These cheap date ideas are by no means
second-rate. If you're a real romantic, you know that romantic living
need not be expensive. Rather, it's simple, but a little involved as
you'll see in these 21 cheap romantic date ideas.
What makes a date romantic is not how
extravagant the price tag is but how much you reveal of yourself and
how creatively you interact with one-another. Most free romantic date
ideas are far more enjoyable than their pay counterparts. These cheap
date ideas require something of your creative, and sometimes wild and
risky side. One or two are downright outrageous. You'll enjoy!
Cheap Date Idea #1
Pay your local library a visit, and ask
the librarian where you can read aloud. Choose an engaging mystery or
steamy romance and spend the afternoon reading aloud to one-another.
Cheap Date Idea #2
Take two pads of lined paper, some nice
pens and visit a quiet coffee shop. Order two cappuccinos, and write
the stories of your lives. After one hour, read them aloud to
one-another. Then ask lots of questions.
Cheap Date Idea #3
Take a digital camera, go to a downtown
or busy area of town and make believe that you are paparazzi,
gathering as many candid shots of interesting people as you can. Next
date, see number four.
Cheap Date Idea #4
Upload your paparazzi shots which you
took in number three to a computer either at home or at an internet
cafe and write fantastic or crazy news stories incorporating the
photos. Email them to a friend or post them on a free web site and
send friends a link.
Cheap Date Idea #5
Take some nice watercolor paper or
sketch pads with brushes, paints and pencils and go to a town square
or park. Situate yourself at a table or bench and find something
beautiful in your surrounding to paint or sketch. Sign and exchange
your works and post them at home or work.
Cheap Date Idea #6
Here's a romantic date idea for when
you don't know one-another well. Go to a cemetery where your
relatives are buried, plant flowers and share with your sweetheart
some stories about your family history.
Cheap Date Idea #7
Take bicycles or roller blades, pack a
lunch and choose an easy trail ride or wander through some country
roads. Stop often when you find something interesting to look at or
just to rest and talk.
Cheap Date Idea #8
Visit an art museum, conservatory or
botanical garden and pretend it's your first date. Unless of course
it is your first date, then you won't need to pretend. Stop to sit on
every bench, hold hands and kiss.
Cheap Date Idea #9
Get tickets to a local high school or
college musical or drama performance. Ask the stars of the show for
their autographs on your program. Afterward, go for a walk in the
dark.
Cheap Date Idea #10
When in season, go to a strawberry
patch or apple orchard and pick a few baskets of your own. Have a cup
of coffee and enjoy some of your freshly-picked fruit. Finally,
return home with your produce and create a special
fresh-fruit-in-season dessert.
Cheap Date Idea #11
Visit an invalid or elderly person in
your neighborhood, and plant some flowers in their yard or flower box
for them. Stop in and share a cup of tea to brighten their day.
Cheap Date Idea #12
Stay Home! If you're
married-with-children, send the kids out to a babysitter and just
stay home. Order some Chinese take-out, leave the TV off and spend
some really intimate time together.
Cheap Date Idea #13
Make a trip to the grocery store and
pick up some creative pizza ingredients. Take your groceries home and
assemble your masterpiece pizza together. Choose a CD of music from
your youth, light candles and enjoy.
Cheap Date Idea #14
Check with your local parks and
recreation for the schedule of summer dramatic and musical
performances in the parks. Prepare a picnic supper, take in the
concert, then go for a quiet stroll after the show.
Cheap Date Idea #15
Get your school district's community
education program literature and choose a class on a subject about
which you know absolutely nothing. Attend together. You'll be
surprised at what you've been missing.
Cheap Date Idea #16
Check your yellow pages for the
locations of two or three used book stores. Visit them together and
unearth some literary treasures. Stop at a coffee shop and examine
your finds over a cappuccino.
Cheap Date Idea #17
Pick up your Sunday newspaper and look
up the local parade of new homes. Get in the car and visit three of
the most expensive homes making believe that you're really rich. Be
careful that you don't sign anything! Afterward, stop at a service
station to pick up their 3 for $1 hot dog special and a Coke.
Cheap Date Idea #18
Call your local college or university
and inquire about their film society's schedule. Take in a screening
of a foreign or art film and join the discussion group afterward.
You'll enjoy the departure from the usual theater and DVD fare.
Cheap Date Idea #19
Take your digital camera, choose 10 or
12 unusual or even bizarre locations and ask a stranger at each
location to take a picture of the two of you. Go home and prepare an
album of your day out or post them on a free website and send friends
a link.
Cheap Date Idea #20
Go to a second hand clothing store
together and select an outfit for each other without the other
knowing what it is. Exchange outfits, and change into them. Go out
for an inexpensive romantic dinner and find out how merciful (or
not!) the other is.
Cheap Date Idea #21
Here's our simplest, yet most
traditional and romantic cheap date idea. On a hot August night, take
a stroll to your favorite ice cream shop. Get a cone or sundae and
stroll down the city street to check out the shop windows.
Add your own, but mostly be together.
Enjoy your dates!
Rod Froseth
Rod Froseth is a freelance writer,
photographer and webmaster of http://www.theromanticway.com/,
inspiration for a romantic way of life. Visit TheRomanticWay to
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