50 Things for your Holiday Bucket List

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Do you ever get to the end of the holiday season and realize that you completely forgot to do something that always makes your really feel the holiday spirit?  Holidays get crazy. People come in from out of town, you travel, there are parties and fundraisers and school performances.  All you do is blink and the New Year’s here way too fast.  Since I started these lists in my bullet journal, the  feeling that I am missing something is gone.  If you don’t use a bullet journal, you can read about it here.  I have the opportunity to make time for the little things that make life matter.

This is my list of things I must do this holiday season.

holiday bucket list

I was debating using these little ornaments or maybe using stars and making the page all silver and gold.  I’m going to highlight the items when I’m done with them because of the designs I used for the ornaments. I have these great glittery highlighters, and this is the best season for them.

Everyone has different priorities for the holidays.  For some, the season is religious.  It can be a time for forgiveness.  Many people want to spend time with their family, whether biological or chosen.  Some just like seeing the lights through the long, dark nights.  I like feeling a sense of community.

50 things to do this holiday

Here are fifty options for fun things to do this holiday.  It doesn’t matter if you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, the winter solstice, or if you just enjoy the feeling of the season, there is something to get you in the spirit on this list.  Don’t forget that New Year’s Eve is part of the celebration too!

50 Fun Things for your Holiday Bucket List

  1. Decorate the tree
  2. Put lights up outside
  3. Bake cookies
  4. Go ice skating
  5. Write a letter to someone who can’t be home
  6. Sing at your religious center
  7. Wear a holiday shirt
  8. Go to Light Up Night
  9. Hang stockings
  10. Go to Krampusnacht
  11. Take pictures with Santa
  12. Attend a Yule celebration
  13. Drink hot cocoa
  14. Go out to see the holiday lights
  15. Paint your nails to sparkle
  16. Sit by the fire
  17. Call a relative who you don’t see
  18. Roast chestnuts
  19. Sing carols with friends or family
  20. Watch the Grinch (the real one)
  21. Wear a party hat
  22. Go to a winter resort – go tubing, skiing, snowboarding, etc.
  23. Listen to a live band
  24. Watch Patrick Stewart’s Christmas carol (or your own favorite movie)
  25. Play board games with the family
  26. Wrap presents with bows
  27. Wear slippers
  28. Read the Night Before Christmas
  29. Dress up the dog for the holiday
  30. Try a new cocktail
  31. Do something good for someone else
  32. Unwrap one present early
  33. Kiss under the mistletoe
  34. Mail holiday cards
  35. See the new Nutcracker (or your can’t miss holiday release)
  36. Put out luminaries
  37. Light great smelling candles
  38. Donate your time to a charity
  39. Tell Google to call Santa
  40. Watch the Macy’s Parade
  41. Eat a cookie someone else made
  42. Breakfast with Santa (or the Grinch!)
  43. Make new ornaments
  44. Drink mulled wine
  45. Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Years
  46. Make an appetizer I’ve never made before
  47. Eat a candy cane
  48. Wear a different pair of winter earrings every day for a week
  49. Wear a warm sweater
  50. Drink something bubbly

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