A bucket list is a list of things you want to do before you die or ‘kick the bucket’. This is my list, which I started writing on 10th November 2011 and hope to continue adding to even as I begin crossing things off.
I’m only adding items that I’ve never done – or if I’ve done them before it was when I was too young to really appreciate and/or remember it. There are other things I have achieved, such as getting my degree, which I am proud of but which happened before I had the idea to do this and so are not listed here.
- Learn how a car engine works.
- Learn how to pick locks.
- Practise drawing manga.
- Read all my currently unread books.
- Read every book on the BBC Top 100 list. [34/100]
- Finish the Say Something In Welsh course.
- Practise my Welsh!
- Go camping.
- Travel somewhere by myself.
- Learn to throw knives accurately.
- Learn to shoot.
- Learn to make fire without matches / a lighter.
- Visit the modern Seven Wonders of the World.
- Visit some of the most famous British castles.
- Visit Stonehenge.
- Visit the Grand Canyon.
- See the Aurora Borealis.
- Climb the Eiffel Tower.
- Visit Glastonbury.
- Visit the Sistine Chapel.
- Learn to ballroom dance; at least the waltz, tango and foxtrot.
- Swim with dolphins.
- Learn archery.
- Go canoeing or kayaking.
- Learn to tack up a horse, and to
walk,trot, canter, gallop and jump. - Ride a mechanical bull.
- Learn to do at least a three-beat weave with poi.
- Go rock climbing.
- Go zorbing.
- Go on a cruise.
- Go on the Orient Express.
- Learn to drive.
- Take a first aid course.
- Visit the Natural History Museum. 13/12/11
- Visit the Tate Gallery.
- Attend Burning Man.
- Visit all seven continents. [2/7]
- Get a full sleeve tattoo [1/4 way there]
- Learn to make pottery. Bonus points for using potter’s wheel.
- Improve my pool playing.
- Practise Derren Brown’s Tricks of the Mind memory exercises.
- Learn to perform simple magic tricks.
- Learn to make at least 10 origami models from memory. [5/10]
- Learn to make clothing.
- Learn how to cook a full Sunday roast.
- Learn how to cook a three-course dinner.
- Practise public speaking.
- Build a Habitat for Humanity home in a different country.
- Learn to plaster a wall.
- Learn the basics of plumbing.
- Go WWOOFing.
- Finish writing a fanfic.
- Finish the gems, herbs and deities sections on Pagan Roots.
- Become financially literate and develop a financial strategy.
- Trace my family tree.
- Learn to meditate.
- Dress up and go to the theatre.
- Fly in a helicopter.
- Fly in a hot air balloon.
- Climb Snowdon.
- Visit the Berlin wall.
- Visit Auschwitz.
- Take a pole dancing class.
- Visit an Amsterdam coffee shop.
- Do a proper road trip.
- Learn to juggle more than two balls.
- Learn to kill and prepare an animal for food.
- Grow and harvest some kind of vegetable.
- Learn to knit.
- Visit Yellowstone.
- Make a lifesize snowman.
- Visit Easter Island.
- Trek through a rainforest.
- Fly first class.
- Milk a cow.
- Do 50 pushups and 50 situps in a row.
- Carve a Halloween pumpkin. 04/11/2013 – so a bit late for Halloween…
- Make a Yule log. 17/12/11
- Go white water rafting.
- Make bread.
- Try tightrope walking.
- Learn to do a handstand without a wall.
- Ride a motorbike.
- Stay up all night and watch the sun rise.
- Hold a formal dinner party.
- Have a spa day.
- Leave a tip that’s bigger than the bill was.
- Ride on a segway.
- Get a henna tattoo on my hands.
- Visit the Tower of London.
- Become more politically aware.
- Go to the top of a lighthouse.
- Buy an original painting.
- Read the Bible and the Koran.
- See Cirque du Soleil live.
- Run for 30 minutes straight.
- Ride a camel.
- Ride an elephant.
- Kiss the Blarney Stone.
- Travel on the Trans-Siberian railway.
- Swim in the Dead Sea.
- Attend a ren-faire or re-enactment.
- Visit the Smithsonian.
- Visit the Houses of Parliament.
- Travel by dog sled.
- Visit the Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle.
- Go on an African safari.
- Go whale watching.
- See a polar bear in the wild.
- See a lemur in the wild.
- Buy (and use) rollerskates.
- Learn to walk on peg stilts.
- Learn to walk on powerbock stilts.
- Watch Old Faithful blow.
- Visit the Louvre.
- Travel on a canal barge.
- Sunbathe on a beach with white sand, palm trees and crystal clear water.
- Take a zipline canopy tour.
- Experience weightlessness.
- Drive a jet ski.
- Learn British Sign Language.
- Ride on the London Eye.
- Hug a redwood.
- Read 50 banned books. [11/50]
- Take part in NaNoWriMo.
- Go clay pidgeon shooting.
- Watch The Nutcracker ballet live.
- Learn to ice/rollerskate backwards.
- Send an Operation Christmas Child shoebox.
- Buy expensive champagne and drink it from crystal champagne flutes.
- Attend a random open lecture.
- Create a DVD of family interviews.
- Visit an observatory at night.
- Fly in a private jet.
- Paint graffitti.
- See male strippers.
- Get my caricature done.
- Own a custom painted hippy van.
- Learn to recognise 10 star constellations.
- Learn to identify common British flowers and other plants.
- See a lunar eclipse.
- See a solar eclipse.
- Take part in a Warrior Dash.
- Become an environmentally responsible consumer.
- Go on a wilderness survival course.
- Take part in a protest for a cause I support.
- Attend a murder mystery weekend.
- Go to watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show in full costume.
- Hire a maid.
- Go to the opera. 30/11/11
- Visit 25 countries. [7/25]
- Improve my writing skills.
- Create a passive income.
- Learn to divine with runes.
- Improve my tarot reading skills.
- Complete a 365 day photo project.
- Learn calligraphy.
- Make an electronic item from scratch – soldering and everything.
- Exercise regularly.
- Save someone’s life.
- See the Lipizzaner stallions perform.
- Drop acid.
- Write a will.
- Be in India when Holi is celebrated.
- Memorise at least 15 good poems or monologues. [2/15]
- Learn to use chopsticks.
- Learn to write (legibly) with my left hand.
- Be able to do the splits.
- Go into space.
- Improve my SEO skills.
- Raise Pagan Roots‘ search placement.
- Complete a painting on canvas (even though I have no art talent).
- Live in a house that I really love.
- Live in a location that I really love.
- Go paintballing.
- Play lazer tag.
- Have a suit tailor-made for me.
- Go Geocaching away from my home area.
- Sit on a jury.
- Visit Longleat.
- Be hypnotised (but not on stage).
- Buy an investment property.
- Go indoor skydiving.
- Visit the Eden Project.
- Get PixiHosting running automatically.
- Learn to whistle using my fingers.
- Dance round a bonfire to the sound of drums.
Hi Pixi,
Landed on your website looking for some NextGen tips and somehow started reading on… Something I rarely do these days… I guess I was just struck by those eyes staring at me from the top of your blog… (fabulous picture!)
And then I found myself here on your bucket list page… What a list! I hope you will live to be a hundred years old as you will need the time! For someone saying not to know what to do with your life, your list is pretty specific though ;) Found it also nice to see I actually did some of the things your list :o)
Good luck in checking things of the list!
Cheers from Holland,
Erik
Hi Erik,
Great to hear from you. :o)
It’s actually been pretty tough to try and keep moving through this list – maybe I will need to be 100 to finish it! Your comment has given me fresh motivation to keep working on it though, so thank you for that!
– Pixi