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First-Rate Cheap Date Ideas
Rod Froseth
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!
About The Author
Rod
Froseth is a freelance writer, photographer and webmaster of
www.theromanticway.com, inspiration for a
romantic way of life. Visit
TheRomanticWay.com
to subscribe to Rod's free ezine, "Along TheRomanticWay".
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