As part of my 101 list I wanted to do a 50 lists project. I’d done a list project on my previous blog and I love the combination of structure and freedom the list format provides. So many topics can be covered by a list but the effort of writing them is fairly low. Looking back on some of the lists I’ve written over the years provides an interesting snap shot into my life. I recently completed my 50 lists project. Here they all are in one place:
- My Favourite Ways to Eat Leftovers
- Highlights from our Trip Away
- Foods I Ate Christmas Day
- 100 Things That Made My Year – 2023
- Things I Have No Intention of Ever Doing
- Things I Want to Learn
- Places I’ve Lived
- Multiday Walks That Are On My Radar
- Some More Pet Peeves
- Five Simple Household Items That Make Life Better
- Decisions I Need to Make
- Soups on Regular Rotation
- Some More Things To Do If I Make It Back To Paris
- Return to Running Program
- All My NaBloPoMo Posts
- 100 Things That Made My Year – 2024
- Sports I’ve Done
- Good Things Friday – January 2025
- What I Did On A Mid-Week Day For Myself
- US National Parks (And Historic Parks) We Visited
- Good Things Friday – February 2025
- Good Things Friday – March 2025
- Strengths Of The Australian Democratic System
- Good Things Friday – May 2025
- Neighbourhood A-Z
- Good Things Friday June 2025
- Good Things Friday July 2025
- What We Did This Week On The Central NSW Coast
- Some Things I’ve Been Reading
- Another Peevish List
- Good Things Friday August 2025
- Five Year Travel Wish List
- Places I Need To Declutter And Organise
- Good things Friday, September 2025
- Habits on my Tracking Spreadsheet
- Good Things Friday, October 2025
- Five Podcasts I Listen To
- Five More Things About Me
- Books I Have on Loan From the Library
- Wildflowers we saw while in the Grampians
- Travel MVPs … Or Five pieces I love to pack
- What I ate last week
- Summer Veggies in my Wicking Bed
- 10 Recent Purchases
- Today’s Shopping List
- Good Things Friday – November 2026
- All My NaBloPoMo Posts for 2025
- What I Ate on Christmas Day
- A Few Adventurous Things I Have Done
Obviously I will keep making lists even though this project is done and I will keep posting some of the here. Do you use lists to document your life?
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17 responses to “The 50 Lists”
Good job! You’re really doing that 101 list!
There are lists everywhere in my life. Last night before bed I wrote a list of things I needed to do before I left the house this morning. If it’s not written down, it’s not going to get done! For my blog’s 20th anniversary, I had twenty bloggers write lists on my blog. LOL. I am realizing now that that was a big ask for them!
Lists may be the one thing that helps people keep their handwriting skills.
This is so great. I read the post about all the houses you’ve lived in and I loved it. I wasn’t sure whether to comment there or here, so I popped back over here. I live very close to where I was born. When I was very young, we moved out of state a few times due to my dad being transferred for his job at International Harvester, where he was an accountant/controller. The moves were all only a few hours away from our extended family in Chicago. First chance my dad got to transfer back to the Chicago office, he took it. I was devastated, as a 5 year old – I loved our neighborhood and our family friends felt more like family than friends. Once back in Illinois, I lived in the same house for 8 years. Then we lived in a northern suburbs of Chicago near Wisconsin while I was in high school and college. A few years after I graduated from college, my folks moved out of state for my dad’s job. I lived in a condo that I’d bought by then – very near where I live now. Then we lived in our first house for 9 years and we’ve lived in our current house for almost 18 years.
I think there is a time limit on the comments section, so commenting here makes sense. Interesting that you moved a fair bit during your childhood but have basically stayed put as an adult.
I LOVE lists. Especially when there are very specific things I write down that I know need to be done. Nebulous lists can feel frustrating to me (things that I could do, but am not sure/don’t want to do). But writing down a list of chores to power through and cross them off systematically brings me so much joy!
I love a Someday list, I mean most of the things I’ll probably never get to, or I don’t want to do in a few months time. IT is a good place holder sometimes when something interests me but I don’t have time, aren’t sure whether I want to devote the time.
Scrolling through the titles alone already gives me a snapshot of your life, Melissa!
Food, travel, running, reading, faith, everyday habits, small annoyances (the peevish list!), big joys, it is all there. I like how the Good Things Friday lists keep popping up.
I use lists a lot as well, from shopping to training to my “List of 100 dreams”. It’s so easy to forget good ideas otherwise – and they are nice little time capsules.
I love the time-capsule aspect of the lists you mention. Especially the want to do/need to do variety that shows what was on yuor mind at a given moment.
I love me a good list, but doing 50? Okay, so I’ve probably done more than that in my entire life but still, maybe I need to start this on the blog as a fun exercise on a Monday say.
You should give the that series a go. It is a fairly quick and versatile format.
Hooo boy! So much to catch up on for me! Can’t wait to dig in.
I make lists on a smaller scale (grocery, work things, some reminders for adulting). But other than that, no big lists. Well, my 2026 intentions list is kind of big. Interestingly, when I have a task (register the kids for summer camp), I write it on the calendar instead…
Oh actually I have a”list” of sorts of places I want to visit- it’s a total mess.
I have lots of those types of lists too. Things to see and places to do, but way more than I could possibly ever do and I keep adding to it.
I see a lot of fun lists on this list! I am also a chronic list maker. I could definitely come up with fifty and probably more like 350 over the years since I started my blog. Of course, don’t even get me started on lists I have on my phone and in various other places. I think that two of my favorite things are lists of lists and bags of bags! 🙂
Haha, I have bags of bags too.
Lists are my sanity.
And that is way I shamelessly copied this prompt.
However you are much smarter in declaring all sorts of blogposts as lists. I probably should be a bit easier on myself.
Yes, you can actually make lots of blog topics into lists.
I live for list. This is a great list of lists! 🙂