It Starts With Coffee

With summer here I always try to think of fun date ideas for Andrew and me. Something about summer makes me want to get out of the house and find new things for us to do. I am partnering with Kaiku® Visa® Prepaid Card and the Visa Clear Prepaid program to update my list of 10 inexpensive date night ideas with you that work in almost every city.

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1. Picnics: There are a TON of places around us to have picnics. Parks, the arboretum, Klyde Warren Park (which is a big area that has food trucks, mini golf, games, etc.) even our own backyard! I love having picnics and I am fortunate that I can meet Andrew for lunch during the week. Picnics are a favorite of ours.

2. New coffee shops: I love finding new coffee shops where we can sit, have coffee, and talk about what’s going on in life. Or we can sit together and read, surf the net, etc. It’s so relaxing to leisurely have coffee with the person you love.

3. Movie Under the Stars: On the outskirts of Dallas we have a drive-in movie and I have always wanted to go. We also have, during the summer, somewhere we can go watch movies on a Friday night one time a month. They also have music, before, wine, snacks etc. You bring a blanket and they usually show older movies. Sometimes they have movies that came out just last year too.

4. Restaurant Week: I know most big cities have restaurant week. Ours falls at the end of the summer. For around $35 a person you can go to many 4 and 5 star restaurants and eat off a prix fixe menu. We try to go to at least one or two a year. I would for sure check in your area to see when you have restaurant week and if you are in Dallas let me know your favorite restaurants to try!

5. $1 movies: I love going to the dollar theater and seeing a movie or two I missed when they were in the regular theater. Movies are SO expensive now that we do not go as much as we used to. Also the quality of movies just isn’t that great all the time. So rather than spend $15 a ticket plus food, drinks etc. to see a movie go spend just a few dollars and even if it isn’t that great you aren’t disappointed.

6. Yogurt/Sno Cones: One of our favorite things to do is go get dessert after dinner. Since we cook at home nearly every night going out to get yogurt or sno cones is pretty inexpensive. I am a sucker for the cookie dough toppings and Andrew really loves to try new flavors. We went twice last week!

7. Trail Walks/Hiking: We love to go for long walks together. Most weekends this is what you will find us doing in the mornings. Our neighborhood has tons of great trails that go through the golf course and the lake so we love going out and getting lost for a while. Plus it’s good exercise. It never feels like we are exercising though because we talk, explore and love to see all the animals (ducks, turtles, bunnies, etc.). Even when we lived downtown we would go to the Katy Trail, which was a trail through uptown and downtown. If you don’t have a trail just walk around your neighborhood!

8. Game Night: We love to play board games and have friends over for game nights. This is a great way to spend time with friends and each other without spending a ton of money! Order some pizza, buy drinks at the liquor store or grocery store and you can spend very little money and have a great time.

9. Window Shop: I love to shop but sometimes it’s not in the budget so something that I find fun is going to shopping centers and just walking in and out of shops looking around. We also love to go look in furniture stores too. That way we can get an idea of things we may want to buy down the road. Make it extra fun by grabbing a coffee or a drink from sonic and enjoying the outdoors while you people watch and window shop.

10. Fishing, Swimming, and Lakes: Andrew loves to fish! We both love lakes and swimming too. This can be a really great inexpensive date together. Our neighborhood has fishing ponds, pools etc. so we don’t have to go far. We also have friends/family with boats so lake adventures are never too far off. If you already have the fishing equipment this can cost nearly nothing!

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What are your favorite inexpensive date night ideas?

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