When we were pulling together gifts for the Mighty Summit, we set a few aside to give away.
If you’d like to enter to win one, please share an item from your Life List in the comments below. One winner will be chosen from comments on this site, the other from Mighty Summit co-founder Laura Mayes’s Blog Con Queso.
Now for the fine print: Please only leave one comment on each site, because it’s the nice thing to do, and also because multiple entries will be disqualified. I’ll use random.org to select the winner, and I’ll announce who won at the top of this post and in a separate post next Wednesday. You have to live in the United States or Canada to enter, because holy holy the shipping is ludicrous if you don’t. Fingers crossed for you.
Update: We have two winners, announced here and here. Thank you to all who participated!
Here’s what’s up for grabs:
1. Ephiphanie Camera Bag by Maile Wilson (shown in top and side views)
These compartmentalized camera totes were designed by Summit photographer Maile Wilson, who used to wrap her DSLR in a towel and shove it in her purse. Sound familiar? Contest winners can choose form any of the designs and colors shown on the site. So you should probably get a yellow one.
2. Chevron Necklace by Feisty Elle
This delicate wood necklace is by San Francisco designer Leslie Yang of Feisty Elle, who makes light easy pieces that make you look pulled together in jeans and a T-shirt. We love this necklace because it resembles an arrow, which is a symbol of courage.
3. Tieks by Gavrieli
Gah! These are my favorite things. Tieks are beautifully made, non-skid flats that fold up to fit in your purse. Once you try them on, they’ll never leave your feet, and they stand up to years of daily wear. Contest winner can choose among the rainbow of fruit flavors available on the Tieks website.
4. Scarf by Mixed Bag Design
These soft scarves go with everything, and the Mixed Bag website allows you to hold fundraisers for causes close to your heart.
5. Bliss Beauty Soaps and Scrubs
In blood orange and white pepper. Do not eat them.
6. The Quintet Necklace by Lemonade Handmade
Another favorite thing that makes me sigh. Every year, Mighty Summit attendees make a list of five things they hope to accomplish in the coming year. This delicate, simple necklace symbolizes those goals. Tiny brass rings just within reach.
7. Daring Greatly, by Brené Brown
A book that encourages you to go be brave. We are pro bravery around here.
8. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson
Mighty Summit alum Jenny Lawson, a.k.a. The Bloggess, wrote this movingly funny book, which includes a chapter on the very first Mighty Summit, and photos of me slaughtering the author with a meat cleaver.
9. Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
Summit alum Gretchen Rubin is once again on the New York Times Bestseller list with her sequel to the Happiness Project, a tome about a year of seeking happiness at home.
10. Oh Happy Day Piñata
Jordan Ferney, the genius behind the website Oh Happy Day, made these teeny eeny piñatas by hand, and they are perfect. You’ll wish you had two so you could pit them against each other.
11. Lands End Canvas Tote
These extra-large natural zip-top tote bags by Lands End are awesome for trips to the pool or beach, picnics, and summering on your fleet of yachts.
12. Daring Greatly Action Book by Behance
Get started on your Life List goals! This notebook is designed to help you plan visually, too.

I want to spend a summer traveling around Europe.
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My life list #50 is: give birth, and in 6 months, I will!
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Live in a foreign country for a year.
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Finish my book and have it published, even if I have to do it myself!
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drive cross-country with my best friend
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Oh my word, this is so generous! An item on my list is to spend a night in a castle.
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Become fluent in a second language, preferably while living abroad.
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Buy a cabin in the northwoods that will be in my family for generations.
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send a card/flowers/small gift to a person picked randomly from the phone book
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deliver a motivational speech to a large crowd!
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Pick lavender in Provence.
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Visit Thailand.
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Go to India with my daughter.
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I want to work at a cranberry bog during harvest.
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Build a PA Dutch style barn from scratch!
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Publish an ebook.
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I want to sing in public, outside of my church. 🙂
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Learn how to french braid!
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One of my life goals is to take a job that I’m passionate about.
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Try-out for a roller derby team. (I am taking a roller derby class right now to get me to this dream)
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I’d like to treat my friends to dinner and drinks at a fancy restaurant!
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Complete my PhD in 2014 (and compel all of my friends and family to start calling me “Dr” – not in an obnoxious way, though, rather in a cute and endearing fashion). 🙂
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I want to build a tiny house on wheels and travel around the country with my daughter.
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Officiate a marriage & next August I will be able to cross that off the list!
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Go on a multiple day horseback trip on the coast of Wales. (fabulous prize package, btw)
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Cycle a stage of the Tour de France (not at the same time, of course)
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Somehow buy/obtain my former nanny’s house and restore it to its former glory, complete with chickens in the coup and a lush garden like I remember.
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Steal a cop car. I don’t know why I’m obsessed with doing this, and obviously I’m waiting til I’m old enough to have it written off as “crazy old lady hijinx” but I’m making it happen. You’ve inspired me.
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I want to live abroad.
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I’d like to improve my Italian enough that I don’t have to depend on my husband to answer whenever his family asks me a question!
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I’ve been struggling lately with the distinction between my life list, and the list of lives I would like to live. For the later, there are hundreds, all of which I can visualize with detail. For the former, I suppose the one thing I’ve been hanging on lately is to live for a year in a spanish speaking country.
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Reach my goal weight
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Move to a farmstead to raise chickens, bees and a huge garden of flowers and veggies. This has been on my list since 1968 or long before you were born. It looks like it will happen next spring. Don’t give up!
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First thing on my life list: Go on an African safari and visit the Sheldrick Trust Orphans Project. Can’t wait to cross it off!
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Ride in a hot air balloon.
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I’d like to host a really great Thanksgiving dinner for my family someday.
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Buy a “big-girl” camera, learn how to really use it well, and take a vacation with the sole purpose of taking lovely photos.
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Take my kid to live in India for a few months. I did this at 26 and it made me realize how fortunate I am to live here in the US and how great America really is.
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Visit the grand canyon
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One thing on my life to do list is to get a job, like a travel writer, that will let me travel the world while I work.
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I want to live abroad for at least a year! Not feasible right now (partner is in grad school) but we WILL make it happen, eventually.
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I would like to design a bridge and see it built.
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One thing on my life list is to go on a multi-state road trip with my mom.
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Learn to do a cartwheel.
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Get my master’s degree. (I’m 1/2 way there!)
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Climb Kilimanjaro with a copy of Hemingway’s book and a flask of whisky.
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Life list item 69: Drive in a demolition derby.
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Visit Hadrian’s Wall
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To really learn/relearn another language.
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Spend a week at a secluded lake cabin with my husband and dog.
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