Bucket List

[umyesh]

Happy National Bucket List Day!

I think the last time I wrote out a bucket list was for a challenge here at The Lilypad. Before that there was a list I wrote on paper and kept in my old wallet. I haven’t seen either list for a very long time, but one thing I’d still like to do before I kick the bucket is swim with dolphins or whales.

How about you?
Have you ever made a bucket list?
What’s one thing you want to do before you kick the bucket?

Fun fact: There’s a Lilypad collab called Summer Bucket List! It’s the first Lilypad collab I ever owned and I still love all the bright, fun colors it has.
https://the-lilypad.com/store/Lilypad-Collab-Summer-Bucket-List.html

 

[HavaDrPepper]

I did a program called "Dream Manager" through my employer in 2013. One part of it was making a list of 100 dreams and assigning a time period in which to get them done. I put them on a spreadsheet.

Some of those dreams are done, some are something I decided not to do (like sell my house and move to Florida... why move when this house is paid off!)

Along with that I set up a "dream board" in my office and wrote some of my dreams on cards. When I finished a dream, I transferred it to the "complete dreams board". I took them down last summer to put up some of my cross stitch projects that were sitting in a closet.

Right now, the main things on this list of dreams is 1: visit all 50 states and 2: do a counted cross stitch for each state I've visited. After many years of not traveling, I knocked off 1 state last year and plan to get another 6 done this year. And, I'm now planning my 2026 and 2027 travels (Australia/New Zealand in 2027) to hopefully get some more of my travel dreams done.

 

[umyesh]

I did a program called "Dream Manager" through my employer in 2013. One part of it was making a list of 100 dreams and assigning a time period in which to get them done. I put them on a spreadsheet.

Some of those dreams are done, some are something I decided not to do (like sell my house and move to Florida... why move when this house is paid off!)

Along with that I set up a "dream board" in my office and wrote some of my dreams on cards. When I finished a dream, I transferred it to the "complete dreams board". I took them down last summer to put up some of my cross stitch projects that were sitting in a closet.

Right now, the main things on this list of dreams is 1: visit all 50 states and 2: do a counted cross stitch for each state I've visited. After many years of not traveling, I knocked off 1 state last year and plan to get another 6 done this year. And, I'm now planning my 2026 and 2027 travels (Australia/New Zealand in 2027) to hopefully get some more of my travel dreams done.

I think the biggest list I ever made was maybe ten? I need to challenge myself to 100 now! I love the idea of making it visual with cards too and moving them once they’re complete. Thanks for the inspiration!

 

[IntenseMagic]

I've never actually written anything down, but I do have a lot of things I'd like to do. Probably tops of my bucket list for the longest time has been to go skydiving. I'm not getting any younger, so I should make a list and start checking things off!

 

[umyesh]

I've never actually written anything down, but I do have a lot of things I'd like to do. Probably tops of my bucket list for the longest time has been to go skydiving. I'm not getting any younger, so I should make a list and start checking things off!

I was shocked when my neighbor told me she’s been skydiving! I’ve always wanted to go but DH doesn’t trust it so we did indoor skydiving instead and it was fun.

 

[Karen]

Like you, I think the last time I made a bucketlist was for a scrap challenge here. I should go dig up that layout. Lol. I think the top of my bucketlist is to go to Paris and definitely go to the Louvre while I'm there. Someday I might also add the "visit all 50 states" type of challenge too.

 

[HavaDrPepper]

I think the biggest list I ever made was maybe ten? I need to challenge myself to 100 now! I love the idea of making it visual with cards too and moving them once they’re complete. Thanks for the inspiration!

The program was based off of a book, The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly. It is a quick read and inspiring. It inspired me to become the best version of me that I could be in both my work and personal lives. Add in Dave Ramsey's program, "Financial Peace" that I had taken the year before really changed how I saw and lived my life.

 

[Memaw2Wm]

I don't think I've ever made a written bucket list. However, top of my list is driving Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica. I had planned to go last May and my intention was to take my time and not have a return date.

However, my niece got married last June, so I postponed the trip until this May ... now my bonus granddaughter is getting married the end of May, so I've postponed the trip AGAIN. I've warned family members that I will NOT be attending anything next spring/summer that I will be driving Route 66. 2026 is the centennial for Route 66, so it's probably a great year to travel it.

My sister and her hubby are currently driving from VA to the Grand Canyon, and they have traveled Route 66 in Texas and NM ... I am so jealous.

 

[scrapchyck]

I did a bucket list LO in 2004!

I think I've done about 3 of the things! LOL

 

[Brendazzle]

I don't have a concrete list but I do love to dream a ridiculous dream and then go ahead and work towards it. I had "photograph the Milky Way" on there for over a decade before I was finally into a position to do it. So now it's shifted to "photograph the Milky Way in a Bortle 1* sky" instead. I also decided I wanted to get married in the Dry Tortugas and that was actually remarkably easy. Even getting in and out of a seaplane in a wedding dress with a train wasn't terrible and the pilot did rescue my shoe. Maybe camping in the Dry Tortugas should be my next dream because it is a Bortle 1 and my happy place?

* The Bortle scale measures light pollution. Major cities are the top of the scale at 9 and most of the Eastern US is too developed. Even my favorite pockets of darkness near-ish me are only a 2 or 3. But out west, especially in national parks, is the dark sky of my dreams.