Things to Do Before the Mortgage

Enjoy the Zen state brought on by a single-digit bank account balance.
Renounce your college vegetarianism.
Live somewhere that drinking in public parks isn’t just legal but a primary form of social life.
Travel: When you get older, it is generally NOT OK to sleep out in a city park, chase a Spanish bull with a rolled up newspaper, go home with drunk foreigners wearing wigs, eat lamb’s brain in a Bedouin tent, pay a small child to clean your ears in public, get kidnapped in Morocco, get scabies in Ireland, etc.
Get into some form of cult-entertainment (e.g. Evil Dead, Tolkien, Battlestar Galactica).
Get renter’s insurance.
Develop a giving plan to consistently give to charity, rather the consistent donation to the unused gym-membership.
Don’t go to grad school.
Wake up in places where you have no idea how you got there, with people you don’t know (e.g., on the #49 bus, traveling down Mission Street).
Buy the one thing that anyone with any sense would never let you buy, so you’ll already have it should you meet that person.
At least once, get rid of most of what you own, and be surprised how easy it is.
Live in New York City for at least a year.
Date someone for a long time (to see what you do and don’t want in a relationship) and when you break up with them, be slutty for a short time.
Visit all 50 states.
Freak out, quit your job, and move to Montana. Wait, no, I don’t really recommend that.
Live out of your car.
Call it like you see it.
Work on being at peace with the fact that there may never be a mortgage.