I thought the term had been around longer than 2008, but according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary site, it came into usage only two years earlier. From their website:
Definition of bucket list
- : a list of things that one has not done before but wants to do before dying
Origin of bucket list
from the phrase kick the bucket (to die) -- 1785
First Known Use: 2006
Anyway, my bucket list isn't much...one of the to-do things on it -- becoming an author -- I've reached. (Whoo-hoo!) I'd still like to travel to Hawaii and Israel, but that's about the extent of my list.
So, now that you know a little of the bucket list history and my bucket list, do you have one?
Leave a comment if you have a bucket list and tell me a couple of them.
Leave a comment if you have a bucket list and tell me a couple of them.
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Please contact me at pat at ptbradley dot com--I forgot to state you need to leave your email address AGAIN!
Please contact me at pat at ptbradley dot com--I forgot to state you need to leave your email address AGAIN!
Oh my!!! Thank you Patricia!!! I'm so excited!! I'll go to your website to give you my email address - - but I'll also give it here - pameladbroyles@netscape.net -
ReplyDeleteAnd as far as my "bucket list" . . . I'm like you, as far as a career - I wanted to become a chef - and I did - although I am "retired" from the day-in, day-out rigors of being a chef - it is still my passion and my hobby - so I still cook for others and teach cooking. I would love to go to Israel as soon as I can overcome my fear of flying - - I think I'll only overcome that fear when on that glorious day "I'll fly away" . . . to my home on God's celestial shore!
Love it, Pam! My grandson wanted to be a chef and he went to school for it but is working in granite instead of cheffing. :-)
DeleteMy bucket list also includes being an author. In sddition, I would like to go on a cruise,ride Amtrack all the way around the U.S. from coast to coast and north to south, ride the railroad across Canada, take a vacation with all my children,visit Northeastern states of the United States.
ReplyDeleteMy email is phoneticpanda@gmail at gmail dot com
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My email is phoneticpanda@gmail at gmail dot com
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Oooh, I want to ride across the US and Canada, too, Kathy!
DeleteMy bucket list also includes being an author. In sddition, I would like to go on a cruise,ride Amtrack all the way around the U.S. from coast to coast and north to south, ride the railroad across Canada, take a vacation with all my children,visit Northeastern states of the United States.
ReplyDeleteMy bucket list has always had pretty much just ONE thing on it. Go to Scotland. I have no other real desire other than that. I have wanted to do that since I was a teenager. I've done other fun things, gone to Israel twice, white water rafting, driven a sports car along the coast of California, but all of these never qualified as a bucket list item. They just happened. LOL. We are hoping to fulfill my one bucket list item this fall!!
ReplyDeleteSusan, I have a friend who has been to Scotland three times. I want to go with her the next time she goes!
DeletePatricia, I am THRILLED to have won a copy of Silence in the Dark!!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't have a bucket list. I would love to travel to Canada.
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Caryl, I don't think I really have a bucket list, either. I just want to do a lot of things!
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