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Reverse bucket list

Things you have done that everyone should do at least once in their life.

Go:

Stay up all night in Las Vegas

Swim naked in the ocean under the stars

Mentor a child

Eat a meal that breaks your credit card in half

Hold a snake

 

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  • I have no desire to swim naked in the ocean, I'm afraid. Swimming with creatures and god knows what else floating around you skeeves me out enough in a swimsuit!
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  • imagetartaruga:
    I have no desire to swim naked in the ocean, I'm afraid. Swimming with creatures and god knows what else floating around you skeeves me out enough in a swimsuit!

    Not sure if you're saying you won't swim period, but that's me. The most I'll do in the ocean is walk along the shore.

    And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this Rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
  • image2Vermont:

    imagetartaruga:
    I have no desire to swim naked in the ocean, I'm afraid. Swimming with creatures and god knows what else floating around you skeeves me out enough in a swimsuit!

    Not sure if you're saying you won't swim period, but that's me. The most I'll do in the ocean is walk along the shore.

    I must be part mermaid because the idea of critters doesn't bother me at all... 

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  • image2Vermont:

    imagetartaruga:
    I have no desire to swim naked in the ocean, I'm afraid. Swimming with creatures and god knows what else floating around you skeeves me out enough in a swimsuit!

    Not sure if you're saying you won't swim period, but that's me. The most I'll do in the ocean is walk along the shore.

    I will swim in the ocean, but I have to really try not to think about all the things floating in the water that might enter my bathing suit! I'm glad I'm not the only one lol. 

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  • - Volunteer in a foreign country

    - Experience an amazing gospel choir live

    - Meet at least two minor celebrities/famous people

    - Wear a fancy dress beyond your wedding and prom

    - See the sunrise at the Grand Canyon

    - Drive a Prius (the joy stick is so much fun)

    - Visit Hawaii/Alaska

     



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  • Leave your home country at least once

     

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  • - live in a foreign country

     - travel to a random city for a weekend just because

    - rescue an animal (I would say a dog but not everyone is a dog person ha)

    - go to an outdoor music festival

    - go to a professional sporting event

    - drive a stick shift

    - spend the night outdoors

    - eat steamed crabs

     

     

    Some of those are so simple but I see or hear people saying they have never done X (like go to a sporting event) and I just think, oh you need to.   

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  • Hike the Grand Canyon

    Contra dance at a bluegrass concert

    Surf

    Backpack through Europe

    Meet your favorite musician

    ETA: Stand next to a professional athlete (it was one of the first times in my life I felt small, and I'm 5'10")

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  • -See an African sunset

    -bungee jump

    -visit a developing or third world country

    - invest some time creating something you will treasure for the rest of your life. For me it's a t shirt quilt of my t shirts from travels, etc. and I love scrap booking to preserve memories 

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  • - visit Rome & have some gelato &/or pizza

    - snorkel in Hawaii

    - visit a cenote in the Mayan Riviera

    - ski or at least experience winter in Banff, Alberta.

    -  take a group of kids camping (in my case it was my Girl Guides) - the joy they get is UNREAL

    - own a pet of some kind

    - buy the order for the person behind you at Tim Hortons/McDonalds/whatever your daily fix is. 

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  • Visit Yellowstone...and see more of the park than just Old Faithful, if possible.
  • imagefernane:

    -See an African sunset

    -visit a developing or third world country

    Lol at this from someone who laughs at stupid racist jokes. Also, sunsets in "Africa" look just like sunsets everywhere else.  

    "We tend to be patronizing about the poor in a very specific sense, which is that we tend to think,
  • Visit Jackson hole Wyoming

    Shop at Walmart, lol

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  • View (up close) a glacier and/or volcano to see 1st hand the earth being made.

    Spend several days in a place where you don't speak the language (and outside a tourist area).

    Spend several days in a place where you are an obvious minority. (Where you look different than the majority.)

    Eat a fresh strawberry that's still warm from the sun.

  • imagemxolisi:
    imagefernane:

    -See an African sunset

    -visit a developing or third world country

    Lol at this from someone who laughs at stupid racist jokes. Also, sunsets in "Africa" look just like sunsets everywhere else.  

    I think she means, visit a developing country so you can point and take pictures of all the poor brown people, then come home and tell everyone how people in the US aren't really poor - look at these people in my pictures! Look how poor they are!

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  • I would add, take a trip to a new city by yourself.
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  • meet a sitting POTUS

    spend New Year's Eve in Times Square

    move far away from everybody you know

    camp out on a boat

    go to a really big dog park

    educate somebody about something that matters to you

    live without a car for a year

    be vegetarian for a year

     

    The Girl is 5. The Boy is 2. The Dog is 1.

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  • - Do something that's completely outside your comfort zone - more than once.  That's so individual, so it's hard to say what it should be.  But everyone should figure it out and push themselves.

    - Go to a foreign country and avoid the tourist traps.  Try and 'live' as local as possible.  Also, speak the language as best you can.  

     - Volunteer. 

    - Eat a fresh picked watermelon warm from the field.

     

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  • visit an old growth forest

    camp out 

    drink something you know you shouldn't

    drive over 100mph

    take a gondola or ski lift to the top of a really tall mountain

    bake a chocolate cake from scratch

    bake bread from scratch, not in a machine

     

     

    ...I'm old. There's a lot I've done.

    The Girl is 5. The Boy is 2. The Dog is 1.

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  • Would love to swim nekkid in the ocean. I love the ocean.

    Now, holding a snake? No. *shivers*

  • -Skydive

    -Camp in the woods for a weekend

    -ditto the going to a foreign country and live like the locals

    -Take a road trip by yourself

    -Be silly in public and not care what others think of it (I like to sing/dance in the parking lots, DH likes to ride shopping carts out to the car LOL)

    -Party all night, and stay up to see the sunrise

  • imagemrsbecky07:

    - go to a professional sporting event

    Some of those are so simple but I see or hear people saying they have never done X (like go to a sporting event) and I just think, oh you need to.   

    Totally agree! I am not a fan of any sport -- I just don't care -- but I've been to professional football, basketball, hockey (<--this was SO FUN!), baseball and soccer games. And a NASCAR race.

  • imageSou Desafinado:

    imagemrsbecky07:

    - go to a professional sporting event

    Some of those are so simple but I see or hear people saying they have never done X (like go to a sporting event) and I just think, oh you need to.   

    Totally agree! I am not a fan of any sport -- I just don't care -- but I've been to professional football, basketball, hockey (<--this was SO FUN!), baseball and soccer games. And a NASCAR race.

    Oh I totally agree!! I always tell people they should tailgate an NFL football game at least once.  

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  • Eat pineapple while in Hawaii.

    Sleep/live in a cabin/tent for more than a week. 

    Visit a State Fair and tour the whole thing - not just the rides out front. 

    ETA: Visit a state that gives you the willies

    Pet a buffalo! 

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  • imageSou Desafinado:

    Would love to swim nekkid in the ocean. I love the ocean.

    Now, holding a snake? No. *shivers*

    awwww. we used to have a pet snake. she was great. and:

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    Maybe I should add that to the list...

    "have a pet that freaks other people out."

    The Girl is 5. The Boy is 2. The Dog is 1.

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  • go to services of a religion not your own, several if you can

    eat home cooked food of ethnic food varieties you love in restaurants

    make (by sewing, knitting, etc) something you wear

    meditate

     

     

    The Girl is 5. The Boy is 2. The Dog is 1.

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  • imageLaurierGirl28:
    imageSou Desafinado:

    imagemrsbecky07:

    - go to a professional sporting event

    Some of those are so simple but I see or hear people saying they have never done X (like go to a sporting event) and I just think, oh you need to.   

    Totally agree! I am not a fan of any sport -- I just don't care -- but I've been to professional football, basketball, hockey (<--this was SO FUN!), baseball and soccer games. And a NASCAR race.

    Oh I totally agree!! I always tell people they should tailgate an NFL football game at least once.  

    ITA...

    But, can I also say, "go to a championship game of a professional sport"?  I was there when the Seattle Storm (WNBA) won the national championship in 2004.  They played Connecticut (where my H is from), so we would have been happy with either result, but being in the arena when they won was definitely a big deal.

     

    Also, I'd like to add, seeing a baseball game in one of the old parks. I'd say Fenway, but one of the other classics would do.

    The Girl is 5. The Boy is 2. The Dog is 1.

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    I am the 99%.
  • There should be explanations by most of these telling us why these moments were so special. Maybe someone drove around Yosemite by themselves to think about their dead best friends who recently died in a bus accident and it yielded an indescribable piece of mind that gave them a certain comfort allowing them to move on and not dwell on the worst case scenarios in life.  But if said person told me "Take a lonesome drive through Yosemite" and I did, I might end up stressed out because I can't get any good radio stations in the valley and I'm almost out of gas.  I'd need to have best friends die in a bus accident first. That's something I can't relate to at this time.  So I wouldn't want to do that, probably.
  • I have led such a boring life compared to you guys, but here goes:

    - Live in a foreign country

    - Drink Czech beer in the Czech Republic

    - Take your own bike tour of the beautiful city of Vancouver

    - Eat poutine, preferably in Quebec

    - Ride a roller coaster if you're realllllllly afraid of them like I am

    - Go to a game where the entire crowd is jumping up and down so hard the stadium is shaking and you're in the very last row of the top deck and think you're about to die (Shea Stadium, 2006 NLCS)

    - See U2 in concert (SHUT IT, HATERS)

    - Eat deep dish pizza in Chicago

     

  • live in a foreign country

    learn to drive a stick shift

    move to a different state for the hell of it, on impulse

    participate in a battle re-enactment

    play in the rain as an adult

    waltz at a garden party

    live in Washington DC

    become proficient in at least two musical instruments

    learn to speak a foreign language fluently

    learn to sail

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