This is virtually a list of lists. Click on the headings to see more detailed lists for each category, and some projects also have individual lists, which are linked.
Family bucket list
Teach my kids how to drive
Take my kids to the theme parks on Australia’s Gold Coast
Do these things with my kids (which means participating, not watching them do them!):
Go camping (in a tent, with sleeping bags!)
Draw
Go on a picnic
Go possum hunting (note to non-NZers, possums are an environmental pest in NZ)
Go ice skating
Snorkel
Go to a music concert
Cook
Watch a sunrise
Watch a sunset
Show them where I grew up
Point out constellations in the night sky
Roast marshmallows over a campfire
Volunteer for a charity or help someone in need
Take a road trip
Ride in a hot air balloon
Have a no-reason, not-because-they’re-sick, Bueller-caliber free day off school
Take them trick-or-treating
Write, post and receive handwritten letters in the mail
Care for a pet
Swim
Sew
Play hopscotch and elastics
Watch a big fireworks display
Write and send a letter to Santa
Make a video
Watch a movie
Go ten pin bowling
Play miniature golf
Host a dinner party
Plan a surprise party
Go hiking
Climb a tree
Jump on a trampoline
Roll down a really big hill
Skim a stone
Dance
Dance in the rain
Sing really loudly along to the car stereo
Fly a kite
Catch a fish
Eat fruit straight from the tree
Pick berries
Hunt for bugs
Play a board game
Have a snowball fight
Build a sandcastle
Make a mud pie
Pick watercress
Bury someone in the sand
Race snails
Slide down a waterslide
Feed a bird from your hand
Call an owl/morepork
Investigate what’s living in a rock pool
See glowworms
Plant it, grow it, eat it
Find your way with a map and a compass
Finish a puzzle
Have a food fight
Write a poem
Write a story
Explore a cave
Do the World Vision 40 Hour Famine
Ride a bike
Travel on a train
Visit a farm
Have a treasure hunt
Learn how to tie a tie
Ride a roller coaster
Dine in a restaurant
Accept – and execute – a dare, double-dare or, best of all, triple-dog dare.
Experience one unplugged weekend without cell phones, computers or TV
Sell something at a stall
Conduct a science experiment
Take photos
Ride a horse
Work bucket list
Wear makeup to work every day for a month
Have my own business cards
Have a company phone
Have a company laptop
Have a company car
Travel for work
Travel overseas for work
Earn a promotion
Earn a payrise
Adulting bucket list
Learn to drive a manual/stick shift
Get my learner driver licence
Get my restricted driver licence
Get my full driver licence
Create an emergency survival kit, including at least three days’ worth of water, food and pet supplies
Get married
Have kids
Write a will
Establish Enduring Powers of Attorney (a living will)
Set up a family trust
Buy a house
Regularly deposit savings and make no withdrawals for one year
Be debt free
Pay off our short-term debt, e.g. credit cards
Pay off our mortgage
Have a contingency fund equal to one month’s income
Have a KiwiSaver retirement investment
Own shares
Have an investment portfolio
Have home and contents insurance
Have full cover car insurance
Have medical insurance
Have life insurance
Have income protection insurance
Have business insurance
Own a bottle of alcohol worth more than $100
Own a bottle of alcohol worth more than $500
Own a bottle of alcohol worth more than $1,000
Own a bottle of port from the year of my birth
Own a bottle of port from the year of my son’s birth
Own a bottle of port from the year of my daughter’s birth
Sponsor a child in a third world country
Own a holiday home
Pay for a stranger’s petrol
Pay for a stranger’s meal
Do jury duty
Writing bucket list
Handwrite all my poems into journals
Finish, edit and print Grand & Epic Adventures
Write a short story based on one of my ancestors
Write a short story based on my own life
Write a poem about Boxing Days
Write a poem about each of my family members
Complete National Poetry Writing Month
Complete National Novel Writing Month
Fill a journal with writing
Send a snail mail letter to my younger sister in the UK
Send a snail mail letter to my godson in Australia
Send a snail mail letter to my goddaughter in Australia
Send a snail mail letter to my grandmother in Australia
Send a snail mail letter to my great uncle in the UK
Send a snail mail letter to my uncle in Australia
Send a snail mail letter to my friend Beth in the US
Send a snail mail letter to my old next door neighbour
Take a poetry writing or appreciation class
Reading bucket list
Read every book in my Kindle library
Blogging bucket list
Have the courage to share my blog with family and friends on Facebook
Get 100 followers on this blog
Get 500 followers on this blog
Get 1,000 followers on this blog
Catch up on missing blog posts on my Livejournal blog
Convert my Livejournal blog posts (including private posts) into printed books (click here to see the separate page for this project)
Photography bucket list
Take photography lessons
Go to Tiritiri Matangi Island to photograph the birds
Photograph all New Zealand’s endemic birds
Take a scenic shot of New Zealand’s South Island
Take a classic shot of cows or sheep blocking the road
Photograph a wedding
Photograph the Northern or Southern Lights
Do a newborn baby shoot
Photograph penguins in Antarctica
Photograph a professional model
Take a frame-worthy photo of Auckland’s skyline
Complete a 365 project
Get 100 followers on Instagram
Get 500 followers on Instagram
Get 1,000 followers on Instagram
Get 100 followers on Facebook
Get 500 followers on Facebook
Get 1,000 followers on Facebook
Take a photo of a geyser
Go on an African photo safari
Do street photography of strangers in a major city
Take a photo of a thunderstorm or tornado
Photograph an ancient stone circle
Photograph a field of flowers
Photograph a named waterfall
Photograph waves crashing around a lighthouse
Take a frame-worthy photo of fireworks
Take a frame-worthy photo of a rainbow
Take a long exposure photo of the stars
Photograph an abandoned house or barn
Effectively use panning to photograph a moving vehicle
Photograph someone jumping a skateboard or bike
Take a well-exposed photo of a live band
Take a well-timed sports photo
Take a macro photograph of a flower
Take a macro photograph of a snowflake
Take a macro photograph of a bug, spider or insect
Photograph someone crying
Photograph someone laughing
Photograph a couple kissing
Take a frame-worthy photo of food
Own a professional level Canon camera
Own a macro lens
Own a super-telephoto lens (over 300mm)
Family history bucket list
Create a family tree on Ancestry.co.uk
Complete my wedding scrapbook
Complete my family recipe books (Click here to see the separate page for this project)
Create and print family history books (Click here to see the separate page for this project)
Get my grandfather’s war medals framed
Get my father-in-law’s family war medals framed
Get my DNA tested
Get a DNA test done for my mum
Get a DNA test done for my dad
Upload all the photos on CDs and store them online in the cloud
Transcribe tape recordings
Travel bucket list
Fly business class
Fly first class
Apply for a UK passport
Go inside St Matthews in the City, Auckland, New Zealand
Go to New Zealand’s South Island
Go to Larnach Castle in Dunedin, New Zealand
Go to England as an adult
See Buckingham Palace in England as an adult
Go inside Westminster Abbey in England
See the Tower of London in England
Go to Hyde Park in England
Go to Scotland
Go to Gretna Green in Scotland
Go to Dunfermline Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland
Go to the Isle of Skye in Scotland
Go to the Orkney Islands in Scotland
Go to Ireland
Go to Wales as an adult
Go to ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli
See the Northern or Southern Lights
Go to Antarctica
Experiences bucket list
Meet my friend Beth (I met her on Livejournal in 2001 and she lives in the USA)
Meet my friend Teresa (I met her on Writing.com and she lives in NZ)
Meet my friend Gaby (I met her on Writing.com and she lives in the USA)
Meet my friend Rhonda (I met her on Writing.com and she lives in Canada)
Do a tour of New Zealand’s South Island with my husband
See the Exponents perform live
Go to a strip club/show
Go to the Last Night of the Proms in England
See Oliver! performed live on stage
See the Phantom of the Opera performed live on stage
Buy and wear a pair of knee high boots
Learn sign language
Learn the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet
Ride a horse
Take dancing lessons
Go camping
Make cheese
Make soap
Make candles
Make wine
Go canoeing
Build a house
Have a psychic reading
Volunteer for a charity
Dance at a ball as an adult
Do one tramp or walk every month for a year
Camp in the Australian outback
Do a fishing trip in Niue with my husband
Get my colours done
Get my photo taken crossing Abbey Road in England
Drive the Glossglockner High Alpine Road in Austria
Do Auckland’s Coast to Coast Walk
Do the Round The Bays Walk
Do the Colour Run
Do all of New Zealand’s Great Walks
Experience a medieval feast
Eat at one of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants
Eat pumpkin pie
Eat haggis in Scotland
Drink wine on Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Drink Lemon & Paeroa in Paeroa, New Zealand
The road to Elle 
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