Found a notebook full of grocery lists and I think it's actually interesting

Everyone in this group seems to only care about finding deep, sad journals or wild fantasy stories. I found a plain black notebook in a box of old books I bought at a yard sale in Tacoma. It's just page after page of weekly grocery lists from 1998 to 2001. But I've been looking through it for a week now, and you can see a whole life. One week there's fancy cheese and wine, the next it's just ramen and peanut butter. You can see when a kid shows up because suddenly there's apple juice and diapers on the list. It's a real story, just told with ground beef and laundry soap. Why does a find have to be some epic tale to be worth sharing? Has anyone else found something simple that told you more than they meant to?

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hunt.jana3d ago

Actually, the wine and apple juice were on the list together for a while! The fancy cheese just slowly disappeared.

the_joseph3d ago

Wait, you can see when a kid shows up? That's wild! The switch from wine to apple juice in someone's shopping cart is such a clear, quiet story. It's way more real than some made up fantasy.