The Origins of the Bucket List

The term has been around for at least 16 years, because that's when the movie came out 2007. President Obama memorably used the term at the 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner. The bucket list was written by a screenwriter named Justin Zacham and it was inspired by his very own what he called list of things to do before I kick the bucket which he later shortened to Justin's bucket list.