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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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fullmoonfiend · 09/11/2007 19:59

oh I remember ROFL in twatrose or wherever it was when we found the list with Spreadable Butt on it

MrsBadger · 09/11/2007 14:39

love 'conditioner - washing machine'
so she doesn't forget and think it means Pantene...

ThisIsSabrinaPleaseDoNotScare · 09/11/2007 14:16

ooooooh! might this thread get resurected then?

TheBlonde · 06/08/2007 14:38

I have been looking for a list since this thread began... finally found one... and it is disappointing dull but I will post it anyway

on A4 lined paper torn from a spiral bound notepad headed Lambert Smith Hampton and written against the lines

potatoes
carrots
broccoli
sugar snap peas
peppers
1 x lemon (crossed out)
strawberries
brown bread
chicken (crossed out)
salmon
breaded hake
tinned tomato soup
sausage rolls
cheddar cheese
conditioner - washing machine
(comfort pure)
sprite/ 7up cans
2 x pizzas (crossed out)
sponge
toothbrush
handwash
toilet roll
jay cloths

Surfermum · 08/09/2006 20:12

Cod, please can I have an award for dedication to the thread? I nabbed a list while at Super U in France!

Moutarde
3 Bi fo
Pains 2 deg
2 Pamp rose

Toothyboy · 16/08/2006 13:11

I know it's an old thread - but I've finally found a list!

It was at Tesco Extra at Sunbury Cross yesterday - definitely belonged to a mum as the straps on the baby seat were still damp and there was the end of a chewed up piece of french stick discarded at the bottom of the trolley!

It's on A5 lined notepaper (ringbound at the top), written in black biro in typical young woman's handwriting, slanted to the right and slightly joined up. It reads as follows:

Whole Milk
Julz lunches?
Cheese Block. Grated
Pasta Pack
Colesl (scribbled out)
Onion
Egg
Scones
banana's
Bread
Dad lunch treat
Tea 4 Thurs
Yoghurts
Wipes
Spring Onion
Mushrooms
Bacon

hulababy · 28/07/2006 15:36

For the first time ever since first seeing this thread I found a list! Yeah Not very exciting though. Found in basket in local Co-op shop, written with joined up writing (looks like a woman in her 40/50s (I reckon anyway) on a piece of yellow paper - as if from one of those shopping list booklets.

mushrooms
peppers
bananas
plums
cherry toms
carrots
form from post office
Beano/Dany
Radio Times

BettySpaghetti · 04/05/2006 12:03

Hey -its working!! Grin

BettySpaghetti · 04/05/2006 12:03

Have I really broken it then??? Sad

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JJMumsnet · 04/05/2006 11:08

just a test - no shopping list to report, sadly.

BettySpaghetti · 27/04/2006 21:07

hence the need for wipes and body puff no doubt!

morningpaper · 27/04/2006 21:05

I think it's the closeness of tights, parmesan and cabbage

yuck

BettySpaghetti · 27/04/2006 20:56

Promised DD I would post this list as she found it for me last week (I think she got fed up of being dragged around supermarket trolley parks looking for lists when this thread was in its heyday !)

wipes
tights
body puff
parmesan
cabbage
butter
milk
ginger ale
drinks
guiness

(is it just me or is there something a bit eeewww about this list?? Think its the first bit makes me think "personal hygiene problem alert" Grin)

morningpaper · 27/04/2006 16:03

FOUND ONE! Can't believe my luck!

Winnie-the-Pooh post-it note (I've lost all respect for this person already):

marmite
Th. yoghurts
Rolls?
Toilet roll
library
wipes
choc bars
pink drink
3 yrs Joe

SoupDragon · 27/04/2006 09:16

Mentioned this on the other thread

Loo Rolls
Bread
Carrotts
Dishwas Salt
Building Control?
Tissues
Juice
Yogs
Onions
Bananas
Mush
Apples
Vitamin
s/rolls
mint jelly
cucumber
mango

Building control? At Waitrose?? Am also intrigues by the juxtaposition of mint jelly and cucumber

BettySpaghetti · 27/04/2006 08:44

I've got another somewhere -will attempt to find it and post it later (in fact, to be honest, DD found it and proudly gave it to me as she knew I'd been looking for them although she can't quite understand why I want peoples old lists?!)

cod · 26/04/2006 22:10

this is my fave

"BearintheBigBlueHouse on Sunday, 15 January, 2006 2:10:32 PM "

morningpaper · 26/04/2006 22:08

ah

morningpaper · 26/04/2006 22:08

no

cod · 26/04/2006 22:08

sorry this sis it
am confused

cod · 26/04/2006 22:07

did oyu read the oriignal one

morningpaper · 26/04/2006 22:07

I have never read this thread but can confess that this is the first time I have ever actually lol at MN Grin

cod · 26/04/2006 22:07

i ahd to let mil throw one away last time

she did ask why i had it
told he r it had got into shoppign in error

nursetigger6 · 26/04/2006 22:06

I found one and then lost this thread and now dp has thrown it out Sad

7up · 26/04/2006 22:02

i cant find one eitherSad i must look like a weirdo every week in tescos scouring the floor and trolleys but no luck still

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