50 Things To Do Before I'm 50

I put together my 50 Things To Do Before I'm 50 list as I neared my 45th birthday in July of 2014, choosing goals and things to do in the next five years before my 50th birthday. Many of the items on the list are things I've never done and places I've never been, however the list also includes some items that I want to do again. Some are small, simple inexpensive things to do, while others require a much larger amount of time and/or financial investment. The actual list is in a rather random fashion, listed as items came to me; and I'm checking them off in a random fashion as well. (Highlighted items are completed!)


1. Hike to the bottom of in the Grand Canyon
DONE (March 2016 - read about it HERE)

2. Learn to speak (basic conversational) Spanish

3. Take piano lessons  
DONE (March 2019 - read about it HERE)

4. Learn to ride a horse
DONE (November 2017 - read about it HERE)

 5. Hike to the top of a mountain in the Canadian Rockies 
DONE (July 2014 - read about it HERE)

6. Lead someone to Christ

7. Lose down to a healthy weight

 8. Travel to Paris
DONE (November 2017 - read about it HERE)

9. Read all the Pulitzer prize winners in Fiction (1948 – 2018)
DONE (July 2019 - read about it HERE)

 10. Re-read all my children’s/young adult books

 11. Tour the Anne Frank house & the ten Boom home
DONE (October/November 2017 - read about it HERE and HERE)

 12. Make a quilt

13. Play all the games in our collection

 14. Visit Harry Potter World in Florida
DONE (November 2014 - read about it HERE)

15. See New York from the top of the Empire State Building
DONE (June 2016 - read about it HERE)

16. Earn a doctorate

17. Buy a camper & use it often

18. Alaskan cruise Adventure
DONE (July/August 2018 - read about it HERE)

19. Take a cooking class
DONE (September 2018 - read about it HERE)

20. Go snow skiing one more time (at least)

21. Swimming lessons

22. Ride in a hot air helium balloon
DONE (September 2018 - read about it HERE.)

 23. Have something published
DONE (June 2019 - read about it HERE.)

24. Revise my will
DONE (October 2017 - read about it HERE)

25. Learn to make Mama’s biscuits so they taste as good as the ones she & Robbie make
DONE (June 2019 - read about it HERE)

26. One minute plank

27. Dye Easter eggs again
DONE (March 2016 - read about it HERE) 

28. Travel on a train
DONE (November 2017 - read about it HERE)

29. Mission trip

30. Keep a daily diary/gratitude journal for one year 
DONE (January 2017 - read about it HERE)  

31. Learn to use my DSLR camera on manual (& auto!) mode
DONE (March 2019 - read about it HERE) 

32. Dance lessons (with Robbie, of course)

33. Fast for 3 days again
DONE (February 2016 - read about it HERE)  

34. Take private singing lessons

35. Visit Washington DC & tour the White House

36. See Niagara Falls
DONE (May 2015 - read about it HERE) 

37. Complete 10 scrapbook projects
DONE (July 2019 - read about it HERE)

 38. Buy or start a business
DONE (November 2016 - read about it HERE) 

39. Review all paid for scrapbook classes
DONE (July 2014 - read about it HERE) 

40. See some holiday fireworks
DONE (November 2014 - read about it HERE)

41. Learn to French braid my own hair

42. Improve photo editing skills
DONE (July 2019 - read about it HERE)

43. Buy and use a flower field/identification guide
DONE (May 2019 - read about it HERE)

44. Go fishing again

45. Watch all the movies in our collection
DONE (May 2019 - read about it HERE)

46. Grow my own vegetables

47. Read through the Bible again
DONE (November 2015 - read about it HERE) 

48. Glamping trip
DONE (March 2016 - read about it HERE)

49. Boot Camp class

 50. Carve a pumpkin
DONE (October 2017 - read about it HERE)
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