300 Creative Dates – An overview

The 300 Creative Dates ebook is just about for everyone who is in a relationship or wants to be in a relationship.  If you want to impress someone on a first date, surprise your partner for a special occasion, or bring a new lease of life into a dying relationship, a book with a whole load of creative dates will prove very useful.

My plan here is to give you a brief overview of the 300 Creative Dates book written by acclaimed relationship guru Michael Webb, who also appeared on Oprah if that sort of thing impresses you.

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What’s in 300 Creative Dates?

So, what’s in this book that makes it different?  Well, it’s not just a list of 300 dating ideas!  It does have a list of dates in there way back on pages 93-94 if you need some quick ideas or some general inspiration, but the first 90 pages contain detailed ideas for creative dates grouped into different themes. 

For example, it has a section on TV or movie dates, and another group on dinner date ideas. But be warned: general ‘dinner and a movie’ dates are a no-no! There are also sections for picnic dates, game dates, craft dates, sports dates and vacation dates, as well as other themes.

Creative dates by the sea

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There’s a great variety of fun creative dates and Michael Webb introduces you to many of them through a short story about how the idea came about and what happened when they did it.  To give you a taste of what sort of dates are in the book, here’s a hint at some creative dates that me and my partner tried and liked so much we regularly come back to them:

  • For its intrigue and anticipation the ‘Pick a Date’ idea is great.  It needs quite a bit of thought and preparation but gives your partner some very personal creative dates to pick ‘out of the hat’.
  • For a highly innovative approach to planning creative dates, ‘Decision, Decision’ is a must, as it encourages a generally disinterested partner to make some effort.
  • One of the very simple creative dates that had us laughing throughout the night was ‘Catching up on the News’ – enough said for now, just give it a go.
  • If you remember the old Karate Kid movies then you’ll recognise a spin on Mr Miyagi’s training with ‘Wax In, Wax Out’, which is a fantastic fun date.
  • I don’t know about you, but I love doing some of the  things I did when I was a kid, like making snow angels, or rolling around in the leaves fallen from trees, so if you like that too then ‘Childhood Delights’ will take you back to your childhood, and it’s also one of the quite romantic creative dates.

This is a review site: Click here to visit Michael Webb’s 300 Creative Dates official website

There are so many ideas packed into the 300 Creative Dates ebook that it just isn’t possible to tell you about all the things we have tried, but you can find some detailed creative dates elsewhere on this site, so take a look before you buy the book. (link to other page). 

Will 300 Creative Dates help me?

Well if you’re a sceptic like me then you’ll probably want to know if Michael Webb’s 300 Creative Dates book really delivers on its promise, and sceptic or not, you’ll probably want to know if it really offers lots of unique and fun creative dates!

My answer to both questions would have to be yes and no, but before you think I’m indecisive let me explain…

It’s hard to imagine that with 300 creative dates in one book that all of them will be unique and different, and you’d be right to think that some of them you already know about and perhaps have done. But even so, not everyone will have come across the same ideas so for them those ideas are new, and to the rest of us they are a good reminder of things some of us have forgotten about. Also, some of them may well be ideas we’ve come across but hadn’t considered as a genuine choice for a date.  One thing I can say though is that the really creative dates that were new to me thankfully outnumber the ones I knew already.

Romantic creative dates

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You may also have guessed that you might not like or want to use some of the 300 creative dates, and you definitely won’t do all 300 of them. Also, not all of the date ideas worked for us, and you can’t expect them to all work for you either, and not every date idea appealed to us, so I wouldn’t expect all of them to appeal to you. But, there are enough creative dates in the book to find many that will work for you and you’ll want to revisit them often.

Don’t feel the need to stick to these creative dates either. They aren’t written for us to stick rigidly to!  The book encourages you to add to them or modify them.  Just be careful when planning your creative dates that you don’t build it up too much and then set yourself up for a disappointment – take it easy until you both appreciate what you are doing for each other.

This book made us smile and laugh, and reminded us of some of the fun times we had previously had, and it inspired us to always find the adventure in whatever it is we’re doing. 

I think this is a neat little book that you can dip in and out of.  And don’t forget there is that list of creative dates on pages 93-94 to use or to inspire you.  All in all, this is still a great book that everyone in a relationship, or wanting to be in a relationship, should read!

Click here to visit Michael Webb’s 300 Creative Dates official website

A review of 300 Creative Date Ideas

I wanted to share my thoughts about 300 Creative Date Ideas and give you a taste of the creative dates suggested in the book and to inspire you to come up with some creative date ideas of your own.

People often say that variety is the spice of life, and this saying is especially valid in our relationships – if we do the same things together whenever we go out, it is likely that sooner or later our relationship will start to become a bit boring and bland – no matter how much we actually like the activity we’re involved in.

When a relationship begins most people go on quite a few dates as a way to get to know each other and to have some fun. The thought of having a creative date or coming up with some creative date ideas just doesn’t come into the equation! Eventually, most of us start going out less and less.

The reasons are many, but for me and my partner I think we just got bored of doing almost the same thing every time we went out: dinner, cinema, bowling … over and over again! Variety for us seemed to be something different on TV!

So what does 300 Creative Dates offer to those who want to keep the fun and excitement in their relationship? Or maybe even bring back the fun!

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Is it just a list of creative date ideas?

Well the book is packed with lots of creative date ideas. As the title suggests there are 300 creative dates but the book is more than just a list of dates. The dates are put into a helpful selection of different categories:

Creative Date Ideas

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  • General creative dates
  • TV/movie dates
  • Dinner dates
  • Vacation dates
  • Picnic dates
  • Game dates
  • Craft dates
  • Sports/outdoor dates
  • Long distance dates

As you can see there is a huge variety of fun dates there and many of them have a short story about how the date idea came about and what happened. I particularly liked the ‘Made from Scratch’ idea which we tried several times in different ways, and it has always worked well.

A related one is called ‘The Star Treatment’ which I modified slightly on the occasion of my partner’s first mother’s day, and it was a big hit. Here are some more creative date ideas that we liked:

‘Pick a Date’ was great for generating intrigue and anticipation, but showed that lots of thought and preparation was put into it. A very personal creative date idea.

‘Decision, Decision’ is a highly innovative approach to planning a creative date.

‘Catching up on the News’ is such a simple creative date that had us laughing all night.

‘Wax In, Wax Out’ was an awesome fun date

‘Childhood Delights’ took us back to our childhood and quite a romantic date.

Click here to visit Michael Webb’s 300 Creative Dates official website.

There are so many creative date ideas packed into the 300 Creative Dates ebook that it just isn’t possible to tell you about all the things we have tried. But I guess what you really want to know is whether Michael Webb’s 300 Creative Dates book delivers on its promise?

Does it offer lots of creative date ideas that are unique and fun?

Well, the answer has to be both yes and no. Let me explain…

Even with 300 creative date ideas in the book, you’ve probably guessed that you might not like or want to use all 300 of them. Also, while many of the ideas are indeed very creative, others are only a good reminder of things everyone knows about but they forgot about or didn’t see them as possible choices for a date.

However, the really creative date ideas thankfully outweigh the others.

A creative date

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This book made us smile and laugh, and reminded us of some of the fun times we had previously had, and it inspired us to always find the adventure in whatever it is we’re doing. While not every date idea appealed to us there are enough creative date ideas to find ones that work and you’ll revisit often.

A word of warning! Not all of the date ideas worked for us, and you can’t expect them to all work for you either, but lucky for us there are plenty of ideas to choose from. Don’t feel the need to stick to these creative date ideas either. Feel free to add to them or modify them.

Also, be careful when planning your creative date that you don’t build it up too much and then set yourself up for a disappointment – take it easy until you both appreciate what you are doing for each other.

One aspect that will help in creating a good level of anticipation and appreciation is the collection of ‘dating coupons’ you can give to your partner to redeem at a later date.

One example is: “Redeem this for some homemade ice cream”, and another is for “Redeem this for takeout dinner over candlelight”, and there are some blank ones to create your own. Sounds corny but they really do work. There is also a great section on dating disaster stories that will definitely show the guys what NEVER to do on dates!

On the whole it is a great little book, but I don’t recommend reading it all in one sitting as some descriptions are a little lengthy and it can feel a bit tedious after about 50 pages, but on the plus side it is put together in a way that means you can dip in and out of it.

Also, if you need a date idea quickly then pages 93-94 have a nice list of bullets to inspire you. All in all, this is still a great book that everyone in a relationship, or wanting to be in a relationship, should read!

Whether you want to impress someone on a first date, surprise them for a special occasion, or just breathe new life into a relationship that might be getting a little bland, then get yourself a copy of 300 Creative Dates.

Click here to visit Michael Webb’s 300 Creative Dates official website.

Tips to reignite the magic

Welcome back to my 300 Creative Date Ideas Review.  I think many of us get to that point in our relationships that we become too comfortable with each other and before we know it we’ve slipped into a boring routine. It seemed that one day we woke up and found the spark had gone from our relationship.  But if there’s still a flicker of light and passion left in the relationship then there’s hope.  Michael Webb, author of 300 Creative Dates, says there are three simple and creative ways we can reignite some magic into our relationship, and I’ve put these into a short video below:

I want to dig a little deeper into those three simple ways:

1. GIVE THEM A UNIQUE GIFT

One thing Michael Webb suggests is to name a star after our partner!  There a few astronomical agencies that let people name stars and they give us a kind of certificate identifying the star that we have named.

Another unique gift could be to give our partner a ‘magic’ gift box, and then each month we put a little new gift in it for our partner to find.

2. SAY “I LOVE YOU” IN A UNIQUE WAY

If our partner is a regular reader, then we can take a pencil and underline letters in a section of their book that they have not yet got to, and ‘spell out’ a secret message of “I love you”.  If we are feeling adventurous we could even ‘spell out’ a whole love letter!

For the even more adventurous, it is possible to buy special plants that after about 14 days grow to display a message of our choice on the leaf! How about that for unique?

3. START GOING ON DATES AGAIN

As an internationally acknowledged relationship expert whos been on Oprah, Michael Webb has identified that the one thing that separates couples with ‘out of this world’ relationships, is that they never stop doing new, fun and exciting things with their partner. By that he means that they never stop dating and are constantly having creative date ideas and going on fun and romantic dates.  The message is clear – we should be having some creative dates too!

Every now and then we should spend the day having fun dates together.  Cheap date ideas are going to the carnival or walking along the beach.  For more fun dates, he suggests having a water fight with each other, which I must admit to having done – the fun part continues later at the drying off stage!  Or for a cheap romantic date, how about staring out into the distance from a grassy hill, or a wind-swept boardwalk, and watching the clouds drift by? 

What about going on a picnic, or walking in the rain without raincoats and umbrellas?  How about dressing up in funny costumes and hitting the town?  Or how about blind fold our partner and take them to a special unexpected destination like a table set up at the top of a cliff or a dinner on a boat or old-fashioned ship – something that will have an impact when they remove the blindfold.  Talk about creative date ideas!

These things, and things like them, are great ways to try and rekindle the love, passion and excitement in our relationships.  Nothing works better than creative dates!

300 Creative Date Ideas – First thoughts

My initial aim in creating this 300 Creative Date Ideas review is to let people know how useful I found the suggestions given in the book 300 Creative Dates, and to let people know about the fun and enjoyable creative date ideas that me and my partner found in it.

To be totally open with you, my relationship was rapidly losing its spark and we both knew it.  Life just gets in the way: Children come along; work becomes more stressful; maintaining a home takes time and effort; demands on our finances increase. I hope you get my drift.  We were spending less and less time together and what time we did spend together just wasn’t as much fun as it used to be.  Time out together, just the two of us, became rarer, never mind creative dates, and we just didn’t have the energy or inspiration to think about any different dating ideas.

We both realised we needed to do something but didn’t know what.  Many self help manuals and relationship counselling experts suggested making time for each other and having a ‘date night’ each week.  We tried this a few times but it felt like the same old thing each time and we were short on creative date ideas as well as money, and it just wasn’t working.  Eventually, in our search for ideas we came across the 300 Creative Dates book by Michael Webb. As it didn’t cost too much we bought it: with over 300 creative date ideas and romantic date ideas we thought we should have at least some success exploring some of the different suggestions.  What we didn’t expect was how much fun we could have.  It really has brought freshness to our relationship.

Anyway, I’m going to post some more thoughts soon. I don’t want to just ramble on and on – I want to give you a great review so that you can be inspired to have your own creative dates and to come up with some of your own creative date ideas.