The Bucket List

Education & Learning:​

• Take a photography class 

• Do a photography course

• Graduate school ✔ (2020)

• Graduate university with a degree

• Do a barista course ✔ (2020)

• Get my RSA

• Get my first aid certificate ✔ (2020)

• Learn to play guitar

• Learn a new language

• Learn how to pick a lock

• Learn how to start a fire without matches

• Learn how to drive ✔ (2018)

• Learn to use chopsticks

• Learn Auslan

• Learn calligraphy

• Get my full license

• Join a university club

• Learn how to apply makeup flawlessly

• Learn about marketing

• Learn about investing

• Do an interior design course

• Learn Italian

• Learn how to line dance

• Learn how to do the Footloose dance

• Learn how to sew

 

Friendships & Relationships:

• Find a true friend

• Have a girl’s night out

• Get matching outfits with someone

• Go on a camping trip with all my friends

• Go to build a bear with a friend/boyfriend

• Throw someone a surprise party

• Be a bridesmaid*

• Go to a drive-in movie with friends/boyfriend ✔

• Make a time capsule

• Create a family tree

• Go on a double date ✔ (2021)

• Own a boy’s jumper ✔

• Take cute kissing photos in a photo booth ✔

• Host a couple’s games night

• Kiss someone at midnight on New Year’s Eve ✔ 

• Kiss on top of a Ferris wheel

• Kiss on the beach at sunset ✔

• Kiss under fireworks

• Get a matching Tattoo with someone (no names)

• Get Over a Broken Heart ✔

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Health & Fitness:

• Get a gym membership ✔ (2021)

• Start doing yoga

• Give up meat for a week

• Do dancing as a sport ✔

• Grow my own food

• Overcome my ED

• Cut Out Sugar for a Month

• Do 100 Sit-Ups

• Finish a 5k Race

• Finish a 10k Race

• Have strong abdominal muscles

• Have Your Dream Body

• Hold a Plank for 5 Minutes

• Take a Kickboxing Class ✔ (2021)

• Take a Zumba Class

• Try a Pilates class

• Try CrossFit

• Be able to squat 100kg

• Be able to leg press 100kg ✔(2022)

• Be able to leg press 150kg

• Be able to hip thrust 100kg

• Be able to lat pulldown your body weight

• Be able to do an unassisted pull up

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Food:

• Try froyo ✔

• Try Korean BBQ

• Try a freak shake

• Try a cotton candy burrito

• Try fried ice-cream

• Try souffle pancakes ✔ (2021, @KUMO)

• Try Greek doughnuts ✔ (2021, @Donut Worry)

• Make a delicious charcuterie board

• Try Souvlaki

• Try Kimchi

• Try Arepas

• Try Apfelstrudel

 

Creative crafts & hobbies:

• Make a time capsule

• Make pottery

• Write a book

• Start a photo wall ✔

• Start a smash book

• Make a vision board✔ (2022)

• Design someone else’s room

• Invent something

• Make a Piece of Jewelry

• Make Macramé

• Refinish a Piece of Furniture

• Work on a pottery wheel

• Make candles

• Make soap

• Create a Christmas bauble

• Complete a paint by numbers art piece

• Design and sew your own piece of clothing

 

Finance, Job & Luxury:

• Get a part-time job✔ (2022)

• Get a full time job

• Pay off HECS loan

• Find a career I love

• Buy my own first car (preferably a ute)

• Start a business

• Start investing in stocks

• Own an investment house (rental)

• Fly first class

• Own my first house

• Own one item from Louis Vuitton

• Learn to do my own taxes

• Have my own blog ✔ (2021, The Bucket List Expedition)

• Go a month without spending any money

• Get my own puppy

• Own a nice camera ✔

• Own a Polaroid camera ✔

• Own a photography business

• Get paid to travel

• Sell something you created

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Giving back:

• Become an organ donor ✔ (2020)

• Volunteer at an orphanage

• Do a charity walk

• Help at a children’s hospital

• Donate annually to charity

• Pay for someone's drive-thru order

• Do volunteer work

• Plant a tree

• Do a random act of kindness

• Adopt a rescue animal

• Donate all the clothes in your closet that you haven’t worn in 1 year

• Volunteer at a Dog Shelter

• Help with a beach cleanup

• Host a fundraiser

• Pay for a full expense holiday for my parents

• Sponsor a child

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Home:

• Have an amazing walk-in closet

• Have a housewarming

• Have my dream kitchen

• Design an amazing bedroom

• Have my own little library room

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Adventures & Moments:

• Swim in a waterfall

• Go for a fish spa

• Go zip-lining

• Go stargazing

• Ride in a limo ✔

• Go on a road trip

• Ride in a hot air balloon

• Ride a camel 

• Swim with nurse sharks

• Swim with whale sharks

• Swim with dolphins

• Catch fireflies

• Try paddleboarding ✔

• Rope swing into the water

• Go skydiving

• Go horseback riding

• Ride a motorbike

• Stay in an ice hotel

• Go bungee jumping

• Do karaoke

• Ride in a helicopter

• Ride a jet ski

• Go paintballing

• Go to a club ✔

• Hold a monkey

• Watch baby turtle’s hatch

• Hold a baby turtle

• Learn how to snowboard

• Go skiing on a snowy mountain

• Go to a smash/break room

• Have my palm read

• Try kite-surfing

• Have a beach bonfire

• Spend a night in a treehouse

• Go on a cruise

• Attend a high tea

• Go to a Halloween party

• Drink from a coconut

• Go to a costume party

• Have a snow fight ✔ (2019, Interlaken) 

• Visit a butterfly sanctuary

• Visit a temple

• Visit a ghost town

• Visit a castle

• Walk on a glass beach

• Watch the sunrise

• Soak in a hot spring

• Make a snow angel 

• Kiss or dance in the rain

• Say YES to everything for a day

• Visit all the Disneyland Resorts

• Meet someone famous

• Find a four-leaf clover

• Let go of a floating lantern

• Experience a white Christmas

• Go on a safari

• Go on a wine tour

• Try axe throwing ✔ (2022, @MANIAX AXE THROWING)

• Go line dancing

• Attend a puppy yoga session

• Participate in a food eating competition

• Go tubing ✔ (2021)

• Go wakeboarding

• Learn to shoot a gun ✔

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Entertainment & Events:

• Go to comic con ✔ (2019)

• Attend a fashion show

• Visit a wax museum + take a photo ✔ (2018 + 2019 @Madame Tussauds)

• See a Cirque du Soleil show ✔

• Go to a tattoo festival

• Go to a masquerade ball

• Participate in colour run

• Attend a rodeo

• Go away for Leavers ✔ (2020)

• Vote in an election ✔

• Attend a music festival ✔ (2020 @Laneway Festival)

• Complete an escape room

• See a drag show✔

• Go to Coachella

• Go to Tomorrowland festival

• Attend Burning Man

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Self-goals:

• Have the best 21st birthday ever

• Have a surprise birthday party thrown for me*

• Have/attend a photoshoot

• Start modeling

• Get a tattoo ✔

• Get a belly piercing ✔

• Get a nose piercing ✔

• Dye my hair blue ✔

• Write a letter to my future self

• Get a DNA test

• Have a beautiful prom dress ✔

• Be in a school musical ✔ (Beauty & the Beast)

• Get a complete makeover

• Get eyelash extensions ✔

• Get brows waxed and tinted ✔

• Take a mud bath

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Fun & Games:

• Play spin the bottle

• Play paint twister

• Have a flour fight ✔

• Play hide & seek in IKEA

• Smash a pie in someone's face

• Have a gingerbread house competition✔ (2021)

• Hold a cookie baking competition

• Hold a cake baking competition

• Complete an unsolved case

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Books to read:​

• Read becoming Michelle Obama

• Read Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

• Read Atomic Habits

• Read The Mountain Is You

• Read Good Vibes Good Life

• Read 12 Rules For Life

• Read You Are A Badass

• Read Women Don’t Owe You Pretty

• Read Get Your Shit Together

• Read rich dad poor dad

• Read The Untethered Soul

• Read Hyper focus: How to work less and achieve more

• Read What I know for sure

• Read The 5am Club

• Read How to own the room

• Read Think and grow rich

• Read The wisdom of Sundays

• Read The courage to be disliked

• Read Rising strong

• Read The 7 habits of highly effective people

• Read All that you deserve

• Read What a time to be alone

• Read She’s on the money

• Read Ikigai

• Read The Alchemist

• Read the Courage to be happy

• Read the Path made clear

 

TRAVEL

 

• Try to visit all the Natural Wonders of the world (at least 3)

• Celebrate a holiday in a different country ✔

• Celebrate your birthday in a different country

• See the New seven wonders of the world

• Visit all seven continents

• Go on a solo trip

• Get a world map and show places you have been ✔

• Celebrate your birthday in a different country ✔

• Collect something from every place you visit

• Collect a pin from every place you visit

• Collect a postcard from every place you visit

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Western Australia (Home)

• Hike up Bluff knoll

• Visit Hamersley Gorge

• Go to the Ningaloo Coast

• Visit Cape Leveque

• Visit Cocos (Keeling) Islands (not part of WA but can be accessed via Perth)

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Interstate (Australia)

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Queensland:

• Go to the Gold Coast ✔ (2015)

• Go to Movieworld ✔ (2015)

• Visit and snorkel the Great Barrier Reef

• Visit Fraser Island

• Visit Green Island

 

Northern Territory:

• Visit Kakadu National Park

• See Uluru 

 

Tasmania:

• Visit Cradle Mountain

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New South Wales:

• ​Visit Sydney Harbour Bridge

• Visit the Sydney Opera House

• Go to Luna Park

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Victoria

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Oceania (exclude Australia)

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New Zealand:

• Visit the glowworm caves (Waitomo)

• Visit Onsen Hotpools (Queenstown)

• Visit Lake Tekapo Lupins

• Go Bungee Jumping over a river

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Fiji:

• Visit Nadi markets

 

Bora Bora:

• Go snorkeling with the fishes and sharks

 

Europe

 

France:

• Go to Paris ✔ (2019)

• Go to the top of the Eiffel tower ✔ (2019)

• Go to Disneyland Paris ✔ (2019)

• Try Escargot

(South of France)

• Go to Saint Tropez

• Visit Nice

• Visit Cannes

• Visit Monaco

• Visit Èze Visit Menton

• Visit Grasse

• Visit Villefranche sur mer

• Visit Antibes

• Visit Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

• Visit Saint Paul de Vence

• Visit Dordogne

 

England:

• Go to London ✔ (2019)

• Watch the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace ✔ (2019)

• See Big Ben

• Attend a football game

• Go on the London Eye

 

Scotland:

• Go to the Up Helly Aa Fire Festival

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Portugal

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Spain:

• Go to Barcelona

• Visit Park Güell (Barcelona)

• Visit El Rastro flea market, Sundays (Madrid)

• Watch a live flamenco show

• See the Patios, Córdoba

• Eat Tapas

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Italy:

• Make a Wish in the Trevi Fountain

• Ride a Vespa in Tuscany 

• See the Colosseum in Rome

• Ride a gondola in Venice

• Pose with the Leaning Tower of Pisa

• Sleep in a Tuscan Villa

• Swim in the Blue Grotto

• Visit Locorotondo

• Visit Lake Como (Como)

• Go to the Amalfi Coast

• Go to Capri

• Go to Sorrento

• Eat proper Italian pizzas

• Eat gelato

• Visit Casa di Giulietta and leave a note on Juliet’s Wall

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Germany:

• Attend the German Christmas markets

• Attend Oktoberfest

• Eat a giant pretzel ✔ (2019)

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Belgium

 

Netherlands:

• Visit Amsterdam ✔ (2019)

• Explore the Van Gogh Museum

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Switzerland:

• Ski the Swiss Alps

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Iceland:

• Bathe in the Blue Lagoon Geothermal Spa, Iceland

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Norway:

• See the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

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Sweden

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Greece:

• Go to Santorini (Island)

• Go to Skopelos (island)

• Go to Mykonos

• Try Souvlaki

• Try Gyros in Greece

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North America

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California:

• Go to Hollywood ✔ (2018)

• Walk along the Hollywood walk of fame ✔ (2018)

• Go to universal studios ✔ (2018)

• Visit Santa Monica Pier ✔ (2018)

• Attend Coachella

• Visit og. Disneyland, Anaheim LA ✔ (2018)

• Visit Yosemite National Park

• Take a Tour of Alcatraz in San Francisco

• Visit Mossbrae Falls

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New York City:

• Spend New Year’s Eve in times square

• See a Broadway Musical

• Stand in Times Square

• Try a New York slice of pizza

• Walk through Central Park

• See the Empire State Building

• See the Statue of Liberty

• Try Juniors Cheesecake

• Visit Watkin Glens State Park

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Minnesota:

• Try cookies served in a bucket Sweet Marthas Minnesota State Fair

 

Nevada:

• Visit Las Vegas

• Take a photo under the Las Vegas sign

• Visit Pastel Canyon

 

Florida:

• Visit DisneyWorld Orlando

• Go to Miami beach

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Louisiana:

• Visit New Orleans

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Illinois:

• Try Portillo’s cake shake

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Texas:

• Visit San Antonio Riverwalk at night

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Hawaii:

• Attend a Luaus

• Visit Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa

 

Arizona:

• Visit the Wave

 

New Mexico:

• Visit White Sands National Park

 

Mexico:

• Visit Tulum Archaeological Zone

• Visit the Xcaret Park

• Visit the Palacio de Bellas Artes

 

Canada:

• Visit Banff National Park & the Rocky Mountains

• Visit Old Montreal

• Road trip through the Canadian Rockies.

• Try poutine

• Explore the city of Vancouver

• Visit Niagara Falls

• Get that shot of Lake Louise

• Relax in Canada’s natural hot springs

• Stay at the ice hotel in Québec

• Witness The Northern Lights In Whitehorse

• Shop at Saint John City Market

• Visit Emerald Lake

• Visit Moraine Lake, Alberta

• Visit Heart Lake, Ompah

• Visit Gros Morne, Newfoundland and Labrador

 

Alaska:

• Visit Mendehall Glacier Ice Cave