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.
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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.
Facebook. Deleted the account, never going back. I don’t miss it at all.
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.
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.
I understand the sentiment. With that said, a politician who is doing the right thing is potentially in a position to help starving children + pets to a tremendous degree. While it's hard to know the effectiveness of any donation, I think at the very least, a can can be made that if a donation helps put a good person in a position to help, a political donation can be very effective.
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I agree. As a moderate, I didn't leave the Republican party, it left me when it lurched far to the right.
Honestly, good for you. It takes guts to open your eyes and go against what you believed in earlier... not many can do this
my dad and i are very close...except politically. when trump was elected we agreed that if we discussed politics we would be respectful as well as dropping a conversation if either of us got too hot because family was worth more than a political figure. it has been hard to see how he has lost respect for his party because of their actions/trump. he is still a registered R but has told me that he will now vote for whomever is the better candidate and no longer a straight ticket. honestly, it was shocking to discover that prior to this he has always voted a straight ticket.
Awakened!! I Celebrate! I recently told someone who is from Russia you should not be ashamed of being Russian because you are Not putin (whom I only referred to as "p word") as I should not be ashamed of being an American because of the "t word"
Why did the Kremlin smell like eggs? Because the president was Putin.
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I was registered as (I) since I can register to vote. I have voted for (D) and (R) alike based on issues but when they picked tDump I had to register as (D). I swore I will never ever in my life vote for an (R), no matter what happens.
I have a question here: Do americans HAVE to register to a certain party/as independent? Or why do so many/(all?) do it?
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If Dum Dum Bush didn't open your eyes, I'm surprised the cheeto did, but glad you finally came out of the fog.
I am disappointed with Republican and democratic. They both have changed drastically and have constantly had bad candidates. I vote now closer to what I believe , even though it is less likely they will win because they are not associated with a particular large party.
I agree. In 2020, my parents said it's best to vote "blue no matter who". My in-laws voted red because they still thought Trump was awesome. I absolutely didn't want my vote going to Trump, but I don't like Biden much either. They're both creepy old men and I'm angry that I've never seen a good person in office. So I voted for Hawkins. My partner, who hated Biden from the start and lost faith in the Republicans, voted for Jorgensen. It feels good to follow one's own beliefs.
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Thank you! I get soo frustrated trying to get my pub friends to see the light, but geeeez??? They ALL insist on heeding their all knowing, all TRUTHFUL jehova---TUCKER f*****g carlson😝👿😱 Who, of course-- leads back to the ever lying, cheating, thieving despicable excuse for a human-- donald drumpf😄
2016 was the first time I voted a straight Democratic ticket - purely in protest of Trump. I've continued to do so - not only because of Trump, but also because of his acolytes. I was raised as a red Republican and am horrified by the descent of the GOP into the abyss.
Use your money to feed starving families. Corporations and billionaires have already paid for the politicians
Yeah, lemme tell you, the BIG 2 parties have more than they know what to do with already. The amount of money spent on campaigning makes me sick
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Why do all of these rich politicians need our money? Finance your own careers like the rest of us in the real world have to!
America is literally the laughing stock of politics. The punchline to everything political affair. This country is a joke. When someone refers to this country it's not the American dream they referance (not that there ever was, surprise!!!!). Or the land of opportunity (for the rich and white only). Or the land of free and the home of the brave (cowards destroyed Afghanistan and left weapons obtained by the Taliban, without executing the agenda, what agenda? Exactly), amber waves of grain (everything is imported). No they refer to America as the country who voted an orange cheeto into office wearing the defective blonde toupe. This follows with a knee slapping belly aching laugh. That's what America is known as. We will never live down this stupidity. Ever.
I don’t understand why anyone gives money to politicians. They already have enough money
I never understood this either. But the candidates probably know their losers and rather not spend their money. Whether left or right whoever is dumb enough to fund a politicians campaign must like throwing money away. Since when have you seen that money put in good causes?
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Split ticket voter here. I've been boycotting the R entirely since Trump, too. Lately the Republican Party has been doing its absolute best to make my life hell, so thanks for backing their opponents and not just throwing your hands in the air. Really. Thanks.
Bc it’s definitely the Republicans causing the high inflation rates, getting the US involved in wars, causing people to lose jobs by having a minimum wage above their skill level..:
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Same for me but it was Bush that drove me from the party. I had never paid much attention before that but some of the things they dis made me do an in depth dive into how the Republican party was run and how they (the politicians voted) they say one thing when in front of a camera but vote differently. In recent times they have become much more blatant about it. Up until Regan they were a decent party but after that they slowly became replaced by corporate shills. I would like to see a new republican party that honestly cared about people and the value they used to represent.
Yes, I was independent but the lobotomization of the Right by tRump (and others over decade or two) made me a staunch Dem
How can u think democrats have helped anybody. Notice how dem run cities are the poorest in the nation, highest crimes and murders too. At least under trump we had higher wages and 50 year lows in unemployment rates for minorities and women
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I don't think they pick up him, more likely he picked up them to use as a ladder. Remember, he was running in Democratic primary elections before switching parties.
Believe it or not, he's ahead in a recent poll for '24. There are members of my family who have already moved on from the US.
It's not just one party or another-most politicians are corrupt despite their affiliations.
Only once in my life did I knowingly vote for a Republican, and that was because his Democratic opponent died suddenly a week and a half before Election Day, and I didn’t want to vote for a dead guy. Of course I regret it now. The Republican is now serving time in prison for corruption. Never again.
My wife was raised conservative (as was I, alas), and used to be a "lifetime member" of the NRA. As soon as they went off the rails, she told the NRA she wanted to cancel her "lifetime membership." They deliberately made it difficult for her, clearly hoping she'd just give up and stop bothering them. No such luck. She persisted, and finally got them to rescind her membership. We don't vote Republican anymore, either--nobody in their right mind should, these days.
The American Republican party used to have some class. They weren't ever really for "the people" but at least they could pretend better. The modern party is a bunch of hate-filled, bigoted, autocratic freaks who see everyone except the top 1% as resources to be used, abused, then discarded (that's one of the reasons they're against women having control of their own uterus - low-wage trash to exploit has to come from somewhere...).
Im with Amanda Black. I personally think both sides R and D are equally lame. So pick your poison.
Hillary's Benghazi travesty is why I voted R for the first time in 40 years (I was 58 at the time). I didn't even like Trump but I hated Hillary. I've since come to love Trump!
XD Politics. One problem is that the people who would actually make the best presidents will never run. Another problem is that the political parties are too huge to manage, and other parties have a zero chance to win. I could go on and on
This is just ignorant. There are bad politicians on both sides of the aisle and both sides beg for money. Vote for the candidate you think will do the best job not for the one with the proper initial after their name.
That's why I'm an Independent. Screw Republicans. Screw Democrats. Screw them all. George Washington said that political parties weren't a good idea and it would divide us, and centuries later - millennia - he was right.
Never voted R ever, except when a Lyndon Laroche candidate won the local Democratic primary. (Laroche was a fringe cult like candidate whose followers probably found a home on QAnon). Not saying the Dems have such a stellar history, but even the crooks seemed to care about people more than most modern Republicans, imo.
Thank you for saying this. Makes you lose hope in humanity, but it's true. If people don't know this now they're in denial. Head uo their as* Funny how 3 governmental branches control a country that makes up of more people than all government officials combined that are in charge of those branches. And we are just letting it happen. It's understood every country is like this with their own issues.
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I voted for Ralph Nader 3 times. Unfortunately, he didn’t win. And no other party will ever win because people are too stupid and think there are only 2 candidates.
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Most "libertarians" aren't much better. That's why I stay Independent. There's not a single party platform that adheres to all of my values.
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ah yes it's a great idea to have someone with no political experience fill a VERY political position. one of the best
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Oh Stephen, I am trying hard to not laugh at your sheer ignorance. So you're telling us that you support anti-science rhetoric, nationalism, homophobia, misogyny, hatred against immigrants and anyone different from you? Trump stood for hate. He led an insurrection against our nation's capital. He could give a s**t about freedom and creating jobs. PS- Jake from State Farm, go inject some bleach into your veins and tell me how that went.
Load More Replies...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.
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!
Settling for a relationship knowing you are not really happy.
Never. 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.
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.
"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.
Give a f**k about other people’s opinions of me. Not my business.
Now I always pee before cutting jalapeno peppers. The other way around, never again.
Apparently a mistake only done once. (Careful around your eyes…)
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Same. I'm stilling getting over the trauma. It just never feels right again.
“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.
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.
Stay at a job I’m unhappy at.
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.
Trying to be liked by everybody by always being nice and never saying no. Never again.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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
Forgive a cheater.
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.
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.
Childbirth and the postpartum period. Love my daughter to death. One and done.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pulling an all nighter. Age is catching up on me.
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.
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.
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!
Go to a strip club. I've never felt so awkward in my entire life.
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.
Have a baby with someone I'm not 100% in love with AND married to.
Being pregnant and single, and raising a baby alone is by far the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I'm glad I left by piece of s**t baby daddy, but I'll never do that s**t again. My mental health can't take it.
This past year, my ex started cheating and left me pregnant. Dealing with the emotional fallout and having to move on my own, made me have a late term miscarriage. While I never thought I'd be on my own, I was, and never again. Never. Marriage first. I can get a divorce. I can not shove a kid back up there if it doesn't work out
Have a wedding.
Never. Ever. Again. Way too much planning exhaustion stress all for one day that I barely remember and that I was dissociating from cause I don't like being the center of attention. Arguments with bridesmaids and mother in law. The ridiculous cost. I did it for my husband who I love and who wanted to get married in a church and do the whole shabang. But I would never do it again if I had the chance, ever.
Hang out with people I don't like just to have an excuse to get out of the house.
Work at McDonald's.
Never again. .... Never again.
But I hear it's good place to work, they get paid well and there's all these benefits and scholarships.
Go watch a music artist that was in its prime 20 years ago, hoping for a great night…
LOL I remember when Marilyn Manson came to play in my city about 5 or so years ago. People said it was the most tired, laziest, uninspired, unenergetic show they've ever seen.
Graduate school. So underpaid that I had to take out student loans to afford rent and food. And I’m just lucky I had the foresight to do so, or I would’ve had to drop out.
Got my thesis topic the semester I was expected to graduate. Ended up staying on over that summer and assembling a 200+ page 42,000 word thesis alongside a conference paper and an academic journal submission all in the same 7-month span. For $1200 per month to support myself and my wife.
All for my masters degree. And what am I doing now? Sitting in my parents kitchen job hunting. The same thing I’ve been doing since last august after I defended my thesis.
I get nauseated at the idea of staying in those conditions for 2 more years and god knows how many panic attacks to get a PhD. Yeah. Never again.
Download tiktok.
I downloaded it once and uninstalled it soon after. Too many kids.
Swim with dolphins. They’re fast, large animals and we don’t belong in open water.
Food challenges. I tried eating a 1kg steak once and almost threw up. That was my first and last food challenge.
I’ll never work food service or retail again. You see a side of humanity you wish didn’t exist and I simply refuse to put up with people screaming in my face because they don’t like the prices I didn’t have anything to do with or that their expired coupons don’t work. I was always super nice to customer service workers, but after working it I’m super super nice.
I didn't know how bad food service was until I got out. I think I was in it so long because I didn't think I could do anything else. So glad I got out.
Never go to San Francisco, or LA. I always imagined these places to be beautiful and progressive, with quirky cool vibes...
In reality they are disgusting, filthy, cesspools of inequality, drugs, homelessness, and apathy by NIMBY Faux progressives who would rather put spikes and rocks on the sidewalks than construct one affordable house that might lower their property values.
If you get away from Market and Soma, I love going to SF (used to live there). Avoid the tourist areas and, sorry to say, the homeless areas and it is actually quite beautiful. NYC, on the other hand, I have no use for at all.
Skydive, did it for my birthday. Broke my back and blew disc's out of my neck. Can't do it again. Would never do it again. Thankfully I'm still able to walk.
What on earth went wrong? Cos that’s not what usually happens
Judge a book by its cover. Everyone deserves an opportunity to showcase their best attributes.
Decide to eat barely nothing to get thin (getting anorexia).
Making the decision every day to eat enough to stay alive, instead of rail thin, is one of the hardest long term side effects of an eating disorder that I experience.
Move to be closer to my family. I saw them just as much when I lived across the country. They put in zero effort. So I moved back. They can come visit me, or they can burn in Hell.
There is a reason I live 1000 miles away from the rest of my family. I swear, if they moved here I would pick up and start over again.
College.
I spent 12 years getting a PhD, and f**k me, going to college is the worst possible way to learn stuff. Also, academic research is completely broken. It’s just a numbers game and the majority of published papers are utter garbage.
Yup. I'm beginning a MA program because I need it for career goals, but I learn better through other methods. I'll get through it - maybe I'll learn something useful.
Getting attached too quickly to someone that wanted me first. Getting played by someone like that is a different kind of pain. If you lost interest make it more obvious geez.
Any job involving tech support or customer service. I'll starve before I deal with entitled older people who demand the latest technology, but refuse to learn how to actually use their new technology and expect the world to bend over backwards to satisfy their unrealistic demands. Half of them don't think plugging in their TV is a requirement before calling and screaming that "this darnedest, useless smart tv don't even want to come on and I've tried EVERYTHING! My old dumb TV lasted 40 years and never had a problem, now tell your boss Mr Netflix to send me a new TV and give me a refund!"
Never pull, carry or push something really heavy. I damaged my Knees just to move a closet 1 Meter!! I wouldn't risk damaging them for like 100 million dollars, f**k that
Go to time square for new years eve, looks great on TV, not great in person unless you pay to get in the walled off area.
To be fair, it doesn't look that great on TV either. Large crowd...my first thought is how and I going to get out of here and start panicking.
Drunkenly agree to chug a jar of questionable moonshine at a bonfire.
I woke up at 3am in the rain outside one of the airborne barracks a few blocks down. My phone was shattered, glasses were nowhere to be found, I had a huge scrape on my head where I must have fallen and I was covered in vomit. I think vomiting like that probably saved my life with how much alcohol I put in my system that night. What a better way to start my army career lmao.
Get married. Been married close to 30 years. If something happened and I was single again; I’d stay single for the rest of my life. I see no need to get the government involved in my relationship again.
The benefits to the state being involved do not manifest when everything is going well. They manifest when everything goes to s.h.i.t, like someone's severely injured, died in another country, suddenly killed, or you divorce. Times where you really don't need to be digging around trying to find evidence to prove you are in a long term relationships.
Sky diving. Sure static line sky diving by climbing out of a moving plane and hanging on a strut then letting go was fine.
It was after chute opened and I was swaying from the chute, with nothing to see but the ground that I started to get really nauseous... Like sea sick. I guess the inner ear feeling me swaying did not jibe with what I was seeing. Basically ground is so far away my brain couldnt see parallax correctly.
I still managed to land right on the target on my first try! Then I sat in the field for like 20 minutes before I was sure I wouldn't throw up if I moved.
Nobody much mentions sea sickness while skydiving but yuck, it sucks.
Long distance relationship.
I tried it, it didn't work out but I wouldn't say it can't. It can work if both persons want it too.
I'll never submit entirely to my cravings. I once made and ate 2 boxes of Mac & cheese, and then snacked on some pickles. I was woken that night by the fury boiling in my loins and I ended up on the toilet for around 5 hours. Turns out I had given myself temporary lactose intolerance by using up all of the lactase in my body. Since your body produces lactase (the enzyme which digests lactose) very slowly, I ended up learning later that I was lactose intolerant for a few days after.
Body suspension. What’s it feel like being hung from your back by hooks? Feels like being strung up from the ceiling by big metal hooks in your back… why was I surprised that it wasn’t transcendental?
Have an open relationship. Began with swinging and then full blown polyamory. Such a s**t storm. Never again.
Open relationships helped me figure out that I want to be celibate.
Go to Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on Christmas Day. Shoulder-to-shoulder people, insane lines, and nothing special I couldn’t see earlier in the month.
I feel sorry for the staff who are often made to sacrifice Christmas Day with their families to deal with ungrateful, spoilt and demanding visitors. Must be a nightmare.
Marathons.
I did one to prove to myself I could do it and have no interest in doing one again. I know a lot of people say they 'catch the bug' and can't stop doing them once they've done one. I am not one of those people. Once dated someone whose family did triathlons and ran a marathon on Thanksgiving as their turkey trot. Absolutely not.
Glad I did it - never again.
A half is about as far as I'll do. That's a good challenge, it keeps me training, etc. I tried training for a full, but got done with my 12 mile training run and realized I was going to need 2 hours AT LEAST to recover, in addition to the 2.5 I just spent running. Aaaannn there goes my Saturday/Sunday. Michigan summers are too short to spend one of my weekend days just training.
Hot air balloon. I had a full blown panic attack and thought the bottom of the basket would break. Worst experience of my life.
Having my headphones turned up all the way for extended hours of a day at a time. i was born half deaf in one ear and after doing this for so long i made my hearing worse.
Compete for first place in the duolingo diamond league. So ridiculous and useless. I can spend that time learning grammar, watching foreign films or reading foreign articles etc.
I won the 1st place in the diamond league and it was such a blur. You have to essentially cheat to win. I was reading stories on my mobile and laptop to get more points. Whenever I get into a battle for the top spot in any of the leagues,I miss out on the fun of learning.
Go inside the great pyramid. It's cramped, hot, and people smell.
Spend my whole day doing nothing, Just watching video games and eating, I thought I would be happy but it made me miserable, after a while I dived into a deep depression, I felt so useless and like I had no purpose and when I started to study again and doing something with my life I felt amazing so now I’ve decided even if I have free time, I’m never gonna sit around and do nothing for days in a row.
You likely really needed that down time of doing nothing and then felt replenished enough to get back into the swing of things. If we just constantly go go go and keep busy all the time then we burn out. Eventually we need a lazy day.
Drive to work in the snow. Just not worth it. Company will not pay for damages if you crash or get hit. I work in a supermarket which gets virtually zero business on a snow day anyway. I’ll gladly use a sick day where in the past, I’d sleep over ahead of the storm just to avoid having to drive in it in the morning.
I was forced to drive I-5 south of Seattle after a snowstorm and during a power outage to get into work where they canceled it anyway. My boss at least was apologetic but that was a nerve wracking drive with cars in the ditch everywhere because of icy roads.
Run an ultramarathon and not listen to my body when I blew out my knee. I continued to run 10 miles to finish the race with a severely strained IT band, hamstring and partial tear in my calf. Took my out of running for 6 months and did a number on my mental health. If I would have quit when it started to hurt I likely would have only been out for 8 weeks.
I've never understand those people who (usually running race) run with their last power, run hurt, in the end they go on hands and knees. This in not the 'power of will' or heroism, this id plain stupidity. It' a sin against yourself, your physical and mental health and against nature and the common sense. Sorry English is not my native language but I hope it is understandable.
Binge drink. I used to go on benders for a week or two. Now I barely ever drink.
I can't even smell Pepsi, whisky, gin, vodka, Old English, Crown Royal, Bacardi, etc without wanting to puke.
Live in Alberta where the winter is 6 months long and goes down to minus 40c.
I'm in Montana so same thing which is not surprising based on the proximity to Alberta. This spring has been uncharacteristically beautiful so far. We had snow into June last year.
Mountain climb. I climbed Mt Fuji got altitude sickness and had to be carried down.
Ride an elephant.
I was talked into and convinced to go against my morals and beliefs that riding an elephant is cruel. I adore elephants and wanted the experience of getting close to them.
It was a "sanctuary" that looked after elephants that had been hurt and wouldn't be able to get by in the wild.
I got to feed them oranges and play a game with one using my shoes and i had photos taken with them - I hate those photos- they remind me that I went against something I truly believe so I didn't miss out.
Camping by a river that was flooded by melting snow from an area that was 6 hours away and having to be heli-rescued. It was f***ing embarrassing.
At least they were lucky enough to end up embarrassed rather than dead.
Get another dog. Close to retirement so it’s time to travel.
Nobody tells you how frustrating and time consuming it is to train a dog really well, and how much damage your house will get during those training months, or years.
playing videogames for too long
was big into vidya and still am, just not as big
if you do it too much it clouds your mind and takes away from real life experiences
don't get me wrong, i still love playing, but I do it differently now
Fiend of mine's son is 35 and addicted, it's f**k up his life. He has had several good jobs as a programmer, project managers etc on 6 figures but now he lives back at his mums he can't be without his phone, PS whatever or Xbox. Spends days in his room and has even pee himself not getting pausing a game. Once or twice I've seen him, he's twitchy like a junky. His father is heart broken and just tells friends that his son works really hard that why he doesn't drive 5 km to see him or help him when his ill. The father uses a walking aid now and we (are doggy group) walk his dog when father can't. We check in on him help him and stuff and he always excuses his Son for working so hard, such a shame.
Work in corporate management. After 35 years as an engineer (which I loved), I took a management job to put some serious money into retirement. Hated it for 4 years (but put most of my salary away. I was good at it and well liked, but I want to wash the skeevy out of my mind). Now thank f**k I'm retired!
Sounds like my dad... engineer for 35 years but refuse every opportunity to get a corporate management. He was calling that job: "The Ejector Seat" since when the company made less than anticipated (but still showing record profits) or there was a conflict of interest scandal they will fired the newer corporate manager instead of the dumbâss at the head of the company who commited the fraud in the first place. And his engineer job was unionize, so that's another plus.
Swim with whale sharks in the middle of the ocean. When you look down, it's just complete blackness. Who knows what's watching you.
I would absolutely LOVE to swim with whale sharks. It's my fear of deep water and not having the money that stops me.
Eat at a Mexican restaurant entirely staffed by White people. Literally the worst food I have ever had.
Get my nipple pierced. It was hot for a while, until it got infected and had to take it out. Bye bye money.
C L E A N your piercings they dont just get infected for no reason.
3 1/2 hour jungle hike with almost no water and wearing only a bathing suit and water shoes.
I didn't do this by choice but was more or less forced into it and it SUCKED.
"Forced"? By what? An El Salvadoran junta? You didn't notice the beach wasn't near the parking lot and wonder? You didn't pack the car for the day with water and clothes before leaving? In what world does this sort of situation just surprise you?
Pay $45 for a shot of tequila…
Go to Home Depot in April on any weekend.
Talk to my extended family.
I just don't understand what the point is inviting cousins, aunts and uncles who don't stay in touch for years and everyone else you rarely see to holiday dinners and events, then your family trying to make YOU the one be guilty of not staying in touch with everyone.
Hook up with people on Craigslist. I know it’s not possible anymore but I had always wanted too. When I did, my god it was bad. Guys straight up lying about what they look like. R*pe. Ladies with serious mental health issues refusing to let me leave for a couple days.
OMG--a couple of days?? More than one? I'm glad you survived. Good idea with the never.
I won’t ever open packages with a knife again. I ripped my sleeping bag when i got too eager to open boxed package.
That is why i have this thingy that looks like an uncut fork to open stuff. I don’t remember what it is called though
Drive out of LA at the end of thanksgiving weekend.
I had an 8 hour drive turn into a 2 day exercise in futility.
Or any weekday. Comeing home from work, a ten mile journey would take two hours.
Long distant driving to a holiday destination. We drove from Tour France to Barcelona for a few days' break and spent those few days exhausted from the drive and also the thought of the drive back was exhausting to think about. Never again.
Venice. Most romantic open sewer I've ever blown thousands at, only to be bored and ignored.
Preorder a videogame.
i'd like to know why-I preordered two games and they arrived right on time and I was happy :\
Popping into the first aid hut for a splint at the top of the run. I had broken my thumb and it was pretty obviously misshapen. Just needed a little support so I didn’t injure it more getting down the mountain to go to my car.
Turns out, once you go into first aid you ain’t gettin out on your own two feet. Imagine being taken down the mountain on that stupid body sled for a broken thumb. Absolutely the most embarrassing and uncomfortable ride of my life.
You have the right to refuse treatment, unless you have been deemed to be mentally unable to make such decisions. Cant see this applying on a mountainside.
General admission concerts for me I think. I loved concerts, been to a fair amount. I'd always line up hours early and be front row. I just think my knees can't handle that anymore.
Big concerts are a no no for me. Unless it's a band I really love and have to see at least once, I will not go for that ordeal again. Small venues, least known bands, couple of hours in line and still get to see the stage, sure, I'd go any day, but the big guys, only if they're really special to me.
Walk over 30 miles in one winter's night. Not just because I can't do it anymore. It was a little piece of hell. By the end I was near frozen and once I got where I was going my day wasn't done with me. I actually spent a bit of it sleeping standing up. Fortunately at that point I was neither alone nor out in the cold.
Going to a waterpark. I have tried it two times as a kid and a young teenager and both times I couldn't have any fun since I'm terrified of small spaces and heights. It's just so f**king scary and not fun at all. Don't see the point.
I always get sunburned at those places and I wear like spf 70.
Go to Olive Garden.... what a cesspool that was. Gave me a glass with lip gloss still on the rim from the last customer.
For the most part these are NOT bucket list things people tried and didn't like. FFS whose bucket list includes working retail, being in a bad relationship, having a child with someone they don't love. Come on this is just a list, predominantly, of bad experiences with bad things.
Exactly, it’s not things on peoples’ bucket lists that they don’t want to do again, it’s things that are now on the anti-bucket list of “I’ll never do this again in my life”. No one has “working retail” on their bucket list, but I bet a lot of people have it on the anti-bucket list after having tried it.
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This list sucks. It isn't even vaguely an "anti-bucket list". Why can't people at least try to post ideas that fit the theme, rather than jump on an opportunity to rant about something vaguely related.
I thought the idea of “anti-bucket list” was “this wasn’t on my bucket list before, but I’m never going to do it again”. It’s not things that were on the bucket list already and then turned out to be horrible, it’s somewhat normal things that they don’t want to do again. They’re two separate lists, not things from one moved to the other.
Load More Replies... i'm going to say it....having a child. i have one who is now 42 but, in retrospect, i would not have had him. it's a long story that i won't get into but it was a situation in which i could not choose to abort or adopt out. had i been able to do either i think my life would have been different. but, that being said, i will say that the experience did benefit me as i think it made me a better person. i don't know if that's a 'making lemonade out of lemons' attitude or not but after one i was done.
Thank you. I have 3. I felt pressured into having them even though I didn't want them and wasn't ready. I love my children, but parenting isn't really for me and they didn't deserve to be born into this world.
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Snorkeling. Did it once at a camp, hyperventilated and got back in the boat as fast as possible. Everything looked so much closer, slimier, more alive, and much better at swimming than me, and since it was below me, I couldn’t run away except by swimming to somewhere else with new horrors. At one point I nearly kicked a sea turtle that I had no idea was there. The worst part is I then had to go out again with the group the next day and they wouldn’t let me just stay in the boat. I am absolutely never going anywhere in the ocean with clear water ever again. Too many nightmares. I’ll stick to aquariums with walls, thanks.
Thank you for this actual anti-bucket list thing.
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For me, ride a roller coaster. I'll do other adrenaline inducing things, like cliff-dive or do the polar-bear-challenge, I just never had any desire whatsoever to ride a coaster as a kid. As a teen, someone begged me to ride one with them, and after a lot of back and forth, I finally gave in. I ended up getting severe whiplash, and didn't even enjoy the ride prior to the injury. It just seemed bumpy and uncomfortable, and not at all exciting. 30 years later, and I tend to throw out my shoulder a lot. I couldn't swear the whip lash is what caused my shoulder to get so screwed up, but that's around the same time it started.
I thought I was the only one who was bored by rollercoasters etc! People expect it's just that you are scared, but I would rather do something like rock climbing.
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Once I jumped off a cliff into a lake. I did not enjoy it at all.
Getting married again. One and done. Thank god I can spend the rest of my life with my current husband. We both agree we agree should have eloped. Ceremony + reception, so stressful.
Being friends with certain people who either used me as their personal therapist or refused to take no for an answer when he asked me out
Hitting my 8 year old computer in frustration while it was trying to boot. The next thing I hear is a faint error sound. It had been reading from the disk. Thank good I had backups of most of it, but my Minecraft worlds will forever be gone. Were it not for my stupidity, I would still be using my old laptop today.
I keep getting calls telling me to pay off my student loans, and the people calling are glad to help me. This is a little bit strange, because I am 75 years old, and I paid off all my student loans some 40 years ago. However when I feel the money people on the phone that, they won't listen. They just keep trying to get my money.
Would have been better if these were actual bucket list things people did that just weren't worth it, or at least sounded like actual bucket list experiences to someone.
For the most part these are NOT bucket list things people tried and didn't like. FFS whose bucket list includes working retail, being in a bad relationship, having a child with someone they don't love. Come on this is just a list, predominantly, of bad experiences with bad things.
Exactly, it’s not things on peoples’ bucket lists that they don’t want to do again, it’s things that are now on the anti-bucket list of “I’ll never do this again in my life”. No one has “working retail” on their bucket list, but I bet a lot of people have it on the anti-bucket list after having tried it.
Load More Replies... This list sucks. It isn't even vaguely an "anti-bucket list". Why can't people at least try to post ideas that fit the theme, rather than jump on an opportunity to rant about something vaguely related.
I thought the idea of “anti-bucket list” was “this wasn’t on my bucket list before, but I’m never going to do it again”. It’s not things that were on the bucket list already and then turned out to be horrible, it’s somewhat normal things that they don’t want to do again. They’re two separate lists, not things from one moved to the other.
Load More Replies... i'm going to say it....having a child. i have one who is now 42 but, in retrospect, i would not have had him. it's a long story that i won't get into but it was a situation in which i could not choose to abort or adopt out. had i been able to do either i think my life would have been different. but, that being said, i will say that the experience did benefit me as i think it made me a better person. i don't know if that's a 'making lemonade out of lemons' attitude or not but after one i was done.
Thank you. I have 3. I felt pressured into having them even though I didn't want them and wasn't ready. I love my children, but parenting isn't really for me and they didn't deserve to be born into this world.
Load More Replies... Snorkeling. Did it once at a camp, hyperventilated and got back in the boat as fast as possible. Everything looked so much closer, slimier, more alive, and much better at swimming than me, and since it was below me, I couldn’t run away except by swimming to somewhere else with new horrors. At one point I nearly kicked a sea turtle that I had no idea was there. The worst part is I then had to go out again with the group the next day and they wouldn’t let me just stay in the boat. I am absolutely never going anywhere in the ocean with clear water ever again. Too many nightmares. I’ll stick to aquariums with walls, thanks.
Thank you for this actual anti-bucket list thing.
Load More Replies... For me, ride a roller coaster. I'll do other adrenaline inducing things, like cliff-dive or do the polar-bear-challenge, I just never had any desire whatsoever to ride a coaster as a kid. As a teen, someone begged me to ride one with them, and after a lot of back and forth, I finally gave in. I ended up getting severe whiplash, and didn't even enjoy the ride prior to the injury. It just seemed bumpy and uncomfortable, and not at all exciting. 30 years later, and I tend to throw out my shoulder a lot. I couldn't swear the whip lash is what caused my shoulder to get so screwed up, but that's around the same time it started.
I thought I was the only one who was bored by rollercoasters etc! People expect it's just that you are scared, but I would rather do something like rock climbing.
Load More Replies... Once I jumped off a cliff into a lake. I did not enjoy it at all.
Getting married again. One and done. Thank god I can spend the rest of my life with my current husband. We both agree we agree should have eloped. Ceremony + reception, so stressful.
Being friends with certain people who either used me as their personal therapist or refused to take no for an answer when he asked me out
Hitting my 8 year old computer in frustration while it was trying to boot. The next thing I hear is a faint error sound. It had been reading from the disk. Thank good I had backups of most of it, but my Minecraft worlds will forever be gone. Were it not for my stupidity, I would still be using my old laptop today.
I keep getting calls telling me to pay off my student loans, and the people calling are glad to help me. This is a little bit strange, because I am 75 years old, and I paid off all my student loans some 40 years ago. However when I feel the money people on the phone that, they won't listen. They just keep trying to get my money.
Would have been better if these were actual bucket list things people did that just weren't worth it, or at least sounded like actual bucket list experiences to someone.
