Grocery List

[littlecope]

   For most of my Work Career, I was employed as a Cook...

For years, small printers have been used in kitchens, to generate food orders...

A peculiar condition applies to these printers, when they run low on paper they malfunction, and stop feeding it,

with this result...

I had seen a note-making device using register tape when I was child,

at the Summer Camp my Parents rented for us every year for vacation week...

Not meaning to offend Cavemen, but early on, a Caveman version was made with a bit of two by and some sheet metal...

While this one is very roughly made, it still proved to be very useful for noting groceries, phone #'s and such!

At one point, I decided that I could do better, and came up with this one...

It performs just as well as the first one, and looks a lot better doing it!

Since then, I've made 6 or 7 of these things as Gifts to various people...

I made one last weekend that just emerged from the Finishing Department...

The building of this was blogged in two parts on these pages, the first part,

"A Gift Build for Christmas" and the second part, "The Rest of the Story"  

Again these are an old idea! It's my understanding, that these were popular in High School

Woodworking classes back in the 1930's and 1940's and many Mother's Kitchens were graced with them!

This was my 'interpretation' of the idea...

A simple and fun little build, that proves to be very useful!

(And it requires very little Wood too!)

Thanks for reading along!  

 

 

 

[daveww1]

nice job

[Denny Knappen]

Wonderful idea.  I now put grocery items on the cell phone.

[littlecope]

Thank You Dave and Denny!

Denny: In this day and age of electronic devices, a pencil and paper still work and work quite well!

[spirithorse]

On 11/19/2025 at 4:06 PM, littlecope said:

Thank You Dave and Denny!

Denny: In this day and age of electronic devices, a pencil and paper still work and work quite well!

And the great song-writer "Whispering" Bill Anderson was made fun of when he paired up with two other song-writers and he showed up with pencil and paper. The other two, naturally, had lap-tops. After they had their laughs for a few minutes, Bill just said, "This one never crashes"!

Nice job littlecope!

[Scrappile]

Those are really nice.  I am thinking I will have to steal your idea and make a couple.  They would make great stocking stuffers.

[Hawk]

I remember making one of these for my mother decades ago. Nice job and still very useful even today