Dating, whether you are single or with someone, can be sooo expensive.

Going out to dinner and a movie can really add up. Depending on where you go for dinner and what you get to eat and drink while watching the expensive movie, the total cost for one date can easily add up to $100.

For one date.

Tired of the same old dinner-and-a-movie-date?

Are you tired of spending so much money on one date?

Are you tired of the same-old-same-old-dinner-and-a-movie-date?

When it comes to dating, creativity goes out the window for most people. We settle in to the same old same old and then wonder why we get bored.

And going to the movies first and then going to dinner afterwards is not being creative.

One working definition of creativity

My definition of creativity is that being creative is simply looking at something that has always been there and seeing something that has not been seen before.

Applied to dating this definition of creativity suggests that we look around us to see what has always been there to do and yet turn it into a date.

In my neighborhood there is a Barnes and Noble bookstore with a Starbucks Coffee attached. A great example of a creative and inexpensive date would be for two people to get a cup of coffee and talk. Follow this up with going to the bookstore and looking at books together. You get to show each other your interests and get to know someone a bit better.

If you really wanted to make this one work, look at a book of poetry together and read it to each other.

If you just get coffee, you can bring it all in for just under ten bucks. Buy a small or discounted book and you can still get in under twenty dollars.

Beats the heck out of the $100 dollar dinner and a movie date.