It’s really fun to try new things with your partner, and not just watch Netflix all day together, but sometimes it can be hard to keep up with expensive restaurants and concert tickets. Scroll through these cheap and fun date ideas to make your next date fantastic and frugal!
1.Going on a Picnic
Check your weather app and when the sky is clear go to your local park and have a picnic day! Bring a speaker and your favorite foods. Maybe you can even cook the food together before you pack it! FOR FREE!
2.Beach day
If you live near a beach then plan a whole beach day together! Walk the boardwalk, build sandcastles, write each other’s names in the sand and pack a snack. Take a walk next to the waves in the wet sand and sit by the shore to watch the sunset at the end of the day. All for free!
3.Hiking
Hold hands as you brush away beautiful foliage…for free! Enjoy the views of the picturesque mountains around you while enjoying the view of your Significant other as well. Make sure to take cute pics for the gram!
4.Baking at home
Bake a cake with each other, make cookies, have a sugar rush and turn on your favorite show while you’re waiting for everything to cook! Maybe try something challenging like learning how to make macaroons!
5.Homemade spa night
Make your own do it yourself face masks! Cut cucumbers to put on your eyes! Use a plethora of bath bombs! Indulge in some self-care with someone that you care about!
6.Play a sport or work out together
Shoot hoops or go to the neighborhood tennis courts! Attend a free Zumba class! Train for a 5k!
7.Have a photo shoot
While many of these dates are extremely insta-worthy, go a step higher and plan an Instagram date! Plan a photo shoot together! Pick a cool location or just go by the natural light in your backyard. You can make your own personal cute photo album together or spam your followers with extremely cute mildly professional couple photos.
8.Paint together
Get cheap canvases at your local art supply store and paint the day away (or paint each other!).
9.Stargaze
Live out the lives of romantic comedy stars. Go to the top of the highest hill in town and open the skylight on top of the car and discuss your dreams while seeing if you can point out your zodiac signs. Better yet if one of you happens to own a pickup truck, put a blanket in the back seat and pretend that you’re camping. FOR. FREE!
10. Go thrift shopping
Okay, this cute date is going to require some money, but it’s cheap and you’ll both have cute new outfits that you picked out together!
11. Movie marathon/ Binge watch a series
Pick a new series or binge watch Netflix together. Maybe decide on a certain genre and only watch movies associated with that for the entire day. Maybe you can stream all of the Insidious movies and cuddle together while terrified!
12.Explore your city
Take a day trip down to the city and really explore it. Try to see your city in a new light. Look up free and fun things to do there and find new spots to call your own!
13.Invent new food together
Turn on Master Chef for inspiration and dig into your pantry and pull out random ingredients. Create a never before seen dinner or dessert and name it after your couple name.
14. Make vision boards
Get out all of your aesthetic colored paper and some boards. Visually map out how you want your futures to be. Add in colorful pictures that you can print for inspiration and motivate each other to dream big!
15. Make a bucket list together
Spend the day making a list of all of the things that you want to do together and have fun to cross off things on the list for your special weekend dates.
16.Drive around and look at dream houses
Be neighborhood tourists and go into neighborhoods where celebrities are rumored to be living. Look at mansions and pity your financial standings with each other or get motivated together and build on your goals and dreams!
17.Teach each other something
Maybe they play guitar and you’re an expert coder. Whatever unique skill you’ve learned take the day to teach each other! You can do what you love with the one that you love for no price at all.
18. Go to a poetry slam
Snap with each other and have an artistic evening. There are many poetry slams that occur in cafes and you don’t have to spend a dime. Talk about your favorite ones after and maybe try creating and sharing your own personal poems with each other.
19. See a cheap psychic
Be adventurous! Get your palms read! Bring out the Tarot cards! Whether you believe in it or not you can have a good laugh after or discuss how interesting your past lives were.
20.Game night with mutual friends
Pull out Yahtzee and monopoly! Or maybe you can play non-board games like manhunt or mafia. Get some popcorn and hot chocolate and enjoy a night in with your friends! Maybe it can be a double or triple date with your couple friends!
