Here are 60 bucket list ideas for things to do, see, listen to, eat, drink, & make this autumn (September through November)!
2. Go hiking when the leaves are changing colors.
3. Put a bouquet of sunflowers on your kitchen table or on your porch.
4. Get lost with you friends/love in a corn maze. Even better if you bring a big group & split into teams!
5. Sign up for an autumn 5K or marathon! The Hartford Marathon is a big one near where I live that everyone gets so excited for. These are the 15 best fall marathons in the U.S. but there's definitely one going on near you.
6. Scent your spaces in all things Fall. I need to get some B&BW wallflowers asap; scents like pumpkin caramel latte and pumpkin apple cider are great, but I prefer something a little more subtle like crisp morning air and sweater weather.
7. Dig out your boots and your chunkiest, most cozy sweaters.
8. Mimic spring cleaning with a "fall cleaning" spree. Pack away all the bathing suits, shorts, and flimsy tank tops. It's long sleeve season my friends. Donate or get rid of any summer clothes you didn't wear once (I am guilty as charged).
9. Go dollar store shopping for decorations. Dollar Tree is the best! Grab some orange, red and gold helium balloons, fabric autumn leaves, felt leaf cut-outs, and an autumnal table cloth. All for $1 each! Repeat for Halloween and Thanksgiving decor, of course.
10. Visit Salem, MA if you live in the area. The Salem Witch Trials utterly fascinate me, so I plan to take a trip up there this year, complete with a witch tour!
11. Re-read the Harry Potter series. There is nothing quite like the seasonal chapters in Harry Potter books. They are the definition of my childhood autumns and winters.
12. Tremble your way through a haunted house. Or if you're really daring, a haunted trail! I went to Trail of Terrors last year & stumbled through it with my eyes closed the entire time... so this one might not be for me, hah!
13. Have a basic bitch photoshoot in a pumpkin patch!
14. Celebrate Halloween! Go to or host a Halloween party or just hit up your nearest bar for festivities. Try and win a costume contest! Take some kiddies trick-or-treating. I freakin' love this spooky holiday, there are so many ways to get in the spirit!
15. Wear pink for breast cancer awareness month every day in October! Better yet, sign up for an awareness walk/marathon going on near you, or donate to one of your friends who is participating.
16. Give back! Donate to or volunteer your time to a homeless shelter/kitchen around the Thanksgiving holiday. I've never personally done this, but if there is any year to, it is this year. The world needs more love and generosity now more than ever.
1. Get boozy with apples. Try out one of these 21 apple cider cocktails! They literally all sound amazing, but I'm pretty partial to Apple Cider Sangria.
2. Order a pumpkin spice latter from DD, of course! It may be basic, but it's popular for a reason. So delicious.
3. Grab a bag of freshly baked, warm and delicious apple fritters from your local cider mill!
4. Try something a little new, like this pumpkin spice hot chocolate.
Fall classic + winter staple = deliciousness? We'll see!
5. Food to scour out at The Big E: Maine baked potato, Vermont maple candy and cheese, fried Oreos, giant cream puff, loaded mac&cheese from Zack's Mac Attack in the New Hampshire building, apple cider donuts, and GIANT turkey legs (I'm talking GIANT). I told you it's best to fast before you go!
6. Seasonal smoothie time! Try this healthy apple cinnamon or pumpkin spice smoothie after you annihilate your digestive system with all those fried and fatty foods at your nearest fall fair.
7. Bring a box of apple cinnamon donuts to work for your co-workers.
8. Nothing screams fall quite like warm apple pie topped with melting vanilla ice cream and whipped cream. Yum!
9. Cut sandwiches into leaf shapes with a cookie cutter to get your boring lunch into the autumn spirit.
10. Pumpkin ale! Shipyard is a fav.
11. Make some easy peasy ghost marshmallows for a Halloween party. There are a ton of variations, just Google it!
12. Black charcoal water tastes just like regular water but is perfect for a creepy Halloween beverage!
13. Make guacamole puke out of a pumpkin or mummy dogs! There's a ton more easy Halloween recipes/snack ideas here!
14. Bite into a big 'ol caramel apple. They're a hell of a mess, but damn they're good.
15. Bake these 5-ingredient apple pie roses. Bring them to Thanksgiving dinner. Impress the hell out of your friends and family members.
1. The Altar, the second album by my favorite musician in the whole damn world Banks. It drops September 30th!
2. Seasonal playlists on Spotify. Search for Autumn Leaves, Autumn (Or What It Feels Like To Fall), Your Favorite Coffeehouse, and Autumn Afternoon - or just the word "autumn" and you'll have thousands of mellow playlists at your fingertips!
3. Watch a movie to get you in a cozy autumn mood. My favorites by far are Dan In Real Life, Catch & Release, Where The Wild Things Are, and Garden State.
4. Charlie Brown movies. There are a whole lot of autumnal Charlie Brown movies in the mix, but my absolute favorite will always be The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. This teleports me back to 1999 - sitting on the couch in my little Halloween costume, watching this movie as a little kid pre-game to an epic trick or treating journey.
5. Have a Harry Potter movie marathon. Gives me the same feels as the Charlie Brown movies, but back to those teenage years instead.
6. A true-life crime podcast to put you in a Halloween mood. I suggest Sword & Scale, or the widely popular Serial! Another scary one about all things occult is Here Be Monsters.
7. Spook yourself with a scary movie like The Conjuring 2! (But rest assured, I myself will never watch this).
8. Try out a Halloween themed work-out playlist on your commute or during those cardio intervals!
9. Watch Stranger Things on Netflix! If you live under a rock and haven't binged this yet with the rest of us, this is the perfect spooky show for October! (Season 2 drops in January!)
10. Try to find those original Halloween Disney movies. Don't Look Under The Bed, the Halloweentown series, and Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire are my favorites!
11. Other favorite Halloween movies from years past include: Hocus Pocus (duh!), The Little Vampire, and Nightmare Before Christmas. I haven't watched The Little Vampire since I was a kid but I remember it being TERRIFYING.
12. Catch a real-life ghost show, like Paranormal Adventures, Ghost Hunters, or just Long Island Medium if you're a little bit of a sissy like me ;)
13. Watch the sunrise & watch the sunset. At least once, against that beautiful backdrop of maroon, russet, and golden trees.
14. In case you need some more music, here are 41 songs to fall in love with this fall.
15. Watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, of course!
1. Make leaf art. Gather leaves from the great outdoors and turn them into works of art!
2. Make your very own autumn bucket list!
3. Your ultimate cozy autumn day playlist. I did give you some suggestions above, but try to personalize your own coffee sipping, sweater wearing, candle lighting mix tape!
4. DIY your own autumn candles!
5. Whip up a brown sugar lip scrub. My skin does this nice thing where it turns into a flaky disaster as soon as temperatures drop below 70 degrees. Brown sugar + coconut oil is a great natural concoction for dry lips.
6. Treat yourself to a face mask or hair mask with natural seasonal pumpkin ingredients!
7. DIY a Halloween costume. I have about a million ideas for this (being a self-proclaimed master of DIY Halloween costumes), coming up in a future blog post! Stay tuned!
8. Carve a pumpkin! Or do anything you damn well please with a pumpkin. The options are endless! Here are some no-carving-needed options.
9. Make a spooky Halloween bouquet. Like #1 on this spooky decor list!
10. Give yourself a Halloween nail art manicure. Or just buy some ghoulish nail stickers and tell everyone you DIYed it ;)
11. Make a Thanksgiving list for all the things you're thankful for. Better yet, write a letter to each of your friends and family members of all the things you are grateful for about them. Getting something like this would definitely make me smile-cry. In an effort to honor one of my New Year's resolutions about appreciating my friends & family members more, I may just try this out myself.
12. DIY natural de-froster. Keep it in your car and instantly spray away icy windows during those chilly mornings and those first few frosts of the year. They're right around the corner! Best to be prepared.
13. Make some good old-fashioned turkey hands out of construction paper! You're honestly never too old for this. My college dorm-mates decorated our entire hallway with turkey hands our sophomore year!
14. Join me for DIY Christmas! This Christmas, I'm attempting to make only hand made gifts for my friends and family members. Prep early this fall by pinning the heck out of DIY ideas and gathering supplies.
15. Make your Christmas wish list!
12. Tremble your way through a haunted house. Or if you're really daring, a haunted trail! I went to Trail of Terrors last year & stumbled through it with my eyes closed the entire time... so this one might not be for me, hah!
13. Have a basic bitch photoshoot in a pumpkin patch!
14. Celebrate Halloween! Go to or host a Halloween party or just hit up your nearest bar for festivities. Try and win a costume contest! Take some kiddies trick-or-treating. I freakin' love this spooky holiday, there are so many ways to get in the spirit!
15. Wear pink for breast cancer awareness month every day in October! Better yet, sign up for an awareness walk/marathon going on near you, or donate to one of your friends who is participating.
16. Give back! Donate to or volunteer your time to a homeless shelter/kitchen around the Thanksgiving holiday. I've never personally done this, but if there is any year to, it is this year. The world needs more love and generosity now more than ever.
2. Order a pumpkin spice latter from DD, of course! It may be basic, but it's popular for a reason. So delicious.
3. Grab a bag of freshly baked, warm and delicious apple fritters from your local cider mill!
4. Try something a little new, like this pumpkin spice hot chocolate.
Fall classic + winter staple = deliciousness? We'll see!
5. Food to scour out at The Big E: Maine baked potato, Vermont maple candy and cheese, fried Oreos, giant cream puff, loaded mac&cheese from Zack's Mac Attack in the New Hampshire building, apple cider donuts, and GIANT turkey legs (I'm talking GIANT). I told you it's best to fast before you go!
6. Seasonal smoothie time! Try this healthy apple cinnamon or pumpkin spice smoothie after you annihilate your digestive system with all those fried and fatty foods at your nearest fall fair.
7. Bring a box of apple cinnamon donuts to work for your co-workers.
8. Nothing screams fall quite like warm apple pie topped with melting vanilla ice cream and whipped cream. Yum!
9. Cut sandwiches into leaf shapes with a cookie cutter to get your boring lunch into the autumn spirit.
10. Pumpkin ale! Shipyard is a fav.
11. Make some easy peasy ghost marshmallows for a Halloween party. There are a ton of variations, just Google it!
12. Black charcoal water tastes just like regular water but is perfect for a creepy Halloween beverage!
13. Make guacamole puke out of a pumpkin or mummy dogs! There's a ton more easy Halloween recipes/snack ideas here!
14. Bite into a big 'ol caramel apple. They're a hell of a mess, but damn they're good.
15. Bake these 5-ingredient apple pie roses. Bring them to Thanksgiving dinner. Impress the hell out of your friends and family members.
2. Seasonal playlists on Spotify. Search for Autumn Leaves, Autumn (Or What It Feels Like To Fall), Your Favorite Coffeehouse, and Autumn Afternoon - or just the word "autumn" and you'll have thousands of mellow playlists at your fingertips!
3. Watch a movie to get you in a cozy autumn mood. My favorites by far are Dan In Real Life, Catch & Release, Where The Wild Things Are, and Garden State.
4. Charlie Brown movies. There are a whole lot of autumnal Charlie Brown movies in the mix, but my absolute favorite will always be The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. This teleports me back to 1999 - sitting on the couch in my little Halloween costume, watching this movie as a little kid pre-game to an epic trick or treating journey.
5. Have a Harry Potter movie marathon. Gives me the same feels as the Charlie Brown movies, but back to those teenage years instead.
6. A true-life crime podcast to put you in a Halloween mood. I suggest Sword & Scale, or the widely popular Serial! Another scary one about all things occult is Here Be Monsters.
7. Spook yourself with a scary movie like The Conjuring 2! (But rest assured, I myself will never watch this).
8. Try out a Halloween themed work-out playlist on your commute or during those cardio intervals!
9. Watch Stranger Things on Netflix! If you live under a rock and haven't binged this yet with the rest of us, this is the perfect spooky show for October! (Season 2 drops in January!)
10. Try to find those original Halloween Disney movies. Don't Look Under The Bed, the Halloweentown series, and Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire are my favorites!
11. Other favorite Halloween movies from years past include: Hocus Pocus (duh!), The Little Vampire, and Nightmare Before Christmas. I haven't watched The Little Vampire since I was a kid but I remember it being TERRIFYING.
12. Catch a real-life ghost show, like Paranormal Adventures, Ghost Hunters, or just Long Island Medium if you're a little bit of a sissy like me ;)
13. Watch the sunrise & watch the sunset. At least once, against that beautiful backdrop of maroon, russet, and golden trees.
14. In case you need some more music, here are 41 songs to fall in love with this fall.
15. Watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, of course!
2. Make your very own autumn bucket list!
3. Your ultimate cozy autumn day playlist. I did give you some suggestions above, but try to personalize your own coffee sipping, sweater wearing, candle lighting mix tape!
4. DIY your own autumn candles!
5. Whip up a brown sugar lip scrub. My skin does this nice thing where it turns into a flaky disaster as soon as temperatures drop below 70 degrees. Brown sugar + coconut oil is a great natural concoction for dry lips.
6. Treat yourself to a face mask or hair mask with natural seasonal pumpkin ingredients!
7. DIY a Halloween costume. I have about a million ideas for this (being a self-proclaimed master of DIY Halloween costumes), coming up in a future blog post! Stay tuned!
8. Carve a pumpkin! Or do anything you damn well please with a pumpkin. The options are endless! Here are some no-carving-needed options.
9. Make a spooky Halloween bouquet. Like #1 on this spooky decor list!
10. Give yourself a Halloween nail art manicure. Or just buy some ghoulish nail stickers and tell everyone you DIYed it ;)
11. Make a Thanksgiving list for all the things you're thankful for. Better yet, write a letter to each of your friends and family members of all the things you are grateful for about them. Getting something like this would definitely make me smile-cry. In an effort to honor one of my New Year's resolutions about appreciating my friends & family members more, I may just try this out myself.
12. DIY natural de-froster. Keep it in your car and instantly spray away icy windows during those chilly mornings and those first few frosts of the year. They're right around the corner! Best to be prepared.
13. Make some good old-fashioned turkey hands out of construction paper! You're honestly never too old for this. My college dorm-mates decorated our entire hallway with turkey hands our sophomore year!
14. Join me for DIY Christmas! This Christmas, I'm attempting to make only hand made gifts for my friends and family members. Prep early this fall by pinning the heck out of DIY ideas and gathering supplies.
15. Make your Christmas wish list!
What are some of your must-do bucket listers for fall?
Do you jump on the pumpkin spice bandwagon like the rest of us?
How will you bring some magic to your season?
Do you jump on the pumpkin spice bandwagon like the rest of us?
How will you bring some magic to your season?
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