We often hear the notion that you should try everything at least once, especially when peer pressure comes into play. But it's not really valid, or healthy. Still, there's some expectation that people should just universally want to do some things that are considered 'milestones'.
Well, one user on Reddit was wondering what people absolutely refuse to try even once, aka their "anti-bucket list" items. There's no need to have an excuse not to do something - "No" is a full sentence - though these people still made some very valid and interesting points.
Maybe they're missing out on the hype, maybe they're protecting their sanity, but over 4k people shared their biggest 'nopes' in this thread, and Bored Panda selected the most popular answers. Scroll down and and let us know if you find these relatable, or maybe they are actually on your bucket list? Either way, don't forget to upvote your favorites, and make sure to share what you would never ever try in the comments below! And if you want to read more stories on a similar topic, here's our post on things people actually did, but would never do again.
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Having children. I'm not passing on my fibromyalgia or any of my sucky genes. I have my own under control very well, but I just can't put someone else through that. I refuse. Plus I'd rather have freedom, than take care of children. I don't hate them or anything, but mom life isn't for me. Neither is married life.
Climbing mount Everest. Too cold, not enough oxygen, too many dead bodies. I don't get why people feel the need to do it/try, but I sure don't, ESPECIALLY after watching Everest. Nope.
I’m glad I read this cause I was thinking I’d do this but this list changed my mind ;)
Cave-diving. Crawling through very small, dark spaces and chances of getting stuck and suffocating down there. With almost no way of calling for help, if u did it alone. Even if you were with someone there is still not much time to get help if you are stuck. No sir, I am never gonna do that.
Cigarettes. My grandfather passed away from lung cancer and was a heavy smoker back in the day. The fact that he didn't smoke for so long before he was diagnosed really shows how bad smoking is. The thought of cigarettes and even seeing others smoke repulses me and I never want to try one.
As an ex-smoker, I can say this to whoever feels like trying: don't. It's the stupidest vice ever. You'll be literally paying to slowly make yourself sick and possibly have a gruesome death. All just for a short stress/anxiety/boredom relief. Smoking will always hunt you. It is always lurking around your subconscious mind waiting for the right trigger to come back with full force. It will never leave you; you just learn to ignore it and replace it with something healthier. But it's there. I willingly paid for it to be there. My biggest regret. Get a hobby instead. Learn EFT or meditation or other ways to deal with stress and anxiety peaks. Thank you for reading my TED-talk. Merry Christmas!
Spelunking! I'm so claustrophobic that even thinking about being in a tight cave gives me the chills.
SURSTRÖMMIMG
Or as others know it, the Swedish rotten fish.
It really just tastes salty, smells more foul than I have words to describe though
Going on a cruise. I get seasick really easily. Like REALLY easily. I’m also very introverted so the idea of being stuck on a boat with a bunch of strangers while barfing myself to death sounds like torture.
I also don’t want the ship to sink. I’ve had a fear of being anywhere in or near a body of water ever since I was 5
Drunk driving. I live in Wisconsin and the number of people who do it is astounding to me.
Anything involvinf height like bungee jumping ect
Drinking alcohol. I don't like saying this because it sounds whiny, but i've had too much problems in my life and i'm afraid i would find alcohol as a solution and get a bigger problem.
Energy Drinks.
Main reason: they smell awful to me. I don't care if they taste better than they smell, they'd still probably taste horrible.
Sky Diving
I did skydiving twice. You are attached to your instructor's front side. You take off the plane backwards, so the instructor literally "pushes" you out of the plane... like "ok, set ready GO!" And off you are. Yes, terrifying. The first few seconds when your body is registering that is falling are the most violent. You can feel all the cells in your body screaming, and there's nothing you can do to help them. Then... then you feel nothing because suddenly you... float. In other words, you reached constant acceleration so you no longer feel you are falling. And that feeling is amazing, it can't be described. It's like being in a rollercoaster: adrenaline, speed, body sensations, the vacuum in your stomach. But it doesn't last long as the parachute needs to open after a minute or so. Then gliding with the parachute is just... out of this world. You see the world below so big, so magnificent, so green, so pure... and all is silence around you. Pure crystal clear silence.
Deep sea diving. I know whats down there, and id rather not go say hi.
As a diver...i'm going to say that you don't know what's actually down there. It's amazing, peaceful and just another world. I've introduced so many people to diving and even just snorkeling that regret ever having the view that the ocean is a terrifying place and that they would never dive and they couldn't wait the go again. But yeah yesterday's dive with sea turtles was truly terrifying and horrible experience 😛
That stupid amusement park ride where you look like you're bungee jumping to your death. No, thank you.
Weed. My roommates are major pot heads and they're always trying to get me to smoke with them. But I'm just not interested. That's some of the grossest s**t I've ever smelled in my life. To each their own, it's just not for me.
Lobster. Not vegetarian but the thought of how its cooked and breaking it open to get to the meat gives me the heeby jeebys.
I don’t care for performing an autopsy on my food before aI eat it. Also, lobsters are very intelligent long-living creatures and (along with Squid & Octopus) are not on my dinner menu.
wouldn't expect someone to think like me here - thank you!
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I like lobster and crab, they taste devine. But my husband is grossed out and calls them Sea Bugs and I can’t I hear that
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I was nine years old when I saw how crabs were cooked. I haven't eaten one since.
I'll tasted a bit to satisfy my curiosity and it's nice, but not so nice something should be boiled alive and then broken apart by a maniac with hammers and nutcrackers..
I remember going to a Japanese restaurant and these fellow patrons were eating a lobster raw and still alive. It had been chilled to a degree where it could barely move but just the memory of seeing that poor creature being devoured and trying to move it's pincers to get away haunts me to this day. What a nightmare for any living creature to endure :(
Also they are over fished, and they take 5-8 years to mature.The female lobster carries the eggs inside for 9 to 12 months and then for another 9 to 12 months attached to the swimmerets under her tail. When the eggs hatch, the larvae will float near the surface for 4 to 6 weeks. The few that survive will settle to the bottom and continue to develop as baby lobsters. If lucky they can live to be 100 years old. I refuse to eat lobster no matter how tasty they are.
I was on a trip to Long Island, and I tried lobster there for the first time. Perhaps it was not the best restaurant, but the taste was disappointing. Considering how much the animals suffer, it's a flavour I can do without.
It's not just that they are boiled alive, guys. That's only if you're eating the entire lobster. If you're having, say, a broiled lobster tail, the lobster is dismembered while still alive because the individual body parts are cooked differently. And there's no way to euthanize a lobster other than driving a spike through its head.
As an islander and former bartender in a restaurant, fresh caught lobsters are put in the freezer or quickly stabbed through the head. No one boils them alive, not because they care about it being in pain, but because it makes a mess and is noisy.
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Giant sea cockroaches Edit: no offense Headless Roach
It might be the weirdest reason, but for me it is the fact that they could live for AGES in nafure. The thought of eating a lobster is as "not for me, thanks" as the thought of personally ordering someone to cut down a milenia old tree just for toothpicks.
same here...for me its an ethical thing....just not worth the horrid death of a creature for a meal....and no, i am not a vegan, i do enjoy meat but there is just something about lobster that gives me pause....
You can’t eat pigs, cows, chickens, et al then claim ‘ethics’ over the way lobsters are killed (which is not boiled alive btw)-. If you think those animals get a calm death you are mistaken. In fact, it’s worse than lobsters, way worse.
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I don't like lobster tail by itself with drawn butter, but I do like lobster bisque, lobster alfredo, etc. Lobster alone, I don't particularly like the taste of, but when it's an ingredient in something else, that's fine.
Never had lobster, it's not exactly usual food here. I would try it, but to be honest, I have no idea how to eat it and I don't wanna make fool of myself.
They are bottom feeders. The thought of what they feed on puts me off. They used to be poor man's food.
Well, I hope anyone who has ever eaten lobster now wises up. I used to, then I saw them while scuba diving. Majestic creatures in their own home.
I work for a food wholesaler, mainly seafood. I do & will not eat nor suggest Lobster, Crab, or Foie Gras...the cruelty is too much. I can't recommend oysters either, because they're just disgusting.
I eat lobster, but I understand the revulsion to food with a face. I have a lot of Phillippino friends, and a few think it's funny that I never liked the practice of serving the fish with the head still on it.
I can't eat at a table where whole lobsters are being served. They stare at me.
I find the smell of Atlantic lobster revolting. Spiny/Florida/Caribbean lobster on the other hand...SIGN ME UP! Yummers!
I am a big testure person. Lobster is like eating a loogie. A loogie that you dipped in butter. No. Thanks. Never. Again.
Even prior to becoming a vegetarian, I'd never considered eating shellfish. Not only due to the suffering they go through after capture, but the fact that (to me) they are insects of the sea. Nothing will sway me from that belief, lol.
Sadly, I'm allergic to lobster shrimp and crab, but I'd like it if for one day I could eat any or all of these without being hospitalized. Recently learned I'm also now allergic to joels which is a small fish. Hives, projectile vomiting, in a restaurant. I didn't know I was also allergic to these fish.
I didn't try lobster until I was an adult, and I found it t be just....meh. And the sights and sounds of other people eating it (crack, slurp, crack) are truly nauseating. Prawns and calamari are much tastier.
I didn't try it until I was an adult, and it is just....meh. And the sound of people eating it (crack, slurp, crack) is truly nauseating. Prawns and calamari are much better tasting.
It's delicious. Once you get around the fact that they're deep sea scavengers. Like a Sea Cockroach.
These days it is recommended to use a brain spike to kill it instantly. Much more humane.
Much more humane would be to leave these beautiful sentient animals in the sea….
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I tend to hurt myself eating this from the shell. I let the cook do it.
Karaoke. Not enough alcohol in the world.
To be clear, I have nothing against karaoke, I just know full well that I would suck at it. Ergo, not on my bucket list.
Coffee, I hate bitter things and I know by the smell I won't like it.
Having kids. I don’t want to f**k up my body and my mind. I have terrible anger problems when it comes to dealing with people and I don’t want to physically abuse any future children so it’s best that I don’t have them
And I will never try pineapple. It’s a very scary fruit for me
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I’m not making fun of anyone or anything, but the I find the phrase of an anti-bucket list very funny.
I call my anti-bucket list my "rhymes with bucket" list
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New Year's Eve at Times Square. You're locked in with a bunch of people for hours, you can't leave even to pee, and it's probably gonna be cold AF. I'll watch the ball drop on TV at a friend's house, merci beaucoup.
My anti-bucket list is as long as or longer than my bucket list. And I'm okay with that. Then I'll live long enough to maybe get to everything on the actual bucket list!
If you don't do any of those stuff you are also restricting your view but somethings like smoking and Instagram are real s**t
Weed. I have a chronic psychotic illness akin to schizophrenia. Psychosis is very easily triggered by marijuana. So as much as my curiosity wants to try it, it could absolutely unravel my brain from the inside out.
My anti-bucket list: 1) Travel to the USA. David Bowie summed it up nicely "I'm afraid of Americans." 2) Get a driver's license and own a car. Public transport has been good enough and the more I hear about the struggles people with cars are having it's becoming less appealing and attainable. I'm not even the first person in my family to forgo it. 3) Plastic surgery (elective). I hope to never need surgery in my life, let alone an elective one that alters my appearance for life, and could potentially end up botched or fatal. 4) Own a big house. That kind of upkeep, maintenance, cleaning, anxiety about what could go wrong at any moment would take up any quality of life I have left to spare.
Never ever going skiing again. The last time I went, I broke my leg and was in a cast for around 10 weeks and a boot for another two weeks. That first week in a splint was the most painful week of my life. I don't care what you say or what you offer me, I'm not risking going through that kind of pain again.
Never skied, but I did surf. Not after riptide tried to end me. Dragged me over coral, shredded skin and suit. It was a bloody long walk back.
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Wow. I have to agree with nearly 100% of this list. I'm far too old now to have babies, plus I had to have an emergency hysterectomy when I was 26. I had two children, but both are dead now, and there are no grands. Doesn't bother me in the least; I never want to get married again, not after the disaster I was married to for nine years. As for the rest....yeah, I can do without those things in my life, and very happily without them.
A lot of the comments down here would have been so much better entries than how this list wound up. For a largely liberal leaning site, I'm really disappointed to see poly/open relationships even appear as a "line item to try." Might as well put "being gay" on here as well. *To be clear, being gay is perfectly normal and natural* and so are other relationship structures. I'm at least encouraged to see that a lot of the readership have better suggestions about things one may not want to try
Having kids. I don’t want to f**k up my body and my mind. I have terrible anger problems when it comes to dealing with people and I don’t want to physically abuse any future children so it’s best that I don’t have them
And I will never try pineapple. It’s a very scary fruit for me
Load More Replies... I’m not making fun of anyone or anything, but the I find the phrase of an anti-bucket list very funny.
I call my anti-bucket list my "rhymes with bucket" list
Load More Replies... New Year's Eve at Times Square. You're locked in with a bunch of people for hours, you can't leave even to pee, and it's probably gonna be cold AF. I'll watch the ball drop on TV at a friend's house, merci beaucoup.
My anti-bucket list is as long as or longer than my bucket list. And I'm okay with that. Then I'll live long enough to maybe get to everything on the actual bucket list!
If you don't do any of those stuff you are also restricting your view but somethings like smoking and Instagram are real s**t
Weed. I have a chronic psychotic illness akin to schizophrenia. Psychosis is very easily triggered by marijuana. So as much as my curiosity wants to try it, it could absolutely unravel my brain from the inside out.
My anti-bucket list: 1) Travel to the USA. David Bowie summed it up nicely "I'm afraid of Americans." 2) Get a driver's license and own a car. Public transport has been good enough and the more I hear about the struggles people with cars are having it's becoming less appealing and attainable. I'm not even the first person in my family to forgo it. 3) Plastic surgery (elective). I hope to never need surgery in my life, let alone an elective one that alters my appearance for life, and could potentially end up botched or fatal. 4) Own a big house. That kind of upkeep, maintenance, cleaning, anxiety about what could go wrong at any moment would take up any quality of life I have left to spare.
Never ever going skiing again. The last time I went, I broke my leg and was in a cast for around 10 weeks and a boot for another two weeks. That first week in a splint was the most painful week of my life. I don't care what you say or what you offer me, I'm not risking going through that kind of pain again.
Never skied, but I did surf. Not after riptide tried to end me. Dragged me over coral, shredded skin and suit. It was a bloody long walk back.
Load More Replies... Wow. I have to agree with nearly 100% of this list. I'm far too old now to have babies, plus I had to have an emergency hysterectomy when I was 26. I had two children, but both are dead now, and there are no grands. Doesn't bother me in the least; I never want to get married again, not after the disaster I was married to for nine years. As for the rest....yeah, I can do without those things in my life, and very happily without them.
A lot of the comments down here would have been so much better entries than how this list wound up. For a largely liberal leaning site, I'm really disappointed to see poly/open relationships even appear as a "line item to try." Might as well put "being gay" on here as well. *To be clear, being gay is perfectly normal and natural* and so are other relationship structures. I'm at least encouraged to see that a lot of the readership have better suggestions about things one may not want to try
