Life List
100 Things To Do Before I Die
- Take an unconventional family portrait
- Pimp my closet
- Learn to make his grandma’s black beans & chile mole
- Learn to make my grandma’s fudge sauce & carrots and wine sauce
- Visit the seahorse exhibit at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
- Sell my thrifted finds on Etsy MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
- Road trip with Anthony up and down California
- Create a Family of Isobel book
- Create a seasonal family calendar with our traditions and celebrations
- Decorate Isobel’s big girl bedroom
- Own a wardrobe I am proud of
- Find the best local fruit stand
- Visit a local, you-pick farm
- Join a CSA program
- Participate in Family Kite Day in the mountains
- Shop the giant Gault flea market
- Host a food swap
- Bike the Virginia Corridor Trail with family
- Visit Jose and Lupe in San Jose
- Xerescape my front yard
- Visit the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve
- Visit handborn with Isobel
- Get business cards
- Go on a photowalk
- Swim in a turquoise colored ocean
- Participate in a drum circle
- Tour castles in Europe
- Navigate through Modesto with ease
- Teach Isobel to cook
- Turn our hallway into a photo gallery
- Own memberships to my favorite zoos, museums, & parks
- Visit all the state parks & reserves in my area
- Finish remodeling the inside of our house
- Meaningfully preserve the items in my Memory Box
- Learn to edit video
- Back up all the information and files on my
- Create a thrifted dress-up chest
- Speak basic Spanish
- Take Isobel to the library for story time
- Host regular family dinners with extended family
- Thank all of my friends personally for their friendship
- Take a Mommy and Me class with Isobel
- Walk the English moors
- Stay in a hotel room overlooking the ocean
- Research our family tree
- Master a working menu for a year – IN PROGRESS
- Have a family snow day with sledding
- Visit the UC Davis arboretum
- Visit Modesto’s lotus gardens
- Have a campfire at the beach
- Eat one of Valerie’s desserts at Galletto’s
- Pick out and carve Isobel’s first pumpkin
- Plan a getaway with my friends
- Try on wedding dresses since I missed my opportunity
- Grow my own shiitake mushrooms
- Help a needy family have a bountiful holiday
- Bathe in a hot spring
- See the Northern Lights
- Stargaze in the desert and find the Milky Way and the North Star
- Take a whale-watching tour
- Taste ice wine
- Try 50 kinds of cheese
- Go camping
- Try Geocacheing
- Ride a train across Europe
- Learn to work my GD sewing machine
- Redesign my website; host & maintain it
- Have an English-style tea
- Walk on the Golden Gate Bridge
- Take Isobel to our local park to play in the water MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
- Knit a fancy scarf
- Make homemade bagels
- Fly First Class
- Find a wonderful destination and go glamping
- Save for Isobel’s future
- Grow vegetables in the backyard
- Create a coloring book for Isobel with my friends
- Craft family Christmas stockings
- Learn to bake truly excellent bread
- Make a keepsake book for Isobel’s birth
- Turn my backyard into an oasis
- Have another child
- Visit my friends Dave & Stef in Reno
- Learn to jumpstart a car
- Perfect my punch
- Go dog sledding in Truckee
- Prepare for the apocalypse
- Eat at a Michelin-starred restaurant
- Take a family trip to NYC
- Record my Grandma’s life story
- Record Anthony’s Grandma’s life story
- Create a car emergency kit
- Explore the ruins in Guatemala
- Cook a campfire meal
- Become proficient at building a fire
- Learn basic and advanced embroidery techniques
- Crochet an amigurumi animal
- Plant a dwarf orchard in the backyard
- Explore San Francisco with Zack and Heidi
- Fill a pantry with homemade preserved goods
- Sow a garden of poppies
- Get a beautiful, meaningful tattoo
- Tour a rainforest
- Make homemade ice cream
- Set up a compost bin and a rain barrel in our yard
- Visit the SF MOMA
- Hike Vernal Falls in the Springtime with family
- Visit a Japanese temple
- Meet as many of my Twitter friends in real life as possible
- Zipline through the redwoods
- See Japan’s cherry blossoms in the springtime
- Start a movement for backyard herb gardens
- Make homemade ice cream
- Host one dinner party a month for a year
- Host a fabulous cocktail party
- Stay in a woodland cabin
- Explore the Badlands
- Dine at the underwater restaurant in San Francisco
- Visit a Viking museum in Sweden
- Visit a natural history museum
- Purchase copies of my favorite childhood books
- Create an awesome second-hand dress-up chest
Meet our financial goal so I can be a SAHM— MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Visit the Rosicrucian Museum
- Cut the excess clutter out of my life
- Photograph my favorite local sites
- Take a Mommy and Me swimming class
- Spend a summer devoted to day trips
- Throw my parents an anniversary party
- Renew our wedding vows
- Vacation in New Zealand
- Witness a huge lightning and thunder storm
- Host an outdoor movie night
- Throw party for Olivia
- Host a dance party for Isobel
- Watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly
Stock my garden with a village of gnomes– MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Grow a fabulous herb garden on my patio
- See England at Christmas
Meet Anthony Bourdain– MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- High-Five DJ Lance Rock
- Participate in the 100 Foods Bucket List with Cookbook
- San Juan Bautista Yard Sale Festival with Jose & Lupe
- Visit the Rose Bowl Flea Market
Awesome list! I’ve accomplished some of the things you have listed, and we have some things in common that we would like to do
Alicia has commented exactly what I was going to say! I recently struck off the item about eating a good dinner prepared by a Michelin star chef, when I was in Germany last week
Good luck with crossing all your items off the list!
Thanks! My list is very much a work in progress. For example, I need to cross off a few things, delete a few things, and add a few things. I’d love to see yours!
Your list is great! I’m hoping to plant some dwarf fruit trees next year.
I’m thinking of planting mine in pots in case we ever move.
This is a great list! I only have 42 in my list right now, I’m sure once I have kids, I will get to 100 easily
I have never heard of dwarf fruit trees but this intrigues me greatly!
When I first started making my list I got to about 60 (and that was with stealing liberally from other people’s lists) before I got stuck. It’s taken over a year and many rewrites for me to really figure out what I want.
You forgot to add:
Go to New Zealand and organize all Marie’s shit.
But since I’ve now noticed that you have “Vacation in NZ”, I’ll just get you when you land. What time’s your flight?
You’d better BELIEVE I will look you up when we make the trip.
I hear you have a closet that needs my attention…
YOU ARE A GNOME ENTHUSIAST TOO?! I’m going to sound like a creeper, but whatever, I think we’re kindred spirits on this one. My dishes are this French gnome set. And my gnome collection itself is multiplying…I’m glad people know that about me! Makes gifting a lot easier on them for Secret Santa and the like.
http://www.poshchicago.com/product.asp?lt=d&deptid=3071&pfid=PSH00810
HELLS YES.
::gnome high-five::
I love your life list. I just came across a life list I made two years ago and it seems so outdated already. The faster time moves, the more I add to the list. Thanks for your post!
I’m so glad you like it. I’ve already updated mine several times. Certain things totally lost their appeal while I found other things to add. It’s an ongoing process, isn’t it?
I’ve been wanting to make a life list for so long. I really need to sit down and do it. I WILL do it… Item #1. Make life list.
#2. …
#3. ….
#4. FINISH life list.
Life lists are fun to make. You should go for it.
That’s the link with to do lists. Eventually they get all meta and include items like, “Make To do list.”
Fun list lady! I am in your BYW class and I had to come over and check your site out because I loveed your ideas so much!
Can’t wait to look around more and see everything here…
p.s. what is glamping?
Hi Courtney! Nice to see you here!
Think “glamorous camping.” Living it up in nature luxuriously.
this is inspiring me to make my own list, so i thank you for that.
also: #135 is pretty amazing and highly recommended. monarch butterfly.
Yes, do it! Then share it! I love reading people’s life lists.
Been thinking about my bucket list recently. Newest addition: drive a really fast car on the audubon- really fast! LOL!!!
It appears that 37. Create a thrifted dress-up chest and 122. Create an awesome second-hand dress-up chest are very similar, AND therefore you have accomplished both?! Way to go!
So nice I listed it twice! P.S. I am old and have memory problems. What was I saying?
“Vacation in New Zealand”? You should, I do this all the time and it’s amazing.