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A bucket list for couples that records the day you did each thing
This bucket list for couples is one printed page with 30 lines in six sections, from Adventures to Traditions. Each line has a Done on column for the date you finally did it, and the header has a Look back on day when you sit down and count.
- Lines
- 30, five in each of six sections
- Paper
- US Letter and A4, portrait, one page
- Formats
- Blank and a fillable PDF; the filled-in example is below
- Designs
- Minimal, warm and color
In short
Write down what you want to do together, five things per section, and put a date in Done on the day each one happens. Pick a Look back on day a year out.
The sections keep the list from turning into 30 trips you can’t afford: At Home and Learn Together hold things you can do this month. Ideas for every section are below.
What is on this bucket list template for couples
Six sections
Adventures, Travel, Food and Drink, At Home, Learn Together, Traditions. Each has a hint, such as “A little outside our comfort zone”.
Done on
A date column next to every line, so the list shows what you have already done.
Started on, Look back on
Two dates in the header: the day you wrote the list and the day you review it together.
Photos from our list
Three boxes at the bottom, each marked “Tape a photo here”.
The example: 23 lines written, 5 done in five weeks
Nia and Mateo, in Chicago, start their list on September 6, 2026, and set Look back on for the same day a year later. They fill 23 of the 30 lines and leave seven blank for ideas that come up later.
The first things they cross off are not the big ones. They paint the bedroom green on 9/13 and paddleboard at sunrise on 9/19. Fresh pasta follows on 9/26, Nia’s mom’s jollof rice on 10/4, and a long weekend in Montreal ends on 10/12.
The northern lights and the hot air balloon are still waiting. That is how the sections are meant to work: a few dated lines in the first month keep a list on the fridge instead of in a drawer.
Five Done on dates in the first five weeks; the northern lights are still waiting.
48 bucket list ideas for couples, by section
Eight relationship bucket list ideas for each section of the sheet, headed by the hint printed on it. Mix cheap and expensive in every section, so something on the list is always within reach.
Adventures: a little outside our comfort zone
- Zip line through a forest
- Sleep in a treehouse rental
- Take a beginner rock climbing class
- Go whitewater rafting
- Try a tandem kayak on a lake
- Camp somewhere with no cell signal
- Do a night hike with headlamps
- Sign up for a 5K and train for it together
Travel: places near and far
- See the northern lights
- Take a road trip with only the first night booked
- Visit the town one of you grew up in
- Spend a night in a state park cabin
- Take a train trip instead of flying
- Visit a national park neither of you has seen
- Go somewhere where neither of you speaks the language
- Spend one weekend being tourists in your own city
Food and Drink: tastes, tables and recipes
- Make fresh pasta from scratch
- Learn a family recipe from one of your parents
- Eat your way through a night market
- Pick fruit at a farm and bake with it
- Cook a full meal from a country on your travel list
- Book a tasting menu for an anniversary
- Bake bread until one loaf comes out right
- Host a potluck for friends who have never met
At Home: things to build, make or finally finish
- Paint a room a color you both chose
- Build raised garden beds
- Finish a 1,000-piece puzzle
- Frame and hang the photos still on your phones
- Host Friendsgiving
- Clear out one closet completely
- Build a piece of furniture from a plan
- Grow herbs on a windowsill
Learn Together: skills, classes and books
- Take a salsa or swing class
- Learn to change a tire
- Read the same book, then talk about it
- Learn 100 words of a language you want to travel in
- Take a first aid and CPR class
- Learn to identify five birds near your home
- Take a pottery class
- Teach each other one thing you are good at
Traditions: things we want to repeat every year
- Take a walk on the first snow of the year
- Hold a pumpkin carving night
- Write each other a letter every anniversary
- Take the same photo in the same spot each year
- Cook one big dinner on the first day of summer
- Plant something new each spring
- Take a day trip on your first date’s anniversary
- Sit down on Look back on day and fill the next lines
From a line on the list to a date in the calendar
- Pick one line per month. Take turns choosing, so the list is not one person’s wishes.
- Write the first step. For “Take a salsa class” that is finding a studio, not the whole course.
- Name who books it. A line with no owner stays a line.
- Fill in Done on the same day. Tape the photo in when it’s printed.
A blank line is fine. Nia and Mateo left line 5 empty, and in one of our scenes it gets filled in later. Keep a date bucket list for small outings on the same page: dinners and classes count as much as trips.
Line 5 under Adventures, written in later.
Download the bucket list for couples
Three designs, one page each, free with no email. The fillable PDF has 63 fields: three in the header, 30 lines and 30 dates.
Questions people ask
What are some good bucket list items for couples?
Ones you can put a date on. A bucket list for a couple works when a few big trips sit next to things you can do this month, like painting a room or learning to change a tire. The sheet has six sections so the list stays mixed.
What is the 7 7 7 rule for couples?
It is a rule of thumb about how often to go on dates and trips away, with no study behind it that we know of. A bucket list answers a different question: what to do on those dates.
What is the top 10 bucket list?
There is no shared top 10; a list copied from someone else is the one that stalls. Start with three lines you can finish within a month, the way the example does.
Is a couples bucket list book better than a sheet?
A book holds more pages; a sheet on the fridge gets seen every day. This one fits 30 lines, and when it is full you print a second page.
What goes in Traditions on a bucket list for relationships?
Things you want to repeat every year, as the sheet says. In the example: a first-snow walk, a pumpkin carving night and anniversary letters.
Can we fill it in on a computer?
Yes. The fillable PDF takes typing in all 63 fields; the photo boxes stay for paper.
Other free printable sheets
Save this list to Pinterest
Pin it now and the list is on your board for the year ahead. Thirty lines in six sections, and a Done on column for the day you finally did each one.
When a line needs a date and an owner
Alpacto is our own app, and there a line from the list becomes a task pact for the two of you, with who does it and when it is due. One of you marks it complete, and the other confirms. That confirmed day is your Done on.