This site's list is original writing from 2026 — but the idea of counting a thousand small joys belongs to two wonderful projects that came long before us. If you love our list, you owe it to yourself to visit both.
1000 Awesome Things is Neil Pasricha's countdown blog: one awesome thing every weekday, from #1000 down to #1, each one a small essay. It won two Webby awards and became the bestselling Book of Awesome. The blog still republishes an awesome thing every day.
Just Little Things is Nancy's Tumblr-era classic: one thousand little things, each hand-set on a soft pastel card. It's the visual language most people recognize from the 2026 TikTok trend — the numbered card, the gentle color, the one-line joy.
Both projects wrapped up years ago, but people never stopped counting. These days the liveliest home of the idea is Reddit — where a single “it's the little things” post can gather a hundred thousand upvotes, and long question threads quietly crowd-write little things lists of their own. We collected the best communities and threads on our little things on Reddit page.
An original, independent set of one thousand new little things, written in 2026 with our own eyes on our own life. We don't copy either list — no line here appears in theirs. Think of the three lists as three people answering the same beautiful question, fifteen years apart: what small things make life worth noticing?