These 120+ Bucket List Ideas Will Help You Live An Adventurous And Meaningful Life
YOLO right? You’re never too late to start your bucket list. It doesn’t have to be as depressing as the movie either. It could actually be a great way to keep track of your life goals. Life is short, but at the same time, sky diving or climbing Mount Everest doesn’t have to be at the top of your list. Your bucket list is a list of things you want to accomplish, no matter how small. They can be simple aims that you’ve yoyoed with throughout your life and be as tame as planting an orchid (which can be super hard BTW).
Are you ready to spice things up in your life? Maybe you’ve let enough time go by sticking to the daily routine and you realize you want more. Or maybe you’re starting to feel like time is of the essence, and without an effort or intention to adventure, explore, and express, life can get pretty bland.
The perfect bucket list qualifier should challenge you, spark your spirit, or warm your soul. Doesn’t that feel good?! Read on and add some of these bucket list ideas to your very own list.
Looking for more ideas on how to spend your time especially during quarantine? In life it’s important to have fun along the way, so check out our collection of indoor and outdoor activities and staycation ideas.
- Travel to a new country and don’t stay in the commercialized area
- Learn a new language
- Get healthy
- Run a marathon… or a 5K
- Take up a new sport
- Adopt a dog
- Learn a new skill
- Go camping
- Hike up a mountain, small or massive
- Build a savings account
- Invest your money
- Volunteer
- Take a pottery class
- Master a strategy game
- Stand on the Kjerebolten boulder
- Tell people how much you love them
- Connect with past teachers
- Take care of a chicken coop
- See the pyramids in Egypt
- Cook foods with seasonal ingredients, learn what the seasonal ingredients are
- Work on a farm
- Surprise someone you love
- Kiss under mistletoe
- Start a business
- Learn about chakras
- Bake bread
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- Grow a garden
- Swim in an infinity pool
- Direct your own film for fun
- Chase a storm
- Spend time in the red rocks of Sedona
- Donate blood, or more
- Chase your passion
- Be the non-judgemental friend, even if it goes against your nature
- Get out of bed on the days you’d rather not
- Be a mentor to someone
- Learn about all religions
- Kiss the Blarney Stone
- Play Black Jack
- Marry someone
- Launch a lantern into the sky in Thailand
- Go to Oktoberfest in Germany
- Sell something you’ve created, whether a song, painting, or candle
- Dance in the rain with someone you love
- Interview your parents and grandparents (if you can)
- Wake up for the sunrise
- Learn everything you can about your favorite musician
- Make your own soap
- See the Northern Lights
- Learn the moon phases
- Carve or whittle something to pass down to your children
- Try vegetarianism
- Plant a tree
- Throw a party
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- Eat pasta and drink wine in Italy
- Pay off your parents’ house
- Start a family
- Learn how to dance
- Go to a spa
- Have your bra size professionally determined
- Go to a concert at the Red Rocks Amphitheater
- Don’t spend a single dollar for weeks
- Go on a road trip
- Depend on or trust in someone you’d normally judge
- Watch or re-watch all of the classic movies you want
- Share your poetry
- Spend time with a shaman
- Meet a celebrity
- Do something for someone else, even if you don’t want to
- Eat raman in Japan
- Forgive those who have hurt you
- Forgive yourself
- Treat yourself in Los Angeles
- Visit a castle
- Meditate
- Foster a child, and their siblings
- Adopt a child, and their siblings
- Make love in places outside of the bedroom
- Host a bonfire
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- Hunt for truffles with dogs in Florence, Italy (Thanks for the idea, Oprah)
- Cook food over a fire outdoors
- Lose the 10 pounds
- Celebrate every anniversary
- Grow your own herbs
- See the Mona Lisa in France
- Have a hygge winter
- Attend a Meetup
- Go on a blind date
- Let a stranger cry on your shoulder, and mess up your shirt
- Buy that weird vibrator with tons of Amazon reviews
- Offer to help elderly people with basic tasks around the house
- Attend a poetry reading
- Cut off addictions, caffeine counts
- Go skinny dipping
- Sleep with the homeless
- Feed the homeless
- Try a sensory deprivation tank
- Watch sea turtles lay eggs
- Learn about cosmic mediums like numerology, tarot, or astrology and read yourself and friends
- Dine in an underwater restaurant
- Dine in the revolving sky restaurant at the CN Tower in Canada
- Buy a home
- Pray and do yoga in Bali
- Try a sobriety challenge
- Visit all seven continents
- Dance to reggae in the carribean
- Master a video game
- Ride a jet ski
- Swim in Devil’s Pool at Victoria Falls
- Rent an apartment in your favorite city
- Try a water sport
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- Create passive income
- Memorialize someone you lost
- Get the tattoo
- Make your own essential oils
- Go horseback riding
- Take a dip in a natural hot spring
- Help others facing the challenges you once suffered
- Fly first class
- Sleep under the stars
- Eat fried oreos on the boardwalk
- Write letters to a pen pal, including a child and a person who is elderly or lonely
- Go to Burning Man
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