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What: Share your date ideas
Where: In the comments below.
When: Now . . . and whenever you get a good idea.
Why: To help others bless their wife.
How: By giving the plan, details, preparations, your wife’s response, and any other helpful or encouraging information.
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Chad says:
Our latest date, although planned by my beautiful wife, is a great idea and can be used no matter what the season. It does require that you do some research on what your spouse likes or has been wanting to try (if you don’t already know).
It will also require you to scap together all the creativity you have.
Choose your own adventure story (spouse’s choice determines where you go next)
Pick a theme to present the storyline in which you and your spouse are the characters. You read part of the story until it comes to the choices. Once they choose you do that activity. This can be as creative as you are able to do.
A good story line will naturally present the choices as playon words to drop for clues to indicate what the choices are. For example if the story is headed for choice of restraunt the story could have your spouse contemplating whether they wanted to fish for lobster=Red Lobster, eat with her friend Wendy=Wendy’s, or go to her Italian cousin Loui’s party=Louies Pizza.
Or of course you could make them choose something without any clues to where it will be. All the chioices should be something you know they would like though.
Sydney’s story was fun and very creative–and showed she knows me well.
Ben says:
I’ve starting planning our Valentine’s Day date…or should I say our next getaway. How about the rest of you guys? Start planning something now!
(P.S. Did you know all the flower places up their prices starting February 1 for Valentines Day? Order them soon to get more for your money.)
Dari says:
I was very upset about the prices going up. I noticed that at Safeway. But here is a tip for you guys, Maybe if you asked (or just tried it), your wife may like other flowers more than roses. My wife LOVES carnations (and they are cheeper than roses and last longer). From time to time I try some new stuff (Don’t expect me to remember the names of the flowers), and often I get a good response.
Doug says:
Go for a quick dinner and then head to your local coffee shop. Take a deck of cards with you. Play War. If you don’t know how to play, a quick Google search will provide what you need (here’s one link). The added element is that whenever someone wins a “war,” he or she gets to ask of the other person any question they want about whatever they want.
Later, go home and keep playing with one added rule: After a player wins a war and asks their question, they also get to choose a 60-second “reward” for their victory. Use a timer and keep playing until you don’t care about the game any longer.
Doug says:
Put the names of several restaurants that you have never been to on little strips of paper. Do the same with dessert shops. Put them into separate baggies, hats, bowls, or some other container, and on the way have her draw out the name of a restaurant which will be your “appetizer” location. After eating there, draw out another restaurant for the main course. Finally, draw the dessert shop.
Don’t forget to plan for good and specific conversation at each stop.
Doug says:
Go clearance-clothes-shopping for her. Head to the mall and stop in places you would normally pass by. Head straight for the discount or clearance racks and start looking.
After you find one or two items of interest, the wife should go to the dressing room while the husband keeps looking. Each time she comes out to “display” their potential bargain, he should join her to evaluate. But, he must not come empty-handed. He must bring another thing or two for her to try on. (And don’t be afraid to try a new or different style from what she normally wears.) Who knows what you might find?
Even if you don’t leave with much, it will be fun. (That is, if you make it fun!)
Dari says:
back when we were dating I made a board game for my wife created a set of rules. The game was really simple, but it was a trivia game. And the trivia cards we have to supply. We take 3 x 5 cards and write trivia about ourselves (Ie. Q: Dari graduated from this high school? Or Q: Carole would rather eat at Olive Garden or Drifters?). Anyways, it was a great idea, and went over great. But it has been a LONG time since we have played. Our next date we are sitting down at a coffee shop, with 3×5 cards and making more trivia cards. Date after that, we play the game again!!! I already know she will love it.
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Doug says:
Coffee shop rating. (This is actually a series of dates.) Google the top ten coffee shops in your city. Pick one, and go to it on your next date. While there, together create a “ratings sheet” marking the quality of the coffee, service, atmosphere, romantic interest, etc. (You’ll need to bring along the necessary supplies to make the ratings sheet.) Go to a different one each week and rate it.
Obviously, it won’t take all night to rate a coffee shop. So, make sure that you have prepared a couple of provocative discussion topics to occupy the rest of the date.
Dari says:
Hows this one…
A month of ‘cheap’ dates. Have fun with it. Use the gift cards that people got you that your not even sure where to find them. Get creative. Cook. Maybe use a little of your own money. THEN, after a month of that (and you can let her know from the beginning) Use the money you saved for a REALY nice date. A bed and breakfast. A meal at a place you don’t normally go to because it cost an ungodly amount.
Anyways. I hope this is a good idea… Because I have been doing it with Valentines day Weekend as the goal. We have been having fun going ‘cheap’. And I pray that this coming weekend will be go off great.
Ben says:
Looking for a fun game to play at home after an amazing night out? Try this one. See the final paragraph for the “couples” scoring.
Golf- The Card Game
Golf is a card game for two or more players, in which the object is to score as little as possible, as in the sport of Golf. In front of each player is a layout of cards arranged in a square or rectangle, and players improve their scores by drawing new cards to replace unwanted cards, which they discard. Each player has a layout of cards, initially face down, which can be successively replaced by new cards drawn from the stock or discard pile. The aim is to make a layout scoring as little as possible.
Players, Cards and Deal:
The dealer deals nine cards to each player, one at a time, arranging them face down in a square in front of each player.
The remaining undealt cards are placed face-down in the centre of the table to form a drawing stock. The top card of the stock is turned face up and placed beside the stock to start the discard pile. Before play begins, each player turns any three of the cards in his layout face up. The other layout cards may not be looked at until they are discarded or turned up in the course of the play, or scored at the end of the play.
The Play:
The player to the dealer’s left begins, and the turn to play passes clockwise. At your turn you must either draw the top card of the face-down stock, or draw the top discard. You may use the card you draw to replace any one of the nine cards of your layout, but if you choose to replace a face-down card you are not allowed to look at it before deciding to replace it. You place the new card face-up in your layout, and the card that previously occupied that position is placed face-up on top of the discard pile. It is then the next player’s turn.
If you draw a card from the face-down card from the stock, you may decide that you do not want it anywhere in your layout. In that case you simply discard the drawn card face-up on the discard pile, and it is the next player’s turn. It is, however, illegal to draw the top card of the discard pile and discard the same card again, leaving the situation unchanged: if you choose to take the discard, you must use it to replace one of your layout cards. The play ends as soon as the last of a player’s nine cards is face up. The hand is then scored.
Scoring:
At the end of the play, each player’s layout of nine cards is turned face-up and scored as follows. In this version, a column of three equal cards scores zero.
• Each ace counts 1 point.
• Each two counts minus two points. (some play jokers as -2 and 2’s as +2)
• Each numeral card from 3 to 10 scores face value.
• Each Jack or Queen scores 10 points.
• Each King scores zero points.
• Three of the same card in the same column scores zero points for the column
The player who has the lowest cumulative score after nine deals wins.
Alternate “Couples” scoring:
Points are counted along with “seconds”. The number of seconds you score are accumulated throughout the round and redeemed at the end of each round. For example if I have 120 seconds worth of cards at the end of the round, then I get to pick what we do for 120 seconds. Then it’s my turn to bless my spouse with the seconds they’ve accumulated. Foreplay can be really pleasurable here so get creative and have fun! Seconds are scored as follows:
• Each King scores 60 seconds
• Each Ace scores 30 seconds
• Each joker equals -2 articles of clothing for the other player
• A column of three of the same cards scores +1 article of clothing for you
Keep track of the normal points throughout the game as well. The winner of the game gets 5 bonus minutes at the end of the game which might just lead into “other” things. You probably won’t make it through 9 rounds using this scoring ?