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"Baby" Bucket Lists
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Hey guys!
I was just reading an article about a different kind of bucket list. Instead of things you want to make sure you do before you die, you make a list of things you want to do before you have (or think about having) kids.
For those of us who are "somedayers" verses "nevers" I kinda thought this would be fun..
What are some of those things you want to make sure you do before you're ready to start having kids?
Re: "Baby" Bucket Lists
Have a CAREER!
That would be a good start
Go to New York
Go on a second honeymoon blow-out trip to Disney World (where we went for our HM)
Get settled in our first house (closing is next month!)
Go on a random, spontaneous trip, spur-of-the-moment
Stuff like that, haha.
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Pay off our student loans.
Travel to Europe.
NYC for New Years.
Mostly any traveling that will be difficult with children i.e. most of it!
We are also doing Europe in May. London, Paris, Rome, and Athens.
Just pick something super fun that you want to do...something you cant picture yourself doing with kids, it could be something financially strapping or something you want to do that is romantic (kids might spoil the feel).
LOVE this idea!
hm..
Actually have our first honeymoon..
Travel to Ireland
Buy some land and a few horses
Not live paycheck to paycheck.. ( a career will do, but lottery would be better)
Student loan pay off... yeah right, like that will ever happen.
Take a few last minute weekend getways, just relax, and have fun
My husband and I came up with a plan for things to achieve before having kids.:) I like this idea
-Move back to our home state
-Buy a house
-Bank enough in savings to be comfortable/settle into a career where we are able to put some away each month.
-Cut my student loans down to a more manageable chunk (at least half)
-Buy a new car
-Take a trip to Ireland
Looking forward to the next 4 years
*Get a better job
*Get a new car for myself and my H
*Travel as much as possible
*Buy a House
*Pay off some student loans and bills
*Be spontaneous and sleep in as much as possible
Chip away at H's SL debt
Find an awesome job I love and save money
Move to a bigger place (1BR 1BA isn't going to cut it)
Go back to Disneyland (where we spent our honeymoon)
Go visit my sister & BIL in MO
Go visit my SIL & nieces in AZ again
Enjoy my relaxing weekend routines with H
The first three and the last one are most important to us.
Travel the world a WHOLE LOT. Both hubby and I have serious wanderlust.
Buy a house.
Pay off student loans.
Get settled into our careers.
Spend a lot of time together as just us.
**6.30.12** I have found the one whom my soul loves.
Travel - at least one trip abroad.
Head back to Disney World to celebrate an Anniversary
Honeymooned here.
isn't it horrible how we almost ALL list student loan debt? ugh someone just come on and take away all sl debt so we can do the things we want to do!!
PLEASE!!! I mean the economy with be so much better
The only thing my husband says we need to do is buy a house. He doesn't want to have a baby in an apartment. But we got a 2 bedroom apt just in case..... so it doesn't make any sense to me. There is nothing on my bucket list.
I gave him 2 options to chose from.... option 1 stay in Pennsylvania buy a house and not to have kids at all.
option 2 was to move to colorado and have a baby pretty soon after it. we originally agreed on trying in november.
we moved but he changed his mind...... very frustrating for me
I have quite an extensive list but all really reasonable:
- get debts paid down (credit cards, SL, medical, etc)
- get into jobs with benefits (especially health insurance)
- move into a house
- have a real honeymoon
- travel out of the country atleast once
- have a nest egg saved
- get our now 12 week old puppy completely trained
We're probably looking at 2-5 years before we start TTC but I'm only 23 and hubby is 26.
- Establish my career (and FI's too - he needs to get his company off the ground before we think about kiddos), and maybe go back to school for some post-grad studies
- Custom build our second house
- Travel around Europe
- Be out of consumer debt (we don't have anything other than car payments, but still)
Good thing we don't want kids for 8-10 years!