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Bucket List Ideas for Generation X Only

An upside down blue bucket and a red shovel on the sand

Are you Generation X? Middle-aged, a little cynical, realistic, low in expectation, and a bit of a procrastinator?

We are at the stage in our lives when, if we are ever going to write a bucket list, it’s now or never. But are we even a “bucket list” type of generation?

I’m being a little cynical. Of course, we should have a bucket list! And that’s why I’ve generated this short list of ideas designed just for Gen X.

It’s just a brainstorming exercise, think of it as a jumping-off point. Just a few ideas to juice up your brain and get your own list going.

In fact, you should probably not actually do any of these. Well, maybe a couple of them. But at your own risk.

Anyway, here are some ideas:

Embrace your cynical side

  • Steal candy from a baby
  • Talk about Fight Club
  • Popularize a conspiracy theory
  • Write in a vote for President

Be the slacker you were born to be

  • Vow to visit a place you’ve already been, immediately check off item from list
  • Run for office unopposed, lose anyway
  • Build a bomb from a potato, a stick of gum, a bottle cap, and a length of copper wire
  • Have AI write your bucket list

Relive pop culture moments of your youth

  • Get someone’s attention by blasting a boombox overhead
  • Win a martial arts and/or arm wrestling tournament
  • Sing atop a parade float
  • Hide an alien from the Feds
  • Find a pirate’s booty
  • Race a train
  • Feed a creature after midnight

Just be stereotypical Gen X

  • Watch The Bucket List movie because it’s lame when you do something from a movie you haven’t seen
  • Attend a party at which literally no one will remember you having been there
  • Handcuff yourself to something no one cares about
  • Attend a drive-in movie, park backward, and watch the concession stand the whole time

Perhaps this list is a bit too cynical. Perhaps it is too cartoonishly exploiting Gen X tropes when in reality, serious people are looking for real bucket list ideas.

You’re right. I vow to improve. It’s going on my list.

If you have actually done any of the things presented here as bucket list ideas, please leave a note in the comments, confirming or denying the validity of said idea as a bucket list goal.


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