Frugal Dating Tips for Single Guys and Gals to Meet More People Over Lunch

Frugal Dating Tips for Single Guys and Gals to Meet More People Over Lunch

It’s April 15. Tax Day in the United States. To all my readers abroad, today is the day when American’s submit their taxes to the US Federal government. Today especially everyone in The States feels a budgetary and tax pinch. So today I want to toss all the single guys and gals a bone and provide you with frugal dating tip to meet more single men and women.

Dating Tip – Brown Bag Your Lunch

Now this is not a suggestion to bring your lunch to the office and simply stay at your desk, thank you very much. Rather, instead, I propose you bring your lunch and then find some place nearby where others congregate to eat your lunch.

Dating Tip – Financial District Outdoor Plaza

If you work in one of the major metropolitan cities of the United States, here it is mid-April already. You can even sit outdoors at this time of year. If you are in one of the freezing cold zones of the United States, those major metros even have heated giant indoor covered plazas with fountains in some malls where people can congregate and eat their meals. Each city typically has several of these. My suggestion is to go to the same one for 4-8 times running so you become visually familiar to others. Over time and repeated exposure perfect strangers feel more comfortable speaking to each other. It may take up to 4 or 6 exposures before strangers feel sufficiently comfortable to break the silence barrier and speak to you.

Dating Tip – After 8 Exposures Do Vary Where You Eat

However, after 8 exposures, go ahead and mix it up. After 8 times eating your brown bag lunch at one public plaza, go ahead and vary the plaza. With all of the plazas in each city, go ahead and eat at a different plaza after 8 exposures at one plaza.

Dating Tip – Bring, Eat, or Wear a Conversation Starter

Help your fellow stranger singles out. Bring, eat, or wear a conversation starter. A conversation starter creates curiosity in the minds of others. It provides them with a polite excuse to start speaking to you.

Expert Dating Tip Conversation Starter – What You Eat

This can be anything from an odd colored food – pureed beets for instance, “What iS that purple thing you are eating?” Another way of making your lunch your conversation starter is that each time you eat at this same plaza, bring the same item and have it be wrapped up, packaged, and concealed in a highly convoluted manner. The point of doing this is not to be logical. You are aiming to create great curiosity in others. Watching you bring this meal out from your containers and unwrapping it each week, day after day sparks their curiosity. They can’t help themselves. They ache to find out WHAT IS IT you are eating. WHAT ON EARTH IS IT? Perfect strangers will not be able to help themselves they will be so dying to know that they will simply cross the sound barrier chasm and speak to you ask, “Do you mind if I ask you what you’re eating? It looks so interesting.” Think of the sushi boxes when they first were introduced in the United States and became part of the mainstream culture rather than just a Japanese culture item in the 1980s. Embrace it. Be elaborate and bizarre in your wrapping and packaging of your meal. And feel free to provide your repast with a completely in decererable

Expert Dating Tip Conversation Starter – What You Read

To a book you are reading with an interesting title and cover image. “What is that book you are reading? Who is the author? I’ve never heard of Kevin Hogan before. What’s that about 168 hour week?”

Expert Dating Tip Conversation Starter – What You Wear

Or you can wear a conversation starter. When you are at the office and needing to look corporate and business casual, this poses more of a challenge. Normally I would suggest something like a large NHL hockey team sports jersey. “How about those Sharks! Do you think they’ll finally make it to the Stanley Cup finals this year?” So with needing to wear business casual this can mean you wear a baseball cap just during lunchtime to protect yourself from the sun’s UV rays. (Yes, do wear good sunscreen while you are eating your brown bag lunch outdoors.)

By mixing it up the places where you eat your brown bag lunch as well as make it easy for others to talk with you and in fact entice them to talk with you, you will meet more people and get more great dates.

Happy Dating and Relationships,

April Braswell