Posted on 03/26/2018 5:47:22 AM PDT by SandRat
Most people have a Wish List. Some may call it a Bucket List, but they are not necessarily the same.
A Bucket List usually refers to things we want to do or places we want to see before we die.
A Wish List typically itemizes stuff we want to accumulate while we are still kicking.
Sometimes the Bucket and the Wish cross paths. That happens when the person compiling the two is unclear on the concept of Wish and Bucket.
If you are an enthusiastic shopper with sufficient funds, it is possible you support the “see something, buy it” mindset. However, some shoppers enjoy or prefer looking without buying. They may choose to window shop because they lack funds. Or they desire the pure delight of spending time alone without someone demanding they hurry up.
My mother was the queen of looking but not buying. If you doubt me, please consider that mother spent eight hours in a sizable craft store window shopping. It must have been relaxing because she came home smiling. When she shopped with the eyes rather than the wallet she compiled various wish lists.The lists may include a few items for her, but mostly listed gifts she’d like to buy for family and friends.
On the other hand, grocery shopping with our father, the king of impatience, was a weekly ordeal. You could say those times were her purgatory on earth.
No, he did not walk around the store dropping items in the shopping cart like Hubby tends to do. Father sat in the car, waiting. As you might have guessed, the longer he had to wait, the more agitated he became.
When it came to shopping, in the store or online, mother’s two daughters did not follow in her look-but-not-buy footsteps.
One daughter loves to shop, but she likes to buy, not just look. Her motto: I like it. It is a bargain at that price. I’m buying a dozen, whether I need it or not. Is that how hoarders approach their excessive accumulation lifestyle?
This writer abhors shopping, including grocery shopping. If we did not need fuel to survive, buying groceries would be the first thing crossed off my Must Do list. I walk in; buy the necessary item or items, and leave. No longing looks and lingering for this gal.
Often something catches my eye, but I talk myself out of buying it. Of course there have been times I regretted that decision. Oh well.
Perhaps the less one has, the more a person wants. This attitude is understandable among folks not born with silver spoons in their mouth. If that is the case, what do those who have everything wish to possess? From pure observation, they tend to accumulate for tax write-off purposes or just because they can.
It is a good thing we are not wealthy because clutter is annoying. As it is, we have more than we need or want. In fact, this writer’s focus is finding happy homes for as many of her possessions as possible. That may sound odd to you. But when you consider that belongings need care, at least dusting, and they take up space, it makes perfect sense.
The problem is it takes time and effort to match your belonging with happy homes.
Life is a constant evolution. What we wished for and obtained may become too much. Nowadays, our wish is to find people who need what we no longer use without enduring the brain damage of a garage sale.
Besides, who wants to buy garages?
I have 1 see David Keen executed for the beating, RAPE, strangulation, drowning of 8 yr old Ashley Nichole ‘Nikki’ Read. 28 going on 29 yrs on Tennessee Death Row.
Anything else is a bonus.
There is absolutely no way would I sit in the car waiting while someone was inside a store shopping
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THAT is why the ‘smart ones’ put their bars near Grocery Stores, so the one car family had a place for the ‘chauffeur/earner’ to hang out till the passenger/shopper completed her WEEKLY trip.
My ex was perfectly ‘happy’ with no car and ME having to shuttle her around.
I had a company truck so I got a car for her (After making it damn near impossible for her to depend on me for transportation), got a ‘friend’ to give her lessons and she ALL of a sudden REALLY became independent. (She worked and had relied on bus or carpools).
I can’t begin to tell you how repugnant I find the term “bucket list.”
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Whenever I hear the term I am reminded of ‘one foot in the bucket’ (and the other on a banana peel).
I am presuming in this case bucket is referring to casket or grave and with foot on peel is definitely on the fast track on the way out.
Nope. Basically done all that I wanted. Now see the future with AI remorse.
“Do you have a list, bucket or otherwise?”
I sure do... a honey do list. Dang thing keeps getting longer and longer, too. Poor hubby looks at it and smiles... he says if he lives to 150 that there is no way to do everything on the list. So... as a loving and compassionate wife... I added another item to the honey list: live to 150. For some reason, he didn’t find it as funny as I did. :)
With the onset of some concerning health issues in recent years (and a long slog to return to a lower-but-even keel again), mine’s more of a ‘quit putting it off and do it while you still can’ list.
and the Germans put the bar with the sports channel TV going on it.
“Leave me alone Frau!!!!”
Yeah, BLT! I’m with you.
completed one on my list which was a Top Gun flight in a AT6 Texan, my next is a Tandem jump but that one will be harder to do, have to convince the wife.
Oaken bucket
Champagne bucket
Water bucket
Mop bucket
Plastic bucket
Metal bucket
Excavator bucket
Helicopter bucket
Leather fire brigade bucket
French bucket
At age 55, I do have a bucket list.
Last item on it is to buy a 21’ Schiada River Cruiser Twin Turbo (new or used)
I have done 99% of the things/places I have wanted to do, and only a few of them remain and the ones that do are optional.
The one listed is going to be done in the next year or two...before I retire.
Not everyone has a stringent view of their life, or the afterwards. I know that I may be considered a heathen, but that’s just how I perceive things.
A bucket list is fine, as long as it doesn’t become an obsession that takes over your life. The places on my list are there mostly as “would like to spend more time there” or “if I have a free vacation it acts as a reminder list.”
And the list evolves.
I’ve had too many relatives who spent ALL of their time focused on making it into heaven—to the exclusion of “living their lives.” In the end, they had more money than sense, and they really experienced nothing significant.
I cannot believe that any creator would like their “children” to live that way.
I always have access to a book, either in the real paper format or on the phone. I even have a couple of books in my truck. If my wife goes in “just for a minute” I am happily able to entertain myself.
Some of the best stuff I’ve learned was in ten minute doses reading in the Truck...or on the grass outside while I was waiting.
In those cases, you are not waiting. You are reading.
If its your first tandem jump, I would reccomend not doing it with your wife. Someone should know what they are doing! :-)
I agree. The other thing that is left out is helping make the world a better place than we find it. There are so many ways we can do that, in almost every moment and situation. Instead there are endless distractions put forth by the media and elite which will never satisfy the soul.
Si, senor. El shark es muy badass.
“Do you have a list, bucket or otherwise?”
indeed I do!
two, in fact: grocery list and errand list ...
I’m listless.
The salt WATER Gator is even a bigger BA.
Saw a Nat Geographic film of an Aussie Salty, getting in a fight wih a Great White, the Aussies call them the men in the Gray Suits, and quickly wining.
and the Germans put the bar with the sports channel TV going on it.
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THEN AGAIN, maybe the Grocery Chains sought out areas near BARS to build...
That is where the ‘big bucks’ are spent, WE will find a bar, they sorta have to cater to ‘us’...
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