diff --git a/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-commodity.c b/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-commodity.c
index f5dcbfbc1e..b1a50e6a50 100644
--- a/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-commodity.c
+++ b/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-commodity.c
@@ -470,8 +470,8 @@ gnc_ui_update_commodity_picker (GtkWidget *cbwe,
     for (iterator = commodities; iterator; iterator = iterator->next)
     {
         commodity_items =
-            g_list_append(commodity_items,
-                          (gpointer) gnc_commodity_get_printname(iterator->data));
+            g_list_prepend (commodity_items,
+                            (gpointer) gnc_commodity_get_printname(iterator->data));
     }
     g_list_free(commodities);
 
diff --git a/gnucash/gnome/dialog-price-edit-db.c b/gnucash/gnome/dialog-price-edit-db.c
index 341ba840dd..399bd100d7 100644
--- a/gnucash/gnome/dialog-price-edit-db.c
+++ b/gnucash/gnome/dialog-price-edit-db.c
@@ -305,13 +305,13 @@ gnc_prices_dialog_get_commodities (GtkTreeView *view)
         if (gtk_tree_model_get_iter (model, &iter, row->data))
         {
             gtk_tree_model_get (model, &iter, PRICED_COMM, &comm, -1);
-            comm_list = g_list_append (comm_list, comm);
+            comm_list = g_list_prepend (comm_list, comm);
         }
     }
     g_list_foreach (list, (GFunc) gtk_tree_path_free, NULL);
     g_list_free (list);
 
-    return comm_list;
+    return g_list_reverse (comm_list);
 }
 
 static void
diff --git a/libgnucash/engine/qofquery.cpp b/libgnucash/engine/qofquery.cpp
index 5af8560396..8e92136a4f 100644
--- a/libgnucash/engine/qofquery.cpp
+++ b/libgnucash/engine/qofquery.cpp
@@ -982,11 +982,11 @@ GSList * qof_query_get_term_type (QofQuery *q, QofQueryParamList *term_param)
         {
             QofQueryTerm *qt = static_cast<QofQueryTerm*>(_and_->data);
             if (!param_list_cmp (term_param, qt->param_list))
-                results = g_slist_append(results, qt->pdata);
+                results = g_slist_prepend (results, qt->pdata);
         }
     }
 
-    return results;
+    return g_slist_reverse (results);
 }
 
 void qof_query_destroy (QofQuery *q)