It is terrific to sit back and use your technology to have fun sometimes. In my professional life I wear many hats – advisor, counselor, writer, publisher. In all of those hats, while doing all of those jobs I use technology. I have a laptop computer, a tablet pc, a smartphone, and an e-reader just to name a few. At the same time in my personal life, I am a wife, mother and a friend. Technology is helpful to me in those areas as well. Recently I discovered a company called Datevitation that allows me to use my technology to create a love coupon book to make people around me really happy.
Datevitation is this amazing website that allows you to give the people around you amazing dates that are special to them. Datevitation is the web’s first online platform to create a custom love coupon book. Unlike the pre-packaged love coupon books on the market, you pick the dates and can customize the text to your liking. Once you are done customizing the text in your book, Datevitation will print it out and ship it to you. The Datevitation library contains over 500 date ideas ranging from skydiving to stargazing to steamy adult-only activities. They also have over 100 book cover options to suit any occasion.
In addition to being the perfect romantic gift for your sweetie, Datevitation now has “boy” and “girl” characters with over 200 new activity illustrations specifically for kids and parents. There’s also an exciting feature that allows you to add photos of your own faces to the illustrations!
One of the things that really impressed me was the fact that the love coupon book could be for anyone and any occasion. You can give them to friends, family members even co-workers because there were so many activity options to choose from when creating your love coupon book. The other thing that was really impressive was the fact that we could add our own photos to the characters in the book. It made the whole experience more personal and a lot more special. When my husband Darren receives the book I created for him and sees the photos of he and I doing the events, he will know the gift was made just for him.
Books normally start at just $25 so it makes for a thoughtful yet economical gift. But as a special treat for my followers, you can use the code ‘JANEANE10’ for $10 off your purchase plus free shipping (total value of $13.50) That means you can get your loved one a one-of-a-kind gift for Christmas starting at just $15! The order cut-off date for guaranteed delivery by Christmas is December 13 so make sure to get your order in before then!
I made a coupon book. It took almost no time and was a lot of fun to do. There were so many types of activities to choose from and so many choices within each category it was easy to find just the right activities for my book. I selected:
Big screen movie night
Go out for a Chinese meal
Afternoon at the park
A game of strip poker
Five star spa treatment
These are special treats and days that would be really special to my husband. You should feel free to pick your own activities that would be best for you and the person receiving your love coupon book.
The kind people at Datevitationhave offered to give one of my readers a coupon book of their very own. This exciting giveaway starts today and ends on December 9, 2013 when a winner will be chosen at random. Please enter so you have a chance to win one of a great love coupon book like the one I created for my husband.
I really like the idea of these books so my friends and family should not be surprised if they get a coupon book from me for various occasions throughout the year. Datevitation is a family business run by the husband-wife team of Alex and Olga Karpman. You can get to know them on the Datevitation blog, where they offer video guides to date ideas and romantic gestures. You can even watch Alex propose to Olga in a video they posted on Youtube as a Save The Date, and now has over 1.5 million views (you can view the video here)!
In conclusion, it is terrific to sit back and use your technology to have fun sometimes. So, the question for you this terrific day is, what is the most fun you have had with your technology?
I made my book for my husband, I cannot wait to see what he makes for me. this is such a fantastic idea.. and a great gift for the holidays. I love these kinds of gifts. What a classy way to give the gift of love and care. I have contemplated giving photo books to some of our friends and family as holiday gifts, but these would be a much better alternative to the traditional ones everyone makes.
I love this idea. I even shared it with everyone in my meeting. 🙂
This is so cute! I’ll have to keep this in mind for presents!
I love the Bucket List!
I love these– the personalization and animations are too cute
That is cool. could see me and the kids having fun with that.
Such a cute idea! I think you just gave me the best gift I could get for my sisters.
I made my book for my husband, I cannot wait to see what he makes for me.
Yes, this way he can get these for you all the time if you let him use the phone.
Napkins! He has to be really good to get away with that!
The homemade ones are nice, but these are kicked up a notch and are personalized at the same time.
I really like these, I showed my husband the site and told him the ones I don’ want so I will be sure to get a book full of things I want!
Yes, we work on our phones so much, it is nice to sit back and enjoy that thing we carry everwhere.
I did no think about using the book as a card, that is a great idea!
Wow,I’d be happy to get one of these as a gift from my hubby, who is a tech junkie. I swear he is addicted to his phone. It gets on my nerves at time, however if I knew he was creating something like this for me.I might be a little more tolerant
Super cute. Love personalize cards 😀 good luck to everyone who joined the giveaway.
These are so cute! Much classier than the versions my husband makes from scrap paper and napkins.
How cute! I used to make homemade coupon books as gifts, but this is obviously much nicer. Love it.
What an awesome and unique idea!
Oh my gosh! This is so hilarious and I love it. It is amazing how there are tons of ways you can do to make some fun cards and what not. LOL! I laugh watching these cards. Thank you so much for sharing! I want some.
What a thoughtful gift idea! I love using technology for fun — we play games and apps on our phones and tablets when we need to destress and have some fun!
This is wonderful, you can create a Christmas Card and make everyone smile whenever they see your cards.
I love this!
I would love to give those to someone.
This is a fun gift for both the giver and the recipient.
I really lied all the choices available.
Ah cute! I love this as a stocking stuffer idea! Coupon books are a great idea – and love that these are personalized with faces.
That is so cute, I love gifts that are more on the personal side.
That looks so fun! I like working with animations and creating animations out of people and this project reminds me of that, with using pictures of people within it!
Love coupon books are a really cute idea. 🙂 Way to spice things up. 🙂
The illustrations are just cracking me up! This is a really fun idea and would help steer clear of being a rut!
HAHAHA just noticed my comment was the same as the person above me! Great minds think alike! I need to get one of these coupon books for the huz from the kids! I think it would be awesome!
These coupon books are so cute! Love that you can personalize them with your faces too!
so cute! Love how you can add your faces to the cartoons! Who wouldn’t love receiving one of these?
OMG I love these! My favorite is the cafe one. It’s our favorite thing to do for dates.
Great ideas, I love the one you made.
This is such a cute idea. I like that you can add your own faces, it really personalizes it.
How cute is the this! I love Kids- free day under Getaways!
LOL! I like the karaoke one! What an awesome gift!
This is so funny and cool! My husband and I have contemplated giving photo books to some of our friends and family as holiday gifts, but these would be a much better alternative to the traditional ones everyone makes! Thanks for sharing!
This is such a fun idea! I would love to receive something like this 🙂
Ach! These had me giggling all the way through your post – how adorable! Not to mention, a wonderful gift for Valentine’s Day 😉
That looks like something that you would laugh and giggle over for years!
How fun and completely cheeky. Would make a truly original gift.
HA! These are so cute. I love all the things technology has given us access to.
So cute! Technology makes so many thing possible these days!
so i love these. i often make them on a computer and it takes a lot of time. this will simplify this. i will order one for my honey…
What a cute and fun idea. I have received coupons as gifts before, but they were homemade…come to think of it, I don’t think I used them all!
I love this idea, this is so neat!!! I love how they allow you to put pics in it yourself to personalize.
trisha
That is so cute! And it’s definitely unique!
how cute and an awesome gist
I love these kinds of gifts. What a classy way to give the gift of love and care.
My husband would get a kick out of this if he got this. Not a typical gift. Love it!
Oh this is cute! I love the strip poker one lol
I wanted to add a couple of stocking stuffers with Danny’s Christmas gift, this fits right in my budget YAY He’s going to giggle when he sees our pics in the coupon book! GRACIAS!
Oh my goodness, this is such a fantastic idea.. and a great gift for the holidays! Thank you!
…and errand duty and laundry duty are my favs!
This is too cute!!! I love personalized gifts…and I agree with Brandi ;0) I think I’ve found the perfect stocking stuffer for the Mr.
OMGoodness the one with the spa treatment is too funny!
Sadly, I need this for my husband since he often feels so ignored 🙁
Oh, and I like the ADULT ones…if you know what I mean. LOL!
This is outrageously cute! Such a sweet gift!