Imagine my surprise when I found out that the term “Bucket List” was actually introduced by the film with the same name and it wasn’t a fancy of some Victorian-era Oscar Wilde-type dandy who spent more time dreaming instead of working for a living. Nevertheless, I was in my teens when that movie came out and I was raised with a “try it at least once” approach to things and experiences, so the Bucket List concept sounded grand – an ordered checklist of things to try at least once before you kick the bucket.
In time I’ve aggregated a bunch of lists from the web into a spreadsheet, removed some, added a few items of my own and then sorted them out in some general categories. This page will keep track of all the items. If some deserve posts of their own I’ll post a throwback image now and then and link them back here.
Life
General experiences, fundamental or not, short or long term.
- Make my own Bucket List
- Listen to the top 1001 Albums
- Watch the top 1001 Films
- Read the top 1001 Books
- 100 Hours of Volunteer Work
- 24-Hours of Silence
- A Charity Walk
- Achieve my ideal weight (69-70kg)
- Acid
- Act in a play
- Ask for a pay raise
Attend a baptismAttend a funeralAttend a high school reunionAttend a wedding- Be able to do 20 pull-ups
- Be an extra in a film
- Be in a live studio audience
- Be in a movie or TV series
Be mistaken for being much younger- Befriend a crow (Currently trying to)
- Break 1800 in classical chess
- Build a web/computer game
- Build something with my own two hands
Buy a carBuy a house- Catch, clean, and cook my own meal
Complete a Bachelor’s DegreeCook 100 new recipes- Create a family tree
- Do everything left handed for three days
Do stand-up- Donate 100 000 grains of rice
- Donate books
Donate clothing- Donate toys for the holidays
Fast for 72 hoursFeed a homeless personGet a DNA TestGet a driver’s license- Get a lap dance in a strip club
- Get a moto license
Get a passport- Get a professional massage
Get a tarot readingGet a tattoo- Get fitted for a tuxedo
- Get my own Wikipedia page
Get on Google MapsGive a tarot readingGive blood- Give up fast food for 40 days
- Give up soda for 40 days
- Give up sugar for 40 days
- Go a month offline / off-grid
- Go glamping
- Go hot tubbing in the cold
- Go viral with something
- Have a caricature of me drawn
Have a penpal- Have a threesome
Have an academic article published- Have sex in a public place
- Learn a martial art
- Learn CPR
Learn how to play Chess- Learn Python
- Learn the Heimlich
- Learn to tie a tie
- Leave a 100% Tip for a Server
- Make 1000 origami cranes
- Make money busking
- Meditate every day for 40 days
- Meet Stephen King
- Milk a cow
- Mow the lawn
Opera(First time was for Cosi fan tutti)Own my own place- Pack a bag and buy a ticket going anywhere
- Pamper myself at a spa day
- Publish a book
- Read Ulysses
- Recreate a Childhood Picture
Ring in New Year’s with a kiss- Sauna
- Save a life
See a chart topping band in concertSee a full solar eclipse(I was a wee lad, can’t remember much)See a meteor shower- See a tornado
- See a volcano erupt
- See one of my teams win a championship
- See the Northern Lights
- Sell a car
- Sell a house
- Sell a painting
- Shake hands with a world leader
- Shrooms
- Skinny dipping
- Start a blog
Start up a collectionStay Awake for 24 Hours- See the sunrise and sunset on the same day
- Swim with sharks
- Trainspotting
- Vlogging
Sports & Hobbies
Try anything once, even if it makes you uncomfortable. Discomfort is temporary but the memory will last.
Run a 5K- 100 PushUp Challenge
- Run a 10K
25 Mile Bike Ride- Airsoft
- Ant farming
- Antiquing
- Aquarium keeping
ArcheryAstronomy- ATV
- Axe throwing
BackgammonBakingBasketball- Beer tasting
- Birdwatching
- BMX
- Bodybuilding
- Bonsai
- Book restoration
- Bowling
- Brewing Beer
Bullet journaling- Bungee-jump
- Calligraphy
- Candy making
Checkers- Cheese Tasting
- Colouring
- Cosplaying
- Cross stitch
- Cryptography
Cycling- Dairy farming
- Darts
- Diamond painting
- Diorama
- Disc golf
- DnD
- Drone flying
- Engraving
FencingFly-fishing- Flying drones
- Gardening
- Genealogy
- Geocaching
- Go Karts
- Gold prospecting
- Golf
- Half marathon
Horse riding- Hunting
- Ice fishing
- Ice hockey
Ice skatingJigsaw puzzle 1000+- Juggling
- Kendama
- Laser tag
- Lockpicking
- Longboard
- Magnet fishing
- Making Cider
- Learn a Martial Art
- Metal Detecting
- Meteorite Hunting
Meteorology- Mini Golf
- Miniature
- Model Kits
- Origami
- Paintball
- Pen spinning
- Plank for 5 minutes
- Plant trees
- Pottery
- RC Boat
- RC Cars
- RC Flying
- Ride a camel
- Ride a tandem bike
- Ride a Vespa
- Ride an elephant
- Rock climbing
- Roller skating
Rope skipping- Rubik’s cube
- Scuba diving
- Sewing
- Skateboarding
- Sky-diving
- Snowmobile
- Soap Carving
- Soap making
- Woodworking
- Soccer
- Surf
- Table tennis
- Tennis
- Terrarium
- Topiary
- Volleyball
- VR Gaming
Activities
Some might just take 5 minutes, some are a bit iffy
- 3D Puzzle
- Assemble an Emergency Kit for the House
- Attach a Love Locket to a Bridge
- Attach Notes to Balloons and Release Them
- Attend a boxing match
- Bake a cake from scratch
- Bake a loaf of bread
- Bake an American cherry pie
- Be a contestant on a game show
- Blow 100$ on a slot machine
- Blow glass
- Boil a live lobsteer
- Bowl a 300
- Brew my own beer
- Build a sand castle
- Chop firewood
- Climb a tree
- Complete a 1000+ piece puzzle
- Cook a three or more course meal for people
- Create a cocktail
- Drink milk from a ccoconut
- Drink real absinthe
- Drive a Ferrari
- Drive a race car
- Drive an Aston Martin
- Drive on the wrong side of the road
- Eat a meal at a Michelin star rated restaurant
- Experience a dust storm
- Experience a midnight sun
- Experience a storm while at sea
- Find a 4-leaf clover
- Find a starfish
- Find gold
- Find the meaning of your nname
- Find valuables metal detecting
- Finish a week of NYT crossword
- Fire a pistol
- Fire a rifle
- Fly a kite
- Fly a plane
- Fly first class
- Fly in a helicopter
- Forge a metal item
- Front row in a concert
- Gamble in a casino
- Get honey from a bee hive
- Go caravaning around a country
- Go on a cruise
- Go on an archaeological dig
- Go on the set of a movie
- Go to the Soccer World Cup
- Graffiti
- Have professional photos taken of me
- Hedge maze
- Hold a fancy dinner party
- Hold a monkey
- Hookah
- Investigate an urban legend
- Jump off a waterfall
- Knit a scarf
- Learn how to milk a cow
- Light a fire without matches / lighter
- Listen to a live numbers station
- Make a Balloon Animal
- Make a cheesecake
- Make a chess set
- Make a coloring book
- Make a dreamcatcher
- Make a greeting card
- Make a handmade gift
- Make a Model Car
- Make a pinhole camera
- Make a raspberry pi project
- Make a snowman
- Make an arduino project
- Make Fresh Pasta
- Make Ice Cream
- Make Jam
- Make soap
- make sourdough bread
- make yogurt
- Perform as a clown
- Plant a tree
- Play Badminton
- Play in a film
- Play laser tag
- Pose for a life drawing class
- Prank call
- Read a Banned Book
- Read a Classic Novel
- Read a Trilogy
- Read In Search of Lost Time
- Receive fan mail
- Ride a camel
- Ride a camel
- Ride a horse
- Ride an elephant
- Ride in a rickshaw
- Roll in a huge pile of leaves
- See a midnight movie premiere
- See sumo wrestling live
- See the Swan Lake ballet
- Send a Message in a Bottle
- Shear a sheep
- Smash a guitar
- Smoke a Fine Cigar
- Solve a Rubiks Cube
- Stand under a waterfall
- Start my own magazine
- Take obnoxious couple photos
- Win something at auction
- Water park
- Weightlifting
World Experiences
You might need to travel a bit for some of these.
- Attend an F1 race in Europe
- Attend the UEFA Champions League Final
- Backpack for two weeks
- Be a Tourist in You Own Town
- Body shot
- Buy a plane ticket on the same day it takes off
- Christmas Market in Europe
- Circus
- Cirque de Soleil
- Climb an active volcano
- Cross the intersection at Abbey Road
- Cycle for a month
- Dog sledding
- Earthquake
- Eat at a Michelin-star restaurant
- El Classico Barcelona vs Real Madrid
- Explore a cave
- Explore a river from sea to source (or vice versa)
- Ferrari World
- Film Festival
- Fly in a hot-air balloon
- Follow a disused railway line
- Follow a Roman road
- Go berry picking
- Go on a cruise
- Go on a pub crawl
- Go skiing in Dubai
- Go spelunking/caving
- Go to a book signing
- Go to a drive-in movie
- Go whitewater rafting
- Go wreck-diving
- Golf 18 Holes
- Haggle at an open market
- Holiday on a boat
- Ice fishing
- Irish pub
- Jump off a cliff and into the ocean
- Kiss the Blarney Stone
- Listen to Jazz in New Orleans or Chicago
- Make a DIY camp stove from a drinks can
- Paris catacombs
- Petanque
- Photograph somebody in the nude
- Receive a love letter
- Renaissance Fair
- Ride in a double decker bus
- Ride in a helicopter
- Ride in a horse and carriage
- Ride in a luge
- Ride in a rickshaw
- Ride in a submarine
- Ride on a Cable Car
- Ride on the fastest roller coaster
- Ride on the Orient Express
- Ride the Transsiberian from Moscow to Beijing
- See a solar eclipse
- See icebergs up close
- See Killer Whales in the Wild
- Sleep in a cemetery
- Sleep on a mountain
- Small-Town Festival
- Spend a month at sea
- Spend a night in a castle
- Spend a night in a castle
- Spend a week camping
- Spend a week living like people from another time
- Spend Christmas abroad
- Stand atop a lighthouse
- Stand on top of a 4000m mountain
- Stay in a hostel
- Swim in a lake
- Swim in the Mediterranean
- Swim in the Ocean
- Take a Yoga Class
- Take afternoon tea under a tarp in the rain
- Throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain
- Thru-hiking
- Tour a Factory
- Travel by seaplane
- Travel the Inca trail (Peru)
- Travel without a map
- Turkish bathhouse
- Visit a micronation
- Visit Each Continent
- Visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- Walk along the beach from one town to another
- Weightlessness
- Wimbledon
- Take part in a triathlon
- Try acupuncture
- Try sensory deprivation
- Visit a nudist beach
- Visit a strip club
- Vote in an Election
- Watch every Best Picture Winner
- Watch planets through a telescope
- Water park
- Win a bet at the races
- Win a scratch-off
- Win real money at poker
- Win the lottery
- Work out every day for 40 days
- Write and perform a song
- Write and share poetry
- Wreck-diving
- Yo-Yo
- YouTube
- Zip Lining
- Zorbing
- Whitling
- Wine Tasting
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