Cheap Dating: 101 Inexpensive Date Night Ideas

Date nights can get tricky when the bank account isn’t offering much to work with. Don’t let that stop you! There are plenty of great date ideas to choose from that don’t require a lot of cash.

Take a Walk on the Beach

If you live near a beach, this is perfect for you – the stereotypical “walk on the beach” isn’t actually cliche at all. Many girls would love to be taken for a walk along the waterfront.

Take a Nature Hike

If she’s really adventurous, take her for a nature walk through a local trail. If she’s more adventurous, organize a trip through more rugged terrain.

BONUS: Make it an adventure! Get packed up and make it a full fledged, week long backpacking trip (though be careful: this will drive you both to the edge!)

Bowling

Bowling alleys are becoming cheaper and cheaper around my neck of the woods, and it’s probably the same for where you live. Shoes + a game can be as cheap as $2 in some places I’ve gone, and even cheaper if you’re not very good ($.01 a pin per game).

BONUS: Imagine you’re twelve years old and have your own private bowling pizza party. Just order a cheap $5 pizza from a nearby chain or order from the alley itself and enjoy.

Play a Game

Board games and card games are great ways to bond with one another. Just arrange a day to play games and have at it.

BONUS: Learn a new game together, that perhaps neither of you have ever heard of!

Do a Puzzle Together

Any puzzle will do – crossword, jigsaw, Sudoku. Anything that you both like can work as a great way to just lay around and spend time together.

BONUS: Make it a daily ritual to sit down and do a puzzle. It will pay off in the long run as it become a part of your routine. No matter how busy you may get in the future, the puzzle will bring you together.

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Fawn Weaver is the USA Today® and New York Times® bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 900,000 women in over 110 countries around the world. When she’s not blogging or working on her next project, she's happily doting over her husband of nearly eleven years, Keith.

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