Put effort into getting ready for an ordinary night

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Put effort into getting ready for an ordinary night

Getting dressed up for a Tuesday changes the Tuesday.

We keep the good shirt, the perfume, the proper table setting for occasions, and then complain that ordinary life feels ordinary.

Spend twenty minutes on a night that did not ask for it. Same house, same food, entirely different evening.

It signals something to the other person too: that they are still worth the effort on a day with no reason attached.

Put effort into getting ready for an ordinary night, 1
Date it.
Put effort into getting ready for an ordinary night, 2
Do it.
Put effort into getting ready for an ordinary night, 3
Done it.

How to actually do it

  1. 01Pick a weeknight with nothing on it.
  2. 02Dress as if you were going out and then stay in.
  3. 03Set the table properly, phones elsewhere.

You already know if this is the one. Go put a date on it.

Date it in the app

Send it to whoever came to mind.

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