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cheap date night ideas please

9 replies

glub · 09/10/2013 22:00

we're both pretty skint but would like to be out of the house for a bit. let's say we could spend about £10 each max if we had to but would like value for money

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anon2013 · 09/10/2013 23:38

bowling? check the local papers for dancing lessons?

Charlesroi · 09/10/2013 23:55

A few of our local pubs do a meal and a drink for just over a fiver. Maybe you could find something similar?
Orange 2 for 1 cinema deal? Smuggle in your own sweets and have a drink afterwards.
If you can get the house to yourselves buy a charity shop dvd and a supermarket takeaway.

NotDead · 10/10/2013 00:03

walk up hill.
walk back down again
get home
eat fish supper

CharityFunDay · 10/10/2013 04:00

You can't beat a night at the bingo, if you have one local.

Sounds shit, but it really occupies your mind and gets the adrenaline pumping. Plus, you might win! (Well, OK, probably not, but if you're skint already the prospect of a windfall will do wonders for the imagination).

A town centre cruise of the charity shops with a cheap café coffee in between stops would kill an afternoon quite pleasantly, unless your local charity shops have done that thing where they believe they are upmarket vintage boutiques and put their prices up. My sister and I regularly kill a whole Saturday afternoon doing the charity shop circuit, and have found that imaginary spending is almost as therapeutic as real spending.

Video/DVD rental. (Does that even exist any more?)

Near where I live is an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet restaurant for £9.99. Obviously, you could only drink tapwater to go with it on that budget (which they are legally obliged to serve btw) but if you starved yourself beforehand and really took your time, you could get quite an evening out of it. Google to see if you have a local equivalent.

You could definitely get a decent meal and pint at your local Wetherspoons for less than a tenner. Check what days they have what menus, then rock up and relax. Plus the motley assortment of outcasts that drink in 'spoons pubs make for interesting people-watching.

Do you know any drug dealers? Ecstasy is around £2-£3 a pill and will liven up an evening at home, especially with sexytime.

OK, that last one won't be to everyone's liking.

Also, for a tenner each, you could afford a decent meal and some cheap booze from your local Lidl. I once fed two people for a week on a tenner at Lidl, and know from experience that you can get some amazing meals for that money if you 'splurge'.

Walks are definitely good, but the trouble is you have to walk home again once you've had enough. Unless you spend your £20 between the two of you on some beer at a pub at the end of your walk, then a taxi-fare home.

If you're going out in the day time, have you looked into your local bus-service? Many do a cheap all-day ticket, and (if you planned with timetables) you could take a packed lunch on a bus-tour of local places. Without knowing where you live, it's impossible to say whether this would be worthwhile, but in my hometown I am within striking distance of several very nice rural areas and villages.

Do you have a local pick-your-own farm? Fills an afternoon and you end up with loads of cheap fruit with which to make pies, puddings and crumbles at home.

I can probably think of other cheapo activities, but these would be my starting points on that sort of budget. (although obv these reflect my personal inclinations).

CogitoErgoSometimes · 10/10/2013 07:58

'Downton Abbey Night'. Have supper, dress up, then head for the nearest, biggest, poshest hotel - the sort with roaring fires and leather armchairs - where you camp out in their lovely lounge, order a few drinks and nibbles and make them spin out all night.

glub · 10/10/2013 10:14

hahha cogito am afraid there aren't any posh hotels round my way or we'd happily do that.

charity some good ideas there

thanks all

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Teeb · 10/10/2013 10:47

I'm sorry, I burst out laughing in between the list of 'farm shops, long walks, evening meals, charity shop afternoons' the question 'Do you know any drug dealers?' was raised on a mumsnet relationship thread.

MumsAlterEgo · 10/10/2013 12:39

*Picnic when the weather is okay.
*Cheap nights out. Eg; cinema or bowling.
*Affordable meals. Eg; all you can eat buffet or a pub lunch.
*Night in. Eg; A nice home made meal or a movie night.
*A couples board game (sexual or otherwise).
*Places of cultural interest.
*Find coupons or offers on places like theme parks.
*If you like walking geocaching can be a bit of fun.

CharityFunDay · 10/10/2013 17:48

I'm sorry, I burst out laughing in between the list of 'farm shops, long walks, evening meals, charity shop afternoons' the question 'Do you know any drug dealers?' was raised on a mumsnet relationship thread.

I aim to please Grin

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