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Shopping List, or, Why I Love My Husband

DILO – Shopping List, or, Why I Love My Husband Originally uploaded by xsquared. Seen at Flickr: “When my husband and I started dating, I shared an apartment with a friend, and we had a markerboard on the fridge where we kept our grocery lists and other things we needed to remember. One day, I [...]


BBC Shopping List Generator

“Writing a healthy shopping list isn’t easy, and sticking to it when you enter a supermarket full of tempting convenience food is even harder. Use our shopping list generator to change your weekly shopping habits to healthy ones and find out why you should select our suggested alternative products.”


Reimagining the Grocery List

“I keep seeing products designed to help people keep track of food they have and items they need from the grocery store. Eventually, these products all have a business model that involves showing ads or printing coupons from the device. Seems reasonable. The latest one allows users to voice input information to add to the [...]


My grocery list system, a gift to the world

“I’m hugely proud of my grocery list system. I’ve worked on it for many years, evolving it into a highly refined state. It’s time to offer it to the world. Behold The Hines Household Grocery List!” Brian’s list is quite nicely organized; it’s interesting to see other peoples’ systems. My book will include a page [...]


Shopping list is a glimpse of a life

“I found it a couple months ago on the floor of a Target, in the aisle devoted to skin care. Since then, the list — someone’s list, on a white scrap of paper — has resided on my desk, where every few days I pick it up to study again its everyday but mysterious contents. [...]


TO-DO LIST

Not grocery lists, but to-do lists: “Everything from garden-variety daily to-do lists to lifelong goals, pros and cons lists, wish lists, work lists, honeymoon ideas, cliches to avoid, boys/girls you have kissed, vocab lists, shit lists, movies to see, lists of any kind.”


A couple odd grocery lists

This is a weird one and this is an honest one.


Yahoo! Answers: Looking for a generic grocery list

“I am looking for a generic grocery list, can you help? … The first two are meant to be check-off style, the third has categories to fill in yourself.”


Londonist: Scott Allsop, AKA ‘List Man’

Yay! Fellow list collector gets interviewed by Londonist: “Last week, we brought you the tale of The Man Who Collects Shopping Lists. Raynes Park resident Scott Allsop has amassed hundreds of the things. Londonist caught up with him recently to find out…why?”


Weekly Grocery Lists for Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, Summer 1962

In honor of tonight’s Academy Awards, here are some Brokeback Mountain Shopping Lists that we stumbled upon a couple weeks ago: WEEK ONEBeansBaconCoffeeWhiskey WEEK TWOBeansHamCoffeeWhiskey” … More after the link. Hey that’s kind of funny! Relax.


Other people’s shopping lists

“A few months ago, I was grocery shopping downtown and had the opportunity to use a cart that had someone else’s list still in the bottom. I liked that idea, so I walked around the store buying my ground turkey and farfalle pasta and soy milk, not really paying attention to the list, just feeling [...]


Shopping list is key to grocery savings

“One of the easiest ways to save money on groceries is to simply make a thorough shopping list and follow it. I mean really follow it, not throwing in extra items or letting your children throw in extra items. If you resolve to make a good grocery list before every shopping trip, you will save [...]


Grocery list voyeurism

“It’s a common fact that the best way to remain organised is to make lists. From the detailed ‘To do today’ lists, to the totally mundane grocery lists. You know the ones, hastily jotted down on a decorative scrap of stationary ‘must not forget the toilet paper’ lists that are so quickly discarded or forgotten. [...]


AlterNet: The Ten Best Top-Ten Lists

We’re profoundly proud to make AlterNet’s “Ten Best Top-Ten Lists” list. Check it out, we’re #7: “Top 10 lists are a staple of a culture obsessed with ranking things, yet in recent years the ubiquitous best-movie, -book and -music lists have become so baffling it seems as though their only goal is to eclipse the [...]


The little things

We’re pretty light-hearted around here — heck, we collect other peoples’ discarded grocery lists. The most serious we get is when we link to a news story about organic farming or new food label guidelines. Whenever I’m interviewed about this collection, I try to explain how I enjoy seeing small parts of peoples’ lives, how [...]


Time to meet the ana-LIST

Fellow grocery list collector Scott Allsop got a nice little write-up in The Sun newspaper last month: Time to meet the ana-LIST.” Cheers!


“If you had the million dollars, would you still need aspirin?”

There’s some discussion about one of our found lists over at The J-Walk Blog.


Making a shopping list, checking it twice

“Love it or loathe it, Black Friday is upon us.”


Create Your Grocery List | AHA

“We’re making shopping for heart-healthy food products even easier. Now you can check off each food item bearing the heart-check mark by using our new online grocery list builder. Search through all the different products and create your printable list. Don’t forget to bring it to your local grocery store to help you shop smart [...]


LifeHacking Your Grocery List

“The cupboards are full and there’s ‘nothing’ to eat. Has that phrase ever echoed through your kitchen? Do you have stacks of food items that don’t really go together taking up space? Do you throw away food items in your refrigerator because you didn’t get around to making the item you bought it for or [...]






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Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and FoundThis is the world's largest online collection of found grocery lists. In fact, we wrote the book on found grocery lists. Why? Other peoples' grocery lists are fascinating. Plus, the internet is a great place to do  stupid  interesting things. So far 2,000 funny, crazy, weird, sad and/or mundane discarded scraps of paper have been posted. But it's not all useless stuff -- we also link to useful and interesting articles about food, shopping, lists and more, as well as provide a pretty awesome downloadable PDF grocery list for free. Subscribe via RSS ».

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List #2201: If I didn't know any better I'd think this list was made by one of my kids. Specifically, the girl. See more great lists in our collection of Top 10 lists.

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