40 cheap dating ideas - How to go on inexpensive dates and still have fun!

Dates need not be the routine or run-of-the mill dinner or a movie. With a little imagination and a little effort, you can come up with memorable, unique and extraordinary dating encounters which are not very expensive. Here are some inexpensive dating ideas.

1. Share a walk on the beach and collect sea shells as mementoes
2. Attend a church service together
3. Find your local comedy club and laugh yourself silly
4. Make a banana split or a sundae together at home; have fun with the ice cream, syrups and fruits
5. Play billiards together and teach her the tricks
6. Go shopping together and get familiar with each other’s tastes and fancies.
7. Test drive a new car together
8. Plan a fancy dinner at home with fine food, candles, dim lights and soft music
9. Spend a night stargazing, with the help of a book on constellations
10. Organizing an indoor picnic with themes like a Hawaiian night, is an example of great creative date ideas
11. Take a city bus tour - you may really enjoy hitherto unknown facts about your city.
    Going canoeing in a local lake is another creative date idea
12. Get five or six couples together and jointly paint a garage forsome one needy, and relax later at a campfire
13. Dress up like Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus and entertain the local children
14. Visit a local antique store and restore a piece for your date
15. Go to a "deserted island" picnic - find a "deserted island" in the middle of a road
16. Clean a basement or garage for someone, like your grandparents
17. Rent a movie and recreate a theatre experience in your living room, with dim lights and plenty of popcorn
18. Walk in the park or in a local nature reserve - combine exercise and fitness with romance
19. Spend an evening playing games like Monopoly, Scrabble etc.
20. Cuddle up and read a book together

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1. Explore a local flea market
2. Have a progressive fast food dinner - salad at Wendy’s, Pizza at Pizza Hut….
3. Take a tour of a local factory
4. Buy flowers, take them home and make arrangements together
5. Donate blood together also makes for a charitable and creative date idea
6. Create a mock-up of a drive-in in your garage by arranging your TV and D V D along with your car, just like a real drive-in with lots of popcorn handy
7. Create a photo scrapbook of your dates, choosing the best photos among the different   pictures of your dates you have taken together, using your digital cameras
8. Plan a ‘Favourite day’ for your date - this can be done only if you have been perceptive enough to sense his or her likes/dislikes. So ‘Her day’ involves wearing her favourite colour, eating her favourite food, watching her favourite movie etc
9. Get your palms read: a fun, creative date idea
10. Sign up for a one-night class at your local college
11. Take a tour of garage sales in your neighbourhood
12. Ride the Ferris wheel at a local carnival
13. Give each other haircuts
14. Go to the library and share your favourite books
15. Head to the highest point in town and enjoy the view. Some restaurants with great views allow coffee and desserts without meal orders and can be a cheap and exciting date
16. Write a poem together
17. Play frisbee
18. Wake up early to catch the sunrise together
19. In snowy places, build a snowman together
20. Make a mixed tape or CD

Get to know what your partner really loves doing and you can plan many inexpensive dates.