Bucket List Ideas for 50 Year Olds
Huge list of some great ideas to add to your things to do checklist
Everyone should make a list that you should set out to accomplish
List of stuff to do
I love me some list of stuff to do. Life goes so quick but it is still a good idea to put together a list of fun stuff you want to accomplish. Bucket list for you and your boyfriend. Here are some Bucket List Ideas for 50 Year Olds items I have now:
- Find an old school friend.
- Join a flash mob.
- Become something of an expert in something you’ve always found interesting.
- Build something yourself (Ikea assembly, while impressive, doesn’t count).
- Go on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and meet Ellen!
- Get a tattoo.
- Single ladies: Ask someone out on a date.
- Ride in a hot air balloon.
- Get back to doing yoga and perhaps go on a yoga retreat.
- Take a photography workshop
- Help fix an issue that has always bothered you through volunteering.
- Splurge on something extravagant.
- Become a mentor.
- Go skydiving.
- Travel to an exotic destination.
- Lose 35 pounds
- Go on a trip by yourself.
- Conquer one of your biggest fears.
- Then onto a tour of the countryside with a few days lounging on the beautiful French Riviera.
- Pull an all-nighter.
- Formally learn a style of dance.
- Have sex or engage in a sex act in an unusual place.
- Go back to Italy and rent a car in Florence, taking the back roads through Tuscany
- Seeing the pyramids in Egypt
- Climb a mountain.
- Go camping.
- Visit a ghost town.
- Williamsburg, VA is another family vacation we would like to do.
- I want to rent a camper for a weekend in Talladega for a NASCAR race weekend
- I would love to attend a Mardi Gras.
- Washington, DC is on our list of family things to do.
- Spend a week on David Copperfield's private island.
- Live abroad — we’re not talking about a week-long vacation.
- Learn a new language.
- It would be so cool to have a NASCAR Racing Experience and drive a NASCAR race car on the track.
- Learn to surf.
- Visiting Disneyworld is also another family vacation we would like take someday.
- Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and have dinner at an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn.
- Have a meal at one of the world’s top restaurants.
- Front row seats to a Maroon 5 concert.
- Travel for a concert.
- Skydive. Just once...
- Learn about your family history.
- Spend a week in a suite at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan at Christmastime.
- Take a job that feels a bit outside your comfort zone.
- Forgive someone for hurting you.
- Take a cooking class outside of the US.
- Read that classic you’ve faked having read for years.
- Dramatically change your hairstyle or look.
- Repair something all by yourself.
- Go on a whale watch and see a whale breach.
- Gamble (but like our friend Kenny Rogers would say, know when to fold them).
- Participate in a movement you believe in.
- Make an elaborate and wildly impressive meal for guests.
- Hire a private chef for a month
- Have an honest-to-goodness adventure.
- If single, go on a blind date.
- Buy the car you’ve always wanted — or at least test drive it.
- Get a custom dress or suit.
- Go ziplining.
- Visit British Columbia and see a pod of killer whales (Orcas) in the wild.
- Swim with the dolphins..
- Bike riding in Nantucket.
- Get really good at a bar game.
- Fly first class.
- Own something that makes you feel like a millionaire.
- Throw a party that has people talking for weeks.
- Fellas: Make a brand new friend without your wife or significant other.
- Go skinny dipping.
- Go on a road trip with friends.
- Go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
- Visit the Grand Canyon.
- Tell someone what you REALLY think of them.
- Visit Hawaii.
- Scuba dive.
- Teach someone how to do something you’re really good at doing.
- Participate in one of the world’s most well-known festivals: Mardi Gras, Oktoberfest, Running of the Bulls and the like.
- Watch the ball drop in Times Square from a room at the Marquis Marriott.
- Cultivate a green thumb.
- Rent a camper and drive to Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore and Glacier National Parks.
- Master public speaking.