do you ever find left over notes in shopping torlleys or elsewhere? i

Found one today.

Written on small square of white paper, in spidery almost illegible handwriting.

lemons
fruit and fibre
packet soup knorr
beetroot
glace cherries
cocoa
stamps
what looks like "men" crossed out...
biscuits, choc ginger
jelly babies

And on the other side of the paper:
salad cream
beetroot
coffee
crisps
coffee (again)
UHU
birthday cards

the Ashmolean does a good line in Party Bag Booty toooo don't you know! (no shrunken heads though... They're wierd) (No witches in bottles either )

Bob - i know someone in publishing; my dads (now ex apparently, but still good friends) girlfriend. shes very important in the literary world, dont you know, and i jst told her about mumsnet the other day. can you believe she hadnt heard of it??
well, yes. i hadnt either till fairly recently. Anyway, maybe she can work out soem kind of deal for you all...
ps - PMSL at bear's planted list...

OldieMum - I'm ashamed to admit I've never been to the Pitt Rivers. However, I think she was leaving the whole party bag contents buying thing a bit late - need to start collecting bits a bit earlier than when you make the birthday cake, IME.

and we should too..these shopping lists (and our critical commentary on them)are literary gold.
any mumsnetters or their dps work in publishing?

JackieNo - My heart misssed a beat when I saw you found your list at Waitrose in Abingdon. Luckily, I mostly do my shopping there over the Net. Maybe I should go there this week and leave a list for you to find....

When I saw the reference to the Pitt Rivers, I first thought "Shrunken heads for party bags?" And then I remembered their little shop. But HOW pretentious.

oooh, for some reason this thread reminded me of what my friend did to her dad,
his bike was stolen from outside a shop which he got real stressed about and even wrote to crimestroppers..lol.
she phoned/emailed/wrote to everyone she knew asking them to buy a local postcard with a picture of a bike on it and post it to him with just the words on the back 'Is This Your bike?'
they got friends of friends doing it and he recieved over 300, some from places like cuba and georgia that they don't know anyone from.
he got an exhibition in wiltshire..including ours sent from london of a penny farthing crossing tower bridge in sepia..lol..he should make a book!

Ooooh a challenge!

could be anywhere - I have my contacts
be on the lookout ladies

Will you be dropping the list locally or picking a random venue anywhere in GB????

mmm I love cold turkey - that's what I'm putting on my cryptic lists to flush out M'netters:

Cold turkey
Nice Ham
Cod
Arse card
TURN RIGHT, SECOND LEFT, THEN STRAIGHT ON
Cubes
Tomorrow's dinner (should really be tea)
Saturday
Lube
Ketchips
Spreadable Butt
That wine we like, not the shite stuff

and it'll be on the back of my JLP Gold Card statement (with all details there for any identity tea-leaf to help themselves to)

Bearpoints for the finder

Bear's too hooked to kick the habit I'm sure he couldn't go cold turkey!

Bob - Fab list... looked horribly like one from an ex of mine though (Alcies have noooooo shame) Just what he'd have done... wanted an extension on his tab to wrangle more booze into the house

Can you get Sunday's from shops now?? I think i'll have three in a row to catch up on reading the papers and gardening.. I could wash the car a few times too don't you think

and they'll need that andrex if they're buying pepperamis!

oh - this was apparantly found in a costcutter near beckenham at midday.

it is a bit too good though? i do know dp has entertained his workmates with updates from this thread so hope he's not winding me up..hehhee

but so hope it's real..
if so, love how she bases what to get on if they can pay later.imagine the train of thought ''i don't even have the money for wine or it would be on my list, but maybe if i can pay tomorrow i can have some!''

eeewwww-what a scuzzy list! you can just imagine them now can't you?
and that beer will just be for drinking while they hang out outside the tube station!
or to drink while watching themselves on the jeremy kyle show!

he's back, with the list i was waiting to see!....and i hope him and his workmates haven't forged it to fool us ..lol..but here goes..

5 gas
4 leccy

j, ask if we can pay tomorrow and buy more wine

£1.09 nescafe
milk
5 apples
cheap andrex
pepperamis
10 fosters for £5.99
orange rizlas

stleger, that sounds like a bit of a Jeckyll and Hyde list (hence hair remover?). Note use of toilet paper then loo paper, maybe I could use that...

yeah and I got 5 so ya boo sucks
PS I'm not American

Ok, so I made that up about the CIA, truth is I am suffering severe list envy as I haven't found a single one yet. Looks like my thesis "Class, community and the name people use for toilet paper on their shoppimg lists" is going nowhere

nice one- starts off quite house proud- ironing water-posh- then goes downhill with the terrible spelling!

I am so excited I have found one! Super Valu in Cork - neither super nor good value, but there you go.
-Fabric Conditioner
-Iron Water (Spatone or nice smell)
-Dishwater Tablets
-Washing Up Liquid
-Dishwasher Rinse Aid (So not the 4 in 1 tablets)
-Roberts Coffee Bags
-Bewleys Java Strong
-Toilet Paper
-AA Batteries
All in nice writing but too many capitals, then in messier writing
VEET HAIR REMOVER (full moon soon)
Salad Creme (Not cream)
loo paper (more)
Vingete
Peas/Beans
Cerial
On A4 paper, but with a free extra sheet still joined on.

beeeaarr??? just one more list? you know you want to, you know how good it is??

stop it stop it stop it
I'm trying to quit
[hands over ears] not listening not listening la la la