Why I love shopping lists
While some in these parts might consider shopping lists “litter”, I think they make quite the statement – if not commentary – on inner state, potentially covering both immediate and longer term wants and needs.
How does that possibly not rise to the level of blog-worthy material?
I happen to have much simpler tastes than, for example:
- prawn cocktail
- cheese and onion
- salt and vinegar
- smokey bacon
- tai sweet chilli
- ready salted
- frazzles
- chipsticks
- hula hoops
- kettle chips
- pom-bears
So my list would be a lot more like this:
- eggs
- cheddar cheese
- salsa
- corn chips
- sausage
- sauerkraut
I mean, I can see why my list might bore the living reproduction out of some.
But that original list? Totally captivating.
In fact, before the anonymous pronouncer that shopping lists are necessarily evil on read.write.as showed up, I was completely fascinated by Sober Thoughts' shopping list.
For starters, I'd never heard of these items:
- tai sweet chilli
- ready salted
- frazzles
- chipsticks
- hula hoops
- pom-bears
So not only do I now know that much incrementally more about Sober Thoughts, but some retailers won't even know who to thank for my searching for and purchasing such items, completely and utterly because I found them on someone else's “litter” – aka shopping list.