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Monday 12 September 2011

30 things to do before you are 30


According to Dupe Adegbola of Yes! Magazine, these are the 30 things you must do before the end of your third decade...

1. Buy a property. 2. Have a baby (If you're a woman). 3. Avoid having a baby (If you're a man). 4. Live Abroad. 5. Build your brand. 6. Leave home. 7. Look after the pennies. 8. Drop out. 9. Co-habit. 10. Have a threesome or foursome. 11. Own a designer bag. 12. Grow a pair. 13. Always wear sunscreen. 14. Dump the debt. 15. Build up your black book. 16. Drop your last E. 17. Be a fashion victim. 18. Heal a broken heart. 19. Get married. 20. Take it to the extreme. 21. Write a book. 22. Know who your friends are. 23. Learn to cook. 24. Learn a language. 25. Make a million. 26. Find yourself. 27. Have a summer love. 28. Get a second life. 29. Sleep when you're dead. 30. Start a business.

Lol at some of the things on this list. What do you guys think? Meanwhile, if you haven't achieved most or some of these things, it doesn't mean you are a failure...priorities and circumstances are different!

47 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dupe Adegbola, you missed out, Rob A Bank or hold up the local post office.

kelly O. said...

WHAT ABOUT MARRYING SOMEONES HUSBAND?? SEEMS ACCEPTABLE IN 9IJA THESE DAYS??

Son of Babylon said...

Have a threesome or foursome? SMH at this broad. I wonder how many she has had herself.

Nwunye mmadu said...

LOL@ list, so so superficial. how about find God!


Truth of the matter is that you can be dead before you are 30, so if you go about checking the boxes on this, you are only chasing a long thing! If I say on this blog, all who read my comment, raise your hand if you know someone who has recently died under 30, who seemed to be accomplished and who had a long list of things they have done before 30 BUT who you wouldnt trade lives with, because they are dead. In response to that, I'm sure many will raise their hands!

For me its simple, seek God, as you seek Him, He gives you instructions, places desires in your heart and leads you to your purpose. In the process of making the path to your purpose, you will do bigger and better things, and set standards for others to follow. The reason being because God is all the impossible things in this world, come under your feet, and are trampled upon because of the power of God that rises up from within you.

People go around creating long unnecessary lists only to further add confusion to their already complicated lives! LOL

Surprise said...

I achieved most of those things before I became 30 with the exception of threesome or foursome and a few others.

Son of Babylon said...

30 things to do before 30 as a Man.

1.) Start a Business.
2.) Own a home.
3.) Break a few hearts
4.) Fall in Love
5.) Live Abroad.
6.) Start a foundation
7.) Take your mama on a Vacation
8.) Start a Blog
9.) Have a one night stand
10.) Get a Masters Degree
11.) Sleep with an Older woman
12.) Sleep with a white woman
13.) Visit at least 4 Continents (Africa, Europe, North America and Asia)
14.) Find your Confidants in life
15.) Employ someone (houseboy, cook, driver)
16.) Own a nice car.
17.) Visit Las Vegas and let it all hang (a la Hangover)
18.) Pop some bottles at a club
19.) Make it rain at a strip club.
20.) Take someone's girl from him.
21.) Take a broad on a romantic vacation (Fiji, Bahamas, Jamaica)
22.) Take a huge loan.
23.) Buy an engagement ring
24.) Get on your knees and propose to someone special.
25.) Record yourself getting it in
26.) Invest in Stocks
27.) Live like a King for one day (Spend your month paycheck in 1 day)
28.) Sleep with a married woman.
29.) Attend the world cup final, Superbowl, or NBA finals.
30.) Thank God for making it to 30...

Anonymous said...

Funny but I don't agree to things like... Forget it but I think she missed out buying a Mercedes, BMW or Bentley if you can afford any of it.

Anonymous said...

A threesome or foursome is a bad idea. I am kinky but I won't do that. You can be blackmailed when you become a celebrity. Ha ha ha! Don't 'listen' to her o. You can also catch Aids or HIV. Shoo!

VIEN BLOG said...

hopefully i will achieve all except the 'threesome stuff'

@nwunye your right my dear.. in this last days God should be the first

1976AD.com said...

Have a baby? In 2011, not sure that applies to women everywhere, maybe Naija...

*ajalahtravel* said...

This list is some serious ass wipe

*ajalahtravel*

Fressia said...

What a stupid Moron.........Hisssssssssss

Nutty J. said...

I approve the last comment

Annie said...

Based on numbers 2 & 3 it's really just 29 things though isn't it?! *rme*

Chiamaka said...

foursome, threesome... thats one id definitely miss out on ... me and who and who nah

oscar said...

What about dating one or two Sugar Daddies for blackberry and Brazilian Weevon........

Anonymous said...

3,4,5,6,9,10, 11,17,18,22,24,28,30

Miss E said...

Very plastic and some are unrealistic. A good number of things on the list will only help complicate your life. Seems she's very liberal with sex. Her priorities, judging from the list is money and sex.

mii said...

that list is totally un acceptable,it looks like she copied it from a foreign site.just like 7 out of the 30 she listed made sence.the rest na panti ewa. lol. try better next time miss writter, be creative, be african, be nigerian!to score you, i will give you 5 out of 100

Anonymous said...

couldnt agree with you more Nwunye mmadu.u av spoken well

Anonymous said...

...some of these things are retarded.

have a kid before you're 30 but dudes shouldn't before they are so the women should have kids with 20+ year olds? OK.
IF she means before one hits 40 (end of 3rd decade) so men should remain childless by 40? toh!

Should the getting married part come before the having a kid part? OK.

Drop out of what? School? OK.

Grow a pair of wetin? Balls? Boobs? Trees? OK.

Write a book...for Why? Mschew

Build up black book...in ones 30's? what did you use your 20's for? OK

Make a million? In Naira ba? lol. OK.

Second life? like live a lie? really? OK.

JIBEE said...

END TIME MESSAGE AND ADVICE

Sugabelly said...

Is this person stupid?

Have a baby if you are a woman and avoid having a baby if you are a man.

Wow, I did not know there were stupid women out there who think it is okay to support the oppression of their fellow Nigerian women.

Scorpio said...

Hiss!!! What a narrow-minded clown... She should add GROW UP to her list!!!

kkdlegend said...

i guess the writer Dupe adegbola is just writing based on her naivity of the realities of lifeity of the realities of life

BILL said...

Have a threesome or foursome? WTF!!

Anonymous said...

Son of Babylon - pot calling kettle black. See the big yansh you put in our face. I too SMH at that yansh.

Myne said...

Yes, Ys, yes, Yes, No, No, No, No, No, No, No,

OK, wait for me, I'm coming...

Folababy said...

Hi Linda
i'm sorry you need to change the title because Dupe Adegbola did not write that list and the list was written a while ago.
It was written by Richard Godwin of the London Evening Standard. it was written just after Beyonce announced she was pregnant a week before turning 30.
Richard Godwin did say, just because Beyonce have achieved her goals before turning 30 and for those of us who haven't it doesn't make us a failure oh.
in the words of Richard Godwin "two months beyond my own 30th, i feel i can dispense a little wisdom of my own. Your thirties are great, so much better than your try-hard twenties. You don't have to go clubbing if you dont want to. You can grow a bread. You dont have to suck up to people. And with any luck, you can cease to worry about not having achieved any of the following" list

Naira said...

Thank you @Folababy for pointing out that this list was totally copied from the evening standard article with the exception of about 4 things to do...and this Dupe adegbola had the audacity to put her name on it kmmmtt

Anonymous said...

a very daft list cuz i cannot find give your life to CHRIST!

Anonymous said...

nigerian writers, i cannot call them journalists cuz they are not, are so guilty of plagiarism, for those that do not know what it means, it means writing someone else's quotes/words and claiming its yours. this is punishable by banning such persons! so no b d girl write all those crap, now wey dem lambast am, she dey claim say she get am for london bla bla bla

but if she was praised, she will insist she thought it up! mshewwwww

elenurazor! said...

ive pretty much done all or most of it and am 30 today
what gives?
am not near fulfilled
dupe drop the cosmopolitan magazine baby
naija lo wa
get a more sensible list
mpppttteeeewwwww

elenurazor! said...

@ folababy congrats on d big 30
biko we plenty
and thanks for the info
Dupe for tell us say she copy copy now
shouldve known the list is soooo superficial to say the least

sigh

sleekreek said...

This person's life is just filled with so much fantasies and very less realities,,,,,,her number 4 point is baseless,,,,must u live abroad before having records of great achievements in life??,,,,numba 9 point is foolishness.....Co-habitation,,is it a must??pls face the reality of life and stop giving urself to fantasies

@Nwunye mmadu......u are very right,,,,there's nothing anyone can achieve without God......

Anonymous said...

Lol, can't stop laughing!!

mk said...

Lol can't stop laughing!!

Anonymous said...

the list is about 60 percent trash. lets call a spade a spade. Have a threesome b4 30? Find God, experienced a quarterlife crisis etc.

Anonymous said...

Nwunye mmadu1thumbs up for speaking ma mind!

Lola Idije said...

Dupe Adegbola, don take credit for wetin she copied. I saw that last month on yahoo and it wasn't written by her.

If you look at some of the things on it, u can easily tell that they are not things a proper naija will do.

Any sha!

Kemi said...

I figured she couldn't have been the one who wrote it originally when i saw "Drop your last E" i mean how many Nigerians do ecstasy? or maybe i'm naive in that regard

Anonymous said...

I don't get why peeps would criticize wit an insult... Even the peeps dat said they can't find *give ur life to christ too* said words like daft!!! Na wa oo

AJCiti said...

I love this list actually, I will add it to mine :-)

Anonymous said...

pple its just a blog someone own blog ... u dnt hv to take it serious , its not d bible etc u dnt hv to live by it ... whn pple say things n u let those affect u it shows u dnt even know urself well enough ... n u dnt criticize with insults

Anonymous said...

ode ni writer yen..
has Dupe done all these things...
psweechhh!

Anonymous said...

ok os Dupe did the unthinkable and stole someone else's write up..
smh..

Anonymous said...

WHO EVER WROTE THIS IS MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE F**K!!!

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