Rachel Abrams

I'm from New York, grew up in New Jersey.

And my mom's line, anytime we went shopping, I'd pick something up, a candle, a jewelry box, ripped jeans, literally anything.

And she'd turn it over in her hands, pause, and without fail say, we can make that, and then return the item to the shelf.

My mom, as a mother of 12, had many mantras.

One of my favorite ones was, oh, honey, she suffers from terminal uniqueness.

A hundred years from now, who will know the difference?

If in doubt, do without.

We're on an adventure.

Hi, my name is Anna Curtis, and I'm from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

My mother's saying was, there isn't a shroud with pockets big enough, which is a slightly more morbid way of saying, you can't take it with you when you go.

That, my mother lived that.

She lived that by having adventures, by going and exploring, by

And not just adventures in terms of travel, but adventures in terms of things that she did with her life, the way she raised six children.

It all fell into this idea that life is for the now and the living, and you have to grab it.

And there was always an adventure in our lives.

Even things like we took an epic road trip from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Circle, Alaska on an unpaved Alaskan highway and a Volkswagen Beetle with nothing but a tent on the top.

And, you know, that's reflective of the fact that they didn't sit back and go, we haven't got enough money to go.

They just went, how do we make this happen?

How do we have this adventure in our lives?

And so when my mother passed away many years ago, there wasn't any money left.