96 Alternative & Budget Date Options

For many people, dating is associated with big expenses and trips to restaurants and movies. Firstly, it is really expensive, and secondly, it quickly becomes boring. But to have a great time together, you do not need to spend a lot of money.

1. Cook your signature dishes for each other.

2. Have a nostalgic movie night. Watch your favorite movies that you enjoyed in school

3. Watch a free improv show.

4. Cook delicious food and go on a picnic.

5. Go to a farmer's fair, drink fresh juice and try delicious snacks.

6. Go to museums that neither of you have been to (preferably on days when admission is free, for example during the international "Night at the Museum" campaign).

7. Go to a free karaoke night and open your hearts to a song.

8. Visit a cafe with board games and play to your heart's content. In major cities, board game shops have weekly events where you can come and play for free.

9. Arrange a quiz night and show off your erudition. Play a team game that is similar to “What? Where? When?". This is a great way to spend time if you want to be active and social.

10. Make up your own city tour for yourself and visit all the places you have mapped out.

11. Choose a documentary and discuss it after watching.

12. Volunteer at an orphanage, homeless shelter, or other non-profit organization that needs your help.

13. Go swimming.

14. Look at the stars and try to name the constellations you see. Take a star map with you or use a special application.

15. Host a private book club just for two. Choose a book, read it, and then have a group discussion.

16. Collect or buy fruits in the country and figure out how to cook them deliciously. The process of joint cooking is very close.

17. Plan a trip together and share photos of places each of you want to go.

18. Buy a travel guide for the country you want to visit. Dream while reading it.

19. Go to the library and read something together.

20. Take a free meditation class.

21. Ride bikes around the city or suburbs.

22. Take 100 rubles each for shopping and see who can spend it better.

23. Go rollerblading.

24. Go ice skating. It's especially romantic if one or both of the couple can't skate.

25. Take a free factory tour.

26. Go bowling.

27. Take up a couples sport like tennis or badminton.

28. Cook each other dessert.

29. Play childish games.

30. Arrange outdoor recreation, observe birds and living creatures and try to identify each blade of grass, insect and animal.

31. Have a fondue dinner, experiment with the ingredients.

32. Go fishing.

33. Grab an ice cream cone and watch a movie at the drive-in theater.

34. Visit the zoo.

35. Go to a jazz bar.

36. Complete the puzzle.

37. Go to a local festival.

38. Go to a flea market and try to find things that you can then restore or decorate together.

39. Play mini golf.

40. Go to a tasting of your favorite drinks or arrange one yourself at home.

41. Go to an art exhibition.

42. Draw together.

43. Try to make complex origami.

44. Design mugs for each other.

45. Go on a romantic hike in nature.

46. Go to the playground and remember your childhood.

47. Take your dog for a walk.

48. Visit an animal exhibit.

49. Create an album of your best memories together.

50. Take pictures of each other.

51. Attend a free lecture.

52. Go to an author's meeting.

53. Solve the crossword.

54. Go to a dance class. If you do not want to pay, then before recruiting a new group, each dance school usually holds free open lessons.

55. Go to an 80s or 90s style party and choose an outfit to match.

56. Paint the pottery.

57. Go on a field trip.

58. Play video games.

59. Go to the airport and watch the planes take off.

60. Walk around IKEA.

61. Experiment with cocktails. Create your own combinations and recipes and name them.

62. Ride the ferry.

63. Set up camp in your room, make a tent out of blankets, climb inside and tell each other scary ghost stories.

64. Make and fly a kite.

65. Play Truth or Dare with each other.

66. Choose a small area near the house or in nature and remove all garbage from it.

67. Write each other a letter.

68. Go to the beach, build a sandcastle and throw rocks into the water.

69. Give each other a massage.

70. Learn something new from YouTube videos.

71. Start watching a series together.

72. Start a joint blog and write to it.

73. Do something with your hands.

74. Write a list of things you want to do before you die and share with each other.

75. Climb onto the roof of a tall building and enjoy the view. Take sparklers with you.

76. Enjoy the architecture of your city.

77. Watch a play together. There are many affordable places to watch performances at budget prices. This applies to productions by amateur and beginner theater groups.

78. Babysit each other's pets.

79. Go to a bar with darts or billiards and compete with each other.

80. Attend an open workshop. They are often free or cheap at various kinds of fairs.

81. Visit a climbing wall.

82. Build a snowman, make a snow angel, go sledding and have a snowball fight.

83. Go see a local band perform.

84. Buy some discounted promotion on a discount service and sell it together.

85. Visit a candy store or cafe and just talk while enjoying sweets.

86. Watch sports games.

87. Go to a poetry reading.

88. Play war with toy guns.

89. Launch a sky lantern during an evening walk.

90. Go to an evening film screening of a foreign art house film at your school or library.

91. Find and study the haunted house.

92. Take a random bus or train and get off in an unfamiliar place. Study it.

93. Make a pizza together with your favorite toppings.

94. Take part in some competition together.

95. Volunteer at an archaeological dig.

96. Arrange an early morning walk or picnic on the banks of the river to meet the dawn.

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