24 Dating Ideas That Are Unbelievably Cheap Yet Awesome

“It’s the little things in life.”

Happiness comes from the smallest, subtlest of gestures. This applies to everything: even your relationship. In my own experience, I’ve enjoyed dates I had on a roadside Dhaba rather than a fancy, high-end restaurant. Although having fancy flings is great, when you have little cash, there’s no reason you should feel that you cannot enjoy each other’s company.

So here are a few ideas that may help you in the littlest of expense or nothing at all!

1. Season everything with love 🙂

Cook together, or better yet cook each other’s family recipes for each other.

 

2. Pick each other’s brains!

Choose a documentary, and have an intense discussion on it after watching. This lets you in on each other’s opinions and a friendly banter is always a great way of coming together.

 

3. Minds come together through books

Visit a library, and read books together. Or have a book club date night. Choose a book to read together, and hold an intimate book club meeting for two when you’re both done with it.

 

4. Ye tara, vo tara, har tara

Stargaze and try to name the constellations you’re staring at with the help of an app or book.

 

5. For those who are travel bugs

Buy a travel book of your dream travel destination, and read it together.

 

6. Paint together

You don’t have to be an artist for this. Buy a bunch of water colors that are easily washable and paint anything you want to. From simple papers, walls to each other’s faces and bodies. It’s a great idea to buy white tees or use an old one and go crazy colorful on them. Have your own personalized Holi!

 

7. Click away my dear!

Practice photo shoots if one of you is into photography. Click pictures of yourselves or each other’s or together and post them online and see who gets more likes.

 

8. Fun, on the rocks!

Play bartender and experiment with cocktails, mix drinks for each other and get wasted. Come up with your own names for the concoctions.

 

9. Be the kings and queens of your own make-shift fort

Camp in your room, and make blanket forts. Cook something quick like popcorn or 2-minute desserts to take in and indulge in telling each other ghost stories.

 

10. Relax, breathe…let go

Do a spa night at home, and give each other massages and relieve each other of all the hardships of the day.

 

11. YouTube surfing sessions

Scour YouTube for anything that you both like. Learn a new skill together from YouTube tutorials.

 

12. TV series debauchery

Start watching a TV series together. Or binge-watch your favorite series together. To make it more fun, watch it on mute and act out those scenes together, see if you can improvise on the dialogues! You can even change the language and also try fitting in Bollywood dialogues in Hollywood movies or vice versa and be assured you’d be having a serious laugh riot!

 

13. Is there anything more romantic than the sunset? *sigh*

Go to the rooftop of a very high building or just your own and enjoy the view. Admire the architecture in your city in the faltering light of the sunset.

 

14. We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round

Before that happens share or write out your bucket list with each other and try to cross off the things on that list together.

 

15. “Ist es nicht lustig, um eine neue Sprache zu lernen?” 😛

Learn a language together. Or learn words from different languages and annoy each other by speaking to them in only the language you’ve learned. Hire Google Translate as your assistant. 😛

 

16. Secondhand Serenade

Dedicate a song to each other or look up for karaoke tracks online and have a blast singing to them together.

 

17. Distances don’t separate you, they bring you closer

If you’re in a long-distance relationship, schedule Skype dates and discuss random crazy stuff you’ve seen or read. You can also pick a movie and watch it at the same time. And discuss it through chat. There are apps to help you do that.

 

18. Get competitive in the grocery store!

Go to your nearest grocery store and see who comes up with the best buy in 100 rupees.

 

19. Playtime! (Yes, I know what you’re thinking.) 😉

Play cards. Build a jigsaw puzzle together. Play video games together. As for the other kind, these games may awaken the challenger in you and challenges are a great aphrodisiac, believe me. 😉

 

20. “But the beauty is in the walking – we are betrayed by destinations.” – Gwyn Thomas

Take a stroll in your neighborhood holding onto one another. I bet you’ll see things differently.

 

21. I’m gonna pop some tags, Only got 20 dollars in my pocket..! (you recognize the song, right? )

Go thrift shopping together. The boys may not be too attracted to the prospect, but for the dirt cheap prices you can buy a tiny piece of happiness, and you may land up with something you both can cherish for a long time.

 

22. Be a faux- archaeologist for a day

Organize a treasure hunt for each other right in your home and make sure you save up the most exciting prize for the last. 😉

 

23. Scooby doo! Where are you?!

Do you miss the cartoons you used to watch as a kid? revisit your childhood by watching those beloved cartoons with your loved one.

 

24. “Dear, John….”

Write letters to each other. On paper, e-mail or text. Just pour everything you feel for each other and let the words speak for themselves.

 

I had a great time trying these out.

And I hope you guys do too. Enjoy! 🙂

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