The gold-digging starts here!
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miss_squiddyAccording to a recent survey, the average cost of a first date is £200.
"Love doesn't come cheap in Britain where the typical date costs £200, according to a survey of some of the nation's 8.6 million 'singletons'. On average, the single British man or woman goes out on a date five times a year, with the Welsh the keenest date hunters, spending more on looking for that someone special in bars and clubs."*
Two hundred pounds? What??? Where are these people? A typical date for me is normally:
Ticket to the cinema/bowling alley (using out-of-date student card) - £3.50
Couple of pints in nearby pub - £5
Disgusting fried animal from dodgy takeaway - £3.95
Video hire - £2.50
That's £25 for two - and you'd have to fight me to get away with paying for everything by yourself. Admittedly, I'd be much happier to be taken go-karting or paintballing or monster-trucking or somewhere else loud, mucky and painful, but I still reckon that's got to be £80 to £100 tops. I'm interested now: what's your typical first date like? How much do you spend/is spent on you?
I have to stop going out with students and recently graduated call-centre operatives.
Actually, you know what? YouGov, the company who ran the survey do a lot of interesting stuff. Their website should be pretty good reading for politics and sociology students (and bored people who like filling out polls).
*You can see the full article here. It's the only place I could find it.
"Love doesn't come cheap in Britain where the typical date costs £200, according to a survey of some of the nation's 8.6 million 'singletons'. On average, the single British man or woman goes out on a date five times a year, with the Welsh the keenest date hunters, spending more on looking for that someone special in bars and clubs."*
Two hundred pounds? What??? Where are these people? A typical date for me is normally:
That's £25 for two - and you'd have to fight me to get away with paying for everything by yourself. Admittedly, I'd be much happier to be taken go-karting or paintballing or monster-trucking or somewhere else loud, mucky and painful, but I still reckon that's got to be £80 to £100 tops. I'm interested now: what's your typical first date like? How much do you spend/is spent on you?
I have to stop going out with students and recently graduated call-centre operatives.
Actually, you know what? YouGov, the company who ran the survey do a lot of interesting stuff. Their website should be pretty good reading for politics and sociology students (and bored people who like filling out polls).
*You can see the full article here. It's the only place I could find it.
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Date: 2005-05-09 12:57 pm (UTC)True i have been on some xpensive excursions (i have also taken people on some equally expensive ones...fairs fair and all that)...but they make me uncomfortable. Too much money being splashed around blah!!!
best date ever we both stayed in, cooked a posh (ish meal) and got wasted on Jack (classy lady see), being taken absailing comes a close second though
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Date: 2005-05-09 01:02 pm (UTC)I like being cooked for too. Anything but potato in sauce (or nutroast). Heh heh heh. Thought and effort is much more appreciated than expensive generic tat.
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