Cheap Date Ideas - Inexpensive and High Quality

If you are looking for cheap date ideas, then this article is for you. Of course, when I say cheap I mean inexpensive, not poor in quality! I have several ideas to choose from all for $20 or less. After each date idea, I will list the estimated cost for the date, so you can choose one that best fits your budget.

Perhaps the most obvious date idea, is a movie night at home. Rent a movie, grab a bag of pop corn, some drinks and your sweetie. If you have a Netflix membership, the price of this date drops a bit as the cost per movie is reduced dramatically. Chances are you already have soda in your fridge, and if popcorn is not your thing, you have something to snack on readily available. Cost: Movie rental, snacks, gas (to get to the movie rental place and grocery store): Less than $10. You can wait until the kids go to bed to have some quiet time, so the extra nice thing about this date is it requires no babysitter.

An extension of the movie date would be to catch a cheaper show during the afternoon. No one says all dates have to be at night. If you are dying to see a film that is in the theatre, you can save anywhere from $3 to $5 per ticket by choosing the matinee. If you skip the drinks and popcorn at the concession stand, you have got yourself a movie date for about $15. Eat at home before you go catch the movie, and get a large drink to share. You will still get out of the movie theatre for around $20.