BUCKET LIST OF BAD IDEAS
Welcome to the most questionable collection of ideas you'll ever encounter!
Here, we celebrate the art of terrible decision-making and the thrill of potentially ruining your life (or at least making it really interesting). Browse through our curated list of bad ideas, submit your own, and join the community of fellow troublemakers and chaos agents.
30 quality picks
1. Spend a weekend living in a dumpster to 'find yourself': Who needs personal hygiene, anyway?
2. Try to set a new record for most hours spent binge-watching cat videos: Productivity is overrated.
3. Eat only foods that start with the letter 'Q' for a month: Quinoa might get old fast.
4. Learn how to play the harmonica with your feet: Because music is all about accessibility.
5. Learn a new language by only speaking to strangers on the street: Polite strangers might be hard to find.
6. Eat 3 whole pizzas by yourself every day for a week: Your dietitian will love you.
7. Plan a road trip using only Google Maps' worst route suggestions: Adventure guaranteed.
8. Become a professional clown, but only for funerals: Laughter is the best medicine, right?
9. Plan a surprise birthday party for yourself by inviting all your acquaintances and then pretending to be surprised: The art of acting.
10. Try to break the world record for most piercings / tattoos in one sitting: Ouch.
11. Only wear socks with sandals for 3 months: Fashion trendsetter or fashion disaster?
12. Eat a spoonful of wasabi every hour on the hour, for 24 hours: Your sinuses will thank you (or not).
13. Grow a beard and then shave it into a series of intricate designs: Artistic expression or just plain silly?
14. Set a record for most coffee consumed in 5 hours: Caffeine-high guaranteed.
15. Decide to wear a funny hat to every formal event: Laughter is the best accessory.
16. Plan a surprise party by sending out invitations that say "Don't come!": The art of misdirection.
17. Communicate only through burping for a week: Burpy conversations.
18. Steal a giant pile of dirty laundry: Soiled spoils.
19. Set a record for most consecutive hours spent staring at a blank wall: Wall-gazing champion.
20. For 3 days eat food only out of a bucket: Bucket banquet.
21. Attempt to learn how to sneeze on command: Sneeze control.
22. Wear a pair of shoes that are two sizes too small for a month: Toe torture.
23. Collect and catalog every type of dust particle: Dust enthusiast & specialist.
24. Spend 30 days wearing the same outfit: Fashion stalemate.
25. Learn how to play chess with a pigeon: Fowl play.
26. For 7 days only eat foods that are colored green: Green food fest.
27. Set a record for most hours spent reading books upside down: Gravity-defying reading.
28. Make a sculpture out of used chewing gum: Gum art.
29. Set a record for most hours spent solving a Rubik's Cube blindfolded while being tickled: Ticklish cube.
30. Start a journal that can only be read in the mirror: Mirror writing.
Now, mark your calendars! On January 01, 2026, Alex Gray will be publishing "The Bucket List of Bad Ideas" featuring the most side-splitting, cringe-worthy, and downright disastrous suggestions from our visitors - that's you!
Want to be part of the book? Submit your worst ideas, and you might just see them featured in our quality picks on the site or even in the book itself!
Get creative, get crazy, and get submitting! We can't wait to see what terrible ideas you come up with.