Bucket List

[Deleted User] · July 2014

So last night I found a journal/scrapbook thing I made in high school, and in it was my bucket list! It's interesting to see what I set as goals for myself back then, and thinking about how I feel about them now. Here are a few:

- Go to Paris (Done! I went the summer after high school.)

- Go skydiving (Did it twice already. Want to do more)

- Own a Volkswagen Microbus (Definitely still a goal)

- Adopt a child (Not so sure about this anymore. I would still love to, but if I marry current BF I know he isn't into it. As long as I am able to give birth, I will most likely not end up adopting. But hey, I adopted my fur baby, and that felt good on its own!)

- Learn a second language (Still a goal. I'm thinking of trying Rosetta Stone someday. The only thing truly holding me back is that I can't decide a language! Russian would do me a lot of good here, but Spanish would work better considering the places I want to travel to! And if I retire in Costa Rica, I will have to learn, haha)

There are a few more, but they are very materialistic. I have done so much growing since high school. I don't think there is really anything else I would add though. I kind of just want to see where life takes me, and as long as I have my man and my family and I'm staying true to myself, then that's alright with me.

What are some things on YOUR bucket lists, ladies?

Dignity100 · July 2014

- Go to Alaska and see the Northern Lights
- Go on a cruise
- Go see the Grand Canyon
- Buy a new house with a decent size lot (1-2 acres would be ideal, but I'll entertain anything 1/2 acre and up)
- Ride another century - 100-miles; 1-day on a bicycle; I don't know why I'm adding this, I did it once and recovery was tough.

ShallowSeas · July 2014

Go to Ireland and have it be a surprise for FI
Go to Italy
Visit every state
Own a home
Have a family
Swim with dolphins
Touch an octopus

Theres a ton more, I just can't think right now. I had a "30 before 30" list that I was working on but stopped...I need to find it.

[Deleted User] · July 2014

I made my first bucket list last year for things to do before I turn 30. Some things I think on there are obviously unrealistic since I'll be 30 in 5 years and we don't have unlimited funds lol but it's more a lifetime bucket list I would say. Here are some of things I wrote on there:

-Become a home owner (Got the house but renting so hopefully next year we will buy)

-Get a Puppy dog (CHECK!!!!)

-Learn how to garden (Getting there, planted my first basil plant yesterday)

-Pay off my student loans (In Process, hit my first $10,000 mark last month)

-Have a couple babies : )

-Trip to Paris, New Orleans, Las Vegas, New York, Alaska

-Go Deep Sea Fishing

-Learn how to Golf

That's all I can think of right now.

joy14bw · July 2014

@Dignity100 - Alaska is amazing! The wildlife just blew my mind!

- Go to Germany -next year Oktoberfest
- Sky Dive
- Get engaged and married the man I want to grow old with and become a mommy (Think they all kind of go together)
- a African Safari
- a Alaskan Cruise - with whale watching
- Go to New York Ground zero
- Surf in Australia

Swazzle · July 2014

The top item on my bucket list for my entire life was to go on a safari and I can happily say I checked that off when H and I went on our HM last year

Some other things:

1) Roadtrip across the country then fly home

2) Own a home

3) Pay off my student loans!!!!

4) Go to Australia

5) Stay in an over-water bungalow

6) Open/run a no-kill shelter

7) Go to Egypt

loves2shop4shoes · July 2014

Bucket List:

-Go to/graduate from college (check!)
-Get married (check!)
-Have children
-Own a home
-Go to Italy (check!)
-Go to Paris
-Go to Hawaii (check!)
-Go to the Grand Canyon
-Go to Bora Bora (check coming in Sept/Oct.!)

joy14bw · July 2014

@Swazzle - so jealous!! Where did you go for your safari? Any advice or recommendations! and for your honeymoon???? how freaking cool.

Swazzle · July 2014

@es14bw - We went to South Africa for 10 days! It was incredible and no trip we take will ever be able to compare (which is both a blessing and a curse!). We plan to go back again at some point, that'll involve quite a bit of saving though

Let me find the thread from when I got back. It has pictures and stuff and if you're still interested, I can send you an extremely long, detailed email about the entire experience. I've sent it to a couple people from here who wanted to travel there.

joy14bw · July 2014

@swazzle - awesome TIA!

jenna8984 · July 2014

I have grown up so much since my materialistic high school days as well. Everyone else's senior goal in the yearbook was to make their parents proud and to be happy. Mine was to- move to Los Angeles (I'm from MA), own a Lotus (expensive European sports car), and be rich. God I cringe that I wrote that as my goal because now I want no part of that! lol

I have done many things but I guess the ones left are:

Get kissed by the man I love in front of the Eiffel Tower.

See all 7 "Wonders of the World" (Great Wall, Chitzen Itza, Machu Piccu, Great Pyrmaids, Taj Mahal, Colesseum, Christ Redeemer statue) I've been to 3.

Have a baby (or 2)

Be financially stable enough/ have enough in retirement to one day be able to tell my boss at the time to fuck off and just quit on the spot. (did this in high school but it doesn't count when you're not supporting youself)

Swazzle · July 2014

@es14bw - Here's the link to the thread I posted way back when: CLICK

joy14bw · July 2014

@jenna8984 - your last one is awesome!! Think I'll have to add that to my list too.

Peaseblossom55 · July 2014

@swazzle I want to stay in an overwater bungalow some day too!

@Loves2shop4shoes so jealous of your trip to Bora/Bora, I really wanted to go there for our honeymoon.

My bucket list from this point forward

Bring H to Paris and Italy

Get to vacation on an island in the Pacific

Bring H to Ireland

Raise a child (or two)

My bucket list has gotten a lot smaller as I've gotten older, since I've been able to check off a lot of it like buying a home, getting married and such

LizzyTish88 · July 2014

I knew we did this YEARS ago, so I just went back to see what my answers were found: HERE

All those still remain, however I am going to add;

-Paying off my student loans before 30

-Getting married and having children

-Adopting/Rescuing a dog

-Retiring on the beach somewhere.

joy14bw · July 2014

Swazzle said:

@es14bw - Here's the link to the thread I posted way back when: CLICK

HOLY CRAP! PLEASE SEND ME ALL YOUR INFO! I would save forever to do all that! WOW! I'll pm you my email addy.

bethsmiles · July 2014

Most of my bucket list is places I want to travel, Norway and New Zealand top the list for me.

I would like to adopt. BF wants at least one biological child but is open to the idea of adoption. I'm not sure I could've stayed with him if he wasn't. We might not end up adopting because it's so expensive and time consuming but it's important to me that my SO is open to it.

Owning a home is definetly on the list.

Getting my PhD is still on the list for now. It might get moved off though.

BF and I would love to own a cabin in the mountains. I don't know if it will even happen but it's something we've always talked about.

loves2shop4shoes · July 2014

@Peaseblossom55, I'm very fortunate that I get to travel to amazing places for work. So in September/October, DH and I will be traveling to Tahiti, Moorea, Bora Bora, Rangiroa, and Tetiaroa, compliments of my job.

In December, I'll be traveling to New Zealand and Fiji for work. I am really, really fortunate.

[Deleted User] · July 2014

@bethsmiles - It kind of broke my heart when BF told me he wouldn't even consider adopting. But back then I had made the decision because I didn't want to go through child birth. Then that switched to "Well maybe I'll have ONE kid of my own.". . . I just gradually adjusted that as well.

But underneath it all, I wouldn't be completely broken hearted if it turned out I couldn't have my own. There are too many kids in the world without parents already. Could have posted that in the confession discussion, but here works too. . .

bethsmiles · July 2014

@loves2shop4shoes - I am jealous of your job!

loves2shop4shoes · July 2014

bethsmiles said:

@loves2shop4shoes - I am jealous of your job!

And on top of all of the FREE travel to amazing places, I get discounts on all of my own personal travel. I get free trips for my family. My boss is amazing. No one breathes down my neck. I get to do actually cool shit at work. I come and go as I please, as long as the work is done. I get paid well. And my boss has told me that if/when we plan to move back East, I can work remotely. And when I have children, I can adjust my working hours to avoid paying for daycare.

I hit the job lottery. I really, really did.

Peaseblossom55 · July 2014

@love2shop4shoes I'm so jealous I really wanted to see Bora Bora Moorea, I will need lots of details when you get back. When I was planning it for our HM it was really really expensive, the flight costs are what really kind of forced us to say, let's not. Are you staying in any over water Bungalows?

bethsmiles · July 2014

@EisleyJoGo - I originally didn't to go through childbirth either! Then I watched The Business of Being Born and learned more about midwifery and natural childbirth and I'm much more comfortable with the idea of giving birth. I'd still like to adopt though because there are so many children who need good homes. It sucks that it is such a difficult process though.

Blue & White · July 2014

1. Own a house (SO soon!)
2. Visit all the MLB ballparks and take tours and go to a game (We've already been to old Yankee Stadium, Camden Yard, Fenway, Tropicana Field.)
3. Go to a Colts vs. Ravens game in both Indy and Baltimore
4. Visit Chicago, San Francisco, and a ton of other US places
5. GO TO NEW ZEALAND AND SEE GLOW WORMS
6. Dive the great barrier reef
7. Adopt a kid/baby. Or a few.
8. Make a homemade tiramisu.
9. Go to Epcot's Food & Wine Festival (like, oh this year hopefully)
10. Take a cooking class maybe like French pastries or something crazy (with @southernpeach89? Perhaps because she's the only one I know that ever goes to cooking classes lol)

loves2shop4shoes · July 2014

Peaseblossom55 said:

@love2shop4shoes I'm so jealous I really wanted to see Bora Bora Moorea, I will need lots of details when you get back. When I was planning it for our HM it was really really expensive, the flight costs are what really kind of forced us to say, let's not. Are you staying in any over water Bungalows?

Yes. We'll be staying in OWBs in Bora Bora and Moorea. We won't be in Tahiti (the island), Rangiroa, or Tetiaroa.

It's quite expensive to travel there, and Bora Bora is more expensive than Moorea. For Bora Bora, with flights, you're talking about $10k for 5 nights for 2 people. Moorea might be more like 8k. Still a fortune.

[Deleted User] · July 2014

@Blue&White YES! H and I love cooking classes lol! When you come to ATL we will do one! I want to do a pasta making one or a sushi making one!

Peaseblossom55 · July 2014

loves2shop4shoes said:

Peaseblossom55 said:

@love2shop4shoes I'm so jealous I really wanted to see Bora Bora Moorea, I will need lots of details when you get back. When I was planning it for our HM it was really really expensive, the flight costs are what really kind of forced us to say, let's not. Are you staying in any over water Bungalows?

Yes. We'll be staying in OWBs in Bora Bora and Moorea. We won't be in Tahiti (the island), Rangiroa, or Tetiaroa.

It's quite expensive to travel there, and Bora Bora is more expensive than Moorea. For Bora Bora, with flights, you're talking about $10k for 5 nights for 2 people. Moorea might be more like 8k. Still a fortune.

It is really expensive the quote we got from our travel agent was about $15,000, the flights were the most expensive part.

loves2shop4shoes · July 2014

Peaseblossom55 said:

loves2shop4shoes said:

Peaseblossom55 said:

@love2shop4shoes I'm so jealous I really wanted to see Bora Bora Moorea, I will need lots of details when you get back. When I was planning it for our HM it was really really expensive, the flight costs are what really kind of forced us to say, let's not. Are you staying in any over water Bungalows?

Yes. We'll be staying in OWBs in Bora Bora and Moorea. We won't be in Tahiti (the island), Rangiroa, or Tetiaroa.

It's quite expensive to travel there, and Bora Bora is more expensive than Moorea. For Bora Bora, with flights, you're talking about $10k for 5 nights for 2 people. Moorea might be more like 8k. Still a fortune.

It is really expensive the quote we got from our travel agent was about $15,000, the flights were the most expensive part.

$15,000 for how many nights? Which travel agent did you use?

[Deleted User] · July 2014

southernpeach89 said:

@Blue&White YES! H and I love cooking classes lol! When you come to ATL we will do one! I want to do a pasta making one or a sushi making one!

Totes just did a sushi making class. So fun! And it's really not as hard as it seems. The rolling part is the trickiest. . . And getting the right amount of rice. . . And finding good fish.

[Deleted User] · July 2014

@EisleyJoGo -The only reason why I would chose Pasta Making over sushi making is the fact that I would probably want to make my own pasta more than go out and buy all the ingredients to make sushi. H's parents have done the sushi making class and they loved it but they never use their skills where as they use their pasta making tools all the time.

[Deleted User] · July 2014

@southernpeach89 - Go for the pasta. I think it's more impressive and delicious anyways.

I'm already having trouble finding everything I need for the sushi in my town. I'll have to make a trip into the city. Which is annoying if I'm only going down to buy fish.

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