We quit paying $60 for dinner and a movie and started doing the $9 taco stand walk instead
My wife and I used to drop around $60 every Friday on dinner and a movie at the theater in Riverside, and we'd leave feeling kind of broke and half asleep. About four months ago we tried something different. We hit the taco stand on the corner, get two plates for $9 total, then walk the river path for an hour and just talk. The first time felt weird, like we should be spending money to have fun. But now it's the thing we look forward to all week, and we've got $200 more in the account each month to show for it. What's the one cheap thing you swapped in that you'd never go back from?