Fun Dates Without Breaking The Bank

In your lifetime, you've probably been on the date where either yourself or the person you were on the date with spent quite a large sum of money for a simple day or night out. Perhaps you're the kind of person who likes to spend lots of money on a date, but sometimes it's just unreasonable to expect your significant other to have the money to consistently spend large amounts for dates. What do you do, then? Dump him or her and just move on? No no, that would be rather shallow. Instead, let me offer up some ideas for really fun (and cheap!) dates:

1) Cooking Date: This is the staple of my and my fiancée's relationship. We both love to cook (she got me hooked on it after she taught herself how to cook), and we find that a home cooked meal can be as delicious as a restaurant meal at a fraction of the cost. For example, we have, in the past, ran 40-50 dollar bills at Italian restaurants on classics such as Fried Zucchini and Baked Ziti. With some research, we were able to find recipes for both of these delicious meals that, when made from scratch, only cost us about 25-30 dollars, depending on what kind of cheese we used in the baked Ziti. That's about 20 dollars saved just by doing the work ourselves. Coupled with the fact that it's hilarious to watch us bicker over how well mixed something is or how much of an ingredient we already put into the recipe, cooking dates are sources of laughter and yums!

2) Picnic: If you have a park near your home, then get yourself a cheap wicker basket and blanket from your local thrift shop, pack a couple of sandwiches, buy some chips, and go outside and enjoy the weather! It's always nice to have a good conversation while the sun is shining overhead, there are families with their pets playing nearby, and a lovely significant other to just stop and stare at.

3) A walk around town: Do you live in a pretty large city? Perhaps you come from a small town of only a few hundred people. No matter what, there's always something worth seeing and finding wherever you may live. This is a great way to find those little mom and pop restaurants that you hear about from your friends or from random people you pass by on the street. It's great to support local owners, and the food is probably much cheaper than at a restaurant.

These are three simple things you can do to save some cash on your dates. It'll allow you to go on more adventurous dates in the future as well as maintaining a high level of enjoyment with your significant other.

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