Updated 12/28/2021
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of having a bucket list. I love reading everyone else’s and would always say things like, “oh that’s on my bucket list!” but I never actually had a physical list.
I had a bucket list this past summer because I was spending my time in a new location that I’d never been to before (Pittsburgh). I had a really good time keeping up with the bucket list and it forced me to try new things and discover new places. I realized that this was how I wanted to live my whole life, not just my summer.
I bought myself a pack of Moleskine notebooks last month and had one left that I didn’t know what to do with. When I was coming up with the idea of writing this post, I realized that it would mean much more to me if I had a physical paper copy of the list rather than just a virtual one. Therefore, I’m making it my goal for this bucket list to be a physical bucket list first and foremost, not just a virtual one. I wrote everything down in my notebook and then transferred it to this post!
The Bucket List
Travel
Go on a cruise
Travel to Greece
Visit the Greek Isles
Visit someplace in the Caribbean
Travel to Italy
Go on a gondola ride
Travel to Amsterdam
Travel to Ireland
Travel to London (again)
Go on the London Eye
Ride in a double decker bus
See the crown jewels
Travel to Paris (again)
Kiss Ryan in the Eiffel Tower
Add a lock to one of the love bridges
Travel to Africa
Go on a safari
Travel to New Zealand and Australia
Travel to Costa Rica
Take a road trip across the United States
Visit California (our new favorite place!)
Do the Hollywood sign hike
Visit Hawaii
Travel to all 50 states (18/50)
See Niagra Falls
Visit every continent (except maybe Antartica) (2/7)
Volunteer abroad
Visit New Orleans for Mardi Gras
Go to Las Vegas
Travel solo
Blogging
Write a sponsored post (read my first sponsored post!)
Make money blogging
Make $100 in one month (September 2015)
Make $500 in one month
Make $1,000 in one month
Have my own logo designed (Thanks, Sarah!)
Get to 1,000 Instagram followers (November 2015)
Get to 1,000 Twitter followers
Get 20,000 page views in 1 month (July 2015)
Get 30,000 page views in 1 month (August 2015)
Get 50,000 page views in 1 month
Get 75,000 page views in 1 month
Get 3,000 page views in 1 day
Get 5,000 page views in 1 day
Attend a blog conference
Meet a blogging friend in real life
Blog consistently for 1 year
Create a media kit for the blog
Post once per day for a whole month
Work with 10 companies
Create some blog-specific hashtags
Monetary
Get my own credit card
Keep track of my budget
Be entirely self sufficient
Invest in some stocks (with Ryan’s help)
Open an IRA (with Ryan’s help)
Donate $50 to a charity I truly care about
Career
Graduate from Temple University
Graduate with at least a 3.5 GPA
Get into graduate school for speech-language pathology
Survive graduate school for speech-language pathology
Get a job working with children at least part of the time
Love my job
Open my own SLP practice
Life
Be a bridesmaid
Be a maid of honor
Buy a house (read about our home buying journey!)
Buy a car
Say “yes” to a proposal (get engaged)
Have a pen pal
Start writing in a journal again (I started journaling again in 2021!)
Pay it forward
Have a picnic in a park
Make a scrapbook of my high school Europe trip photos
Make a scrapbook of Ryan and I’s relationship
Buy a lottery ticket for myself (and win something)
Get drunk on my 21st birthday
Have my parents buy my first legal drink
Write a letter to my future self
Buy a “big girl” purse (Tory Burch York buckle tote!)
Own (and wear) a watch (I love my Apple Watch!)
Get my cartilage re-pierced
Register to vote
Vote in an election
Be someone’s mentor (Became a Big Sister in November 2015)
Be a guest at a wedding
Send out Christmas cards
Have a better makeup routine/learn more about makeup
Win a giveaway (I won a monogrammed ring from Alicia Renee Obsessions!)
Own a Lilly Pulitzer dress
Own a Polaroid camera
Hold an officer position in NSSLHA
Be a committee head or an E-board member (I’m a founding e-board member of Special Olympics Temple University!)
Be in two places at once
Fly first class
Skills
Take a writing class
Take a photography class
Knit something (a scarf, maybe?)
Learn how to drive stick shift
Paint a decent-looking picture
Learn how to french braid on myself
Adventures
Look at the stars in a truck bed full of blankets
Ride a horse
Road trip with my brother
Go on a vacation with friends
Dance at Hootathon
Be an audience member of a TV show
Drive a jet ski
Fitness/Health
Try yoga
Go to a spin class (now I’m obsessed!)
Run/walk a 5K
Go to the gym consistently for a semester
Go to the gym consistently for a year
Drink more water! At least 8 glasses/day consistently
Meditate
Relationship
Get professional pictures taken with Ryan
Surprise Ryan with a gift
Spontaneously take Ryan on an adventure
Buy our tickets and popcorn at the movies
Participate in a “love journal” or book
Go on vacation sans-technology
So, that’s what I have for now! I will be updating this post as I cross items off of my list. I hope to include photo or video documentation of everything here but for some of the items that might not be possible!
love this so much! I have never really taken the time to create a bucket list, definitely going to start thinking about making one! xx, kenz
http://sincerelykenz.com
Yay! Be sure to send me it, I’d love to read!
the list looks great! 🙂 xoxo
Thanks girl!
What a lovely bucket list — I have a 101 in 1001 days list, but I’d love to create a general life bucket list.
xoxo, Jenny || Breakfast at Lillys
If you do create one, I’d love to read it 🙂
This is an awesome bucket list! I always talk with my boyfriend about how I want to make a bucket list but I still haven’t made one yet — definitely need to get on that!
You should, I’d love to read it!
I love your bucket list! I plan on making one once I graduate! For Valentines day I made my boyfriend a couples bucket list, and can’t wait to cross things off together!
xoxo
That’s so cute! What a sweet idea!
Some awesome goals on your bucket list! I’ve been thinking of doing the 101 in 1001 days. I believe I need to sit down and actually write one up. I hope you get to cross everything off your bucket list. 🙂
Thank you Jazmine! I’d love to read your 101 in 1001!
You have so many great goals! I might make something similar!
I’d love to see your list Elana!
I love this! We have a lot of similar goals, especially travel-wise! I can’t wait to see what you accomplish!
Thanks Samantha! I have more travel goals than just this but I felt I should keep the bucket list relatively small for now, haha!
This is a great idea. I haven’t put together my own bucket list- but I’ve definitely thought about what would be on it. Good luck with your list!!
Thank you!
You have such a fun bucket list! Going to a blog conference is on mine, as well! The biggest item on my bucket list was to see Aerosmith in concert again, and I just found out that I’ll be seeing Steven Tyler in concert this fall! Not exactly the same thing, but I don’t have to pay for it, and I’m tickled pink! I can’t wait to follow along with your progress 🙂
XX, SS || A Little Seersucker Sass
OMG, that’s awesome! Can’t wait to hear about your concert experience! Thank you 🙂
This is a great bucket list. I love that you have some big goals (like buying a house) and some smaller goals like riding a horse. I think it is important to have small attainable goals and big life goals, both keep us motivated in different ways (:
I agree, Jordyn! Thank you!
These are great. I’m looking forward to seeing you cross them off!!
Thanks May!
I love love love your bucket list! I have an old bucket list on my blog but I really want to change it to a 1001 in 101 or whatever that thing is that’s going around the blogging world!
PS Vegas is AWESOME!!!! You really need to go. 😉 One of my favorite things I ever checked off my bucket list!
xoxo A
http://www.southernbelleintraining.com
I’m definitely going once I turn 21!
Oh! this is a great list! You really did get inspired! I love everything. I really need to do one of these…
Lauren
The Fashionista’s Diary
You def should, I’d love to read it!
I love making bucket lists! It’s the first step to making smaller goals to make our big dreams come true.
Totally agree with you, Cat!
I love reading bucket lists, it helps me get to know a person so much better! Love the travel goals, cannot wait to keep reading along and see you cross these off one by one!
xo, Alicia | http://www.aliciatenise.com
Thanks Alicia! I love reading other people’s bucket lists too!
Lovely bucket list… You have so many great goals!!
Thanks Jasmine!
Tons of great goals to strive for on this list. I have never really made my own bucket list. I did make a list of things I wanted to do in college though!
You should make a bucket list!
I love this list!
Thank you!
This is a great all inclusive list! I can’t wait to see you check all of them off!
Thanks Ally!
I love this! I could easily steal every single item on this list, I guess we’re very similar people!
I JUST made a bucket list the other day because I figured I needed some #goals, right? I love yours! I’m hoping to get to the Caribbean for my honeymoon, so fingers crossed…
Coming Up Roses
I’d LOVE to read your bucket list, Erica! Where else do you want to travel to?
Oh my gosh, everywhere?!?! Is that an acceptable answer?? haha
We’re doing Hawaii for our 5 year wedding anniversary, but I definitely want to backpack Europe.
Love this list! I have a 101 in 1001 list that I’m trying to complete and this reminds me to get back on track!
Good luck with your list! 🙂
There’s a lot of great ideas on here! I love have you have all your blogging/social media stats goals. I need to do the same for myself! Wishing you many checkmarks in the future!
Thank you Annette!
There are so many good ideas on here! I was wondering what major your working towards to be a speech-language pathologist?
My major is speech, language, and hearing science. With my major I could either choose to go to grad school for audiology or speech-language pathology!
Love this list so much! It inspired me to revamp my own bucket list and divide it into categories! I featured it in my site’s weekly Links I Love!
XO
Paige
http://eyelinerwingsandprettythings.com
I absolutely love your blogs. They motivate me so much to get active in blogging and become organized. I wish you luck in SLP, my mother loves it!
Great list! Feel free to check out my 1000+ bucket list at http://www.bucketlistfanatic.com
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