10 Things You Need To Do AT LEAST Once In Your Life

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Sometimes the whole bucket list boils down to one move: pick up somebody else’s check.

TheThings Celebrity, the lifestyle offshoot of the Valnet video network that also runs TheTalko and TheThings, put out “10 Things You Need To Do AT LEAST Once In Your Life” in February 2017 as a straightforward pitch: stop waiting for the “right time” and just go do the stuff that actually sticks with you. The video runs through ten experiences meant to reset your perspective, but four of them do the heaviest lifting — paying for a stranger’s meal, adopting a rescue pet, taking the dream vacation you keep postponing, and getting a passport stamp somewhere unfamiliar.

  • The video singles out paying for a stranger’s meal at a restaurant as an easy, low-cost entry point into the random-acts-of-kindness trend.
  • Adopting a rescue pet from an animal shelter is framed as both a life experience and a way to give an animal a second shot.
  • Traveling internationally and booking the actual dream vacation are listed separately as two distinct must-do items, not the same box checked twice.

The Random Act That Costs You a Few Dollars and Changes Someone’s Day

The video leans hardest on this one because it’s the cheapest experience on the entire list. Covering a stranger’s bill at a diner or a drive-through doesn’t require a plane ticket or a vacation fund — just the willingness to do it. The pitch is that random acts of kindness have become their own small movement, and picking up a check is the version anyone can pull off on a random Tuesday.

Selflessly paying for a stranger’s meal should be on everyone’s bucket list.

That’s the whole argument in one line — no elaborate gesture, no camera crew required, just a stranger who walks out of a restaurant a little lighter than they walked in. The video treats it as proof that generosity doesn’t need a budget, which is part of why it opens the list instead of burying it at number ten.

Rescue Pets Get Their Own Spot on the List

Adopting from a shelter isn’t framed as a substitute for buying a purebred puppy — it’s presented as its own distinct life experience, on par with international travel. The logic is simple: a shelter animal needs a home, and the person who adopts one gets a companion out of the deal too. It’s the kind of item that shows up on plenty of “things to do” lists, but TheThings Celebrity treats it as non-negotiable rather than optional.

The Dream Vacation vs. The Passport Stamp

The video is careful to separate these into two different entries rather than one generic “travel more” bullet point. The dream vacation is about finally booking the specific trip you’ve been talking about for years — the one with a real destination attached to it. International travel is treated as its own category, valued for exposing you to a culture and a language you don’t already know, whether that’s backpacking through a new country or just landing somewhere you’ve never been before.

Both entries push the same underlying point: perspective doesn’t come from staying local. Whether it’s a resort you’ve been eyeing or a country you picked at random off a map, the video’s stance is that the specific destination matters less than the act of actually going.

For a channel built on quick-hit lifestyle content, “10 Things You Need To Do AT LEAST Once In Your Life” fits the same lane as other short, list-driven uploads from the Valnet network — the kind of video people watch once, nod along to, and then actually go book the flight or fill out the shelter adoption form for.

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