A book WOULD be great. And perhaps I can sort them by the stores in which I found them. I imagine a list for Whole Foods would differ very much from one for Wal Mart. Of course then I could comment on the type of paper used, the shape its in, and where I found it.

Then, there’s the handwriting and the spelling. There were a few on the site you referenced that surely reminded me of some students with dyslexia I have taught in the past.

Oh yes, and as you mentioned — how the items are categorized — and if the method is discernible.

Uh oh — I am starting to scare myself. I see in my mind’s eye, a database — just something simple in FMP. I would build the value lists as I went — stop, Linda. STOP IT!

OK — tomorrow, the quest begins!

I have artifacts everywhere. I loosely follow the Warhol example. Ever visit the museum in Pittsburgh?

It’s what makes the work I do so exciting… discovery!

I think you should collect them, scan them, and make make a book, with commentary. It would be wonderful.

Also, on another note: After taking some classes in qualitative research, I began to look at things differently. Well, it’s not that I didn’t look at things like this before, but now, after delving into all kinds of qualitative studies, I now knew that I was not crazy to think, for example, (I feel a run-on sentence coming on) while in the grocery, that it would be pretty cool to (surreptitiously perhaps?) collect the lists left behind by other shoppers (in carts, on shelves, on the aisle floors…) and take them home — and well — study them.
And perhaps make a collage.