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.

Share a walk on the beach and collect sea shells as mementoes

Attend a church service together

Find your local comedy club and laugh yourself silly

Make a banana split or a sundae together at home; have fun with the ice cream, syrups and fruits

Play billiards together and teach her the tricks

Go shopping together and get familiar with each other’s tastes and fancies.

Test drive a new car together

Plan a fancy dinner at home with fine food, candles, dim lights and soft music

Spend a night stargazing, with the help of a book on constellations

Organizing an indoor picnic with themes like a Hawaiian night, is an example of great creative date ideas

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

Get five or six couples together and jointly paint a garage forsome one needy, and relax later at a campfire

Dress up like Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus and entertain the local children

Visit a local antique store and restore a piece for your date

Go to a "deserted island" picnic - find a "deserted island" in the middle of a road

Clean a basement or garage for someone, like your grandparents

Rent a movie and recreate a theatre experience in your living room, with dim lights and plenty of popcorn

Walk in the park or in a local nature reserve - combine exercise and fitness with romance

Spend an evening playing games like Monopoly, Scrabble etc.

Cuddle up and read a book together

Explore a local flea market

Have a progressive fast food dinner - salad at Wendy’s, Pizza at Pizza Hut….

Take a tour of a local factory

Buy flowers, take them home and make arrangements together

Donate blood together also makes for a charitable and creative date idea

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

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

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

Get your palms read: a fun, creative date idea

Sign up for a one-night class at your local college

Take a tour of garage sales in your neighbourhood

Ride the Ferris wheel at a local carnival

Give each other haircuts

Go to the library and share your favourite books

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

Write a poem together

Play frisbee

Wake up early to catch the sunrise together

In snowy places, build a snowman together

Make a mixed tape or CD

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