If you can’t go out for an adventure, you can always bring adventure to you. Right now, for us, that comes in the form of a subscription box.
It’s been fun to experiment with cooking new dishes, having date nights that are preplanned for you, and even learning new hobbies. Even though we’re all stuck at home right now, you can always find a way to mix things up.
We’ve loved subscription boxes when they blew up a few years back since I always thought snail mail was special. But we’ve been revisiting them recently to see what’s new and to bring you the top subscription boxes this year.
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Top Subscription Boxes You'll Want to Try in 2020
- Date Night Boxes (1-4)
- Food Boxes (5-12)
- Game Boxes (13-14)
- Miscellaneous (15-16)
- Pets (17-18)
Date Night Subscription Boxes
If you’re like us, Netflix and Chill isn’t our idea of an ideal date night. It’s what we fall back on when we get lazy and want to zone out. To mix things up, we looked into subscription boxes to see what fun ideas we could have delivered right to our door. These can help you connect and even strengthen your relationship.
What It Is: Date night delivered to your door.
Cost: $19.99 – $31.99
What We Love: We tried two boxes from Crated with Love: the Aussie Adventure and Retro Game Show. We especially loved Aussie adventure since it was travel based. It was fun following their prompts to learn more about each other. It’s crazy how you don’t know certain things about a person even after 9 years of marriage. Some even have activities you can do with other couples or actions to take throughout the week after the date is over.
What It Is: Date Night Delivered.
Cost: $32.95 – $39.95
What We Love: Each Datebox Club subscription box comes with everything you need for a great date night and step by step instructions. The idea is to get you to do something new and fun together! There’s usually an activity, some questions or a game to connect, and something to munch on. A lot of times the activities are things you can continue to do later on since they include extra supplies. Who knows, maybe you’ll find a new hobby!
What It Is: Creative dates delivered to your door.
Cost: $34 – $39
What We Love: Each month, Unbox Love sends you a box including games, trivia, snacks, and fun projects to do together. Most of them have some sort of game focused on the theme, so be sure you’re both into the theme.
4. Happily
What It Is: Date night, made simple.
Cost: $32.99 – $39.99
What We Love: Unlike the other date boxes, you start by filling out a questionnaire so they know your likes and dislikes as a couple. Then they tailor the dates to what you already enjoy.
Food Subscription Boxes
Food is the easiest way into our hearts. We plan our travels around it, and when we’re home, it brings us together as a community.
When we cook, we have our go-to recipes, but these subscription boxes have been a great way to try making different dishes and bringing you snacks from around the globe. Some of the travel-themed ones can also transport you to different parts of the world.
What It Is: 6, 12, or 20+ snacks from a different country every month.
Cost: $13.75 – $35.75
What We Love: When we visit a new country, we always stop by a local grocery store to check out their selection of snacks. Not only does it give you a peek into local life, but they also make the best souvenirs to bring home to friends. Universal Yums brings those snacks directly to you. You can pick between two countries and the size (6, 12, and 20+ snacks). Depending on the box you select, it includes a booklet with trivia and games, recipes, and more.
What It Is: 5-6 high-quality Italian treats sourced directly from Italy.
Cost: $69.99
What We Love: We love Italian cuisine! Gusto di Roma sends 5-6 Italian sweet and savory treats each month with recipes that incorporate them. Our favorite so far is the Taralli crackers from Danieli.
What It Is: 3, 4, or 8 rare ramen noodles from around the world.
Cost: $13.50 – $34.17
What We Love: We love our ramen noodles… way more than we’d like to admit. We know how to adult. Instant noodles are so much better from different parts of the world, but it can be overwhelming with the hundreds of choices. Exotic Noods (love the name) sends you 3, 4, or 8 noodle products depending on the subscription you choose and a pamphlet to give you some background. These, below, were my favorite.
What It Is: Help reduce food waste by getting produce that isn’t “perfect”.
Cost: Starting at $16
What We Love: Many of our friends already subscribe to Imperfect Foods, and while we’ve been in quarantine, we tried our first box! Since we’ve never joined CSA and haven’t been to a farmer’s market in ages (the ones in Vegas aren’t great), this was the next best thing.
Through Imperfect Foods, you buy the food that doesn’t make it to the grocery store. The items are cheaper than national supermarket chains, you’re helping the environment, and they conveniently come right to your door. It’s a win-win. Even with a base box, you can shop for specific items, since everything is priced individually.
7. Shaker & Spoon
What It Is: 3 original cocktail recipes plus everything you need to make them.
Cost: $40 – $50
What We Love: Each month you get 3 recipes from some of the top bartenders around the world. It comes with everything except for the liquor, and if the month’s featured liquor isn’t something you like, you can skip it. We’ve always wanted to be better at making drinks and this is the perfect way to jump into that!
9. Atlas Coffee Club
What It Is: Exotic coffee from all over the world
Cost: $9 – $28
What We Love: We don’t run on coffee every morning, but we enjoy having an occasional cup. I’m all about the comparison. With Atlas Coffee Club, you can select your roast preference and grind type. It makes it easy to make at home, and it meets your preferences. Plus, they include a postcard from a new country each month, tasting notes, and brewing tips.
What It Is: Experience Japan in a box.
Cost: $22.50 – $35
What We Love: Whether you’re into snacks, candy, noodles, toys, beauty products, or stationary, Japan Crate has different monthly subscription boxes focused on each of those things. In each box, you’ll get a variety of items. It may be no surprise that we chose the snack and candy box.
What It Is: Meal-kit to cook your way around the world.
Cost: $29.95 – $35.95
What We Love: This is such a great way to impress a date Mrs. Doubtfire style (though you do have to cook). We love trying new recipes, but we don’t often venture outside our regular rotation. Buying all new ingredients can be a pain, but Takeout Kit does the work for you. All you have to do is pick your favorite international dish, and they send you the ingredients (minus perishables). We ended up making half and saving the extra portions for later.
Game Subscription Boxes
Since Jacob loves games so much, and I’m the best wife EVER, we decided to check out a few escape room boxes to give ourselves some practice while we’re stuck at home. Gotta keep our minds sharp for our next escape room.
13. Conundrum Box
What It Is: Part escape room and part choose-your-own-adventure.
Cost: $25 – $29.99
What We Love: Not only does this box give you fun puzzles and riddles to solve, but it includes food and drink recipes to help immerse you in the world. They also have an overarching storyline that covers each season of the year.
14. The Escape Game
What It Is: Escape Rooms at Home
Cost: $10 – $40
What We Love: This isn’t technically a subscription box, but it still makes a great gift for Escape Room lovers. We recently went to their new Las Vegas location, and we were so impressed with the experience, they are now our favorite escape room in the city.
On their site, they have an online escape room, a monthly scavenger hunt that is free to play, and board games you can buy to play at home. We can’t wait for them to reopen, but in the meantime, we’re going to play at home.
Miscellaneous Subscription Boxes
What It Is: Themed subscription boxes
Cost: $45
What We Love: Unlike other subscription boxes, Bespoke Post lets you pick what you want each month. On the first of the month, you get an email with the new box choices. You then select what you want, pick your colors, or decide you want to skip the month altogether. This is for people who like gifts and quality items but don’t want a complete surprise. Jacob likes surprises, but me not so much.
The Bespoke box we chose for last month was the brewery kit. We can’t wait to make our own IPA. We’ll let you know how it goes!
16. The Wordy Traveler
What It Is: Quarterly luxury book club for travelers who want to give back.
Cost: $38 – $90
What We Love: Books can transport you to a different time and place and what better time than now. Each quarter, they hand-selected books from different travel writers, ethically-sourced tea, and a limited edition art print.
The Backpacker includes one book, a fine art print, free trade organic tea, and other special gifts. The Full Suitcase includes everything in the Backpacker plus 3 additional books. As a bonus, a portion of every box goes to help the featured countries.
Cat Subscription Boxes
We can’t forget our cats since they deserve some love too. They’ve had a rough few years. Mika was diagnosed with leukemia and Sebastian has thyroid disease among other health complications. We just want them to be happy with what little time we have left with them.
What It Is: 5-6 unique toys and goodies for your cats.
Cost: $22.95
What We Love: As soon as we opened our box and saw the NYC theme, we knew we would love Meowbox for life. Meowbox supports small businesses by including at least one handcrafted, locally-made toy each month. They also feed one can of food to a shelter cat for every box sold. If your cat is on a special diet, you can select “no food” to get an extra toy instead.
If you have dogs, you can also look into Barkbox (not affiliated with Meowbox).
What It Is: 5 or 7 Cat toys, healthy treats, and cat products.
Cost: $19.99 – $29.99
What We Love: Each month has a different theme, and our boys always love the toys. As soon as we opened the Kitnipbox, that cats drooled all over the toys. There are enough toys that we can also gift some to friends. Each month includes 5 goodies in the single cat box and 7 in the multicast box. They also donate a portion of their proceeds to different shelters and rescues each month.
Coupon: Use code LOCALADVENTURER for 15% your first box.
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Esther + Jacob
Esther and Jacob are the founders of Local Adventurer, which is one of the top 5 travel blogs in the US. They believe that adventure can be found both near and far and hope to inspire others to explore locally. They explore a new city in depth every year and currently base themselves in Las Vegas.
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