What's on your Bucket List?

Freefaller said:
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Happy to :)

Although you are the bloke who just posted £20K of holidays as stuff to do, preceded by another £50K of stuff he's already done, so I'd question the value of your posts too.
Try catching a fish instead of cut-n-pasting the Conde Nast brochure.
 
I have caught a fish - and I have done many of the little things, I could have listed every activity I have ever done, but it would be several thousand pages long. I've picked things I'd love to do - whether I get to do them or not we shall have to see. It's good to aspire to things. I may never get to do them as I many not be able to afford them - but it's good to dream of things. I have simpler desires, such as start a family, buy a house (other than a flat) and so on, but those whilst no less special are things that I hope are achievable fairly easily, these other things are big adventures.

Furthermore you have no idea how much I did or didn't spend on those activities - and whilst I may have squandered some money in my reckless youth it's given me the life experiences I have today and I don't regret them for a moment.
 
Ferry 'cross The Mersey
visit Australia - in particular, Uluru - that would do, just a wee visit there.

1 is do-able , 2 not so much, I'm poor.
 
Sliver said:
Same here.

I know it won't happen so I'm basically content.

I've already done all the things I really wanted to. Everything else life brings now is just an unexpected bonus.
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Then you better rethink.
Assuming you'll live for 20 - 40years, it will almost certainly be possible with a bit of saving.
I mean Xcor will launch at $100k and virgin galactic at $250k, but prices will rumble in coming decades.
It's very much like planes, didn't take many decades for prices to tumble.
 
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Glaucus said:
Then you better rethink.
Assuming you'll live for 20 - 40years, it will almost certainly be possible with a bit of saving.
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Well if it becomes affordable in my life time, as in the price of a current plane ticket, then of course I'd jump for it. I hope it happens, but I'm not expecting it.
 
Why a price of a plane ticket? Everyone can afford more than that. I would be more than happy at £10k and would probably pay more than twice that.
 
Glaucus said:
Why a price of a plane ticket? Everyone can afford more than that. I would be more than happy at £10k and would probably pay more than twice that.
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What would you be content with? Because Virgin Galactic is 200k a ticket, and isn't orbital, only 100k up and only for 2 hours.

Would be nice, if in 20-30 years time orbital flights were mainstream, hotels in space etc for circa 20k.
 
tres said:
Well aren't you Mr Happy.

I love my bucket list, it inspires me to do things. I've done half of them!

Backpack around a country
Be a boss
Be a mentor
Be an extra in a movie
Be part of a world record
Become a member of the emergency services
Bet at a Las Vegas Casino
Brew my own beer
Build something useful with wood
Bury a time capsule
Buy a painting that i'll keep forever
Camp deep in a forest
Catatumbo Lightning
Compete in the Bognor Regis International Birdman Competition
Complete a half marathon (maybe a full)
Create my family tree
Donate blood
Donate money and get my name on something
Experience the birth of a child
Experience weightlessness
Find a career that I love
Fly a plane
Fly in a helicopter
Fly in a hot air balloon
Get a degree
Get a meaningful tattoo
Get an article published in a magazine
Get hypnotized
Get married
Get my PPL
Get on TV
Go in a sensory deprivation chamber
Go night diving
Go on a houseboat holiday with friends
Go sailing
Go to a wine tasting weekend in the depths of France
Go to Glastonbury
Grow my own veg
Have acupuncture
Have children
Help raise a considerable amount of money for a charity
Join the mile high club
Learn (or improve) a foreign language skill to conversational level
Learn a classic dance
Learn the guitar
Learn to cook
Learn to juggle
Learn to meditate
Learn to ski or snowboard
Live on an island
Live somewhere in Asia for at least 6 months
Look out from the top of the Statue of Liberty
Make a speech to a large crowd
Make my own bread
Own a boat
Own a nice home
Own an awesome, expensive suit
Publish a book
Read the bible from cover to cover
Revisit Paris with someone I love
Revisit Thailand
Ride a horse
Ride an elephant through the jungle
Road trip across a country
Sail across an ocean
Save a life
Scuba Dive
Scube Dive to 50 metres
See a solar eclipse
See a tornado
See aurora borealis
See fireflies
Send a message in a bottle
Shower in waterfall
Skydive
Sleep in a hammock
Soak in an Icelandic thermal spring
Solo skydive
Start a business
Swim with dolphins
Take part in the Mongol Rally
Travel first class on a plane
Trek in Nepal
Trek through a rainforest
Visit Antarctica
Visit Glastonbury Festival
Visit Machu Pichu
Visit Venice
Volunteer in a job
Watch a meteor shower
Watch my favourite band live
Work in a busy bar/club and make cocktails
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In alphabetical order too? Just for that extra challenge? :)

I can't tick many from your list off... bad times. But as Bitslice kind of eluded to I haven't had tens of thousands of spare pounds and lots of spare time to try.

Ticked:
Experience the birth of a child
Get a degree
Get married
Get on TV
Have children
Own a nice home
Road trip across a country
See a solar eclipse
Watch my favourite band live

Want to tick:
Go to America

I don't really think about it. Growing your own veg? Really?
 
Tonester0011 said:
What would you be content with? Because Virgin Galactic is 200k a ticket, and isn't orbital, only 100k up and only for 2 hours.

Would be nice, if in 20-30 years time orbital flights were mainstream, hotels in space etc for circa 20k.
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I would be content with virgin galactic experience. Ideally 10k, but tbh it would be what ever I could afford with saving for a few years. As long as I could see the curve of the earth, the atmosphere and expertise weightlessness.

Like anything as you pay off research costs, things get more mass produced etc, prices will tumble.
 
Want to:
Get married
Go on a cruise
Snowboard abroad (hopefully early next year)
Own my own home
Be financially comfortable so that I can afford anything I'd like (within reason.. Eg couple of grand)
Get a pet dog and train it up (maybe when I'm a lot older/have the time for it)
Work abroad
Do a job that I truly enjoy
Try scuba diving


Ticked :
Got a degree
Got a long term gf (who knows if she'll be the one I marry tho! :p)
Got a graduate job (1st big step on career ladder)
 
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Some nice things to aim for in here. Having a list is a good way to focus in achieving life's goals. Here's my list of the big stuff:-

Find my soul mate
Be happy and content with myself
Go into space
Climb all the Munroe's (20% or so of the way there)
Gain my chartership
Climb Kilimanjaro
Climb Aconcagua
Do the Inca Trail and visit Machu Picchu
Ski all the continents (3 down, 4 to go)
Visit Tokyo, NY, Vegas, Vienna, Rio, + few other cities
Visit Easter Island and see the statues
Dive the Great Barrier Reef
See a Festival of Colour in India
Spend the night in an ice hotel
Visit Iceland and see the Northern Lights and visit the hot baths
Go on Safari
Go on a cruise
Eat at some Michelin starred restaurants and see what the fuss is about
Do the Mongol Rally
Go to Glastonbury
Go to the World Cup
Build my own house (or at least not just buy a mass produced estate Barrett box)


Things done:-
Learnt to ski
Got a degree
Setup my own company
Skied on an active volcano
Fly in a helicopter
Own a sports car
Run a 10k (marathon is too far for my knees!)
Mentor graduate engineers (still ongoing)
Go horse riding
Learnt to ice skate
 
I don't really have one - I prefer to just do things I enjoy because I enjoy them rather than populate an arbitrary list and go box ticking. I appreciate a lot of people like it but it tends to lead to people wasting often huge sums of money on arbitrary box ticking and arguably missing out on better stuff.

Plus some of the stuff on peoples lists... BB I notice on your bucket list is 'go go-karting'. Karting is great fun, I can absolutely see why you'd want to give it a go. But why is it on a list like this? Why not just... go? It's about 30 quid for 3 sessions! You could go one evening this week!
 
Jokester said:
Some nice things to aim for in here. Having a list is a good way to focus in achieving life's goals. Here's my list of the big stuff:-
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Yep unlike that one odd person in here, if you don't set goals. Life's got a habit of getting in the way and you end up not doing anything.
 
[TW]Fox;26566623 said:
I don't really have one - I prefer to just do things I enjoy because I enjoy them rather than populate an arbitrary list and go box ticking. I appreciate a lot of people like it but it tends to lead to people wasting often huge sums of money on arbitrary box ticking and arguably missing out on better stuff.
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I kinda agree with your outlook myself. When I was younger I set myself a few goals and eventually achieved them and then I was like now what ? So I just thought I'd roll with it and I've never looked back. Things have happened to me since that I could never have foreseen and I find that taking life as it comes and being impulsive is something I really enjoy.
 
Sliver said:
I kinda agree with your outlook myself. When I was younger I set myself a few goals and eventually achieved them and then I was like now what ? So I just thought I'd roll with it and I've never looked back. Things have happened to me since that I could never have foreseen and I find that taking life as it comes and being impulsive is something I really enjoy.
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:confused: you can still take life as it comes and do impulsive things, having a list doesn't stop that.
 
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