Until this post, I’d never really devised a bucket list before.  Embarrassingly as it may be to admit, I hadn’t even known of the term until the movie ‘The Bucket List’ came out starring Morgan Freeman.  I thought it all seemed a bit morbid, that a list of a few activities can define a life.  But, then I remembered the lists I make every now and then, the ‘how to better my life’ list scribbled onto a Post-It note; the lists I gradually crossed off as I achieved my goals: learn to drive, go self employed, learn to horse ride (yet to cross off) and ‘get out more’.  I guess without thinking I’ve already been making mini bucket lists.

When I went on tv series, Brides on a Bus, four years ago I was unaware that I’d take part in some fantastic and once in a lifetime experiences that I’d still think about today.  Challenges I got to do included playing rugby with a top Welsh player, putting my hand into a chamber of bugs whilst blindfolded, sheep herding and 4×4 off roading (which was fantastic fun, I must add!).  These are the kind of things you may put on a bucket list, although never in a million years would I ever have thought I’d be doing them!

Me off-roading it on Brides on a Bus

The problem with bucket lists is that, although they’re hugely inspiring and fun to compile (and complete) they’re usually pretty expensive.  It would be nice to have a never ending pit of money to fund these dream experiences but sadly most of us can’t afford to do many of them.  In these cash strapped times doing anything is impossible, isn’t it?