99 alternative and budget dating options

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Many people associate dating with spending big and going to restaurants and movies. Firstly, it is really expensive, and secondly, it quickly becomes boring. But to have a great time together, you don't need to spend a lot of money.

1. Prepare your own specialties for each other.

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

3. Watch a free impromptu show.

4. Prepare a delicious meal and go for a picnic.

5. Go to the farmers' fair for some freshly squeezed juice and delicious snacks.

6. Visit museums that you both haven't been to (preferably on days when admission is free, such as the International Museum Night event).

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

8. Visit a board game café and have plenty of fun. In major cities, board game shops hold weekly events where you can come and play for free.

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

10. Create your own city tour for yourself and visit all the places you have charted.

11. Select 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 for a swim.

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

15. Start a private book club for two only. Choose a book, read it, and then have a joint discussion.

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

17. Plan a trip together and share photos of the places each of you wants to visit.

18. Buy a travel guide for the country you want to visit. Dream as you read it.

19. Go to the library and read something together.

20. Go to a free meditation class.

21. Ride your bike around the city or suburbs.

22. Take 100 rubles each for purchases and see who can best spend them.

23. Go rollerblading.

24. Go ice skating. This is especially romantic if either or both of the couple are unable to skate.

25. Take a free factory tour.

26. Go bowling.

27. Play a pair sports such as tennis or badminton.

28. Make each other dessert.

29. Play children's games.

30. Go outdoor, birdwatching and wildlife watching, and try to identify every blade of grass, insect and animal.

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

32. Go fishing.

33. Pick up the ice cream cone and watch a movie in the car cinema.

34. Visit the zoo.

35. Go to a jazz bar.

36. Assemble the puzzle.

37. Visit 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 it yourself at home.

41. Go to an art exhibition.

42. Draw together.

43. Try hard origami.

44. Design mugs for each other.

45. Take 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 show.

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 puzzle.

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

55. Go to an 80s or 90s party and choose the appropriate outfit.

56. Paint on the pottery.

57. Take a guided tour.

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 come up with names for them.

62. Take a ferry ride.

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

64. Build and fly a kite.

65. Play Truth Or Dare with each other.

66. Choose a small area near your home or outdoors and remove all trash from it.

67. Write each other a letter.

68. Go to the beach, build a sand castle and drop rocks into the water.

69. Give each other a massage.

70. Learn something new with YouTube videos.

71. Start watching a show together.

72. Start a collaborative blog and write to it.

73. Do something with your own 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. Bring some sparklers with you.

76. Enjoy the architecture of your city.

77. Watch the play together. There are many places available where you can watch performances at budget prices. This applies to performances by amateur and novice theater groups.

78. Sit with 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 the climbing wall.

82. Make a snowman, make a snow angel, go sledding and play snowballs.

83. Go see a local band perform.

84. Buy a discount on a discount service and implement it together.

85. Visit a pastry shop or cafe and just talk while enjoying the sweets.

86. Watch sports games.

87. Go to poetry readings.

88. Play a war with toy pistols.

89. Launch a sky lantern during your evening walk.

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

91. Find and explore a haunted house.

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

93. Make a pizza for two with your favorite toppings.

94. Take part in a competition together.

95. Volunteer at an archaeological site.

96. Take a walk or picnic by the river in the earliest morning to meet the sunrise.

97. Start learning a new language together.

98. Play the tourist game Geocaching.

99. Show each other baby pictures.