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Happy Friday, Friends! Well, we’re more than half way through October. And that means, while not technically true, it feels like we’re more than half way through autumn. Ugh. This is my FAVORITE season and I haven’t done a whole lot to celebrate. We went to the Oregon coast twice in September and were busy with a lot of other things, but we haven’t done much of anything outside the house in October. Why???
So I sat down and did a little research to make a bucket list. We may not get to everything on this bucket list this year just because it’s already so late in the season. But regardless, I wanted to share my fall bucket list with you as well as some of the great articles I got ideas from!
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Fall Date Ideas
First I want to share with you some articles that I found all about fall date ideas. I’ll be honest, some of the ideas are a bit redundant. They’re things Pearson and I have done before and they’re listed on every fall date idea list out there. But when you’re in a rut, sometimes you just need to be reminded of things you already love to do.
- Fall Date Ideas for Married Couples by A Prioritized Marriage
- Fall Date Night Outfit + 10 Fall Date Night Ideas by Living the Sweet Wife
- 30 Romantic Fall Date Ideas by Coming Up Roses
- 10 Fall Dates That Cost Zero: Date Night Ideas That Fit Tight Budgets by Snail Pace Transformations
- 50 Fall Date Ideas by Domestically Blissful
- 25 Fall Date Ideas to make the Most of Fall by Friday We’re in Love
Fall Bucket Lists
Here are some fall bucket lists from around the web. Or more accurately, from around my sphere of the web. These aren’t as redundant as the date ideas. They’re all super fun!
- My October Bucket List by Modwife.co
- Autumn Bucket List 2014 (and What I Wore) by Belle Brita
- Have the Best Autumn EVER With Our Ultimate Fall Bucket List by PopSugar
- Printable Family Holiday Bucket Lists by The Dating Divas
Fall Date Articles On My Own Blog
Here are some blog posts from my own blog. One is a list of date ideas, but the other two have great ideas too!
Fall Date Articles Specific to the Portland Area
I’m never quite sure how many of my readers are local to the Portland area, but I thought I’d share these too since I did use them in my research. They’re great resources for any locals!
- Portland Halloween Events: Parties, Costumes, Contests, Haunted Houses, Pictures by PDX Pipeline
- 50 Fabulous Fall Activities by Red Tricycle Portland
- 35 Ways to Celebrate Fall in the Pacific Northwest by Portland Moms Blog
Crescent
Another great thing to do if you’re in a rut and looking for fun activities in your area is to schedule a date with Date Crescent! They’re a dating concierge service for couples. You just have to sign up for their service and tell them a little about your likes and dislikes and then your availability and budget etc. Then they do all the research for you and come up with a unique date idea in your area! They have different price tiers so you can have them do all the bookings and everything or just have them find something for you. We did a beer festival with them back in June and it was awesome!
Some Other Great Date Night Resources
My Fall Bucket List
Ok on to my bucket list! Most of these I would like to do as a date with Pearson but I didn’t really consult him for all of these so I’m calling it my bucket list instead of our bucket list.
- Take a long drive among the fall foliage.
- Go apple/pumpkin picking.
- Do some baking with those apples and/or pumpkins
. - Do a cider tasting.
- Go to a fall/harvest festival complete with a hay ride. Bonus points for a corn maze.
- Go to a bonfire complete with roasting marshmallows. Unfortunately we can’t really host one because we live in an apartment. One day!
- Go to a football game. Even if it’s just high school.
- Have a picnic and throw football in the park.
- Have a scary movie marathon
- Have a “silly” Halloween movie marathon. We’ll watch Hocus Pocus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Halloweentown and anything else we can find.
- Have a Harry Potter Marathon. I don’t know why the Harry Potter movies (and books) are better in the fall.
- Create a blanket fort in our living room (perhaps to watch any of the marathons listed above)
- Create our Halloween costumes and decorations for trick-or-treating. We will pass out candy to kids in our community at our Church building. I think we’re gonna be pirates!
- Have a coffee shop date.
- Do either a haunted house, escape room (I’ve always wanted to do that but never gotten to), haunted ghost tour, and/or Haunted Pub Tour
So I’m really hoping all this research and creating this list will get my butt in gear and I’ll be excited for fall! I think this weekend we may actually cross several things off this list! Particularly, numbers 2, 3, 5, and 14!
Have you created a fall bucket list? What’s on your list? What do I need to add to mine? Thanks for reading!
I enjoyed this post. I have some things I want to do this fall because of it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love all these fall lists!! I recently made a bucketlist for my two months in London and maybe I’ll do a fall one too now! Thanks for the inspo 🙂 x
Ooh! Enjoy your two months in London!
The good old bucket list! Due to health battles in our family this year we ended up making a list of things we must do before turning 60. It’s a huge list but if we accomplish it all, there’s one hell of a journey ahead of us
That’s awesome! I think “bucket lists” are a great way to make yourself get out there and do things! Good luck!
Yes to #3 ….I actually make Apple dumpling cake and I have one in the over right now….Im gonna share the recipe on my blog soon too! I also have a Harry Potter marathon too……..perfect to watch on an cold fall day
Ooh apple dumpling cake sounds amazing!
You have so many AWESOME ideas to use. I love the silly Halloween movie marathon a lot!!!!
Thank you! That’s one we definitely try to do every year!
Loving this post babe!! Makes me so excited for all the Fall activities this season!! Need to add some of these to make bucket list as well.
Kileen
cute & little
Thank you! Fall really is the best season for activities!
What a great idea. I never thought about a fall bucket list and I don’t know what I would want to do. Now, I have to think about it.
Yes definitely think about it and write out a list!
Great list and compilation of fall date ideas! We’re going out tonight and I can’t wait!
Hope you had fun!
Scary movie marathon is a good one! Need to do with the hubby before Halloween comes around.
Yes! I’m so excited for that one!
Fall dates are always the most fun!!! We are planning to go to a corn field maze in a few weeks! I am so excited
Yes fall dates are definitely the most fun!
What a great round up, I especially love and will be perusing through the fall date ideas articles.
XO, MJ
https://www.lush-fab-glam.com
Thank you!
Love these ideas! Sometime you just wanna feel like a kid again and they are truly more fun in the fall. We also like to go to a place int town that has the best fall colors, trees changing to yellow and red, its a great place for photos. Thanks for the inspiration!
Yes walking or driving around and looking at all the colors is a great thing to do in the fall!
Fall festivals are my favorite! You can cross off a lot of bucket list items all in one spot! Loving all of the fun date night ideas too!
-Jennifer
That’s so true! We need to find a fall festival!
Reading this is just what I needed to bring me out of the summer social distancing slump! I really hope some of these festivities will be options gain this fall!
Great bucket list! We live in Florida so we don’t really get to enjoy the change of seasons, it just gets a tiny bit less hot lol. But we can head up to Georgia and the Carolinas to see some seasonality if we want. My husband is from Jamaica so he’s never seen the leaves change before and it’s definitely on my personal bucket list to help him experience that.
Thanks for sharing 🙂