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I'll Buy That for $5

This is something that my wife, Allyson, and I did while we were dating. We were both in
college, of course that means we were both broke.

We were also both tired of the typical "dinner and a movie" date, so we put our heads
together and came up with an idea. We went to our local Wal-Mart with $5 each, to
purchase a surprise gift for each other.

We set a time limit of fifteen minutes, as well as a meeting place. It was hard to make $5
go very far, but you would be amazed how fun it was.

We had to sneak around from aisle to aisle to avoid seeing each other. We were peeking
between the shelves, and spying around the corners.

I'm sure that the other shoppers thought it was funny, but we didn't care...we were in our
own little world.

At the end of the date, we had spent a minimal amount of money, but we had a great
time. We felt like little kids. After leaving Wal-Mart, we went home to exchange the
surprises that we had purchased for each other.

A Date of Rest

For thousands of years people have observed a weekly Sabbath - a 24 hour period of
rest. I'm not going into all the historical and biblical details regarding this custom. I'm just
pointing out how a weekly rest might be a useful tool to enrich your relationship.

Granted, if you worked seven days a week your relationship would most probably suffer
considerably. Even though most people only "work" five days each week, they often
slave away the other two days with a myriad of activities and busyness.


Some people are under the impression that weekends are the time to get everything
done and if you weren't busy the whole weekend it was a failure. Sometimes that
happens to me and I have to tell myself "Hey, I don't have to do anything today if I don't
want to. I'm a grown-up and I can rest and have fun if I want." Perhaps a day taken each
week to unwind, and to enjoy some good company with your family and especially your
soul mate would do wonders for your relationship.

If you want to take the rest idea to the extreme one Saturday or Sunday try out a day in
bed. Yep, all day in bed. That morning or the night before bring all the supplies into your
bedroom. Books, magazines, cards, games, movies, snacks, scrapbooks and stationary
are just a few of the items you might consider using on your "day of rest."

Say in bed and talk with each other for a solid day. Get my ebook, 1000 Questions for
Couples, and learn more about each other, even if you have been married fifty years.
Take some naps, gently scratch each other's back, watch a movie or a little television,
read aloud to each other, write letters, play Scrabble and just rest. Your relationship
deserves it.

Searching for Booty

Several years ago Athena and I invited three young boys from church to spend the
weekend with us. I had arranged all sorts of games and things to do to help make the
weekend fun and memorable.

The one thing the boys still talk about to this day was the treasure hunt I planned. I took
an old box and filled it with candy, gold foil wrapped character coins and trinkets. I buried
it in the woods near our house. I then created a “pirate’s map” based on the location,
soaking the map in tea and drying it to make it appear more authentic.

I found an old bottle and stuffed the map in it and just barely buried it in the yard where I
knew we would be playing games. One of the boys “discovered” the bottle and I
pretended that I didn’t know anything about it. We took about an hour or two following
the map and its clues to find where we should dig for the pirate’s booty.

Even though the box wasn’t filled with real gold and jewels, the boys had the time of their
life searching for the treasure. Your next date might feel the same way.

One Good Date Grows Another

If one of your dates includes a bush, tree or flowers, you might have the seeds for your
next date – literally. If you picnic under a wonderful old oak tree or take a walk through a
field of wildflowers you might consider trying to collect some seeds from the flora from
your dates.


Invite your date over to your house to try to sprout some of those seeds to plant in your
yards or somewhere in the countryside. Get a bag of potting soil, some containers
(Styrofoam cups, an empty egg carton or plastic gardening pots) and together plant the
seeds that have some meaning to your relationship.

Hopefully in time your seeds will sprout and so will your relationship.

Million Dollar Date

Pretend you have just won the lottery or your long, lost wealthy great uncle recently died
and bequeathed his fortune to you. Now go do things only the wealthy would do.

Test-drive the car of your dreams. If the salesperson asks how you will be financing the
vehicle, tell them if you decide to purchase it you will pay for it in cash. They will treat you
extra special that way. Go "shopping" at Neimen Marcus or some other high-end
department store, picking out luxury items that will go in your new mansion. Decorate
you house as if money was no concern. Of course you will need a new home so pick up
a weekend paper and go to a couple of open houses in the ritzy part of town.

Find the most expensive restaurant around, dress up and go just for dessert or cocktails.
If you can afford it you might want to hire a limousine for an hour or two to take you
around to some of these places to make the fantasy seem even more believable.

Then go back home and realize that these things would never really give you lasting
happiness. But a terrific relationship with your beloved will.

If It Was Fun Once...
By Carrie Stribling

Aahh...my most creative date. I owe this to my wonderful boyfriend. It was our 6-month
anniversary...and he would NOT tell me what we were doing.

What he did was recreate our first date in a most splendid way. He picked me up
wearing exactly the same thing he wore on our first date, and took me to the restaurant
where we ate that night...where he had already previously ordered wine, candles, and
the exact same thing I had ordered there six months ago (I don't know how he
remembers these things).

Then, we drove to the movie theater where we saw our first movie and he presented me
with my first of three gifts—a videocassette of the movie.

After that, we drove to the river near my house where we sat and talked for hours after
the movie and I got gift number two—a photo album that he had been working on for
months. It had pictures he had taken that I couldn't even recall, ticket stubs, pressed
flowers, poems, and an overall review of our relationship together.


Then we drove to a nearby playground where we had gone to stargaze, and I got my
third and most wonderful gift. He had written to the National Star Registry
(http://www.theromantic.com/gifts.htm) and had a star named after me. He gave it to me
with a note that read, "Since you fell from Heaven into my arms, I figured they needed a
reminder of you." I have never been so weak in the knees as I was that night.