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31 Jan 2013, 11:02 pm

A$0 - $50



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31 Jan 2013, 11:15 pm

Dinner, drinks, and coffee add up to about $50. You don't want to look like a spending fool on your first date.



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01 Feb 2013, 10:48 am

answeraspergers wrote:
who is "our"?

My wife and I.

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I figured the question was for single people?

Assumptions ... :roll:

Married people have dates, too ... we just don't get turned down.


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01 Feb 2013, 1:35 pm

^^^ Best of all, you know you won't be going home alone after wasting $100+ on a date. ;)

"Oh, I just didn't feel a spark. Thanks for the lobster..... (sucker!)"



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01 Feb 2013, 2:40 pm

BlueMax wrote:
^^^ Best of all, you know you won't be going home alone after wasting $100+ on a date. ;)

"Oh, I just didn't feel a spark. Thanks for the lobster..... (sucker!)"


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01 Feb 2013, 3:27 pm

$5 ~ $15



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01 Feb 2013, 4:04 pm

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Married people have dates, too ... we just don't get turned down


OP - were you thinking of married people in your sample?



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01 Feb 2013, 5:36 pm

There was nothing indicating that the OP was excluding married people from the question.

A date, is a date. The query was in regards to the amount spent. Or are married people not entitled to dates?

Good on Fnord for doing so!



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01 Feb 2013, 5:54 pm

my date appears cheap for outsiders, but as our currency devalues my date appears to get cheaper, except I don't earn foreign currency.



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01 Feb 2013, 6:02 pm

The question was to the OP but A date night is not the same as a date

The whole dynamics are radically altered by being MARRIED to them - that is obvious

Dating, a form of courtship which may include any social activity undertaken by, typically, two persons with the aim of assessing each other's suitability as a partner.



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01 Feb 2013, 7:15 pm

Stalk wrote:
my date appears cheap for outsiders, but as our currency devalues my date appears to get cheaper, except I don't earn foreign currency.


Good point.

I think its probably better to discuss activities.



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01 Feb 2013, 8:29 pm

BlueMax wrote:
^^^ Best of all, you know you won't be going home alone after wasting $100+ on a date. ;)

"Oh, I just didn't feel a spark. Thanks for the lobster..... (sucker!)"


Sometimes people genuinely don't feel a spark, you know.

Who's forcing you to go out for lobster on a first date anyway?


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01 Feb 2013, 8:35 pm

About $5.00 on texting back and forth before he flakes out.



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01 Feb 2013, 8:42 pm

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About $5.00 on texting back and forth before he flakes out.


Aww bless.

Less is more :-) x



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01 Feb 2013, 10:37 pm

Who_Am_I wrote:
BlueMax wrote:
^^^ Best of all, you know you won't be going home alone after wasting $100+ on a date. ;)

"Oh, I just didn't feel a spark. Thanks for the lobster..... (sucker!)"


Sometimes people genuinely don't feel a spark, you know.

Who's forcing you to go out for lobster on a first date anyway?


While non-spark is certainly true... way to make their rotten actions MY "issue" for being naive enough to be suckered. I'm just going to have to start dutching for first dates from now on... two in a row where they all but said aloud, if she's not going to be on a hot date with a sexy man, she might as well get fatty dork-boy to buy her a good dinner before she disappears. If you aren't feeling a spark, say so BEFORE ordering dinner on someone else's nickel (expensive or otherwise!)



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01 Feb 2013, 11:32 pm

BlueMax wrote:
Who_Am_I wrote:
BlueMax wrote:
^^^ Best of all, you know you won't be going home alone after wasting $100+ on a date. ;)

"Oh, I just didn't feel a spark. Thanks for the lobster..... (sucker!)"


Sometimes people genuinely don't feel a spark, you know.

Who's forcing you to go out for lobster on a first date anyway?


While non-spark is certainly true... way to make their rotten actions MY "issue" for being naive enough to be suckered. I'm just going to have to start dutching for first dates from now on... two in a row where they all but said aloud, if she's not going to be on a hot date with a sexy man, she might as well get fatty dork-boy to buy her a good dinner before she disappears. If you aren't feeling a spark, say so BEFORE ordering dinner on someone else's nickel (expensive or otherwise!)


I wouldn't start spending more than 30-40$ until I thought it was getting serious. I can't articulate why, but I feel it would almost be a bit of a faux pas to spend a lot of money if it's still in the casual, testing-the-waters phase. In fact, if she didn't seem too excited to go on the date to begin with, I probably would change my mind even if I was the one who initiated things. Easy come, easy go, and don't go all in up front. :o