Thousands will use these ideas and for any number of reasons. But these date ideas are warmly dedicated to all our military Vets who’ve lost limbs as a result of their commitment to serve. Please know, we think of you often.
  • Name That Tune. Guess the artist, or the title of the song, go for the year, whatever information you can shout out first about the song on the radio.
  • Buy yourself some paints (think kid-friendly for cheaper paint that’s the easiest to get off later). You can go with finger paint style paints or use paintbrushes; both will hold their own specific and unique challenges. Pick up some blank canvases, and paint with your feet. Agree ahead of time with one another to paint something specific. You have to sign it once it’s dry with your feet holding a Sharpie, as well, of course.
  • Play Flashlight Touching. While holding a small flashlight in your mouth, point to your partner’s different body parts and let a game be made from wherever you’re successful at being able to highlight. They may have to kiss you where your corresponding body part is, or you may get to have that privilege with them. Maybe you’ll opt for just getting to nuzzle that part. Either way, it’s a fun, sensual game.
  • Download an audio book, then take turns having to stop and answer one of several Connecting Questions (see example list below or create your own list) every time you hear a specific agreed-upon word in the story. You can do an actual word like, “Yes, No, Car, Dog, House etc…” OR--- you can pick anytime, any color, body part, a person’s name, a number, etc.... Connecting Questions: Remember When: 1. Tell me what you were thinking on the day we met. 2. What do you remember seeing, feeling, thinking, smelling? 3. What is your favorite memory from the first year of our relationship? 4. What is your favorite memory from the first year we were married? 5. What is your favorite memory from the last year? If You Could: 1. Travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? 2. Be a fly on the wall in any place in history, where would you land? 3. Have dinner with three famous people alive today, who would they be? 4. Have dinner with three famous people no longer living, who would they be? 5. Choose your last meal, what would it be? 6. Be any animal, what would it be? 7. Change one decision you made in your life, what would it be?
  • Spend an hour making prank phone calls… Yes, you heard us, call friends, family, people you KNOW, and: tell them a joke, or sing them a part of a song, yell HAVE A GREAT DAY (insert their name) then hang up. We know that most phones have caller ID, so what? It’s the game that counts, and they’ll be left cracking up, even if they do call you back or text you saying, YOU’RE WEIRD. All parties will be left smiling. It’s a great way to invest in other couples or singles who might need a pick-me-up as well…
  • How about setting aside some time to perfect the art of telling a good joke? Laughter is professed to be the best medicine. Figure out what really tickles your partner’s funny bone, and use whatever means you opt to. However much time you’ve set aside for this date, use your minutes to bond over some chuckling and groaning. It will carry you in to the next several days on more than one level. You could even host a DARN GOOD JOKE party. That can happen in-person with friends getting together, or on-line with Face Time, or use a Twitter strategy and just bounce jokes back and forth amongst your Twitter feed peeps.
  • Stargazing. If you have a smartphone, you can download a stargazing app (SkyView Free, Sky Night 4, Star Walk 2, Sky Safari 4 or 5, Exoplanet). (*Note: And this app, American Almanac of Astronomy and Weather, if you want both stargazing and a hint at what the best day will be weather-wise to try for some stargazing…) Lie down in the backyard, and enjoy finding shapes in the night sky! (And, no, ZZ doesn’t get any kind of kickback for recommending any of these apps, by the way.)
  • Use a date day to focus on a “Couple’s Emergency Kit.” Ask yourselves if you have any REAL emergency preparedness kits around that will meet your needs should an actual emergency occur. If that answer is NO, use this date to make a list of what you’re GOING TO pick up SOON, in order to create one. Far too many couples don’t have these in their car or at home, and that’s a doubly bad plan for couples with additional health issues to factor in. We get that they’re not often cheap to put together, but they’re priceless when they come into play. WHILE YOU’RE AT IT, add some additional supplies that focus on centering your partner emotionally as well as physically. Add in some love notes to one another that are only to be opened in the event of an emergency. Put in a picture of the two of you that you really like and write on the back sharing why. Throw in something small your partner knows has some extra-special meaning to you that they can hold onto, bringing you a little closer in a comforting way, like a fave T-shirt or a pair of comfy socks sprayed with your perfume or aftershave (put these in a double Ziploc baggie to help seal in the scent). One of our favorite things to add requires your going the extra step to pick something up, and that’s a tiny little voice-box, like the kind they use to put in stuffed animals (Build-a-Bear has these) and record you saying something short but affirming to your loved one. Hearing your voice can be huge in a time of real stress.
  • Spend some time comparing products that focus on couples in general. It's much more entertaining if you compare them in person rather than just looking on-line, but it’s never a waste of time to do either. Ideas can range all over the place from personal lubricants, cool breathable sheets, the easiest lingerie to get on and off, romantic fiction novels, mood music, breath fresheners, in the bedroom intimacy bolsters, etc. Once you’re done, figure out who in your world might benefit from your efforts and share your findings. *Note: This can actually be a fun group date idea, as well, with everyone's doing it on their own as couples with the agreement that all lists will be shared at the end of the event.
  • Write erotic fiction for each other. Pick something you've done together and recreate it in words, or pick a steamy fantasy and share exactly how you want it to happen — even if in reality, it's impossible. It can be one you two do together, or one where each of you come up with a fantasy for the other.