscious moments shared between two people. Or how, above anything else, what happens in the day-to-day means the most.
Whether you’ve been dating your significant other for three months or three years, here are 75 little things that will make your girlfriend smile:
- A picnic outside. That you plan and buy/make the snacks for.
- A love note sitting on her bathroom counter when she least expects it.
- A Hershey’s kiss in her closet, next to the shirts, where you know she’ll see it.
- A lunch bag in the fridge, already packed for tomorrow.
- A good morning text, something heartfelt, telling her that you were thinking of her before you went to bed or when you woke up. So she knows she matters to you.
- An impromptu shopping trip. And no, you don’t have to buy her anything. Just be there. And tell her she looks cute.
- The ingredients to her favorite dessert so the two of you can cook together.
- A bucket of popcorn and three Redbox movies. Her pick.
- Surprise her with a home-cooked dinner.
- Do the chores she hates—like vacuuming—without her asking you to.
- Take her to the drive-in movie.
- Buy her something beautiful to wear on a date (and no, this doesn’t have to be expensive).
- Make her a tree swing in the backyard.
- Get a pair of rollerblades and go on a rollerblading date.
- Fill her gas tank.
- Put her favorite blanket in the dryer right before bed so it’s nice and warm.
- Let her know when you’re thinking about her.
- Buy her favorite kind of ice cream the next time you’re at the store.
- Offer to clean the dishes after dinner.
- Make her a bubble bath when she’s had a tough day.
- Take her on a date to the restaurant she’s been dying to go to.
- Buy a twelve-pack of her favorite drink and plan a drinking night-in.
- Look up the events going on in your town and take somewhere the both of you have never been.
- A picture that you drew of the two of you together (it’s the thought that counts, not the actual artistic ability)
- A board game marathon.
- Call her girlfriends and organize a Girl’s Night.
- A non-requested back massage.
- Build a fort in the living room together, complete with blankets, pillows, and couch cushions.
- Put on your swimsuits and dance in the backyard sprinklers.
- Go on a drive with the windows down, music blasting. And hold her hand.
- Tell her you love her. To her face. In a handwritten note. Drawn on the bathroom mirror.
- Go apple-picking or on a hayride.
- Go Halloween costume shopping together. And laugh at each other’s silly outfits.
- Cook an old family recipe together.
- Go sledding when it snows enough.
- Make a snowman together.
- Decorate her bedroom with balloons and a poster that says, ‘I love you’ just because.
- If you want to make your girlfriend smile, buy her flowers and put them on the kitchen counter.
- Finger paint. Something. And each other.
- Do the laundry together.
- Go to a playground and push her on the swings.
- An indoor picnic, if it’s too cold outside.
- Buy ingredients for a fun alcoholic drink and make it together.
- Climb a tree together.
- Go on a date to Walmart where you each buy three things that remind you of each other, then spend dinner explaining why you bought them.
- Wash a car together.
- A candlelight dinner (on an ordinary day).
- Make ice cream sundaes together.
- Take her to the pet store and play animals together.
- A trip somewhere inspirational, like a food bank where you can volunteer for a few hours.
- A list of all the things you love about her.
- Make dinner and eat it on the roof.
- Pick out an outfit that you love her in and have her wear it that day/night.
- If you really want to make your girlfriend smile, cook inside-the-house s’mores.
- An adventurous date—rock climbing indoors or hiking outside.
- Take her somewhere outside and go for a walk.
- Use those unused gift cards sitting in your wallet.
- Go on a super touristy date to somewhere you two haven’t been before.
- Take her to a concert (local and cheap, or big name).
- Write her a love poem, even if you’re bad at poetry.
- Record a video of you talking about how much you care about her and play it at a random time.
- Take her bowling.
- Go thrift shopping and have fun trying on silly clothes.
- Take her on a road trip for a day to somewhere new.
- Write her a song. Bonus if you sing it, even if you suck at singing.
- Ask her friends what she wants to do or something she really wants as a gift and get it for her.
- Cover her bed with flower petals, just because.
- Take her to karaoke night and embarrass yourself, just to make her smile.
- Tell her she’s beautiful.
- Take her to one place for appetizers, a different place for dinner, and another for dessert just for fun.
- Buy her favorite shampoo and conditioner and stock it in your own bathroom.
- If you really want ot make your girlfriend smile, pick up her favorite snack food from the grocery store and slip a little bag of it into her lunch for a surprise.
- Buy her one of those cheesy stuffed animals, just because.
- Show her off to your guy friends.
- Tell her something you appreciate about her.
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