- Hi, I'm Hannah.
Welcome back to my channel.
So I talk a lot about sex and relationships online
and I love talking about taboos
and breaking down stigma around things,
but today is going to be a bit more casual
and a bit more PG-rated
'cause we're gonna talk about dating.
Ah, dates!
I mean, actually, some people love dating,
other people just hate it.
I personally love dating.
When I was single,
I absolutely loved going on lots and lots of different dates
and now that I'm in a relationship,
I try and make a really big point of
we're gonna go out and experience things
and do dates together.
It's very easy to not do that
when you're in a relationship and you live together.
You can get a bit lazy.
But one of the trickiest things about dating,
whether you are single
or if you are in a relationship, is money.
Because dates can be expensive.
And especially if you're single and going on lots of dates
many times a week with multiple people,
then that adds up.
And so I wanted to share with you some ideas
that I had for free dates.
Things that won't cost you anything.
The first idea is geocaching.
Now, if you haven't heard of geocaching before,
there's basically a website/app that you can get.
And a geocache is like a box of something
out in the nature world.
Just anywhere, they can be anywhere.
And this app has all of the locations registered on it
and it's like a treasure hunt.
And you can pick one that's near-ish
to where you are or whatever
and go for a walk and try and find it using your phone,
a compass, whatever it is.
They're usually hidden.
And there are different difficulties of ones to find as well
and they usually have a log book in the box,
and so you can sign it to be like
I found it, me, here, 2019.
My grandparents go geocaching a lot
and they have been together for,
hold on, over 50 years.
So clearly, if you take a leaf out of their books
then hopefully, you're onto a successful relationship.
I'm not sure if the success of their relationship
is solely down to the fact that they go geocaching,
but the fact that they do fun activities together
may be a contributing factor.
Number two, find free shit on Eventbrite.
So Eventbrite is a platform
that a lot of people will use when organising events,
and they'll use it for ticketing and things.
So you may have purchased or registered for free events
on Eventbrite before.
But have you ever actually just gone to the app
or gone to the website and searched
for whatever theme or something that you want to do
in your location,
and then you can filter out by price.
And it will literally just come up with loads and loads
of events that people are organising in your city,
in your town, whatever it is.
And there are a lot of free stuff on there as well.
You just have to register for free.
There is a whole scope of things that can be found on there
because it's just user generated.
It's just other people who are organising events
who need to somehow ticket the event
will stick it on Eventbrite.
You might find a free outdoor movie screening.
You might find a free lecture at a university
that's on a really interesting topic
that the two of you are interested in.
I don't know.
The world is your oyster with Eventbrite.
This is not sponsored by Eventbrite.
But genuinely, I would check it out.
Not just for dating but for going out with your friends
or just you going out and finding new things about your city
or town or whatever.
Would recommend.
Number three, go for a walk
or a hike or a bike ride.
Granted, for the bike ride,
you need bikes,
so maybe you had to buy a bike or you're renting a bike,
so it doesn't count as free.
But if you already have a bike then that'll be great.
I mean these do what they say on the tin,
but outdoors is always great
and it's a bit of exercise.
And I just love walking and talking.
I never used to enjoy walks as a kid.
It'd be like ugh,
your parents dragging you along for a walk,
but now as an adult, I'm like oh yes, let's go for a walk
and have deep, meaningful conversations.
The amount of DMCs that happen on walks,
I don't know what it is about just walking and the outside.
I think one of the things might be because you're not
facing the person.
Because you're walking side by side
or you're biking or hiking or whatever it is,
because you're not facing the other person,
you're both facing forwards,
so there's no eye contact,
I feel like you're more likely to open up
or say things that would be
more difficult to say face to face.
Number four.
So one of the most expensive things about dating
can be food.
You're often goin' out for food and drink.
However, you could make your way to a food market
and just eat the free samples.
Then you get a little taste of everything
and you get to wander round and eat things.
Granted, you might still be hungry at the end of it.
Cannot guarantee.
Depends how many free samples you manage to eat.
But a food market in general is a great date idea.
Great date, the great date.
Number five, games night.
So maybe you're at that stage in dating
where you're going over to each other's houses a bit,
or you live together,
and you've got some board games or some card games to play.
Or there are even games that require no materials,
although I think a lot of them are group games.
Anyhow, there are lots of games that you can play
with just two people,
and have a fun date night in,
either playing board games or card games,
or video games.
Why can't video games be a date night?
If that's the case then Dan and I
had a date night last night.
Mine and Dan's favourite card game to play
is called Flux,
and there's lots of different additions of it.
The only thing that I would be wary about
with games nights and dating
is if you're still in the getting to know each other phase
and you know that you're a bad loser.
And you may be embarrassed by the way that you would react
if things went badly for you in the game.
'Cause I know that that's how I am sometimes.
I can get quite salty if things aren't going my way
and then I act out
and I don't necessarily want the person who I fancy
to be seeing that version of me just yet. (laughs)
Number six, this is an obvious one,
especially if you live in the UK,
but museums and art galleries.
They are free and they are so good, genuinely.
Just go to any museum in the country
and you'll find something interesting.
A lot of museums and art galleries will usually have
a paid exhibition, but their main stuff,
their permanent collection,
and most of it is just free.
You can just wander around together, learning new things,
looking at nice, pretty art and things,
having a laugh, taking the piss out of art
'cause you're allowed to do that.
If you absolutely need this to be a free date though,
do not go to the gift shop.
Just don't do it.
Museum gift shops are my weakness.
So I know myself and I just wouldn't set foot in one
if I knew I couldn't spend any money.
Number seven, movie marathon.
So before you embark on this,
I would make sure that you're both on board
for the picked movies that you want to do.
You have a similar taste and you both like those movies.
And you like that person enough
to spend nine plus hours with them in one go.
Depends where you are at with dating them.
You maybe don't wanna do this really early on,
commit to spending nine hours with them,
and realise at about hour five
that you don't really like them. (laughs)
Imagine, you'd be like ooh.
This one I like as a date idea
because it's like a challenge,
and so it's like you're a team together
and you're like we can do this.
And at the end, you just feel great.
And it's lots of fun,
and then you also get to cuddle on the sofa
and watch movies together.
But it just feeling like it's got this bigger purpose.
Dan and I have done the extended editions of
Lord of the Rings trilogy together,
and I think we wanna do it again.
It was so much fun.
We're like we need to do that again.
So good, so good.
Number eight, volunteering.
There are loads of things
that you can sign up to do together to volunteer
and to help other people.
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It only costs your time.
It can make a world of difference
because so many charities and causes need volunteers,
and it can just be a nice experience for you guys to have
together as well.
A lot of food banks
and soup kitchens need regular volunteers,
but if there is a cause that is dear
to both of your hearts as well,
then have a look online, do some research,
and see what you guys can do together to make a difference.
Number nine, homemade karaoke.
So if you wanna go out and do karaoke,
either you're going to a bar and there are drinks,
but you're also having to wait 30 to 40 minutes in between
being able to do your own songs,
because there are other people in the bar
and they wanna do theirs,
or you're paying money for a room, a private room,
for you and your friends to do as many karaoke songs
as you like within an hour.
There is a free solution though.
It's called YouTube.
You search in any song and karaoke
and the karaoke track with the lyrics,
and it's sliding along so you know exactly
when to sing are on YouTube.
And if you're both up for it,
it can be so fun.
Dan and I had a night recently.
I don't even know how it happened.
But we just started playing karaoke songs
on YouTube and just singing along,
and we just took it in turns.
No microphone or anything.
But we just had a blast.
It was so much fun.
It's fun but not for everyone.
I love karaoke
so any excuse to do that, great.
Number ten.
This could be quite an intense one and a cheesy one,
but ultimately, fun and silly.
But we all remember the New York Times article
about the 36 questions to fall in love.
There's your date.
You just hang out,
maybe you combine some of the other things,
maybe you're going for a walk around some museums,
maybe you're going for a hike or a bike ride or whatever,
and you're answering those questions.
But then you also have to do
the staring into each other's eyes
for five minutes or whatever.
Who knows if you'll actually fall in love
because of the questionnaire but hey,
it's a bit of fun and you can get to know the other person.
Maybe read what the questions are before you bring it up,
because some of them are quite deep and personal.
So if you are on a second date with someone
but you're not really sure about them,
then maybe don't bring it up. (laughs)
But if you're having a great time with someone
and you're like ooh, I want to get to know them better,
and I loves me some experimental dating,
bring up the questionnaire.
I wonder how many people,
since the article came out,
have done that on a first date.
I would love to know if any of you actually
have ever pulled out that questionnaire on the first date
and been like okay ... here we go.
Let's fall in love.
So those are ten free date ideas.
If you have any other ones,
please do write them in the comments
because I would like some more free date ideas
of things to do as well
'cause I love dating.
I love dates.
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