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11 Great Cheap Dates at Home

Need some cheap date ideas?

    Wine Tasting Night: Discover your new favorite cheap wine! Buy a few bottles, cover them in brown paper bags, taste & rate!

    Beer Tasting Night: Just like wine tasting, but for the beer lover!

    Cooking Night: Stop watching the food channel & start cooking…together! Next…enjoy your meal by candlelight!

    Couples Massage: Check out an instructional book or video and relax! Make sure to create a spa atmosphere at home by dimming the lights, adding candlelight and soft music or nature sounds.

    Game Night: Pull out a few board games and make silly bets like the loser has to do the dishes all week!

    Puzzle Time: Tackle a puzzle together by the fire & enjoy hot chocolate

    Wii: Challenge your spouse to wii sports like bowling or golf!

    Travel the World from Home: Start dreaming about your next vacation! Pick up a few brochures from your travel agent, surf travel sites or watch the travel channel together. Kick it up a notch by preparing a meal from your dream vacation destination…Key Lime Pie anyone?

    Photo Albums: Look at old photo albums and bring back memories! How about your wedding album?

    Romantic Movie: Rent a romantic movie! My personal favs? Love Actually, Notting Hill, Sleepless in Seattle and Mamma Mia.

    Champagne and Chocolate Covered Strawberries: Just like at a fancy hotel, curl up in bed and enjoy a romantic movie with champagne and chocolate covered strawberries.

    Hopefully these ideas will get you thinking about more romantic at home date nights…enjoy!

    Please share your ideas for cheap dates at home!

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10 Comments

  • Wrote on 10th Aug, 2011 at 5:00 am

    Love it! We can always use “date night at home” ideas!

  • Kristl
    Wrote on 10th Aug, 2011 at 5:00 am

    Let me know your favorites! Thanks for visiting The Budget Diet!

  • Wrote on 10th Aug, 2011 at 5:00 am

    I loved your post last week about inexpensive wedding anniversary ideas. This is just as good. You have some great ideas!

  • Wrote on 10th Aug, 2011 at 5:00 am

    Such good ideas! We’ve done wine tasting like that at parties, but I never thought about doing at home for a date. We’ll get on that one right away ;-)

  • Wrote on 10th Aug, 2011 at 5:00 am

    Good ideas. We’re always looking for ways to save money and still have fun!

  • Kristl
    Wrote on 10th Aug, 2011 at 5:00 am

    There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned date night at home!

  • Kristl
    Wrote on 10th Aug, 2011 at 5:00 am

    Let me know how your cheap date night goes! Please share your favorite cheap wine with The Budget Diet crowd!

  • Kristl
    Wrote on 10th Aug, 2011 at 5:00 am

    Date nights are great and cheap date nights are even better!

  • Wrote on 13th Aug, 2011 at 5:00 am

    Great ideas. Although, watching the food shows is a lot less work than making the food myself! :)

  • Wrote on 14th Aug, 2011 at 5:00 am

    Great ideas! I think it can be so easy for us to just do our normal routine when we stay home, but really thinking about a date night at home would be fun, and so much more budget-friendly. :)

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