Bread, milk eggs, meat for stew, steaks, double cream, blue eggs (trendy tinted ones?), cauliflower and/or broccoli, pointed peppers, bottle of Merlot wine, 5-6 pots of heather (lovingly doodled).
Further to my Confessions of a yellow-sticker shopper (two posts back – or click here) – I have become addicted to a wonderful new blog called The Shopping Lists (click to visit if you dare – you may become addicted too!)
The site records scribbled, shopping lists, mostly those left behind in supermarket trolleys.
The Shopping Lists tries to piece together what these people are like via their eating habits and lifestyles. Comments are encouraged offering answers to clues about the shopper’s circumstance. What’s the meal and how many are they cooking for? What age, gender, time of year ? – Is it a party?
I have spent the last few evenings playing detective with every list posted. And before I send in this one – perhaps we can guess that this list is for a posh, romantic dinner at home for two, then a bit of gardening at the weekend. The ‘meat for stew’ has been crossed off – so perhaps at the last minute they have been informed that they will be on their own for the weekend and suddenly changed the menu?
You can also submit your own found shopping list by tweeting to @tshoppinglists or send an email to thelistcollector@gmail.com.
SNIPS & SNAPS 
I have to make a list, Sol, because if I don’t, I’ll get to the supermarket with no idea what I want. That happens often. I hate shopping.
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Why not send in one of your own lists to The Shopping Lists? See if people can guess about you!
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They can’t. I’m just so different. Wait till I go next time.
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What an absolutely fun project. But I can’t remember ever finding a list in a cart. Heck — most of the time I can’t even find mine. There are plenty of times I get to the store and realize the list still is on the dining room table. Sigh.
But this is worth paying attention to. I’m going to start watching more closely for those left-behind lists. I fear that mine wouldn’t have much to reveal — except that I live with a cat with extravagant tastes!
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I think you should sneak on of yours in – no hurry
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That’s lovely handwriting. I dictate my lists into my phone. (I can’t read my own handwriting). Usually I end up changing my mind.
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That’s it – hardly anyone writes anything down by hand these days. Its those throw away things that will make history.
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Now you’ve given me a great reason to write down my shopping lists again. Better spray them with preservative, too, while I’m at it. Enjoy your Sunday. xo
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Beef stroganoff … with planting heather to follow
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Beef stroganoff! You have to let them know: https://theshoppinglists.com/2016/09/24/southampton-old-lady/
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I thought they had an appointment with Heather between 5-6pm to celebrate her birthday…hence to doodle of the cake!
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Yes Could be! – you’ll have to visit The Shopping Lists and tell them. Hope you are keeping well.
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Yes,thanks & hope you are all well too. Maybe I also interpreted it like that because my name is also the botanical one for heather, the plant, and both our birthdays are coming up fairly soon too!
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I write my lists by hand, but what a wonderful idea to try and work out their stories. I think the person concerned changed their mind about about the meat stew and decided to go for steaks. I’m intrigued by the two lots of eggs and ‘heather’ might be ‘leather’.
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Interesting – what do you think the doodle is of and why 5-6?
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The doodle might just be a doodle and 5-6 might be the time that someone is coming to clean the leather suite or look at it with a view to purchase
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I love the endless possibilities…
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Reblogged this on The Shopping Lists – A Collection of Found Shopping Lists.
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This is intriguing!
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Blue eggs for posh boiled eggs at breakfast time? I’v eoften found abandoned lists but never thought to blog about them. 😉
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Guilty as charge. I must do my shopping lists (handwritten) too and use papers I could find even recycling the back of envelopes. hahahaa
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Oh! I always use the back of envelopes
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😉
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