In this post, I’ll show you six (6) ways to keep your dates super cheap or even free.
If you want more than just being a girl’s money machine, this is for you.
(note: many guys tie their pride to being the one who pays. That’s fine. If that’s you, this article isn’t for you. This is for guys who want to sleep with the girls they date and maybe turn them into FWBs or girlfriends. This is also for guys who are broke but still want to date. In that case, you want money to matter less and the focus to be on YOU and THE GIRL)
#1: Keep Dates SHORT or Come READY
You need to plan your date before going on it.
Doing this small thing (planning your date) will take a bit more time but will save you lots of money and save you from wasting time on boring dates!
You need to plan
a.) where you’ll meet her
b.) where you’ll go on the date
c.) what you’ll do and how much it costs
d.) where you’ll go after the first part, and
e.) make backup plans (like what to do if things go great or just okay but she wants to keep going).
A badly planned date is like a business project with no plan – it goes over budget.
You both grab coffee; the chat is good; you want more time but didn’t plan ahead; so you suggest dinner; you both walk around, check out places, pick one randomly, and end up with a big bill.
Yikes.
Thinking through the date first helps you stop surprise spending.
Once you’ve got a plan, stick with it.
Like if you plan a simple date (you don’t know her well and she’s not ready for a full one, so you meet for a short 45-minute coffee chat then leave), follow that plan or use a backup plan if things go great (like, “If we’re really clicking I’ll ask her to walk with me by the water, and if it’s still going well we’ll go to my place for wine”).
You can also bring the stuff you’ll need so you don’t have to buy them.
#2: Give MORE Than Money
This might seem too simple to say, but you should have more to offer girls than just paying for things.
Lots of guys lean on money.
They try to use it to make up for not being fun or sexy. They hope if they buy her something nice, she’ll ignore their dullness and be so thankful for the food, gifts, or outing that she’ll sleep with them or be their gf.
That’s silly.
You help someone out because of thanks. You do a favor because of thanks. But you don’t sleep with or marry someone from thanks. Unless that person saved your life and cared for you for years during sickness or something.
Also, making a woman feel “well treated” by spending money on her won’t make her want you more. Any guy in town can take her out for food, drinks, concerts, flowers, or cheap gifts. That doesn’t impress her; it just says, “I’m the same as all the other guys!”
If your plan is to buy your way into bed, you’ll need to spend much more and in bigger ways – like giving her a nice place to live (many married men with good jobs do this for their side chicks). That works. “Let me buy dinner and drinks” doesn’t.
What can you do on dates besides spending money on her?
You can:
Playfully tease her and start flirting
Ask deep questions and learn what matters to her
Flip the script or use flirty talk to show you’re a sexy catch
Touch her and make her feel shivers with your touch
Do fun things with her that make her feel excited and more turned on
Doesn’t that sound way better than “buy her stuff”?
Well guess what: it’s more fun for her too.
#3: Take a Walking Date
You can have a date where the whole plan is just to “walk around”!
You can:
Walk through your city, checking out cool sights, going through different areas.
Walk up and down the beach, boardwalk, by the water, lake, or pond in your area.
Walk from one cool spot to the next.
Walk from where you met to a fun (hopefully private!) spot you found.
You can talk to her while you walk. You can bump into her, spin her around, hold her hand, walk arm-in-arm, and so on to get close and make things fun.
It’s possible to spend zero money just walking with a girl and have a GREAT time!
And, when it ends, you can “happen” to end up right near your place and ask her in for some food or a drink.
#4: Booze & Cruise
Tell her you’ll meet up and that you’ll bring the drinks. Fill a small flask with your favorite drink (you can ask her what she likes before the date and bring that), then show up and start the date.
You can mix this with other ideas here: walking dates, looking at shops, even grabbing some ice cream! Just pull out your flask and take small sips together now and then.
You both get to feel a light buzz without buying drinks at a bar, while also making whatever you’re doing more fun. Plus, it builds a playful “just us” feeling, since no one else knows you two are drinking!
#5: Visit Monuments or Art Exhibits
All these are fun, look classy, seem fancy, and often don’t cost anything or are super cheap.
Even if she’s lived in that town forever, there are likely some landmarks or art shows she’s never seen. You get to be the one to show them to her.
Again, these give you something to do together while you work the real part of the date (touch, bonding, flirting, sexy talk, etc.).
A cool art show looks fancier than a pricey dinner 1and doesn’t give off the “I’m trying to buy your love” vibe like dinners do.
#6: Have Her Come Over
Just ask her to come right to your place.
If she’s cool with it, this is one of the cheapest dates you’ll ever have!
Just make sure your place is clean and you’ve fixed up all the small things you should fix before the date.
CONCLUSION
See?
You don’t need to spend $500 on a date with a girl.
You don’t even need to spend $50.
You don’t even need to spend $5, if you don’t feel like it.
It’s not about being cheap. I mean, maybe you are, maybe you’re not. But just from a smart point of view, removing money AS a factor on dates makes things way easier.
The choice comes down to you and if she’s into you not about what you can “offer” and how that compares to what other guys have tried to buy for her.
-MOS
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A man could just tell her, "We better just go dutch for dinner". If she is not okay with that, the man has just dodged the proverbial bullet. I once told a woman that, and she said, "That's fine, we are just friends anyway". So she admitted to me that dating is quasi-prostitution for her.
Unfortunately this is needed in the modern era because the likelihood of a Man being used strictly just for a meal at a really nice place is high. No, the money is not the main fucking issue either.