Free Ideas: Bucket List

🚀 Over the next few days, you’ll prepare a mini bucket list to track all the fun, little things you and your partner want to do together — like “watch that movie everyone keeps recommending” or “try the new taqueria down the street.”

Today, you’ll pick a small object to hold all of your bucket list items. Tomorrow, you’ll fill it with a few ideas. Finally, the day after, you’ll surprise your partner with it.

👉 Choose a basket, an envelope, a pouch, or even a small bucket for your bucket list.

🚀 Let’s start the bucket list off with a handful of ideas, that don’t require heavy planning. For example:

• Food: try the new taqueria down the street, bake chocolate chip cookies from scratch, eat breakfast in bed.

• At home: watch that movie everyone keeps recommending, listen to an album straight through, finally open that new board game.

• Out and about: watch the sunset, play HORSE at the local basketball court, go thrifting and pick out outfits for each other.

👉 Write a few ideas down, each on its own slip of paper. Put them in the basket, envelope, or bucket you’re using. Keep this a secret for now.

🚀 Today, you’ll share the bucket list with your partner and choose your first adventure.

Text your partner or leave a handwritten note inviting them to meet you somewhere in the house at a specific time. For example:

• “Meet me by the couch at 7:32 PM sharp tonight for a top-secret mission.”

• “Report to the kitchen table at 6:45 PM. I’ll be waiting with a surprise.”

When you meet, show them the bucket and introduce the premise:

“Here are some of the small things we’ve been meaning to do. Let’s draw two and commit to doing one of them within the next week. You in?”

You can make this a weekly ritual. On the same day every week, you can gather, draw 2 items, and pick 1. Keep adding ideas so the bucket becomes a well of shared surprises you can look forward to together.

👉 Go ahead text or handwrite an invitation to your partner to meet and choose your first adventure.