BOODSCHAPPENLIJSTJES!
OK, I know I need to get back into a groove posting things here. So. This is a start: Check out these collections of shopping lists from the Netherlands!
Collecting & listmaking
Famous lost words: Finding art (and joy) in scraps of memory
Here’s a fun article by Mackenzie Dawson in today’s New York Post:
Book inscriptions, grocery lists, Post-it notes — one man’s trash is truly another man’s treasure.
Particularly if that man’s trash is really weird.
For example, a dated photo that features an older woman standing proudly next to a Christmas tree – which is topped with an [...]
And ye shall know us by the lists we make
“A crop of Web sites allows people to create and share lists on everything from a baby’s nap schedule to an action-figure collection. Following are five sites that aim to help people get organized.” This article also mentions a couple list-related books that are in the works, including mine!
TO-DO LIST book deadline approaching
Now that I’m pretty much done with my grocery lists book, maybe y’all can help out the cool folks at TO-DO LIST. They’re also putting a book together and the deadline for submissions is September 15. Head on over and send yours in!
listography: your life in lists
“The place to share creative lists of every kind: wishlists, top tens, autobiographical, photo lists, favorites, to-do lists, and more!”
Museum of Beverage Containers & Advertising
“The Museum of Beverage Containers and Advertising had its grand opening on Friday, April 3, 1987 in Millersville, Tennessee. Many hours were spent prior to the opening of the Museum in putting together the world’s largest collection of soda and beer cans along with an abundance of other memorabilia and advertising.” (Thanks Coudal!)
Getting lost in ‘FOUND’ magazine
“Laura Kwerel, a radio producer who works in a suburban Washington coffee shop, fell hard for FOUND when she read the third issue of the magazine — a hodgepodge of love-themed finds. The accumulated weight of the voices made her cry. ‘I was overwhelmed … ,’ Ms. Kwerel e-mailed Rothbart last year. ‘I realize now [...]
How do I love lists? Let me list the ways
“My addiction to list-making began in college. When heading home for the weekend, I’d create an itinerary of what I wanted to do, from visiting family to dancing with friends. Over the years the addiction grew. I’m almost embarrassed to admit how much I relish the opportunity to make a list.”
Admirable Collections
“Admirable Collections around the ‘net“
Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I
“Since new folks visit 43F each day, I thought it might be valuable to return to one of our most popular evergreen topics to review some ‘best practices’ for keeping a good to-do list.”
Here are the reasons why we hate having the to-do list
“Throughout time, we have wondered who invented the wheel. We have glorified Edison for inventing the light bulb, Bell for the phone and Salk for the polio vaccine. But who invented the ‘to-do’ list? My hunch is the man who invented it was killed by, well, just about anybody. It was just one of [...]
Collecting is autobiographical
“It all began with a Roman coin minted in 49 B.C. and depicting two clasped hands. Brian Burke, then a teacher of Latin and English at Germantown Academy in Philadelphia, bought the coin in 1974 as a teaching aid. ‘As a teacher, I was always trying to make the abstract concrete,’ he says. A year [...]
Why do people collect things?
“Most people collect and display something in their lives. It might be a collection of family snaps stuck into an album, or holiday souvenirs arranged on a mantlepiece, assembled and displayed without any thought of being a ‘collector’. Other people form collections for a specific purpose: Old Masters for investment, or memories ‘collected’ on tape [...]
The Museum of Food Anomalies
What happens when your cereal looks like or Munch painting, or your funnel cake looks like a seahorse? It ends up here: “Welcome to the first exhibition of the Museum’s collection. We’ve selected a handful of defining works from the archives to supply a proper introduction to the Art of Food Anomalies without overwhelming one’s [...]
Milk Bottle Of The Week
“Here’s where you will find some of the world’s most bizarre, beautiful and sexy milk bottles. What’s more they’re delivered fresh to your desktop every week.”
World’s Largest Shopping List Collection
Hey, that’s a lot of lists! Kicks my butt… “Jansen has collected shopping lists for a number of years. He currently has over 3,000 different shopping lists. After collecting a large amount, he contemplated what could be done with them, and on January 10th, 1999, Jansen started emailing a shopping list randomly selected from [...]
The stuff of lives
“The ninth collectors show, ‘Tons More Things People Collect,’ opens today at the first-floor exhibit space on the south end of Crown Center. Among the samples of 112 collections you can find mousetraps, TV show lunchboxes, TV Guide covers, marble jewelry, vases from vintage cars and Mr. Clean stuff, brought in by a guy whose [...]
I am also dull!
From the Dull Men’s Club: “Find out what Dull Men collect… Thanks to a reader’s letter, we searched the web for collections of grocery shopping lists left in shopping carts.”
The Shopping List Compendium
Cool, another list collection! “This site has been inspired by the kind people who abandon their shopping lists at the end of a shopping trip. I collect them. Not the people, the lists. Each list I find is scanned, and analysed to present a socio-psychological profile of the person who abandoned the list. The result [...]
A List Of 30 Things We Love
“Our urge to compile lists probably starts at age 40-something. If you are thoroughly convinced you routinely kept lists in your 20s or 30s — it didn’t happen. But the value of a list is no longer underrated. It’s our shorthand for long-term thinking. A list focuses us, sets priorities, gets things done: the grocery [...]
