Bucket List Ideas

• Find an old friend from school
• ✔ Fly somewhere First Class (Florida 2014)
• ✔ Visit the San Diego Zoo, California
• ✔ Go whale watching (Victoria 2015)
• Buy a stranger a cup of coffee
• ✔ Ride a camel (Lanzarote)
• Attend the Super Bowl - USA
• See a game from the Wrigley Field bleachers - Illinois, USA
• Learn how to fence
  • Worthing
• Save a pound dog
• Be an extra in a movie
• Write a book
• Learn how to be a sushi master
• Visit the Smithsonian Museums - Washington DC, USA
• Read the Bible
• Visit Mt. Rushmore - South Dakota, USA
• Learn to sing the Happy Birthday song in Spanish
• Sit on Santa’s lap for old time's sake
• ✔ Cross-country road trip (New Zealand 2017)
• Tag a bridge
• See a taping of “The Tonight Show” - New York, USA
• Get your fortune told
• Attend the Indy 500 - Indiana, USA
• Visit all 50 states (7/50)

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• Set foot in /North America, South America, /Asia, /Europe, /Australia, Antarctica, and /Africa
• Personally know someone famous
• Learn a foreign language and actually use it
• ✔ Have my portrait painted
• Watch a space shuttle launch
• Be an extra in a film
• ✔ Skydive
• ✔ Scuba dive
• ✔ Ride a Train
• ✔ Be a member of a studio audience
• Plant a tree and watch it grow
• Learn to ballroom dance
• Be someone’s mentor
• ✔ Shower in a waterfall
• Learn to legitimately play a song on any musical instrument
• Spend the night in a haunted place
• ✔ See a Lunar Eclipse
• Spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square - New York, USA
• Drive across America coast-to-coast
• Go snow skiing
• Write my will
• ✔ Sleep under the stars (New Zealand 2016)
• Go white-water rafting
• Own my own house
• Grow a garden and eat the produce
• ✔ Spend time at a concentration camp
• Create a family tree
• ✔ Hit a hole-in-one (only in crazy golf)
• ✔ Swim with sharks (SeaLife Centre 2008)
• Experience weightlessness – no gravity
• Go to a sumo wrestling match - Japan
• See a tornado touch ground
• Go to an active volcano
• Go to a nudist colony
• ✔ Travel on a safari (South Africa 2022)
• Attend a Jewish wedding
• Go to a pow-Wow
• Ride a cable car in San Francisco - California, USA
• ✔ Try to make a guard laugh at Buckingham Palace
• Walk a length of the Great Wall of China
• ✔ Go to a drive-in movie theatre
• Eat a meal from a world-class chef
• ✔ Meet someone famous randomly (Gaz Oakley, Simon Cowell)
• ✔ Spend a day in a spa
• Walk the red carpet at a huge event
• ✔ Stay at a 5-star hotel
• ✔ See Stonehenge
• Stand next to a pyramid
• Ride a Gondola in Venice - Italy
• ✔ Take a yoga class
• Take a photography class
• ✔ See the Northern Lights (Iceland 2015)
• Learn to juggle
• ✔ Get a tattoo
• ✔ Crowd Surf at a rock concert (Green Day @ Wembley)
• ✔ Bungee Jump (Whistler 2015)
• Get a book published
• Get a standing ovation
• Make a clay pot
• Relax in Tahiti for at least one week
• ✔ Live abroad (New Zealand, Canada)
• Snowboard
• Go treasure hunting
• Surf the waves in Hawaii - USA
• Run my own successful business
• Walk across hot coals
• Go on a cruise
• Drive through a Redwood Tree - California, USA
• Ride the Skycoaster at the Royal Gorge - Colorado, USA
• Go to the Summer Olympic Games
• ✔ Have acupuncture
• Stand beside the Christ the Redeemer statue - Brazil
• ✔ Walk around the Colosseum in Rome - Italy (2015)
• Visit Machu Picchu - Peru
• Explore Petra - Jordan
• Take a picture in front of the Taj Mahal - India
• Travel to the centre of all religion, Jerusalem - Israel
• ✔ Ride a Segway
• Attend a World Cup Match
• Take the Polar Plunge in a cold-weather country
• Sleep on a Trampoline
• Fly an aeroplane
• Go to a NASCAR race
• Tour the White House
• Visit an orphanage in a foreign country
• ✔ Ride a Double Decker Bus in London
• ✔ Set atop the London Eye
• Build a treehouse
• Camp in a national park
• Climb a lighthouse
• Crank my neck upward at the Sistine Chapel - The Vatican
• Create a board game
• Eat at Michelin award-winning restaurant
• ✔ Eat chocolate in Switzerland
• Encircle a giant sequoia at Yosemite National Park - California, USA
• ✔ Finish a corn maze (Victoria, BC 2016)
• Fly a kite on the beach
• Fly in a private jet
• ✔ Go indoor skydiving
• ✔ Go whale watching (Victoria, BC 2016)
• Go zorbing
• ✔ Hear Niagara Falls
• ✔ Hike in the Grand Canyon (2008)
• Hike part of the Appalachians - USA
• Host a Christmas party for people with nowhere to go
• ✔ Host a foreign exchange student
• ✔ Marvel at Aurora Borealis (Iceland 2015)
• Own a cool antique
• ✔ Parasail (Dominican Republic 2019)
• Play bocce ball
• Pray in the holy land, Palestine
• Read 52 books in 1 year
• Ride a roller coaster at Cedar Point - Ohio, USA
• ✔ Ride in a gondola (Las Vegas 2008)
• ✔ Ride in a helicopter (Grand Canyon 2008)
• RV across part of America
• ✔ See Adele in concert (Glastonbury 2016)
• See Old Faithful erupt in Yellowstone - USA
• See the Acropolis in Greece
• Sing in Silver Dollar City - Missouri, USA
• Sleep in a castle
  • Possibly: Appleby Castle Hotel
• ✔ Sleep in a rainforest (Khao Sok 2016)
• Eat in a food challenge
• Speak to a group with the assistance of a translator
• Stand on the equator
• ✔ Start a family Christmas tradition
• ✔ Swim in a great lake (Lake Ontario 2018)
• Swim in the dead sea
• ✔ Take a cooking class (Chiang Mai 2016)
• ✔ Take a road trip
• Take a spiritual retreat in a cabin
• Take an art class
• Tour the Great Pyramids, Egypt
• ✔ Travel with nomads
• Visit 50 (or better) national parks
  • Ao Phang-Nga National Park, Thailand
  • Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand
  • Arthurs Pass National Park, New Zealand
  • Blue Mountains National Park, Australia
  • Fjordland National Park, New Zealand
  • Khao Sok National Park, Thailand
  • Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand
  • New Forest, UK
  • Paparoa National Park, New Zealand
  • Þingvellir National Park, Iceland
  • Route National Urban Park, Canada
  • South Downs National Park, UK
  • Snowdonia National Park, UK
  • Table Mountain National Park, South Africa
  • Westland Tai Poutini National Park, New Zealand
• Visit 50 countries by 50 years of age (21/195)
• Visit Angkor Wat - Cambodia
• Visit Anne Frank’s house - Amsterdam
• Visit Boston - Massachusetts, USA
• ✔ Visit Elephant National Park in Thailand
• Visit Neuschweinstein Castle in Germany
• Visit Petra, Jordan
• Visit the 5 longest rivers in the world
  • Nile River, North Africa
  • Amazon River, South America
  • Yangtze River, China
  • Mississippi River, USA
  • Yenisei, Russia
• Visit the Galapagos Islands
• ✔ Jump off of a bridge
• ✔ Wash an elephant
• Watch migration on the Serengeti, Tanzania
• Watch the whirling dervishes in Istanbul, Turkey
• Water ski
• Write a book
• Land a backflip (on the ground or a trampoline)

1250 Ideas For Your Bucket List

• ✔ Run a 5k
• ✔ Run a 10k
• ✔ Run a half marathon
• Complete a marathon
• Complete the Ironman Triathlon
• Walk in the Simpson desert in Australia
• ✔ Learn to ride a bike efficiently and safely
• Teach someone else to ride a bicycle
• Take a bike tour through wine country
• Ride a unicycle
• Ride a bamboo bike
• ✔ Ride a tandem bike
• Go mountain biking
• Enter a bike race
• Ride 100 miles in a single day (ride a Century)
• Complete Hell's Gate Death Valley, CA (100 miles of cycling in Death Valley) - US
• Ride a Gran Fondo
• Run a mile in 5 minutes
• ✔ Learn to rollerblade
• Learn to ride a skateboard.
• Learn to play tennis.
• Perfect your serve.
• Perfect your backhand.
• Play doubles.
• Learn to play squash
• Learn to play racquetball.
• Learn to play badminton
• Learn to play ping pong
• Baseball.
• Softball.
• ✔ Basketball
• Football.
• ✔ Soccer
• Lacrosse.
• ✔ Field Hockey
• Ice Hockey.
• Polo.
• Volleyball.
• Cricket.
• Rugby.
• Row crew
• Canoeing.
• Kayaking down the Colorado River.
• Sailing.
• Participate in a regatta (boat race).
• Drive a speedboat.
• Ride a jet ski.
• Go water skiing.
• Water-ski barefoot.
• Learn to play golf
• ✔ Make a hole in one
• Try fencing.
• Learn archery.
• ✔ Go to a shooting range
• Learn to fire a rifle
• Learn boxing.
• Learn wrestling techniques
• Take a basic self-defence class
• ✔ Learn to bowl
• ✔ Bowl a strike
• Play in a bowling tournament.
• Have your own bowling ball and bowling shoes
• ✔ Take horseback riding lessons
• ✔ Go horseback riding along the beach
• Ride a horse bareback
• Learn to jump on horseback
• Fall off a horse and get right back on.
• Gallop in the desert
• ✔ Learn to swim
• ✔ Swim in the ocean
• Swim in the Atlantic and in the Pacific on the same day.
• Learn to high dive.
• ✔ Participate in a swimming race.
• Get certified as a lifeguard.
• Float on the Dead Sea.
• Swim around Manhattan - USA
• Learn to ski.
• Learn to ski jump.
• Ski the Alps.
• Ski the Andes.
• Go heli-skiing.
• Ski at St. Moritz. - Switzerland
• Ski in Vail, Colorado. - US
• Go snowboarding.
• ✔ Go sledding.
• Go snowmobiling.
• ✔ Learn how to ice skate
• Learn to figure skate
• Karate
• Kung Fu
• Jujitsu
• Tae Kwon Do
• Judo
• Aikido
• Be completely bilingual.
• Become fluent in French.
• Learn conversational Spanish.
• Be able to read German at an 8th-grade level.
• Learn the Arabic alphabet.
• Learn to say "hello" in 50 languages.
• Learn 100 basic ASL (American Sign Language) signs.
• Learn Mandarin.
• Learn Latin.
• Choose a country and learn not only the language that is spoken there, but also study its customs, its cuisine, its art, and its history.
• Learn your grandparents' native tongue.
• Learn enough Italian to be able to understand Opera.
• Teach English in a foreign country.
• Learn Esperanto (constructed language meant to serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding).
• Learn to interpret body language.
• Learn to read Braille
• Build a classical music library.
• Become an expert in your favourite music genre.
• Enroll in a music appreciation class.
• Become familiar with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Ibert, Mendelssohn, Lalo, Liszt, Rimski Korsakov, Respighi, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Stravinsky, Toch, Tschaikosvsky, Verdi
• Learn to play the harmonica.
• Learn to play the drums
• Learn to play your favourite song on the guitar
• Learn to play three brass instruments.
• Play in an orchestra.
• Form a band.
• Join a string quartet.
• Perform as a street musician.
• Learn to play an obscure musical instrument, such as The Hang
• Take singing lessons.
• Learn to sing in perfect pitch.
• Learn to yodel.
• Compose a song.
• ✔ Sing karaoke.
• Go to the Havana International Jazz Festival, Cuba
• Go to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee
• ✔ Go to a real blues bar in Chicago
• Go to a jazz club in New Orleans' French Quarter
• Hear Joshua Bell play the violin
• Hear Andrea Bocelli sing opera in Milan - Italy
• ✔ Listen to your favourite band play in concert.
• ✔ Watch Lady Gaga perform, live
• See Taylor Swift in concert.
• Listen to every piece composed by Frederic Chopin.
• Listen to the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in the Lincoln Center
• Rhumba
• Merengue
• Cha-cha-cha
• Tango
• Ballroom
• Waltz
• Foxtrot
• Belly Dance
• Ballet
• Tap Dance
• Hip hop
• Flamenco
• Square Dancing
• Irish Stepdance
• Krumping
• Salsa
• Learn to dance Bollywood style
• ✔ Learn to snorkel
• Go snorkelling in a shipwreck.
• Jump from a cliff into deep water.
• ✔ Learn to scuba dive
• Scuba dive in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
• Scuba dive in the Barrier Reef (Australia).
• ✔ Swim with sharks
• ✔ Dive in an aquarium
• Go white water rafting
• ✔ Go on a cruise (Norway 2024)
• ✔ Go boogie boarding
• Learn to surf.
• Try stand-up paddleboarding.
• Do a polar bear swim
• Dive in a submarine.
• Swim in the largest swimming pool in the world, off the coast of Chile
• Visit the Submerged Sculpture Park off the coast of Cancun
• Go windsurfing.
• Explore the entire length of the Nile River.
• Explore the entire length of the Congo River.
• Explore the length of the Amazon River.
• Go pearl diving
• Ride in a hot air balloon
• ✔ Go paragliding
• ✔ Go tandem sky diving
• ✔ Go on a helicopter ride
• ✔ Go on a canopy tour (zip-lining)
• ✔ Go bungee jumping
• ✔ Try indoor sky diving
• Go gliding (pilots fly an unpowered aircraft known as a glider).
• Ride a gyrocopter.
• Travel by seaplane.
• Fly in an open-cockpit airplane (like the planes built during WWII).
• Go Hiking in the Rainforest
• ✔ Go fire walking (2024)
• Ride a Mechanical Bull
• Race a Sports Car
• Participate in The Rickshaw Run
• Go On a Cross country Motorcycle Trip
• Go Rock Climbing
• Rappel into a Sinkhole
• ✔ Try Indoor Climbing.
• Ride on the Orient Express
• Ride the Trans Siberian Railway
• ✔ Sleep in An Overnight Train
• ✔ EdgeWalk at the CN Tower in Toronto
• Walk Through a Labyrinth
• Drive down Route 66
• Ride a dune buggy in the desert
• Go dirt biking
• ✔ Go-kart racing
• Go zorbing
• Ride the world’s largest Ferris Wheel (Singapore Flyer)
• Ride the ten largest roller coasters in the world
• Experience weightlessness
• Watch a rocket launch, live
• Swim with dolphins
• ✔ Pet a dolphin
• ✔ Go whale watching
• See a platypus
• See a koala bear
• ✔ Go on a safari
• ✔ Get a Corgi
• ✔ Become a vegetarian
• ✔ Milk a cow
• ✔ Adopt a pet from the animal shelter
• Save a species from extinction
• ✔ Visit the San Diego Zoo
• See gorillas in the wild in Uganda
• Mush a Dog Sled
• Watch turtles hatch and run for the ocean
• Join the Audubon Society
• Swim with manatees
• ✔ Teach a parrot to “talk” (taught Alfie fart noises)
• See hummingbird eggs in their nest.
• See a mother bear in the wild playing with her cubs.
• ✔ The Grand Canyon, Arizona
• Victoria Falls (between Zambia and Zimbabwe)
• The Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
• ✔ The Northern Lights (the Aurora Borealis), polar regions
• The Amazon Rainforest, South America
• Death Valley, California
• ✔ The Everglades, Florida
• Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California
• Yosemite National Park, California
• Mount Fuji, Japan
• Uluru (also referred to as Ayers Rock), Australia
• Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
• The Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina
• Witness a meteor shower
• The Sahara Desert
• The Serengeti, Tanzania
• The Patagonia grasslands, Argentina
• Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
• The Belize Barrier Reef
• The Parthenon in Greece
• The Acropolis in Greece
• The Alhambra in Spain
• The Statues of Easter Island, Chile
• The Nazca Lines, Peru
• The Kremlin in Russia
• The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
• ✔ Stonehenge, United Kingdom
• ✔ The Sydney Opera House, Australia
• ✔ The Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, London, England
• Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
• The Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumper, Malaysia
• St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican, Rome
• ✔ Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
• Hagia Sophia, Turkey
• Kiyomizu Temple in Japan
• Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
• St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, Russia
• Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany
• Basilica di Santa Mariadel Fiore, Florence, Italy
• Seville Cathedral, Seville, Spain
• Las Lajas Cathedral, Colombia
• Chartres Cathedral, in Chartres, France
• Machu Picchu, Peru
• ✔ The Colisseum in Rome
• Petra, Jordan
• Christ Redeemer, Brazil
• The Great Wall of China
• Chichen Itza, Mexico
• The Taj Mahal, India
• ✔ El Prado in Madrid, Spain
• The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy
• The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia
• Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, France
• Centre Pompidou in Paris
• ✔ The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA
• ✔ Museum Of Modern Art (MoMa), Manhattan, New York
• ✔ The Guggenheim Museum, New York
• ✔ The British Museum in London, England
• ✔ The Tate Gallery in London, England
• The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
• The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
• ✔ The Art Institute of Chicago
• The Smithsonian Museums in Washington, DC
• The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo
• The Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
• The Elevation of the Cross"
• Peter Paul Rubens, Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp.
• "Guernica", Pablo Picasso, Museo Reina Sofia
• "The Mona Lisa", Leonardo da Vinci, The Louvre. - Paris, France
• "Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe", Édouard Manet, Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
• "Bedroom in Arles", Vincent Van Gogh, Van Gogh Museum
• "Luncheon of the Boating Party", Pierre
• Auguste Renoir, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
• "The Kiss", Gustav Klimt, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.
• "The Madonna with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist", Raphael, Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
• ✔ "The Scream", Edvard Munch, National Gallery, Oslo
• "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp", Rembrandt
• “The Birth of Venus”, Sandro Botticelli
• The Dome of the Rock, Israel
• Salzburg, Austria
• Bora Bora
• Karnak Temple; Egypt
• The Terracotta Warriors
• Hong Kong Harbor
• Mecca
• Go on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa
• ✔ The Eiffel Tower
• The Panama Canal
• The Suez Canal.
• Visit all 7 continents.
• Visit every country in the world.
• ✔ Live in a foreign country for six months
• ✔ The Fjords of Norway
• Stay at the Ice Hotel in Sweden
• ✔ Visit Auschwitz
• Visit the Blarney Stone, Ireland
• Visit Dubrovnik, Croatia
• Participate in a Japanese tea ceremony.
• Watch sumo wrestlers in Japan.
• ✔ Go to New Zealand and visit the places where they filmed “The Lord of the Rings”.
• ✔ Go to the Tower of London and see the Queen‟s Crown Jewels.
• Visit Claude Monet‟s garden at Giverny
• See Michaelangelo‟s “David”
• Visit the Caves of Altamira located near Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Northern Spain (the paintings in these caves are the most exceptional evidence of Magdalénian culture--between 16,500 and 14,000 years ago--in southern Europe).
• Visit the Chauvet Cave located in the Ardèche département, southern France.
• Go to Madurodam in the Netherlands
• Visit every capital city in Europe
• Anguilla
• Antigua
• Barbados
• Dominica
• Grenada
• St. Croix
• St. Lucia
• St. Maarten
• St. Thomas
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Historic Williamsburg, Virginia
• ✔ See the Statue of Liberty
• ✔ See the Empire State Building.
• Go to Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston
• Visit Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii
• Visit the Coney Island Boardwalk
• Ride a steamboat down the Mississippi River
• Visit the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Pennsylvania.
• See the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
• Climb the Seattle Space Needle, Washington
• See the Newport Mansions, Rhode Island
• Visit Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Pennsylvania
• Visit the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC
• Visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington DC
• Visit the George Washington Memorial, Washington DC
• Visit the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington DC
• Visit the White House, Washington DC
• Visit the Four Corners. The Four Corners is the only place in the United States where four states (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado) come together at one place. Stand in four states at the same time.
• Cape Cod, Massachusetts
• Nantucket, Massachusetts
• Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
• Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California
• Universal Studios, Hollywood, California
• ✔ The Las Vegas Strip, Nevada
• Dollywood, Tennessee
• ✔ Visit the Wizardry World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida
• Atlantic City Boardwalk, New Jersey
• ✔ The Magnificent Mile, Chicago
• See Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
• The Freedom Trail, Boston, Massachusetts
• ✔ Visit Disney World, Florida
• Ride a Cable Car in San Francisco, California
• Go to the Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington
• ✔ Climb up the Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois
• Visit All 50 States
• Stay at a Bed & Breakfast in Vermont
• The National Cherry Blossom Festival (Washington, DC, spring)
• Oktoberfest (Germany, September)
• Brazilian Carnival (Rio)
• The Ati-Atihan Festival (Philippines)
• The Day of the Dead (Mexico)
• Carnival in Venice
• The Songkran Festival (Thailand, April)
• ✔ The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, UK
• Mardi Gras in New Orleans
• Attend Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada
• Participate in La Tomatina (Valencia, August)
• Go to the Ivrea Orange Battle, Italy (February/March)
• Learn how to use a pogo stick.
• Learn to play chess.
• Learn to play poker.
• Learn to play bridge.
• ✔ Learn to play Solitaire.

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• ✔ Learn to play pool.
• Grow orchids.
• Learn to make pottery.
• Learn to sculpt.
• Take up astronomy.
• Learn astrology.
• Fly kites.
• Learn how to perform magic tricks.
• Make mobiles.
• Learn to play ping pong.
• Build a village around a model train layout.
• Construct furniture.
• Do woodworking
• Make stained glass windows.
• Learn glassblowing.
• ✔ Learn to make candles.
• Make models of cars, ships or aeroplanes
• Build a dollhouse
• Learn to brew beer.
• Take up gourmet cooking
• ✔ Paint - watercolours, oil, acrylics
• Restore a classic car
• Keep a greenhouse
• Create Mandalas
• Create Zentangles
• Learn to Juggle
• ✔ Take Up Photography
• Grow Bonsai Trees
• Become a Wine Connoisseur
• Calligraphy
• ✔ Embroidery
• Jewelry Making
• Knitting
• Needlepoint
• Quilting
• ✔ Scrapbooking
• Sewing
• Crochet
• Paper Crafts (origami)
• Beading
• Make amigurumi
• Learn to make balloon animals
• Sell your crafts on Etsy, Zazzle, or CafePress
• ✔ Make a list of 100 books you want to read.
• ✔ Read every book your favourite author has written
• Read a book a week for a year
• ✔ Read all of the Harry Potter books.
• Read all of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries
• ✔ Create a small library filled with high-quality books
• Read ten books written by winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. (2/10) (John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway...)
• Read all of Honoré de Balzac's short stories and novels which are collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine
• ✔ Watch the 100 movies on my "100 movies I want to see list".
• Watch the American Film Institute's 100 Funniest Movies
• Watch every movie that has won an Academy Award for Best Picture
• Watch every movie that has won the Cannes Film Festival's - Palme d'Or
• Watch the 10 Greatest Movies of All Time
  • Citizen Kane
  • Casa Blanca
  • The Godfather
  • Gone With the Wind
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • The Graduate
  • On the Waterfront
  • ✔ Schindler's List
  • Singin' In The Rain
• Have a Harry Potter movie marathon
• Have a Lord of the Rings movie marathon
• Have a Star Wars movie marathon
• Discover what makes you truly happy
• Release negative emotions and limiting beliefs
• Release any feelings of inadequacy
• ✔ Learn to allow yourself to make mistakes
• Discover your life's purpose
• ✔ Learn not to take what others do or say personally
• Figure out your priorities
• Learn to act within your sphere of influence and stop worrying about things that are not within your control
• ✔ Become an early riser
• Kick negative habits (overeating, watching too much television)
• Learn to say no without feeling guilty
• Learn time management
• ✔ Maintain a positive attitude
• ✔ Learn how to take criticism
• Learn how to take a compliment
• Learn to establish rapport with others
• Acquire persuasion skills
• ✔ Develop greater self-esteem and self-confidence
• Create a self-study program for lifelong learning
• ✔ Face your greatest fears
• ✔ Become a better listener
• Lead an extraordinarily creative life
• Get a complete makeover
• ✔ Get a haircut from the best hairdresser in town (Simon W in Brighton)
• Take makeup lessons with a make-up specialist
• ✔ Revamp your wardrobe.
• ✔ Look great in a bathing suit
• Learn to love the reflection that you see in the mirror
• ✔ Discover if blondes really do have more fun
• ✔ Find the perfect shade for your hair
• Allow yourself to go naturally grey
• Be able to bench-press 150
• Master a freestanding handstand
• Learn to walk on your hands
• Climb a rope
• Have buns of steel
• Take a trapeze class
• Take a pole dancing class
• Take a Zumba class
• Develop general knowledge on important topics
• Meet your favourite Hollywood star

225 Things To Do Before You Die

A Lovely Life List

• ✔ Live in another city for a year
• ✔ Host a traditional Thanksgiving dinner (Toronto 2018)
• Shake a President’s hand
• ✔ Go sightseeing on a Vespa/scooter (Chiang Mai, Phuket 2016)
• Teach a craft project to a group
• Karaoke in front of a crowd
• Attend a costume party in a costume I’ve made myself
• Organize a big event
• Surprise someone in a big way
• ✔ Keep a house plant alive for at least a year (... spider plants count?!)
• Grow tomatoes from seed
• Try fencing, complete with the proper gear
• Run in a 5K
• Be completely debt-free
• Help build a home for charity
• Take belly dancing lessons
• ✔ Look out over Paris - France
• ✔ Cross the Brooklyn Bridge - New York, USA (2018)
• Cross the Golden Gate Bridge - California, USA
• Visit The Farnsworth House (Mies van der Rohe) - Illinois, USA
• Visit the Robie House and Frank Lloyd Wright’s home - Illinois, USA
• ✔ Take the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s River Cruise - Illinois, USA (2018)
• The House on the Rock - Wisconsin, USA
• ✔ Step out on the ledge of the Willis Tower Skydeck - Illinois, USA (2018)
• ✔ Cross the Canadian border - North America (Toronto to New York 2018)
• Visit Brunelleschi’s dome - Florence, Italy
• Visit Japan when it’s pink with cherry blossoms
• Have a cheesy photo taken of me holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa - Italy
• Finish a paint-by-numbers painting
• Wear a ridiculous hat to an event
• Dress up with friends for a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Experience weightlessness
• Beat the classic Super Mario Bros. game
• Learn how to solve a Rubik’s cube
• Wear a sequined dress to a party
• Ruthlessly edit my closet down to only my favourite things
• ✔ Find my perfect shade of lipstick (pinky brown)
• Sew a dress for myself that I would wear
• Identify twenty constellations
• ✔ Learn how to use my camera in manual mode
• Earn a belt in a martial art
• Perfect my turn stop on skates
• Play the ukulele
• ✔ Learn to swim
• Take a photo every day for a year