Stuart Gilbert

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I'm doing 36 things
 

Stuart Gilbert's Life List

  1. 1. Learn to drive a manual car and pass my driving test in the UK.
    5 entries . 10 cheers
    6 people
  2. 2. be able to do all 75 of Esquire's "Things Men Should Be Able to Do" list
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    1 person
  3. 3. learn to walk on my hands
    2 entries . 17 cheers
    43 people
  4. 4. Eat everything on BBC's '50 things to eat before you die' list
    17 entries . 24 cheers
    44 people
  5. 5. watch all movies on AFI's 100 Best movies list
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    381 people
  6. 6. Watch Film 4's 50 films to see before you die
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    7 people
  7. 7. Watch the top 250 movies on the Internet Movie Database
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    383 people
  8. 8. listen to all Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums
    36 entries . 11 cheers
    6 people
  9. 9. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
    3 entries . 18 cheers
    496 people
  10. 10. complete IGN's Top 100 Games
    3 entries . 11 cheers
    2 people
  11. 11. Write a movie script
    2 entries . 19 cheers
    315 people
  12. 12. send a message in a bottle and get a reply
    1 entry . 32 cheers
    30 people
  13. 13. find a message in a bottle
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    218 people
  14. 14. sleep with japanese twins
    2 entries . 20 cheers
    26 people
  15. 15. save someone's life
    2 entries . 13 cheers
    843 people
  16. 16. Buy a House
    9 entries . 9 cheers
    10,344 people
  17. 17. join the Mile High Club
    1 entry . 13 cheers
    803 people
  18. 18. learn sign language
    1 entry . 18 cheers
    6,406 people
  19. 19. see the aurora borealis
    16 cheers
    1,474 people
  20. 20. shoot a gun
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    280 people
  21. 21. learn first aid
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    199 people
  22. 22. learn how to shuffle cards
    1 entry . 15 cheers
    48 people
  23. 23. bungee jump
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    2,863 people
  24. 24. learn to snowboard
    12 cheers
    2,130 people
  25. 25. get rid of all my clutter
    4 entries . 14 cheers
    1,066 people
  26. 26. light a fire using only sticks
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    18 people
  27. 27. find a midnight train to Georgia and leave on it
    1 entry . 23 cheers
    2 people
  28. 28. save some throw-away money to play the stock market with
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    2 people
  29. 29. learn to read music
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    582 people
  30. 30. learn how to crack a safe
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    2 people
  31. 31. learn to spin a pen
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    55 people
  32. 32. break 200 in bowling
    6 entries . 3 cheers
    5 people
  33. 33. build a robot using a laptop
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  34. 34. take a vow of silence
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    117 people
  35. 35. make a citizen's arrest!
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    11 people
  36. 36. jet ski
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    48 people
Recent entries
Buy a House (read all 9 entries…)
Solicitors 1 week ago

The problem with having an online solicitor who is miles away from you is that you have to do everything by mail.

They asked for some proof of identity from us. This meant that we had to photocopy our passports and some bank statements and then go to our bank to get them verified and signed before we could send them off.

They should arrive at the solicitors tomorrow, then they can call us to get our debit card details so they can charge us a huge sum of money. :(

At least everything’s going pretty well so far, anyway. :)


Buy a House (read all 9 entries…)
Solicitor, bank, estate agent 1 week ago

I called about a thousand solicitors yesterday to arrange the conveyancing of the new house. After all of that I ended up organising it online with SelectConveyancing telling me that Nigel Broadhead Mynard being the cheapest solicitor for what we needed. Strangely if I called the same solicitor and got a quote over the phone it was a couple of hundred pounds more expensive. I went with the online quote.

After that I called the bank to tell them the details of the solicitor, and then I did the same with the estate agent.

Now we’re pretty much just waiting for all of those guys to do their bits and get together.

The whole thing has added an extra 2 grand to the mortgage and we’ve paid just around another £1000 in various fees. Buying a house isn’t cheap even if the house itself is.


Buy a House (read all 9 entries…)
Accepted the offer (again) 2 weeks ago

I just got a call from the estate agents telling me that the offer of £82.5k has now been accepted for real. :)

I knew it’d happen eventually, I just thought Lizz would force us to pay more because she’s so impatient. Luckily that’s not been the case and we’ve saved paying quite a bit more money that way.

We’re going to Natwest this afternoon to sort out the mortgage and we’ve got to call the estate agent when that’s all done. Then they’ll put up a big SOLD sign outside the house. :)

So yeah, we’re well on the way to owning the house now!


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