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thread: Do you have a bucket list?

  1. #1

    May 2008
    Melbourne, Vic
    8,631

    Do you have a bucket list?

    DH is approaching the big four oh and tells me he feels like he hasn't done enough with his life, that there are things on his "list" that he hasn't crossed off. Not a bucket list but a "before I'm 40 list".

    Then he asked me what's on mine. I told him I didn't really have one.

    So tell me, do you have one? If so, what's on it? If you care to share that is! Any sort of list of long-term things to do, be it before you shuffle off this mortal coil, before a milestone or whatever!

  2. #2

    Nah not at all. If I do something I've never done before then I will say "well that is crossed off my bucket list" even though there wasn't one to begin with LOL. For example seeing my first 3D movie the other week.

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Mar 2007
    Melbourne
    4,031

    I suppose my wish list is called a bucket list...

    Go to Africa..have been dreaming of doing this since I was 18yrs old.
    Back to Mauritius for our 20yr Anniversary (that's only 4yrs away)
    Go to Vietnam..we had this booked, paid and the day before we were due to leave my Dad passed away. I was 3mths pregnant so we just never got around to actually doing this.
    Hot Air Balloon
    I have alot of restaurants on my wish/bucket list, we are working through those.
    Newly added is to get a professional photo shoot with my Mum.
    We want to do a sea or tree change at some stage in our lives.

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Mar 2007
    6,900

    No, I don't have one either! I can't think of any real things that I feel like I just MUST do!

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Dec 2007
    Sunny Qld
    14,682

    Nope, nothing for me!

    I don't feel any great desire to go overseas - dunno why, but it probably has something to do with anxiety about planes LOL

    Probably eventually going back to work - that seems far enough away to score a mention on a Bucket List!

  6. #6
    Registered User

    Mar 2009
    2,269

    I really want to visit jellyfish lake.

  7. #7
    Registered User

    Nov 2008
    in the ning nang nong
    12,163

    Africa, for DH (and I want to climb Kilimanjaro).

    Bungee jumping for me. Probably in New Zealand.

    Finish a novel- writing, not reading. I've started so many. I'd like to finish one (and maybe even get it published!).

    Abolish human trafficking.

  8. #8

    May 2008
    Melbourne, Vic
    8,631

    ...Abolish human trafficking.
    Start with this one. Start small

    I really want to visit jellyfish lake.
    Where JF? Palau?

    ...Back to Mauritius for our 20yr Anniversary (that's only 4yrs away)
    Go to Vietnam..we had this booked, paid and the day before we were due to leave my Dad passed away. I was 3mths pregnant so we just never got around to actually doing this...
    20 years?? Wow, impressive! And I relly hope you get to Vietnam... That must have been tough.

    ...I don't feel any great desire to go overseas - dunno why, but it probably has something to do with anxiety about planes LOL...
    Yeah that'd do it!!

    I'm glad I'm not alone. DH was all "there must be SOMETHING you want to do?"

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    Registered User

    Mar 2007
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    I'm glad I'm not alone. DH was all "there must be SOMETHING you want to do?"
    Tell him to take it as a compliment. You're doing exactly what you want to do, livin' the dream!! lol.

  10. #10

    May 2008
    Melbourne, Vic
    8,631

    I tell him I want to sleep for eight hours straight, uninterrupted, on my own...

  11. #11
    Registered User

    Oct 2008
    Victoria
    4,601

    Hmmm...I first thought I didn't have a bucket list but there are a few things I want to do.

    Go in a hot air balloon.

    Take the boys around Australia for an extended trip, months long.

    Stand at the nothernmost tip of the country, could possibly be done on the big trip.

    Go to uni and actually graduate lol.

    My husband turned 40 last year and he would have an extensive bucket list! He's always saying 'won't get to blah blah blah' and I say 'you've still got the rest of your life ahead of you!'

  12. #12
    Registered User

    Jan 2006
    8,369

    I have one. It's basically at some point cruise around South Africa (I have then officially cruised the world) and have three children before I'm thirty - this list was made when I was in my early 20s and told to DH. Well, still time for the round-the-world cruise... something else it turns out DH isn't keen on.

    There's a few things I'd like to do, but I'm not fussed if I never ever end up beloved by millions. Stupid millions is all I say. That's their problem, not mine.

    Maybe I should write a bucket list for others and put "adore The Flying Butter" on there, photocopy it millions of times... oh wait. Age of the Internet and all that. Maybe I should just blog "you all have to love me!" and succeed in that one.

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    2014 BellyBelly RAK Recipient.

    Mar 2008
    Vic
    4,806

    I've got one but it changes often. There was a thread about it a while ago, was fun reading through everyone's wants.

  14. #14
    Registered User

    Dec 2007
    Hork-Bajir Valley
    5,722

    I thought id already repkued...but must have been a different thread.

    Ive already done alot on my list. but one still remaining (and I do keep adding to it) is to see the northern lights

  15. #15
    Registered User

    Nov 2008
    in the ning nang nong
    12,163

    Maybe I should write a bucket list for others and put "adore The Flying Butter" on there, photocopy it millions of times... oh wait. Age of the Internet and all that. Maybe I should just blog "you all have to love me!" and succeed in that one.
    Perhaps you could start with this?

  16. #16
    2014 BellyBelly RAK Recipient.

    Oct 2007
    Outer South East Melbourne :)
    4,346

    i don't really have a list as such, just two things i really *want* to do.

    First is to go back to South Africa and see all my family there. We came to Aus when i was 3.5yrs old so i don't really remember much and with the advent of Facebook it's reminded me what a huge family I do have and how much i miss them.

    my other *want* is to get a tattoo! not sure where or what but it will incorporate my two girls' names and dates of birth

  17. #17
    Registered User

    Nov 2008
    in the ning nang nong
    12,163

    I need some new goals for 40.

    I had some standard ones for 30 (graduate, marry, babies, job, skydiving licence, you know the drill).

    So I need me some new challenges

    Maybe travel, maybe publishing, maybe kareoke related. Who knows.

  18. #18

    May 2008
    Melbourne, Vic
    8,631

    I've got one but it changes often. There was a thread about it a while ago, was fun reading through everyone's wants.
    I wondered if there was! Should have looked harder!

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