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We’re constantly bombarded by messages that we should seize the day, live life to the fullest, and that we can do and be absolutely anything that we want. It’s either empowering or emotionally exhausting depending on your point of view. One of the problems that lie at the core of this ‘go-gettism’ philosophy is that there often isn’t much guidance behind the energetic urging to not waste a single moment more and embrace an adrenaline-filled, happy-go-lucky lifestyle.

That means that it’s up to every single person to try and figure out what they really want to do, whether it’s professionally or during their spare time. And that can lead to some very naive mistakes. Maybe you realized that bungee jumping really isn’t for you. Perhaps you learned the hard way that camping isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be if you don’t have a tiny Aragorn living inside your heart. Or maybe you got burned after trusting your colleagues too much.

Reddit users opened up about their worst experiences and mistakes in a brutally honest thread full of worldly wisdom. Scroll down for the anti-bucket list of things that people will never ever do again.

#1

30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Work in a covid unit. It was worth it in the beginning when I felt like I was trying to rescue victims of an unknown enemy while risking my life to buy precious time for a game-changing miracle. However, parts of me have died over the last two years. The patients that come into my ER now days have turned up their noses at a vaccine that many have died in my presence waiting for. The ones dying of covid are shouting at me, hitting me, threatening me, and trying to pull the PPE off of my face because they don't think that covid is real. I've had to drive past protesters on my way home from a shift where I had to take an eight year old off of life support because her unvaccinated parents gave the virus to her. I don't even feel sad anymore when a patient passes because now I have a ventilator open for at least one of the next three patients circling the drain.

I'm tired of getting yelled at by antivaxers and their families. I'm tired of risking my life for people who won't do the bare minimum, like taking a jab, to live.

I've spent my life trying to help people, but no one is worth it anymore. You win. I'm done. I regret it all. Everything I ever stood for is dead. The only thing that matters to me is my dog. She will never understand why I never came home, but she has widespread cancer, so that won't be long either.

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#2

30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Facebook. Deleted the account, never going back. I don’t miss it at all.

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Vorknkx
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

FB was okay during the first few years... but lately it is a toxic cesspool.

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30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Vote Republican. I was a lifelong R until they picked Trump. My eyes were opened to what they were and I'll never donate another cent or vote R for any position ever again. I love when I get the calls from them, begging for money. I get to explain why the money they used to get is now going to their opponents.

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Amanda Black
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've decided as long as there are starving children and pets in this world, no political party is getting a cent of my money.

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The anti-bucket list is the complete opposite of the bucket list, a list of all the things that a person hopes to do in life.

They say that the best teacher is cold, hard experience. And there’s no denying that trying out a whole bunch of different activities can quickly help you filter out what you actually enjoy doing and what sounds great on paper but is horrible in real life.

However, things aren’t so easy when you deal with underlying assumptions like trusting everyone, not just leisure activities. If the fundamental ideas that make up your life get shaken, you can be in for a rude awakening. And with a lot to think about while you’re sitting there, angry, ashamed, embarrassed.

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#4

30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Buy clothes that don’t fit well in hopes that “someday” I’ll lose weight and be comfortable in them. Just size up, damn it, and be comfortable now!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a stack of clothes that I'd bought too small, but by the time I finally lost the weight, they were completely out of style xD

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#5

30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Settling for a relationship knowing you are not really happy.
Never. Again.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"good enough" is not good enough when it comes to relationships. It's much better being single than slowly growing to resent each other.

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30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Attempt [to end my life].
After maybe three of four days after the attempt I experienced what I think is called epiphany. Started everything all over. Loved myself, finished therapy etc. No matter what bulls**t life throws at me I will never do it again.

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Nathaniel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am still waiting for an epiphany. I am fed up of my mind, and I do not know how to change it for the better.

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Something that we all have to remind ourselves of from time to time is that it’s all right to make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. And, heck, you could argue that perfection is overrated. What really matters is learning to embrace the mistakes that we make and learning the lessons that are there to be learned, without regret.

Vanessa Bohns, an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University, explained to us earlier about embracing mistakes, dealing with our embarrassment, and why hiding our mistakes isn’t healthy for us.

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"We spend a lot of time and effort presenting an ideal version of ourselves to other people. When something happens that contrasts with the image we’ve been projecting—when we say or do something that shows we actually aren’t as graceful or as smart as we’d like people to believe—we feel embarrassed," Vanessa told Bored Panda during an earlier interview that many of us want to seem perfect.

#8

30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Now I always pee before cutting jalapeno peppers. The other way around, never again.

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#9

30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Assume that every co worker is a friend.
I truly believed most of my colleagues were friends in a place I used too work, to the point I’d go above and beyond to help them. Even if it was rarely if ever reciprocated. Yet whenever I needed help they were nowhere to be found or were ‘busy’. If I got in trouble they were quick to throw me under the bus without hesitation and would lie to my face about doing so.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought some of my co workers were friends and even invited them to my engagement party. They did RSVP yet none of them showed up.

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"Discovering you were wrong about something most everyone else around you has long known to be true is one of those moments. In that moment we learn, 'Wait a minute, maybe I haven’t been presenting the image of being smart or worldly that I thought I was presenting all this time,' which is embarrassing,” she explained how embarrassment works.

“One thing that’s interesting about embarrassment is that, for as much as we might experience it as painful in the moment, it’s actually very socially adaptive. Being embarrassed signals to other people that you care about what they think. And that actually draws people in to you,” the expert pointed out that when we admit to our mistakes openly, we become better liked.

#10

30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again I refuse to ever do retail again, people are literally such a**holes and don’t realize your trying to help them and still get their job done.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But…. Everyone should work in retail or food services for a while. To appreciate the crap work and how vital it is. And to appreciate where you’ve been and where you’re going.

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30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Smoke. Did it for 14 years. I feel so much better having quit. Been about 10 years since and the amount of money saved and the smell and the cough.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to smoke. Not chain smoke but smoke I did. I quit many years ago and will NEVER be a smoker again. The lungs are better, smell, taste and health. Jeeees, there is not a single positive thing to say about smoking.

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Having sex without wanting to. I was in a relationship with someone who'd frequently pressure me into having sex, and I'm definitely never ever doing that again.

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“So blushing, burying your head in your hands, laughing, acknowledging how embarrassing something was, are all totally healthy ways to react.”

On the flip side, when we try to hide our mistakes and embarrassment, we’re shooting ourselves in the foot, socially speaking. In other words, it’s not only cathartic, it’s also socially useful for us to admit to the times we utterly embarrassed ourselves or messed up beyond all belief.

#13

30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Work as a bartender.

I know, I know, the money is good. But getting home at 4am or later, the booze and drug scene, surviving on Red Bull and pedialyte, and getting grabassed by strangers while trying to pay my bills is not the life for me.

787 days sober and I’ll never look back. Got my degree and working as a design specialist/content developer for a museum now and I LOVE MY JOB. Also started my own small business and it’s going really well so far. I have an art show coming up soon and I’m really excited for it.

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#14

30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Stay at a job I’m unhappy at.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been gruelling at a job that hasn't fit my values and personality for a decade. I have an interview at a place I've always wanted to work at this week. Hope I get it.

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#15

Trying to be liked by everybody by always being nice and never saying no. Never again.

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“The unhealthy way to react is to pretend you’re not embarrassed, that you didn’t make a mistake, or to get angry. Those things undo the positive effect of embarrassment typically has on other people by conveying insincerity and pushing people away rather than drawing them in,” Vanessa said.

#16

Sharing too much.

I used to tell people my life goals and plans, and upload everything on social media as well: what I was doing, who I was dating or in a relationship with, where I was... all that.

Now I realise there is so much more peace and happiness in living a low-key life. I high-key enjoy that s**t.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Grunt. I lost a job because I had too much stuff on social media. During covid, somebody with nothing better to do traced me back to the company and complained about it.

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30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Camping. Never again will I leave my perfectly comfortable house for a weekend to sleep on the ground and share a disgusting bathroom with 150 strangers.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don’t sleep under the stars unless there are 5 of them 😬

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As someone who adores camping and loves being out in nature I am always sad to hear things like this. However, sharing a bathroom with 150 strangers doesn't sound like camping at all... I wonder if this person was on a shared campground. I understand that tent camping and backpacking is certainly not for everyone. Perhaps this person would really enjoy "glamping" where they stay in a cute, little cabin with plumping and electricity. They can still enjoy nature, but have some nice creature comforts.

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Lioness Nature
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thinking about going camping. Care to tell us how it's done. Lend a few tips?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Problem might be the camping someplace with 150 people and bathrooms. Try checking out nature sometime instead of just sleeping in a crowded park like its a homeless camp.

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Not Proud British
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sleeping on a tiny airbed, that is usually deflated by the morning. Finding bugs in and on your bed. Lying awake worrying about someone drunk falling on top of your tent. Being cold. Having to get half dressed to walk to the other side of the field to use a toilet (females can't just take a leak anywhere). Not being able to wash before you face the world. Not being able to stand up to get dressed. Feeling permanently wet and cold. I could go on....

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Huddo's sister
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate airbeds! I switched to foam inflatable mats that even though are thinner they are more comfortable but I know lots of people who won't camp due to uncomfortable mattresses. I don't worry drunk people will fall on my tent, but with my brother around perhaps I should! I did wake up to a wombat on the other side of my tent, basically backing up onto me once and that makes me paranoid at times!

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Al Christensen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On the other hand, I don't ever want to live in a building again if I don't need to. The past nine years I've been a full-time nomad, living out of a van, camping in the wild.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me too! I go at least once a year with my siblings and just recently did my first solo trip (only overnight) and am pumped to do more.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We go camping often and sleep in a raised king sized bed with real mattress (camper trailer) and we have our own chem loo, toilet/shower tent and a portable shower. You can do it comfortably.

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Remy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope, camping is good. Get a proper inflatable camping mattress and you’re good

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Munchkin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well... i've never been camping and i think it will be fun because i really want to try s'mores and sometimes i just randomly get blankets and sleep on the floor so... and also is camping fun? what do you do? (im really curious)

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Huddo's sister
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not for everyone, but I think you would enjoy it. My parents used to let us 'practice' camping in our backyard before we actually were able to go camping. There are different options for camping too. You can stay in a private campground, with actual toilets (and usually showers), BBQs and sometimes electric powered sites. Then there is the sort I usually do, which is in national/state parks which is usually free, and you may or may not (I make sure they do) have toilets and you bring your own stoves etc. I love being out in nature and it really helps reset your body clock.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sleeping on the ground stopped being a thing in my 30's. Just hurt too much after that. Got a trailer and never looked back. Heat, A/C, bug free and comfortable, yet I can still go to the places I want to go.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe actually go camping in nature with proper sleeping equipment instead of paying for a "campground"

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Huddo's sister
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True. I've had to stay in powered campgrounds in the past and they are usually too busy and too uncomfortable. Thankfully my brother and sister are happy to do actual camping with me.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A friend once summed up camping as: "spending an unspeakable amount of money to live like you're homeless."

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Lioness Nature
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks for the tips, all good to know. You're right about the camp gear prices. I gradually bought the necessities for camp gear the sleeping bag is the last thing. Did the expensive first then the inexpensive stuff later. Camping at a forest preserve campsite. Still planning and learning. Also hope there's a chance to fish. Got fishing gear too. So next year hopefully.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Camping is awesome! But thanks to health issues I was forced to leave the tenting part behind, now I need a trailer with a comfy couch.

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Huddo's sister
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Smaller groups are better. I go with my brother and sister at least once a year and we try to go somewhere that isn't too crowded.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

sounds like this person has never considered what camping was prior to going. i have camped in a tent, a tiny trailer, and a cabin. if i could still get up from the ground i would prefer the tent but i think a lot of it was the fact that i could take my three dogs and get lost in the woods away from everyone.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I miss camping. I use to mold right to the ground and sleep. Today I wouldn't be able to get up off the ground. But I use to.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't like tent camping. The family had a small pull behind camper with a tiny bathroom so we only had to shower at the campground. Worked great.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well thats the issue. You don't camp at a campground, much as it may seem. Find a secluded place in a public forest. Or go sometime when the place is empty. Camping isn't about making yourself uncomfortable for a weekend. Its about getting away and being alone without a town around you.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I go camping, we don’t go to those little ones. We usually canoe out to islands and camp in those.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But in the bright side, sometimes it rains really hard for days.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I enjoy camping, but I recommend a camping bed, the hammock type ones with a frame not an air mattress - it means that you don't get stuck laying on the most uncomfortable tree root all night because your tentmate put the tent up over it while you were getting firewood and it wasn't noticed until it was well dark. Ow.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, I could’ve told you this and I’ve never been camping.

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Breezy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Crown land camping is where its at, no neighbours for miles and its free!

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Huddo's sister
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's what I usually do- though I do make sure there is at least a drop toilet! Where I went last I only saw one other person and it was fantastic.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Camping is actually nice but maybe not if you do it with 150 strangers around.

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MichiShmichi
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love camping! But somewhere int he wild, not camps with million people. For me the point of camping is to go away from people.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are you camping on a camping ground? No, that ain't camping that is a messef up concept for getting you out of the house and mostly paying to use someone lot to sleep out. That i hate and i can't call it camping. Camping, for me it's out in the mountains with noone around, for a night after you hiked for 8-10h, you make a tea with a gas stove, enjoy while stare at the sky then off to the sleeping bag and repeat the next day. The camp grounds is bull....

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a point where -for some people including myself- camping just stops being fun. Same with amusements parks. No thanks. I evolved from a monkey so I wouldn't have to live in the woods anymore. And life is risky enough than to risk getting thrown from a damn rollarcoaster or getting Ebola from the waterpark.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's "camping", not camping. Staying at a public campground isn't really camping. But also I don't care much for proper camping either after the time my tent got put up right over a fire ant mound. Also I am way too used to running water.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You are not doing it right. My 2 grown sons still thank me for taking them camping often.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I LOVEEEEE camping. But that's because I go out in the middle of nowhere fully prepared.

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Ursa Minor
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get an "itch" if i dont go camping for too long. I need to sleep outside on the dirt every so often. Oh, and going to the bathroom in the woods. (People actually use the gross camp ones? Yikes cx) So cathartic. cx

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why you go camping in the middle of nowhere. The boonies have many good spots you never see unless you look for em. Just be prepared to deal with wildlife and never go alone.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

😂 finally someone said it. For someone who has not experience being poor and hasn't experience having a house with unstable roof and unstable walls, might like camping. But for me, when i was a kid and being very poor, i do not want to experience again having to sleep in a tent in a cold grass, and sharing bathroom to a bunch of people who do not know cleanliness. So camping? No but I support anyone who wanted it. You do what makes you happy.

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Liz Smith
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yes. So glad this was included. I have camped exactly twice. 1983 and 1995. Tent up, sleeping bag on the ground. Rain falling, mud and water in the tent. Cars driving by my head. Cold dampness and miserable attitude. The first time I bailed and slept in the car, the second time I screamed at my friend that I was done and we rented a nearby cabin. Yeah, I'm still traumatized. lol.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I rent an RV during the late spring, early summer. I use a tent from mid summer to early fall, it seems to be the most comfortable way to go.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It took awhile but hubby and I finally came to the same conclusion. Why pay to be uncomfortable, get no sleep, have at least one person get a ton of bug bites, get a rash from poison ivy or oak, etc, or get some kind of an allergic reaction., eat crappy food, and usually get caught in a thunderstorm or blizzard depending on where and when you. We both like comfort too much to keep doing this miserable "vacation."

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Sandra DeRosia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's not really camping. What you want is dispersed camping so that you are alone. That is the point of it. You can make it really comfortable. Enjoy Mother Nature and some comforts from home as well.

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Jessica Cifelli
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never understood camping. To me its pretending to be homeless, and that doesn't sound like a good time.

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Beck
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We figured out a good camping hack. Instead of blowing up a mattress or lugging 100 blankets around, we each have one of those out door furniture chair pillows. The long ones you tie to hard outside furniture. It is not perfect, but they are way to carry.

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Leigh Jones
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Camping is a skill. And much of it is battling the environment and feeling like a winner. Like, the skill is how to take a holiday of humiliation and degradation and enjoy it as personal growth. In similar company of campers. I too hate camping. Havin said that the aficionado's tell me it's an escape from the rat race. Lol I'd rather go to Ibiza.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When planning my honeymoon, I told my mom I didn't want to spend a lot of money. She suggested camping..... uh, no. I meant like off the strip Vegas.

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Loan a friend money with the expectation of getting it back. Haven’t loaned money since and if I ever do, it’s a gift.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m aware that this might come across as slightly arsey, but I’ve stopped loaning anything at all. (Ie not money, but books, CDs, clothes, household items, etc.) I’ve grown tired of being the one who keeps pushing to get my stuff back, and then, when I do finally get it back, it’s usually in a pretty bad condition.

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30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Being obese.

I didn’t realize how much it negatively affected everything in my life until I lost 80 pounds. Then I was like “oh THIS is how I’m supposed to feel.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've lost 30kg, but honestly I don't feel any different. Everyone keeps telling me I must feel so much better, but I don't - I feel exactly the same. Except a bit cheated - where is all this energy I was promised?

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#20

Go to Disneyland or Disney World.
Paid waaaaay too much money to stand in waaaay too many lines, fighting crowds of waaaay too many people.
Disney parks are not a fun way to spend a day.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i went to hershey park a few years ago with my family. i havent been to disneyland/world, but they have a lot of the same things, less long lines, and CHOCOLATE

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#21

30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Keep putting everyone else’s needs over my own.

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#22

Forgive a cheater.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it happened once, it can happen again. Also, it happened for a reason, maybe they wouldn't admit it or you wouldn't believe it but something was the precursor.

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30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Bungee jump.. as soon as my feet left the edge all I could think was "well that was stupid"...

It was exciting and probably safe enough.. but it was enough for me to know I will never willingly do that again.

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30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Childbirth and the postpartum period. Love my daughter to death. One and done.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. I had my daughter and went through so much anxiety and was told it wasn't real that I did not have another child even though I wanted one. I just couldn't imagine going through that again. Now people talk about it more so I would be able to get help but 19 yrs ago doctors got frustrated if you complained about anything to do w mental health after pregnancy. Plus I was afraid they'd take her from me if they knew how axioms I was. To the point I held her for a year straight. I couldn't put her down I was so scared. I would sleep for a few hours a night as long as my husband held her while I slept.

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#25

Allow my mood to get tethered to someone else's.

With my ex, I was only ever happy when she was happy and if she woke up in a bad mood, my day was ruined. I need to live my own life without clinging onto someone else's.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah, emotional vampires. My mom is like this. I'm not allowed my own feelings. Every emotion she dictates. Now I don't know if I'm a strong empath or just can't deflect others emotions.

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#26

Working in academia - left two years ago and never looking back. F**k that noise.
Soon as the business folk became in charge of the institution instead of the professors, it was all over. Changing the model from " how can we best teach and research knowledge" to "how can we make more money to expand" destroyed the core philosophy.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is already coming back to bite us in the collective behind. Never before have I encountered so many bachelor degrees with high hopes, high work ethos and just very little knowledge of anything other than their very insular topics.

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#27

Have a relationship with someone with children, thus finding myself in the stepfamily situation with never fully feeling accepted, the ex being omnipresent, and always being the one to adjust because… those poor children. And it’s true: they cannot help their situation. But I aint doing it ever again.

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#28

Pulling an all nighter. Age is catching up on me.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Attempted to pull a late night this weekend for the sake of having a social life and ended up going home early the next day to take a nap. I think I'm officially old now.

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30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Birthing without an epidural. I had laughing gas instead. Made me high as a kite. I screamed in pain while I was dissociating into space.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pregnant woman in the Netherlands here. There is now ay in hell I wouldn't want to choose giving birth without the epidural... Why to choose suffering? Hell nah, if I can, I will chose the less painful option to havea beautiful birth experience, hell with "it not natural" who cares? Also wearing shoes is not natural 😂 but hey... My respects to all women who choose to feel what our ancestors did before we had a painless option... Not for me!

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#30

30 People Share Their "Anti-Bucket" List Of Things They Would Never Do Again Go to a strip club. I've never felt so awkward in my entire life.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I went once in my early 20s. Got a lap dance. Felt like a third wheel the whole time, like she was TRYING to give my wallet a lapdance and I was in the way.

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