With Valentine’s Day just a few days away I wanted to share fun idea that helps keep date night fresh! I call it date night roulette. I got this idea from Daryl-Ann Denner (see her story highlight called ‘date night”), her and her hubby picked a few dinner spots and a few activities. Rolled a dice and let it pick what they were doing for date night. Sounds fun right? Well I thought so, and date night roulette was born!
I decided to make two date night roulette cards, one for at home dates and one for going out dates. We love to save money and have date nights at home so I wanted to make a card that suited our lifestyle. Then I bought a few fun new activities and put it all together as a gift for Valentine’s Day.
At Home Date Night Card
Our card contains our favourite affordable food and some fun food we can make together as part of our date. Of course you can personalize your list to contain your favourite foods.
- Take Out Noodles (Noodle Box)
- Homemade Pizza (my favourite dough recipe!)
- Your favourite fast food (A&W!)
- Loaded Nachos
- Cook a new recipe (this would be a fun one!)
- Sushi Takeout
Activities is where you get to be creative! Everything from movie night to spa night is on our list.
- Movie Night – Pick something of your watch list on Netflix, if you’re having trouble choosing roll a dice to make your choice
- Ice Cream Taste Test – Buy a few pints of the same flavour of ice cream and test them out! I’m always down to find an excuse to buy $7 pints of ice cream!
- Game night is easily one of our favour things to do for date night and some of our favourites for two people are, monopoly deal, cover your assets and exploding kittens!
- TV Binge – Our favourite shows to watch together is Grey’s Anatomy, we love re watching it!
- Conversation Starters – These are a fun set of cards for starting interesting conversations with your significant other. These are the ones I bought.
- Spa Night – We are both horrible at self care so carving our some time to get foot massages, manicures and do some face masks together is relaxing and fun!
How it works is we roll a dice and whichever number we get means that’s what we’re eating on date night. We roll again to see what activity we will be doing that week.
I do have a few rules for date night at home and I recommend you follow them or else you can fall in the trap of this night feeling like any other night in. First dress nicely, now I don’t mean dress up and get fancy but look neat, pull out some cute casual clothes and put on some perfume. Play some music, light a candle and don’t use your phone or TV unless required as part of the date!
Date Night Card
For the going out card I planned a few different dates. You could split it into two categories like I did for the at home dates, but I found it easier to just pre plan a few simple dates. Just like the first card you roll a dice and if you get that number that’s the date you’re going on. So fun right!
- Movie & Dessert – Pick a movie to see in the theatre, after go out for dessert at your favourite restaurant or fast food place.
- Grocery Store Picnic at the Park – I love this date, my time don’t pre buy your picnic ingredients. Half the fun is going to the store and buying food you don’t normally keep in the house.
- Fancy Three Course Dinner – Now we do this every few months. This is part of why we budget date so often. When we go for a nice dinner we go all out! Get dressed up, a nice bottle of wine, appetizers, entree and dessert. So good!
- Coffee & Drive to the Beach – I love this date especially when were crunched for time that week. We can wake up go pick up some coffee, and drive to the beach.
- Bakery Treats & Walk – I love going for walks and hikes, but we rarely venture out beyond the trail system in our neighbourhood (there’s still so many to explore). So it’s really special to get out to a different trail for a long walk and enjoy a few special treats.
- Casual Dinner & Game – Now casual dinner means we’re going somewhere affordable and simple for dinner. It’s usually one of our favourite chain restaurants, local taco place or a yummy burger joint. We bring a game like Qwixx (I like this one since it’s small and you don’t need much space to play) to play at our table or even in the car.
I am so excited to start using these date night roulette cards to keep our date nights fresh and fun! I hope you enjoy them and make your own.
Danielle xo
