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50 Items On My Summer Bucket List

Sometimes too much free time can get boring.

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As a college student, my summer is now an extra month and a half long, which did not seem like a lot until it had started. Growing up in a small town, it always felt like there was nothing to do other than go out to dinner or a movie. But when you think about it, there is always something to do. That is why I will accomplish all 50 of these things before summer is over! I wont be able to say I was bored this summer when I go back to school!

  1. Go cliff jumping.
  2. Spend an entire day at the beach alone, sunrise to sunset.
  3. Go a whole day without using your phone or computer.
  4. Go shopping somewhere you’ve never been before.
  5. Get a summer job.
  6. Take your parents out to dinner and pay the check.
  7. Go for a run on a trail you’ve never been on.
  8. Find a new place to get ice cream.
  9. Go to a baseball game.
  10. Read a book.
  11. Write a book.
  12. Go somewhere you have never been for dinner.
  13. Try a new sport.
  14. Go catch up with someone who you haven’t talked to in “forever”.
  15. Enjoy the 4th of July fireworks.
  16. And also make your own legal firework show at home.
  17. Treat yourself to a pamper day- massage, facial, mani, pedi, and anything else you want.
  18. Get crafty- try and make your own candles or new wall art or something.
  19. Make homemade lemonade (it’s better).
  20. Do yoga on the beach.
  21. Make your own slip and slide.
  22. Find a full conch shell.
  23. Make homemade ice cream.
  24. Have a bonfire.
  25. Go camping.
  26. Go on a road trip to somewhere new with your best friend.
  27. Do nothing but watch Netflix for a full day.
  28. Have a real picnic outside.
  29. Recreate cupcake wars with your friends and battle each other.
  30. Actually, go running like you planned to three months ago.
  31. Make a new summer playlist.
  32. Actually wear sunscreen when you go in the sun.
  33. Watch the sunrise on the beach.
  34. Try paddle boarding.
  35. Or try surfing.
  36. Go to a concert.
  37. Bake that recipe on Pinterest you have wanted to try for two years.
  38. Go tubing.
  39. Have a water balloon fight.
  40. Send a message in a bottle.
  41. Go to a carnival.
  42. Make pizza…from scratch.
  43. Go bowling.
  44. Fly a kite.
  45. Play mini golf with a group of your friends, loser pays for everyone’s ice cream.
  46. Make matching friendship bracelets for all of your friends.
  47. Go swimming with the dolphins.
  48. Go to an indoor trampoline place and pretend you’re a kid again.
  49. Go on a nature hike.
  50. Take at least one picture every day and make a scrapbook.
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