The Shopping List Compendium:
a collection of abandoned shopping and grocery lists


Sunday, October 01, 2006

The eBay Experiment

Huds601, a chap on a forum I can sometimes be found on, has decided on a Christmassy shopping challenge, and I thought people who visited the Compendium would be interested.

From his site:

I plan on buying EVERYTHING I need for christmas on eBay. That includes sticky
tape, wrapping paper, cards, ribbon, and all gifts of any proportion. The idea
is to add things up and see whether or not it is worth trying your luck and
doing your Christmas shopping from your own home on eBay.

Check out his site, and let him know how you came to find him :)

http://theebayexperiment.blogspot.com/

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This site is made possible by the kind people who abandon their shopping list at the end of a trip to the supermarket. I collect those shopping lists. You might refer to these as grocery lists, which strikes me as a bit strange because not all the items on the lists are groceries. Anyhow, I won't worry myself about it if you won't.

For those of you who have asked why I do this, please just be content with the fact that I do. I saw a list lying abandoned in a trolley once, and thought, "I'll have that". So I did.

Each shopping list I find is added to my collection along with comments about each list, which usually consist of me spouting on about the possible personality of the person who wrote it. I'm quite harsh at times, at others I feel a pang of compassion. Sometimes I just don't know what items are. Hopefully it will aid your procrastination.

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