NOW CLOSED Tell Pink Lady® what would have been on your bucket list of things to do before you’re 21 – a bottle of pink Taittinger champagne and flutes worth £100 to be won

[AngelieMumsnet]

As part of their 21st birthday celebration, we've been asked by Pink Lady® apples to find out what was on (or is on if you're still that side of 21) your bucket list of 'Things to do by the time you're 21'.

They say "Pink Lady® apples first arrived in the UK 21 years ago and we are celebrating in true Pink Lady® style! We're running an on-pack promotion where you can win one of 21 prizes that are on our birthday wish-list, including a trip to the Big Apple, a week in Tuscany and a jaunt on the Orient Express. Between turning 21, the traditional 'coming of age', and a wish-list packed full of adventures, it got us wondering what people did, or thought they would have done, by the time they hit this major milestone."

So, did/do you have a bucket list of things to do before your 21st birthday? Maybe you wanted to see the world or go on holiday with your friends? Did you aspire to go to university or start climbing that career ladder? Maybe you were determined to do a skydive, or get the piercing you'd always wanted? Or perhaps it was as simple as falling in love? Did you achieve any of them? Any epic fails?

Is there anything you wish you'd done before turning 21? If you could, what would you tell your younger self to do? What would you advise your DC's to do before they are 21?

Whatever you did or wish you had done, Pink Lady® would love to hear about it.

Everyone who adds their comments on this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer can win a bottle of pink Taittinger champagne and two champagne flutes worth £100.

Please note your comments may be included on Pink Lady's social media channels (Facebook and Twitter), and possibly elsewhere, so please only post if you agree to this.

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

PS For a chance to win a prize from the Pink Lady® 21st birthday wish-list, pick up a specially marked pack in your local store from 1st July and enter the competition here.

[monkeyfacegrace]

By 21 I was married, divorced, mortgaged, had kids, full time job, became a landlady and had a breakdown.

I can assure you, none of those things would have been on my bucket list!

[Alidoll]

Now double that, when I was approaching 21 probably pass my exams at university and land a dream job. Have a boyfriend that wasn't a cheating scumbag with the morals of a louse, travel to some exotic places and PARTEEEE!

Now I am 42, bucket list would be;
Enjoy my daughter before she starts school and I'm no longer the centre of her world.

Eat more healthy

Do more exercise

Stop kidding myself about the last 2!

Enjoy life, having my parents around still to see their granddaughter growing up and laugh loads

[tunde]

At 21 I was at college studying to be a tourist guide. Learnt about all the best places to visit. I decided then that no matter what I have to see the famous painting The Birth of Venus in Florence -don`t ask me why - once in my life. 2 years later when I stood in front of it I almost cried. It was just as beautiful as I imagined but I had noone to share the experience with.
Since then I found my other half. Now I would like to see the Northern Lights...

[stephgr]

I didn't have a list but I wanted to graduate before 21 which I did and have fun at university which i also did. However, I didn't do anything exciting or inspiring and I really wish I'd gone travelling on my own or had a gap year.

[BonzoDooDah]

I absolutely really and utterly wanted to visit Machu Picchu. I saw a black and white photograph of it in my mum's world atlas and the mystery of the place absorbed me. Being able to travel all the way to Peru was so out of my reach it was an utter fantasy.

I did it though. I went in 2005 and walked the trail and saw the place with my own eyes. It was everything I hoped for!

[celestialbows]

Travel, travel and more travel!! Make friends with all the older people in your family and really listen to what they tell you. Use sunscreen and exercise daily, brush your teeth twice a day and respect your body.

[cather]

I wanted to visit Malaysia as Mum had a penfriend there, I still haven't managed it!
Pass my Accountancy exams - I did.
Buy a house - I did but not until I was 23

[Spottybra]

Finish uni (I did as my birthday is in the summer)
Save for a gap year (took another year to do this)
Learn to drive
Write my first novel

Didn't do the last as I was too much of a party girl to study and write.

[Hopezibah]

Having gone power-boating on the Thames last week - I have no idea why I didn't do it sooner - It was AMAZING and a definite one i'd recommend for a bucket-list.

Also tried body-boarding for the first time a few days ago - so I'd add that on as I wished I'd done that sooner.

The biggest piece of advice I would give a 21 year old me is to be more confident and just 'go for it!' I would believe in myself more and have a more positive attitude to life. Since 'having a go' at things in more recent years, some incredible amazing, once in a lifetime, opportunities have come up and I wonder why I didn't have this attitude sooner!

Also learn to cook (at least a bit) from your parents before it's too late. You assume they'll be around forever but they won't be. There are SO many of my mum's signature dishes that I wish I had learnt to cook but didn't and sadly now I never can.

I left for uni only knowing how to cook pasta and spag bol and I totally envied another student who knew how to make chocolate brownies!!! If only I had learnt to make something like cakes or cookies and some easy meals - that would have really helped!

(I cook all the time with my kids now so that they can learn the basics).

[louisianablue2000]

It was half a lifetime away but I wanted to lose my virginity, go to university, and travel. I did them all

[SaltySeaBird]

Is there anything you wish you'd done before turning 21?
Travel more. Can never have too much travel.


If you could, what would you tell your younger self to do?
What would you advise your DC's to do before they are 21?

Same answer to both. Think about what you love doing. Think about what career you earn good money doing with plenty of opportunities. Find a balance between the two as just one without the other won't make you happy. For me I loved science, got all A's at A level. Should have done medicine.

[twoboots]

Be honest with your family!
Learn how to walk in high heels other than platforms.

[sis]

learn to walk in high heels and take more risks!

[TiggyD]

I always wanted to kill somebody by 'stoning' them to death with overpriced apples.
That and gain the qualification I needed for my profession.

Both done!

[PlainOldVanilla]

Okay because no one knows me.

I wish I had a ONS that really ain't my style but an experience. I met my DP young and we've been together ever since.

I wish I did a girls holiday. Went to more student nights. Spent my wages on ME and not bills!

I was pregnant for my 21st and I always thought I'd have a big party and night out but it doesn't matter now

[WhitegoldWielder]

Not sure I had a bucket list as such as I had a fab life, particulary as a student at uni doing a subject I loved in a city I adored.

The only thing I can remember a desire for was to learn how to play the drums and join a rock band in order to meet and impress several drummers I had a thing for as a teenager. Then I got heavily into Depeche Mode........

[TheFutureMrsB]

There are things that I wish I had done before I was 21 ...

Go to uni
Holiday with friends (without children!)
Go to Australia for 6 months
Not smoke!
Told myself I was NOT fat!
Have lots of fun whilst you still can
Dance all night

Not that some can't still be done, but it's nice to be able to do things when your still young and carefree. I wasn't btw, I had three children at 21

[MyMillsBaby]

Definitely wanted to get into university before my 21st birthday. I achieved this! It was my mums dream for me before she died.

[scottishmummy]

I had No bucket list,it seems a dreadfully indulgent affectation
At 21 I wanted career,to be solvent,to be with boyfriend
I'd tell my 21yo self to work hard,keep it real,don't get distracted

[MTBMummy]

I had no bucket list, but if I could go back in time, I would probably tell my younger self to lighten up and enjoy life. I was far too serious, and had very little social life, because I was either working or studying, I never took the time out to be young and have fun, now 15 years later, its a bit too late.

That said if I changed anything back then I wouldn't be where I am now, and I wouldn't swap DD and DP for the world

[ditsygem]

Go to university, Dance lots, wear crazy clothes, take time out to travel, holiday with your friends, spend some time being single

[Lurleene]

Go on a date in Venice with a beautiful Italian man..... I had the chance to do this when I was 18 and on holiday, but a friend persuaded me not to in case he was an axe murderer. I've always regretted standing him up!