My Bucket List
I just checked my little bucket list I have going on and realized that this little house is going to help me check of SO many things, there is one more reason this is suited for me. Here is my list, the bold items are going to be achieved or can be achieved through this little tiny house study:
The goal is to list 150 things that you want to do in your lifetime, essentially a bucket-list I suppose… It was a pretty fun process to go through and obviously I have a lot more to come up with, rather than forcing it and adding silly little things just to get to 150 I decided I will post this and gradually build on it as more ideas come to me 
One hundred and fifty things I want to do in my lifetime:
From the most simple,
to the most extravagant,
to the utterly ridiculous,
these are my dreams:
- Play the violin
- Play the piano (First Song http://open.spotify.com/track/2xgnmbpjThj3iyxxZtHlrt thanks Dan)
- Learn French
- Ride an elephant
- Teach a horse how to lay down
- Visit Ireland
Get a masters degree- Build my own house
- Work from home
- Raise a family
- Live with purpose
- Surround myself with only positive influences
- Have chickens
- Have a greenhouse attached to my house
- Be wikipediable
- Give a worthy speech to over 1,000 people
- Sew a wardrobe
- Tour Europe for three months
- Get my architectural license
- Always give random complements to strangers
- Have a ridiculous tip for a deserving waitress/waiter
- Practice yoga consistently for ten years
- Wake up an hour before I have to leave for work and enjoy my own quiet time
- Run a marathon
- Never rely on a bank for finances
- Surf in the ocean
- Own a jersey cow (and milk it!)
- Move outside of the United States
Get my ears pierced- Own my own business
- Have an awesome backyard with hanging lights
- Found a non-profit
- Be an amazing life partner
- Quit a job in a ridiculous way
- Write a thank you letter every day for a year
- Make my own natural cleaning supplies
- Grow a garden that will produce enough veggies for the entire year
- Have a monthly girl day
- Create every week I am alive
- Learn to can my own veggies
Start to compost- Go an entire year without producing more than a shoebox full of garbage (this will begin once I finish up the tiny house)
- Go an entire year without going out to eat
- Never eat fast food again
- Visit at least 10 countries
- Walk a great dane and a chihuahua at the same time
- Give back to my community
- Work with Mike Reynolds building earthships
- Learn to swim
- Create crafty animated short films
- Vote in every presidential election that I can
- Continually show my family how much they mean to me
- Send my mom and dad on an all expenses paid cruise
- Own a rental property to pass on to each of my kids
- Fund my house in cash
- Spend less than $100 on my utility bills in one year
- Make my own wine
- Learn how PV’s work, really
- Work for/with Mithun
- Move to a random location
- Learn to do a tarot reading
- Join a sports league
- Volunteer at a womens and childrens shelter
- Matter to people
- Redo an entire house from the ground up
- Start a blog and stick to it
- Build a family cabin with my brothers
- Lead a life that doesn’t require a car
- Maintain a lifelong friendship with at least two people
- Always tell the truth and be honest
- See aurora-borialus
- Build one of these and live in it for at least 2 years http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses/fencl/
- Skydive with Nate for his unbirthday
- Save someone’s life
- Redo a small aluminum boat for a lazy summer day of fishing and reading
- Get good at making my own bread
- Learn photography and make enough from it to pay for the equipment
- Get over my not dancing thing
Be in a movieBe a big sister- Learn HDR Photography
Be a guest on a radio talk show- Travel to a random city to watch a band
- Pet a giraffe
- Give a TED Talk
- Help a child/adopt a child/volunteer my time with children
- Spend more time with the elderly
- Watch the ball drop in Time Square
See a flash mob- Get published
Love your bucket list!! I share some similar ones, but my list isn’t nearly as long haha. I’m excited to follow along in your tiny house building process too. Since we’re just starting out, it’ll be nice to learn from others who have done it before us
I saw your list! I was thinking I ought to steal some!
Good luck in the trailer hunt, I am very excited to follow along!
I’ll be a volunteer for #74. Great job on your list. I went minimalist a year ago. I’ve never been so free. Good luck Macy
Hahaha! Deal! Good to have some experience behind the advice, sometimes it’s a scary move, I have no doubt it will be worth it though! Thank you for the well wishing!
Huh ? I can’t believe you haven’t seen the Northern Lights . That far north I would have assumed it was a rather frequent sight for you Idaho folks . I saw it once back in 93 here in Ohio . Very rare to ever see it here . I would love to see it up in canada with the timber wolves howling their approval
I know I know, I am told it happens here sometimes, we have too many city lights around to really see though. I have made a few drives to the boonies to try to catch a glimpse when they were supposed to be ‘fairly visible’ but I have never had any luck… one day…
Wow! I finally sat down and read through your blog. Love it! I only wish I had discovered tiny houses sooner. I have 3 kids, a corgi mix and a soul mate. We live in about 1200 sq. ft. in the middle of no where. I totally dream of making my own tiny house on wheels so that I can retire and travel around the US with it. More than that – I hope my kids will discover the tiny house movement as a way for them not to be in debt! I now have a trailer but we will be using that for moving a tractor around so I can’t steal it for my tiny house
:0( I’m considering a bus which I’ve found really cool ideas for. I hope you continue to write and post pictures about your tiny house. I find it inspiring!
Well thank you Lulu! I’m glad you find it inspiring! I assure you, 1,200 s.f. for a family of five is not too shabby as far as keeping your footprint small
. I have heard of much worse! Show your kids, they may just be interested when they are old enough! I had no idea it was out there, i wish I did this 10 years ago! Thank you for the comment!
ps. – love the blog. wish it was bigger font size though. My eye sight isn’t the best.
I can’t change it because it is a pre-made WordPress template BUT, if you hold down the control key and use the scroll wheel on your mouse you can adjust the font display size in any web browser. That will work for all websites, not just mine. I found it accidently one day but it is a trick I use often!
COOL THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!
79 and 91 are the same, so you can strike one of them off of your list.
I’m a bit older than you and it’s good to see that, looking back, I can strike off a lot of things on your list .
I’ve never pet a giraffe or ridden an elephant, however. I did pet a camel.
And I’ll never be wikipediable, but I perfectly ok with that!
Btw, 42 is very tough! In the last 8 months, I have generated one small shopping bag of trash and I can see that if I compacted it, it might fit in a shoebox, but I do have 4 more months to go. It’s senseless packaging, even if you shop carefully.
Good catch! I must have really wanted to do that… I get to actually check that one off now too, If you ever see TINY: A Story About Living Small I am in it!
I would say you are doing pretty good as far as #42 goes, most people would have a hard time going a week… unfortunately.