You can add romance and passion to your lives and stay within the confines of your budget, too. With some creativity and imagination, you can prepare some special time for you and your partner without having to spend your children’s college tuition!
As most of these are at-home dates, make sure the premises are yours and yours alone. Pack the kids off for the evening with relatives or friendly neighbors (and don’t forget to let them know you’ll reciprocate).
Now it’s time to be together for your budget date. But with what you’ll do to one another, it won’t feel like a cheap date…

Today’s Sexercise – Sexy ‘At Home’ Dates
Spend some time thinking about your date and planning for it. Maybe you’ll want to plan more than one date for the month. Whatever works with your lifestyle is fine.
What you will find, though, is that you don’t have to rob a bank (or be a wealthy banker, for that matter) to have a wonderful date with your lover.
Here are some suggestions for a hot, inexpensive good time.
1. Set a timer and slow dance with one another while naked. Add some fun to this by making it a game. For example, tell each other there will be no touching with hands until the music ends.
2. Make your lover a midnight snack and serve it in bed, using a tray with your best linen, plates and silverware. Make sure you’re naked when you serve it (remember – you’re the dessert).
3. Fasten around your lover’s waist a belt, length of fabric or part of an old shirt as tightly as you can. This feeling of being encased beneath clothing is highly arousing; and can lead to a great deal of anticipation of the evening to come.
4. Think about erotic gift certificates that will turn your partner on. This is a wonderful way to give – without spending any money! Some ideas include a year’s worth of sensual massage or a certificate offering to fulfill your lover’s deepest sexual fantasies for an entire evening.
5. Go to www.virtualflowers.com and send your lover a free virtual bouquet. Sign the card with a silly message like ‘Happy Arbor Day’ or ‘Happy Millard Fillmore’s Birthday’.
6. Along the ‘greeting card’ line, create your own homemade greeting card either on the computer or with scissors and paper. Inside the card, provide a hot and graphic description about what you plan to do with him or her during the night. Then the card into your partner’s lunch.
7. Dig out the Christmas lights and use them to light the bedroom.
8. Create an imaginary love potion from herb tea and flavorings. Tell your lover that drinking it makes you a love slave, committed to doing anything your ‘owner’ wishes. Or reverse roles by asking your lover to drink the potion and become your love slave.
9. Strip poker or strip rummy have been around forever, for a reason – they’re fun when it comes to love play. In this version, be sure to wear lots of clothes and strip them off slowly. This builds the anticipation as you reveal yourselves, inch by inch, to one another.
10. With your partner watching you, unplug the TV. Commit yourselves to an evening together, loving and being loved in all ways shapes and forms. Though this action sounds like a small thing, it really says a lot; namely that you’re willing to forgo external stimulation to give and receive pleasure.
11. Tune the clock radio to an easy-listening station and set it for 3:00 a.m. When it goes off, cuddle, snuggle and stroke; then see where it leads.
12. See how long you can tease your partner without him or her reaching orgasm. The effort not to come sometimes makes the sex all the more erotic. Try doing everything you can to drive your lover over the edge despite his or her best efforts.
13. Caress one another without using your hands. Women, use your breasts, feet and lips to turn him on. And men, your erect penis makes a fabulous tool for touching your lover without fingers.
14. Make a ‘Sex Partner Wanted’ ad and include all the things you’d really like your partner to do to you. Don’t be shy – this is the time to indulge in your wildest and hottest fantasies. Then let your lover pick one thing to do to you. Don’t forget to return the favor, though.
Basically, you don’t need a huge bank account to create a romantic, passionate date. It simply takes some ingenuity, creativity and a whole lot of willingness to indulge in some new ideas.