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

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codnotamod · 13/01/2006 09:40

i am vaguely intrigued by these as identified in teh times
"Discarded notes are rubbish to most people, but not for worldwide subscribers to Found, which reprints them. The magazine?s publisher, Davy Rothbart, gets bundles sent to his office in Michigan. Laura Kwerel, a radio producer in Washington, was ?overwhelmed? after reading one issue. ?I realise now,? she says, ?that there is more humanity in a discarded grocery list than in a thousand-page novel.? Some people need to get out more. "
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SoupDragon · 30/01/2006 19:24

B'nanas... yes, because that's so much quicker than writing bananas...

fullmoonfiend · 30/01/2006 19:20

PMSL bear!

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 19:14

re yogs - two birds with one stone, Frubes suck

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 19:13

spreadable butt -please, please, please let Mumsnet towers use this as the title they stick in on Discussions of the Day on the homepage. what a lovely thought - must send an arse card "Congratulations on your spreadable butt!"

ShaysMummy · 30/01/2006 19:00

potato heads are some sort of crappy diet crisps. sil eats them. they are diet coz you only get 7 in a bag-lol

Hazellnut · 30/01/2006 18:58

perhaps the card is for the arse that got her pregnant so she can tell him the 'good' news ???

Mercy · 30/01/2006 18:57

Aaah 'nice ham'!

fullmoonfiend · 30/01/2006 18:52

Got one! My first since started looking! Adsa, green felt tip on big A4 sheet. Different colours further down as she remebers new stuff to put on I guess. Love the details - reckon she has sent dh/dp who doesn't normally do it!

Pots - (potatoes I'm guessing)
melon (yello)
B'nanas
red delish
straws - (assume fruit as all fruit/veg together)
red grapes
peppers
greeny beans
carrots
hummous
Nice ham - not thin crap - (This is what I put for mydh too
chicken tikka bits
salmon or tuna fils
good mince
free r chick - (free range chicken?)
froz peas
back bacon
small cartons (app and or)
flavoured water for James
c and O potatoheads - (?)
tomato ketch organic (up by eggs now)- (love the detail for witless hubby!)
Clever milk (I will cut milkman order) - (love this too!)
pizza bases
garlic bread
tort chips
vanilla ice cream (good quality)
choc chip too (ditto)
meat for freezer
loo roll (cream or white)
Kitch roll
foil
choc bix
sucky yoghurts - (now does she mean those tubes or does she mean yoghurt that 'suck??')
2 bread (hovis invis crust)
spreadable butt - (please let this be butter!)
wine box
paracetamol - (love this train of thought )
wash up liquid (2 for £1)

alexsmum · 30/01/2006 18:10

yeah doesn't sound toom child friendly.but very impressive!
i like waitrose- lovely food and everything but SO expensive.

puff · 30/01/2006 18:02

hmmm - we don't see her now fil is dead. Tbh, it was very stressful visiting with 2 toddlers. Massive sweeping stairs, too wide for stairgates. Loads of doors into grounds often left onlocked (large lake in grounds). Door to indoor pool often left unlocked too.

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 18:00

there's nothing like a new Wiatrose is there? Wide aisles. In house pizzeria. Kilometres of wine shelves. Nice.

alexsmum · 30/01/2006 17:58

must be nice going to stay though if she has a pool

puff · 30/01/2006 17:56

She's hilarious - she does actuallly speak like the Queen!

alexsmum · 30/01/2006 17:52

i'm going to tesco soon-quite looking forward to looking for lists!

alexsmum · 30/01/2006 17:51

next to the swimming pool?
who is your mil? the queen??

SoupDragon · 30/01/2006 17:50

OUrs is clearly a posh Waitrose though Bear. Actually, it's only been open about 16 months so I'm guessing the staff are still keen. There are very rarely any items of rubbish at all left in the trolleys near the store.

puff · 30/01/2006 17:50

alexsmum - you are right, my step MIL bought builders tea and builders bog roll for the workmen. They were allowed to use the kitchen and loo next to the swimming pool.

Kelly1978 · 30/01/2006 17:48

or posh for the one that guests see?
or crap for the kids?

alexsmum · 30/01/2006 17:46

i have a theory about the crap and posh loo roll-posh for the en-suite bathroom, crap for the cloakroom that gets used by the builders?

babyonboard · 30/01/2006 17:22

ooh troupout...
so its you who has the crap nd posh loo roll then..teeehheeeee

cod · 30/01/2006 17:20

Message withdrawn

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 17:19

what's an arsecard and what does one do with it (at the risk of inviting the obvious suggestion), does one buy it like paper "I'll have an A4 pad, and a big sheet of arsecard, please" - or is it a greetings card that one send to one's arse on Arse Day? "Happy Arse Day, Arse, thanks for the great job you've done all year"

I'm interested.

TambaTheTemptress · 30/01/2006 17:06

Nope was in wilkinsons this morning!

I thought it was very ing myself!

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 30/01/2006 17:04

Tamba, you're just pissing around aren't you, some people take this quest very seriously. That list's too good to be f'real

Where sells chickens in sixths - if you were going for 5/6, why not just go the whole way? D'ya think the cat wrote the bit in red? A big fat cat with lovely teeth?

Kelly1978 · 30/01/2006 17:01

I got one

written on the front of brown envelope from the tax credit division of the tax office. In biro, caps..

bread
t-bags
domesties bleach
jam
cat food
tooth paste
king edwards maris piper potatoes
chopped fresh ceyon (?)
thyme
1 lemon
5/6 chicken
foil 4 roasting
white wine
peas
carrots
parmesan cheese
asparagus
stuffing
frozen foods
anti perpirant

in red biro, same handwriting
chips
cat food
tooth paste

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