The Anti Bucket List
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Motorsheen wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »Diatonic12 wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »Diatonic12 wrote: »If you're here every day like me and some of you have more posts than anyone, you'd be very, very lonesome out in the middle of nowhere without anyone to talk to besides your family members. You like people, that's easy to see and so do I. You can't run to the store for anything and you have to rely on canned foods to get you by during the long, cold winter months. It sounds good on paper until you're actually doing it. There were some women/wives who literally lost their minds due to the isolation. Fish, fish, fish is caveman friendly.
We were healthy but variety is very nice.
Yup.. this is why it's on my antibucket list 😂
Stay here. Don't go. I did it once but that was enough for me. When I hear men all around me with wildly romantic, idealistic notions of living off the grid with a family I really want to say....I can't say it.
Yeah, I can't imagine a kids life like that. In my imaginings it's just me, but maybe a hunky neighbour a mile or two away would be ok.. like to help with heavy stuff 😏
How old were you when dad had this bright idea?
I live off the grid.
.... except for electricity, plumbing, air conditioning & wifi.
Although we do have a couple of fireplaces
and our neighborhood doesn't have sidewalks.
So, when I say 'off the grid', I really mean No Sidewalks.
It's a jungle out there.
No sidewalks!!😮 shocking.0 -
slimgirljo15 wrote: »Motorsheen wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »Diatonic12 wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »Diatonic12 wrote: »If you're here every day like me and some of you have more posts than anyone, you'd be very, very lonesome out in the middle of nowhere without anyone to talk to besides your family members. You like people, that's easy to see and so do I. You can't run to the store for anything and you have to rely on canned foods to get you by during the long, cold winter months. It sounds good on paper until you're actually doing it. There were some women/wives who literally lost their minds due to the isolation. Fish, fish, fish is caveman friendly. We were healthy but variety is very nice.
Yup.. this is why it's on my antibucket list 😂
Stay here. Don't go. I did it once but that was enough for me. When I hear men all around me with wildly romantic, idealistic notions of living off the grid with a family I really want to say....I can't say it.
Yeah, I can't imagine a kids life like that. In my imaginings it's just me, but maybe a hunky neighbour a mile or two away would be ok.. like to help with heavy stuff 😏
How old were you when dad had this bright idea?
I live off the grid.
.... except for electricity, plumbing, air conditioning & wifi.
Although we do have a couple of fireplaces
and our neighborhood doesn't have sidewalks.
So, when I say 'off the grid', I really mean No Sidewalks.
It's a jungle out there.
No sidewalks!!😮 shocking.
yeah..... I try not to go out there, especially at night.1 -
slimgirljo15 wrote: »Diatonic12 wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »Diatonic12 wrote: »If you're here every day like me and some of you have more posts than anyone, you'd be very, very lonesome out in the middle of nowhere without anyone to talk to besides your family members. You like people, that's easy to see and so do I. You can't run to the store for anything and you have to rely on canned foods to get you by during the long, cold winter months. It sounds good on paper until you're actually doing it. There were some women/wives who literally lost their minds due to the isolation. Fish, fish, fish is caveman friendly. We were healthy but variety is very nice.
How old were you when dad had this bright idea?
2.5 yrs. I remember. At age 3, 4, 5. I really remember. 6, 7, 8 - 12, Oooo, yeah. Age 13, we moved to another remote locale but there were people. Mostly seniors and mostly without kids. I grew up with seniors and I liked them because they really took us under their wing. We would visit and they always made us feel welcome.
I remembered something today, @slimgirljo15. There was a young father with 5 sons. His wife left him so his mother came to help him out and take care of the boys. At 5 pm she would start making supper and they only had one can of vegetables for each supper meal. My sisters and I would slowly watch her open a can of green beans or corn and it took so long because her hands were cold and she had arthritis. She had blue hair because she tinted it herself but she was darling and cute. This tiny little woman was doing the best she could. I want to bawl my head off when I think about these things. It was a hard rock candy mountain and they didn't have it easy but they made do.
We would go home before she put the plates on the table. My sisters and I made the rounds, visiting with the few families around after our 2nd move with more people around. We're bent on survival, all of us. But don't go there. Stay in your warm home with all of the good things that life has to offer. I take nothing for granted. Never have. Never will.1 -
I just remembered, every now and then I think it would be fun to run the Iditarod.
Reality is that I hate cold and I hate snow. I think it would probably just be an excuse to acquire more dogs.2 -
@Diatonic12
Sorry, I stuffed up quote..
That does not sound fun at all 😔 except for the seniors. I definitely had a more romantic view.
Cute cabin, fat tomatoes and other veges in a nice little garden. Fish from the river.. homemade bread.
The reality is.. I'm not sure how I'd go without aircon in summer. So , it's a nice dream but yeah, I'll stay home with my aircon and internet. 😁
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run a marathon - I have no desire to ever spend the time and effort training for one, but it would be cool to say I did one, and I have no interest in experiencing the pain doing one without proper training would cause1
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I want to summer in my mountains and winter in Tennessee. I want to stand on the porch on a moonlit night and look at the Smoky Mountains in wintertime without -40 below temps and the wind hitting 70 mph licks.
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I always wanted to be a photographer for National Geographic Magazine. It was the perfect way to see the world and live out my passion.2
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Climb a mountain 🏔
Something I would love to do but impossible with severe vertigo I think 🤔 😵2 -
I will invite @slimgirljo15 for a visit. She can make bread, eat whatever is left in the garden and throw water balloons off the porch. She'll have to mingle with folkaronies I'm bringing with me but when the music starts and we start sawing on the strings, she'll dance and have a big time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuKdsdzXxdw&list=RDGuKdsdzXxdw&start_radio=1&pbjreload=10 0 -
Diatonic12 wrote: »I will invite @slimgirljo15 for a visit. She can make bread, eat whatever is left in the garden and throw water balloons off the porch. She'll have to mingle with folkaronies I'm bringing with me but when the music starts and we start sawing on the strings, she'll dance and have a big time.
only allowed if she brings a Kangaroo too2 -
Hmmmmm........
- a Victoria's Secret runway model, or just being able to walk in stilettos without feeling like a newborn giraffe
- an assassin
- travel writer, or just getting paid to travel. I want to see all the places!!
- rollerderby champion
- a gymnast
- a pampered house cat (stealing one of @CanesGalactica 's cuz seriously..... that's the LIFE!)
- a badass detective
- a big time/famous burlesque dancer
- a billionaire lotto winner
- a famous actress
zero chances for any of those all around, but whatever. haha
I also want to spend months exploring Rome
Spend a month exploring Pompeii
Backpack around Europe
Get an RV, pack up my life and just drive around the country exploring all the different states
I had a big spirit for travel when I was young..... none of that will ever happen now, but I might be able to chip at a little of it..... a few days or a week in Rome, maybe check out a few states I haven't been to....? Who knows...2 -
Hmmmmm........
- a Victoria's Secret runway model, or just being able to walk in stilettos without feeling like a newborn giraffe
- an assassin
- travel writer, or just getting paid to travel. I want to see all the places!!
- rollerderby champion
- a gymnast
- a pampered house cat (stealing one of @CanesGalactica 's cuz seriously..... that's the LIFE!)
- a badass detective
- a big time/famous burlesque dancer
- a billionaire lotto winner
- a famous actress
zero chances for any of those all around, but whatever. haha
I also want to spend months exploring Rome
Spend a month exploring Pompeii
Backpack around Europe
Get an RV, pack up my life and just drive around the country exploring all the different states
I had a big spirit for travel when I was young..... none of that will ever happen now, but I might be able to chip at a little of it..... a few days or a week in Rome, maybe check out a few states I haven't been to....? Who knows...
You were saying?
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Diatonic12 wrote: »I will invite @slimgirljo15 for a visit. She can make bread, eat whatever is left in the garden and throw water balloons off the porch. She'll have to mingle with folkaronies I'm bringing with me but when the music starts and we start sawing on the strings, she'll dance and have a big time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuKdsdzXxdw&list=RDGuKdsdzXxdw&start_radio=1&pbjreload=10
I'm betting we'd have a ball.. 😀4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »Diatonic12 wrote: »I will invite @slimgirljo15 for a visit. She can make bread, eat whatever is left in the garden and throw water balloons off the porch. She'll have to mingle with folkaronies I'm bringing with me but when the music starts and we start sawing on the strings, she'll dance and have a big time.
only allowed if she brings a Kangaroo too
😜
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@slimgirljo15 and @4legsRbetterthan2 are both invited. We'll have fun watching @slimgirljo15 surprising and throwing water balloons at my folkaronies as they pull in the driveway.0
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Diatonic12 wrote: »@slimgirljo15 and @4legsRbetterthan2 are both invited. We'll have fun watching @slimgirljo15 surprising and throwing water balloons at my folkaronies as they pull in the driveway.
Aren't you going to join me throwing water bombs?0 -
@slimgirljo15 I think so but I have this idea that you can get away with absolutely anything. The reason we're going to throw them: by the time the folkaronies leave there will nothing left in the house to eat. It will look like a plucked chicken coming through. Every jar of peanut butter will be eaten and all of the leftovers in the fridge will be gone and the cupboards will be bare. We'll have nothing left but the skin on our teeth. We'll be constantly running to the grocery store to replenish everything and I mean everything.
Plucked chicken comin' through....
Out here in the wild, wild west we have a saying. When company in your house or anyone has taken a bath or shower and they have to run through the house with only a towel on, to their suitcase or bedroom for clothes, we say..Cover your eyes, cover your eyes. Plucked chicken coming through! Most will cover their eyes but some are peeking through their fingers. Then they say other silly stuff that makes you run for cover and hide.0 -
Diatonic12 wrote: »@slimgirljo15 I think so but I have this idea that you can get away with absolutely anything. The reason we're going to throw them: by the time the folkaronies leave there will nothing left in the house to eat. It will look like a plucked chicken coming through. Every jar of peanut butter will be eaten and all of the leftovers in the fridge will be gone and the cupboards will be bare. We'll have nothing left but the skin on our teeth. We'll be constantly running to the grocery store to replenish everything and I mean everything.
Plucked chicken comin' through....
Out here in the wild, wild west we have a saying. When company in your house or anyone has taken a bath or shower and they have to run through the house with only a towel on, to their suitcase or bedroom for clothes, we say..Cover your eyes, cover your eyes. Plucked chicken coming through! Most will cover their eyes but some are peeking through their fingers. Then they say other silly stuff that makes you run for cover and hide.
"Get away with absolutely anything" I wish that were true 😂 I'm not bad at talking my way out of things though.. 😉
Lol, I've never heard that plucked chicken saying 🤣
Your bare cupboards and fridge scenario is just like after my kids have visited..1 -
My dream home is a rural Victorian farm house, with lots of acreage and to have random animals and nice vegetable gardens3
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Oh, there is always space travel and "off earth" habitation! (possibly briefly...prob no internet on Mars!)2
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