Plan Wallet-Friendly Dates on Your Romance Calendar
7Bill and I keep a Romance Calendar to help us plan out weekly dates for the coming year. To help us plan, we have weekly themes. For example, on the first week of every month, we plan a wallet-friendly date. The second week of every month, we plan a romantic date. The third week a sexy date. The fourth week of the month, we plan an artsy-fartsy date or a group date with other couples and friends.
Guys, Treat Your Wife Like it was Your Very First Date!
Below you’ll find a list of 37 wallet-friendly date ideas. But even though you might be trying to pinch pennies you can still make it special! Here’s a tip for the guys: Whatever you decide to do, men, make it feel like a real date. Call your woman on the phone and ask her out. Get the car washed before you pick her up. Dress to impress. Knock on the front door when you pick her up (yes, we know it might be your front door, too, but do it anyway. It just adds to the fun.) Open the car door for your date. Hold her hand. Snuggle close. During the date, make it fun and talk only about positive things. Plan some discussion questions to get to know her (even more than you already do!) After the date, walk her to the front door, linger under the porch light, sneak a kiss. You want to really ramp it up! Walk back to your car and drive away. You don’t have to stay away for long—just drive around the block before coming home for good. You might’ve just scored!!
37 Wallet-Friendly Date Ideas!
Now here are those budget-friendly date ideas I promised you:
- Go out for ice cream or just dessert at a restaurant
- Go to the botanical gardens
- Go to a church event
- Read poetry or a book together in the park
- Go to a museum – there are free days
- Take a train ride
- Create a pizza at home
- Blast from the past date – what special memories can you recreate?
- Outdoor festival or concert
- Sit by a fireside and talk
- Go to a bookstore
- Cook a new recipe together
- Find a waterfall
- Go to the hot springs
- Go looking for antiques
- Go to open houses in expensive areas or look at model homes and dream
- Watch the stars or the sunset
- Go to a pet store
- Put a puzzle together
- Play a board game
- Pick some wildflowers together
- Go to the airport or the mall and watch people
- Go to the dollar movies in your area
- Go on a picnic together
- Go to a penny arcade and play games
- Read the funnies together or get on YouTube and search geese attacks (very funny)
- Go to a coffee shop and talk or listen to a concert
- Do a progressive fast food restaurant (do soup somewhere, do the main course somewhere, do dessert somewhere, etc.)
- Take a Sunday drive
- Fly a kite date
- Shoot some hoops date
- Take your dream car for a test drive at a dealership
- Go to a furniture store and plan your dream house
- Go on a hike
- Go see the animals at the zoo
- Go to a park and play on the swings
- rab a thermos with some warm drinks for your tummies and watch the sunris
AS frm Alabama says
Saw your show Virgin Coaches and thought it was so good I’d try to remember when my son reaches that life-stage and perhaps give him & his fiance’ a gift to come visit you. Thus, I looked you up online and bookmarked your site. Found this great article of Wallet-Friendly Date Ideas and shared along with a link to your site. My husband & I have been married over 30 years and I think the various things you offer could be beneficial even to us. I look forward to more of what you have to offer on Godly perspectives toward sex and pray our Lord will continue to bless you in your vitally important ministry.
Janean Fuller says
Hi Chanda,
Thanks for watching the show and for your email. It was very encouraging. It seems the church is close-minded as a whole to the importance of redeeming sexuality for God’s glory. We’re glad you shared the article. Maybe you can contact TLC and get others as well to say you loved the program and you want it to continue. Right now, they are doubtful about making it into a series. Blessings on your marriage! Bill and Janean