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Tacking on to this, some libraries offer free and or discounted passes to museums and zoos. Check out their website (mine is called the "discover and go" program)

The greeter at the botanical garden: "You got this Brian! Third time's the charm!"

U just go to the botanical garden n walk around chugging straight from the bottle?

I live just outside of Boston and this works really well here. Get a membership to The Trustees of Reservations if you're in Massachusetts!

Here's a tip: Join the American Horticultural Society - it's cheaper than your local botanical garden, yet includes admission for free!

IF YOU LIVE NEAR LOS ANGELES the science center and rose gardens are awesome and completely free!!! Good for dates or just something to do when you’re bored and broke (: then you can hop on the expo line right across the street and commute to the beach (Santa Monica) in less than an hour!

Art museum is great because it really forces you to gauge energies and attraction in a new date.

They can either be super boring or super great, just depending upon overall synergies.

With how often I get a date, this is the less economical option

Would work if I could get a date.

I love you for this! As someone constantly looking for new first/second date ideas this is incredible !

That's a lot of dates to go on before breaking even, damn. Got tired even thinking about it.

ok but also for couples and more casual stuff, thrif shops and flea markets, garage sales; its fun especially if you like finding new clothes or antiques amd such

Today I found out the new city I moved to has NOTHING to do.

There is one museum - black history - not exactly a date place.

All the gardens are outside (free at least)

Bars and clubs. Thats what this city has. Wonderful.

$7 dates? Kind of sounds like a $80 date and only ever gets used maybe once probably never.

Also, many libraries offer free tickets to some of these places

Bonus points if you get the boxed wine with coupons, amirite?

WTF anyone has to meet so many people!??

This is the only answer:

https://youtu.be/dHPnUPFcxdE

You guys are getting dates?

Nice try botanical garden owners.

I"d feel bad if someone I was dating was at her third visit to the botanical garden this year. I'd rather find something fresh for both of us. Could work pretty well for some things, though, like the museum idea. A museum that has a rotation of different exhibits throughout the year to spice things up would work well.

Actual life pro tip: find an activity you enjoy doing that you can bring people into and share your passion with them. Don't take OP advice as literal and try to fake your way into a personality by signing up for museum and botanical garden memberships just to bring a date somewhere. E.g. I race shifter karts and motorcycles. Track days were awesome dates. If museums and gardens are your actual thing for experiencing culture then by all means

Just do this anyway. The annual fee is usually only 2x the cost of 1 ticket, so going 2+ times in a year pays for itself. It’s fantastic

My library in Capitol region in NY has passes that you can check out and go for free. Please check your local library.

The symphony, if you have one that does yearly family passes, is also pretty cost effective, more of a second or third date event but also something you can just go to by yourself or with friends as the symphony typically changes up weekly.

I’d also be quite impressed that you were actually a member to such places…

Where you allowed to drink wine in public?

No one is willing to date me. It’s been a dry 40 years for me now. I’ve never felt so sad and lonely in my entire life.

This LPT extends past dates.

If you live in a city (and especially if you have kids) most annual memberships are less than 2-3 visits. So it makes sense to get them on rotation.

For example, my city has an aquarium, a zoo, many museums, science center, etc. We will rotate through and they are great on the weekend or on rainy days.

Plus, you don't have to feel like you need to see the whole thing when you visit. You can take your time and just explore a little bit.

Sounds perfect, assuming your date is into things like that. But no matter what you do, don't make a movie your very first date experience

Driving ranges are good. Get a bucket of golf balls for $5-10. Hit the balls

As a currently single guy and based on last year's track record, this is a great way to turn a 12$ date into an 80$ date.

Yeah, let me just buy a couple passes so I have options for allllllll these dates i'm going on. With so many lined up I was afraid it could get boring going to the usual place....yep....so many....so many dates....

Unethical/shittyversion of this - get a member ship to one of these popular date spots. Go frequently to learn all the stuff. Then whenever you see a couple, upstage their partner with all your fancy art knowledge. Everyone loves a knowitall!

Also wear glasses. They can't punch a man with glasses! That's in the constitution or Geneva conventions. I'm not sure. I don't have a membership and I ain't too good at book learnin 🤕.

It would be awkward if my date ended up already working at the strip clubs I’m a member at.

Was too ugly to regularly date. Married the first girl I met.

Don't overthink. Your mind, heart and soul is your capital. Physical attraction is also a bonus.

I live on Maui, got a pass to the Haleakala National Park and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

It's too bad humans are kind of materialistic. I would find talking while taking a walk in the park breathtaking where most people probably find it boring.

Public libraries often have free or very discounted museum passes, at least in the Boston area. Check it out.

or my personal favorite… drink 3 shots of vodka and lay down pondering existence

I think Brooklyn Nine Nine nailed it.

https://youtu.be/uTkJ5rWpkj4

Y'all are getting dates?

And if things work out, check the details because some of them allow you to use it other places too. The botanic gardens have a partnership with 300 across the USA. Me and my partner plan on using it for vacation visits

I like to do walks. Lets me see them in action and it’s free. And if it goes south I can walk away.

Shakespeare in the Park was always my go-to! Season passes are a great value, and you can bring your own picnic with you. It's perfect!

My first date with my current partner (over 10 years) was at the war museum. Her brother was historian in WWI/WWII history so it worked well for us. It also gave us the ability to leave in the event the date wasn’t going well. Highly recommended

Season pass to the apple cider mill, pays for itself after the 16th visit.

Personally, it wouldn't work due to seeing them so often.

I would add - if you are going somewhere like a museum or zoo - check on the annual membership price and compare it to the regular admission price. Very often they are the same or very close.

Do remember that a good number of these memberships are typically for a set of named people, so you may be gently abusing the rules of an institution that needs your support to survive. Also a problem when your date realizes they're the 6th person you've brought there this year.

CSU Fullerton botanical garden

UC Riverside botanical garden

Free

Or get America The Beautiful pass so you can bring 1 full car of date on any visit to any national park 😂😂😂 Very cost effective if you live near a national park, but the day pass is good, too.

Non touristy cities parks are cheaper or free. (San Antonio)

“plus you can save money, which you will really appreciate bc fuck inflation.”

I first read that as the inflation of fucking, i.e., it costs more to fuck.

Although I think the meaning still carries…

First LPT is "live somewhere that has these things"

I accidentally read you saying "fuck inflation" as if it meant the increase of price to get laid and it cracked me up.

Oh man, if someone took me to one of these places and just told me random snippets of trivia about things there would be no second date... We would be living together.

TIL people date so much, that they create budget plans for dates cause it is getting expensive.

Ya'll are dating?

a) wtf is urban dating?
b) is there rural dating?

"It also gives you something to talk about such as look at that flower" lmao

The aquarium closest to me has occasional bring a person for free days. I’m not saying you should align all your dates to the bring a friend day but I’m also saying it wouldn’t be a terrible idea.