Do you have a bucket list? A recent survey shows that a high percentage of Americans have a bucket list — between 91% – 95%. While the concept of having a list of life goals is popular, the ability to complete them can be hindered by factors like cost and time. I’m one of the people in the tiny minority that’s never had a bucket list.
Sitting here contemplating it now, I can’t think of one thing that I’d just LOVE to do before I’m dead. I’ve pretty much done what I wanted to throughout my life without making big plans — and I’ll likely continue that same pattern.
I do have an anti-bucket list!
The #1 thing on my anti-bucket list — the list of things I’ll never do again — is willingly move to a city.
Who knows what will happen if I’m fortunate enough to get older. Ben may dump me off in a nursing home in Indianapolis… but never will I willingly give up rural living.
I tried living in Seymour for just over 10 years. Even great neighbors didn’t make me love it. Easy access to grocery stores and restaurants didn’t help either. I think about how much better my life would’ve been if I’d have spent COVID lockdown right here at the barndo.
For the record, rural living is more work.
I’ll admit there’s a lot more work required here than what it took when living in Seymour. We had gas logs in a fireplace instead of a wood burning boiler outside. We didn’t have 18 rick of wood to stack (like in the photo above). We mowed a small yard instead of a couple acres, and weed eating took an hour instead of FOREVER. Perry dipped leaves out of the pool yesterday so we can close it up today… that’s a crappy job too.
No matter how much more work there is to do here, the #1 item on my anti-bucket list remains. I’m not moving.
Do you have a bucket list? And… do you have an anti-bucket list too?
What is at (or would be at if you had one) the very top of your anti-bucket list?
#2 on my anti-bucket list is to be dogless. 🙂
Now you know: George Washington borrowed “The Law of Nations” from the New York Society Library & never returned it. In 2010, the head librarian joked that, though they weren’t “pursuing the overdue fines,” they’d appreciate having it back. A month later, the Mount Vernon estate returned it, 221 years overdue.