The List
- Take one photo a day.
- Buy my mom and dad a laptop.
- Teach my mom how to use the internet.
- Create a family website.
- Speak to my grandmother everyday.
- Adopt a senior at a local community.
- Get in touch with old friends.
- Incorporate as an LLC.
- Pay off all debt ($11,000).
- Raise credit rating to 750.
- Donate clothes to charity.
- Join the freegan movement.
- Host an open house and get to know my neighbors.
- Grant a wish.
- Give blood.
- Teach someone to read.
- Start a classics book club.
- Fund a scholarship.
- Learn to touch type.
- Ask a stranger out on a date.
- Set up a friend on a blind date.
- Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
- Eat food I make (no more frozen dinners).
- Renovate my kitchen.
- Host a monthly dinner party.
- Learn about wine.
- Make cheese.
- Cook a 5-course meal for friends.
- Throw a surprise party.
- Leave a very generous tip for food service.
- Loan someone money through Kiva.
- Apply for grants.
- Take the GRE.
- Apply to graduate schools.
- Apply for a card at the Library of Congress.
- Support local artists.
- Take an oil painting class.
- Paint a picture for a friend.
- Teach English.
- Learn Spanish.
- Learn Portuguese.
- Learn French.
- Spend a day reading in a garden.
- Learn to meditate.
- Learn to swing dance.
- Take a ballet class.
- Run a 5K.
- Run a 10K.
- Run a 15 K.
- Run a half-marathon.
- Run a marathon.
- Run the Avon Race for a Cure.
- Do 50 push-ups.
- Walk everyday.
- Walk in the rain.
- Learn to swim.
- Learn to scuba dive.
- Learn to sail.
- Ride a horse.
- Join a team sport.
- Go skiing.
- Learn to sit spin on ice skates.
- Treat a friend to a rock concert.
- Learn to read music.
- Play Mozart’s Magic Flute on a flute.
- Learn to play guitar.
- Learn a magic trick.
- Sing Karaoke.
- Teach my nieces cat’s cradle.
- Volunteer on an archaeological dig.
- Create a time capsule.
- Buy an astrolabe and armillary sphere.
- Start a travel club.
- Rent a convertible and go for a drive with the top down.
- Take a cruise.
- Travel by Amtrak sleeper car.
- Visit Niagra Falls.
- Visit Mount Rushmore.
- Visit the Grand Canyon.
- Visit Dollywood in Tennessee.
- Visit a Ghost Town.
- Gambling in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
- Walk through America’s Stonehenge in North Salem, New Hampshire.
- Photograph the Air Balloon Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Walk along the Great Wall of China.
- Watch the sun rise over the Giza Plateau.
- Climb a step pyramid in the Yucatan.
- Tour Italy — Rome, Florence, Venice.
- Take a trip with my mom.
- Plan a family trip to the beach or to Disney World (FL).
- Skydive.
- Sleep over night on a beach.
- Go camping.
- Let the road lead where it may.
- Buy a plant.
- Plant a tree.
- Build a house with Habitat for Humanity.
- Adopt a family at Christmas.
- Send a kid to summer camp.
- Give someone a star.
