This is a fun, fresh blog that I follow. Maybe we can find world-wide shopping lists for Paul to share.
Do visit his blog, it’s interesting to see what he finds, and what he interprets about the people who wrote the lists.
Paul would love to receive lists from around the globe, so if you feel like being part of that, here is his email address:
“Hi, Please send any lists to addresstogiveaway@gmail.com saying where and when you found the lists and I will post them on the blog. Many thanks!“
The international debut for http://www.theshoppinglists.com
This list was VERY kindly supplied by Yvonne, she says:
“I found this list in the Coles Supermarket, Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia on 22 September. Looks like some hearty pea and ham soup is going to be on the menu!”
Cheese, cream, apples, veg’s, dinner, ham hock, split peas.
Thanks Yvonne, if you find any more lists, please keep them coming!
Hello World 
Used to use “Alilaguna”, but tend now to find ‘bus from Marco Polo and then vap to nearest stop (very near) on Grand Canal the easiest. Only a short case-trundle then. Glad “they” have upgraded the Airport end for boats – it was a long downhill to a quite chilly stop at the waterside, wasn’t it?
Now: does that mean we are a large part of the horde – or than we are a benevolent portion of the horde??
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Oh, the latter, of course!
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Really missing your Venice Pictures … so much that we’ll be there ourselves in a week or two!
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Have a good time, try to avoid the never-ending tourist crush.
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That’s most of the reason why we never go in “the Season” – happier with wellies than a sun-block, too. We do try our best to avoid the hordes … but I suppose we’re (gulp) part of them! Oh dear…..
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“The Season” seems endless in Venice now. 😦 You’re a good part of the horde.
Do you come into Venice via water (or bus to Piazzale Roma)? The upgrade at the docking area of the airport has been finished, very posh it looks!
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I am a bit worried. Have you stopped blogging or what?
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I just have nothing much to say these days, John. I’ve got a trip to Naples in 2017, that will no doubt inspire me again. Thanks for noticing, by the way!
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Reply coming via email
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How are you doing?
Hope all is well!
(((HUGS))) and can you believe it’s almost November?!?! 🙂
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The year is just oozing away, isn’t it? I’m well, thanks. And you?
Hugs to you. 🙂
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I agree absolutely. They were not sure whether to serve it for dinner or not!
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Such a clever, clever idea. So glad I popped in and saw it. Thanks, Yvonne.
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I love that blog! It was a stroke of genius, thinking of posting such a simple thing as shopping lists. Why didn’t we think of it first?
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What a fun creative cool idea!
Ham and split peas…yum!
Stopping by with some (((HUGS))) 🙂
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Well, I’ll swap those hugs for some hearty soup! ❤
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Tis the beginning of soup weather here. But, I enjoy soup all year round. 🙂
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What a great idea
the foods from across
The world
What other common denominator
Is there but food
Great post
Excellent find
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I look forward, like a voyeur, to see what people are buying, Sheldon.
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Ahem…that would be a voyeuse. 🙂 (My old French-teacher self couldn’t resist.)
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🙂
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This is an original idea that can allow to perceive various aspects of civilization and especially the diets in the world through the shopping lists. if I found such a list I may send it to the the author of this site .
Love ❤
Michel
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Oh, I hope you find one, Michel. Or, you can send one of yours, he would appreciate it, and we’d enjoy reading it. ❤
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That was very distracting… I went to the website. How can I possibly be interested in whether a stranger wants spagbol sauce or pink biscuits? Humans are funny.
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I know what you mean, I find it addictive!
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How fun is that? Perhaps i could send him a list of mine where I can no longer understand what it is I wrote in the first place!
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Yes, he has a link on his site so you can send your list. Please do it, he’s got such an original blog!
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I have bookmarked the page for just the right list to send. 🙂
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I now have a dedicated email address for shopping list submissions to Theshoppinglists.com TheListCollector@gmail.com Please feel free to use it to send me shopping lists. If you can note where and when the list was used/found it would be much appreciated. Many thanks!
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I hope lots of people become list spotters for you. Did you see calmgrove’s suggestion that this be labelled ‘listomania’?
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I christen this obsession listomania! (Not to be confused with Lisztomania, the 19C adulation of Franz Liszt and a curious 60s film if the same name!)
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Hah! I think Paul will like that.
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What a great find. Thanks for the list and the link.
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It’s a most original idea for a blog, I think.
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My ex-husband used to add things to my lists, intending to amuse me. One of the most memorable additions was, “bolts for neck” (referring to Dr. Frankenstein’s monster whose head was attached with bolts, in case you grew up in a vacuum). I still miss that man ~sigh~
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It would have been a little surprise each time you went shopping, Judy.
So, do you have a current list to share with Paul?
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Hi, Please send any lists to addresstogiveaway@gmail.com saying where and when you found the lists and I will post them on the blog. Many thanks!
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Let’s see where the lists come from.
And, don’t be shy, send photos of those shopping lists.
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Great fun, Yvonne! I went to check out the site. It certainly appeals to our universal nosiness and wonderment about other people’s private lives…..
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Hah! I think you just analysed why I like his posts so much!
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Such neat handwriting. Now we should guess the writer’s age.Love the question mark on the list- some random shopping about to occur for dinner.
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OK, what age do you think the shopper was?
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My guess is around 55-60.
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I happen to know the list writer, Francesca, and she’ll never see her 70s again. 🙂
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wow, such wonderful handwriting- neat, just like my mother’s.
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I think the shopper is a woman, and more than seventy years old, though not aged enough to have shaky hands. The handwriting tells me this…it is a lovely cursive penmanship based on one of the Renaissance Italian Writing Masters, such as Palatino, that was carefully taught to children in the first half of the twentieth century when school desks still had inkwells and the ballpoint pen hadn’t yet been invented..The ham hock and split peas will take long, slow cooking, so they are not for this evening’s dinner, but a future occasion. That’s why tonight’s dinner has a question mark….she is going to see what she is inspired to have once she’s in the store….something quick and simple to fix. Otherwise she is buying classic household staples—no so-called health food, and no junk food….another clue to her age. How’s that, Yvonne?
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Spot on, and she had to have something quick and easy for dinner before she went to line dancing! 🙂
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A great list. I love finding shopping lists and always study them closely. Keep them coming.
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I’ll ask Paul if I can post his email address, then you can send him images of shopping lists, with or without comments. He has a most original blog, who would have thought the lowly shopping lists could be so interesting!
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Thanks for this Yvonne – I have a list to send in!
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I’ll ask Paul’s permission to give his email on my blog, so folks can send their lists! This is going to be fun.
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Ok – – or maybe I can link it from my blog – but truly fun!
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Maybe Paul has started a global craze here!
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ha! maybe…..
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I meant link the photo – hmmm
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Oh, OK. That’s a good idea.
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Be. BAck this weekend
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