Submit your own Shelf Life finds and be in with a chance to win our quarterly prize!

We're looking for unintentional misadventures in translation. Our categories for the book were Low Life (insults), High Life (drug culture, illegal highs), Sex Life (from flirting onwards), Bodily Life (all things scatological, body parts etc) and Oddballs (misfits we couldn't resist). We like names that are particularly inappropriate for their products (ie Rasch is a detergent - feel the itch...).

Quarterly we will choose the best submissions to hang in our online gallery. 3 particularly eagle-eyed senders will receive a crisp copy of the Shelf Life book.

This is what to email to: lookwhatifound@shelflife.co.uk

  • A digital image of your packet
    (Image size must be no larger than 400K)
  • Your name
  • Country of origin of packet
  • Any stories/comments about the packet
    (no more than 120 characters)
    For example: Rosie was arrested in Dubai for dubious shopping - scanning the shelves, muttering to herself - when she found Tricks; every teabag in the Hardon box has a handsome Hardon tag. A laugh a cup.
  • State whether or not you'd be willing to lend us the packet itself to photograph, in the event that we decide to publish a second volume.



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