- Buy something frivolous.
- Take a spontaneous day off.
- Enter a photography contest.
- Buy brand new towels.
- Finally, for real, start saving.
- Eat more tacos. [Make a new taco recipe every month]
- Try a new place to eat every month.
- Learn how to put on eye make up so I don’t look asleep in every photograph taken of me.
- Create a font out of my handwriting
- Buy new sheets
- Take a cooking class
- Do the Couch to 5K program again
- Run an actual 5K
- Stay at a fancy pants hotel for a night
- Master making french press coffee
- Finally pull the carpet tacks out of the basement
- Go see a live concert
- Hit the $1,000 mark fundraising mark for Foundation Fighting Blindness
- Make flossing a habit
- Read “The Lifechanging magic of tidying up” – and try to…uh…tidy up
- Buy a statement piece – whether it’s clothing or an accessory – something sassy and amazing
- Get to an amusement park
- Try a yoga class
- Try a ballet class
- Tackle a DIY decor project for the house
- Spend a day curled up on the couch reading
- Finally use my spa gift card
- Cook something really difficult (like…toast. Or something!)
- Use only actual dollar bills, y’all… for a week. And save the change.
- Christmas project with the girls. Shhh. I can’t tell you what it is. It will spoil the surprise.
- Go ice skating
- Cook using an ingredient I’ve never used before (vanilla beans, I’m lookin’ at you)
- Get a passport
- Go see two movies in one day
- Send more cards and/or handwritten letters
- Drive to a small town I’ve never been to, within 50-miles-ish-radius and walk around
- Make it through the winter without drastically cutting my hair (trims are allowed, but none of this, “Oh! It’s February! Let’s chop my hair!” nonsense)
- Create a new tradition
- Get up to Traverse City to attend another event at 2Lads Winery (they know how to throw a party!)
39 Before 40 – A list of things to do before I’m too old to care
October 18, 2015 by 1 Comment
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