So True-- Courtesy another blog

30 Things Every Single Woman Should Do Before Settling Down


July 30, 2010 by coloradobee


I’m so glad I found my friend Jen’s blog today. We are a lot alike in a lot of ways and I can relate to the things she writes about including her most recent postTrying On a Job, which touches on an idea I once had to get famous. I often come up with ways to get famous but never follow through. My idea was to shadow people in all types of careers in my quest to find a career path suitable for me, and then write about my experiences and thoughts about certain occupations. Now reflecting, I should look back into this idea; along with all possible career ideas, I gave this idea up too quickly.


Shoutout to Jen’s Before You Settle Down post, borrowed from an article on MSN. I really liked the idea for the article but decided to make my very own Bucket List for Single Women, with the help of my single and fabulous friend Alex (I have to admit she came up with most of these). What do you agree with or disagree with or think should be added to list list?
1. Make a lifetime and/or yearly bucket list.
2. Go to a movie alone.
3. Give a guy your phone number without him asking for it first.
4. Do your own taxes.
5. Live alone.
6. Train for (and finish) a huge physical test like a half-marathon (by yourself or with girl friends).
7. Go to a topless beach and tan topless.
8. Quit a job. It feels so good to take a job and shove it (and not be affecting anyone else’s livelihood).
9. Travel to an unknown city and be a tourist by yourself.
10. Get drunk with your parent/s.
11. Subscribe to a grown-up magazine (Newsweek, Time) or the newspaper.
12. Go on a date with someone who actually makes you nervous.
13. Take a road trip somewhere with your girlfriends.
14. Hold a newborn baby.
15. Be a good wingwoman. It’s not always about you.
16. Chill with your widowed and single grandma. She knows “alone”!
17. Volunteer more.
18. Do at least one Valentine’s Day alone.
19. Attend a wedding (or 15) alone.
20. Read. More.
21. Date someone much younger or much older than you.
22. Sit at a bar by yourself and get a drink.
23. Buy something frivolous and expensive that you LOVE wearing.
24. Buy something big on your own (car, house, condo, art, etc.).
25. If you can stay driven, throw yourself into something time-consuming, like learning a foreign language.
26. Make a list of all your faults.
27. Cook for yourself more.
28. Get some hobbies that you do ALONE.
29. Eat in a restaurant alone.
30. Get your finances in order.

*** The following are risky and are simply other ideas that are optional to add to your new Bucket List***

31. If you’re down with promiscuity, have sex with a guy just for the fun of it (and totally based off his looks) and leave before he wakes up.
32. If you’ve ever thought about it, move to another city… alone.