“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. [...]
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.”
This is a weird one and this is an honest one.
“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.”
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?”
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”
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More after the link. Hey that’s kind of funny! Relax.
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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. [...]
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 [...]
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 I [...]
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!
There’s some discussion about one of our found lists over at The J-Walk Blog.
“Love it or loathe it, Black Friday is upon us.”
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
“49. Make a master grocery list on your computer from a spreadsheet or Word document. Categorize the groceries into sections such as frozen, dairy, and so on. In each category, list the most frequent items that you buy. Organize the grocery list according to the way your favorite grocery store’s aisles are set up.”
New grocerylists.org reader Rose, who works at a Whole Foods in Texas, sent us a photo of the amazing table she made. “Whenever I go grocery shopping, I forget what I need and end up with no food at my apartment, only candles and bubble bath. I have decided to decoupage an ugly little table [...]
“Apparently you’ve all decided that before you grab your wallets and head for the shops, you’re going to consult some blogs — at least that’s what UK shoppers have told one of those interminable surveys.”
“Based on Internet surveys of 2,001 shoppers, the Food Marketing Institute’s annual ‘U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends’ report found: …We make a list. Fifty-four percent of us make a grocery list. Most likely to do this: women and older shoppers.”
This 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 ».
List #2008: Onyuns? $1.99 per pound. Soffed butta? $3.47. Chapp Stixes? $1.29. Having fun with your grocery list? Almost as priceless as avoiding clichéd “priceless” jokes! See more great lists in our collection of Top 10 lists.
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