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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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alexsmum · 27/01/2006 18:47

ok not a shopping list but found this in the changing room of the school pool ds has lessons at today. written in very shaky hand.
dear mrs saunders, kerry can't do p.e today as my washer is broke and her p.e kit is dirty,
from mrs jones.
written on the back of a printed school form which said;
dear mrs jones,
kerry has one hour detention for coming to school with no p.e kit!!!
made me lol

SorenLorensen · 27/01/2006 18:45

Wow, you really can get anything in Waitrose - mange, who'd have thought it?

puff · 27/01/2006 18:44

Got one in Waitrose today (well...trolley park actually) this time in English

mange
leeks
red peppers long
ginger
spring onions
lge prawns
arborio
chick
dble crm
yog
bouillon
sun dried toms
olives
butter
bread rolls
pate
celery salt
mineral w
red 2
white 2
soft
wash tabs
bleach
b bags
f bags
wipes

babyonboard · 27/01/2006 18:36

lol re. loo roll, we thought the same, do they bring out 'posh' loo roll for guests or maybe 'crap' loo roll for guests they don't like

SoupDragon · 27/01/2006 18:35

But what if the handwash that's pink that they don't like was reduced... should it be purchased or not?

Mercy · 27/01/2006 18:35

Soren, probably the people who have to eat meals cooked with the crap oil

babyonboard · 27/01/2006 18:33

ooh forgot, at the bottom it said.."buy anything reduced!"

teehee

SorenLorensen · 27/01/2006 18:32

That list is brilliant, bob. Wonder who they save the crap loo roll for?

SoupDragon · 27/01/2006 18:32

"a good looking chicken"!!

babyonboard · 27/01/2006 18:30

oooh..how great to find this thread me and dp found one in a basket in sainsburys once that we couldnt resist pocketing and we still have it on our noticeboard..

it reads..

carrots (don't get crappy expensive kids ones again)
potatoes
leek
4 x red onion
a good looking chicken
cheddar (cheap block)
zinc tablets
that posh stuff in the green bottle
washing up brushes
that posh bread
that crappy bread
stuff for tonights tea and kids lunch
crap oil
posh oil
crap loo roll
posh loo roll
5 pack wrigleys
the handwash thats pink but not that one we don't like

remeber NECTAR CARD we need the points

would love to know the psychology behind such a list....

LIZS · 27/01/2006 17:57

ooh gummibaeren , kids love those (Goldenbear jelly sweets - Haribo?) Knoblauch -garlic

flashingnose · 27/01/2006 17:48

Special prize to anyone who finds the "spineless turd list

sharklet · 27/01/2006 17:26

I have to admit I left one in a trolley in waitrose, marlborough with an extra message for any nosey mners who might have happened upon it...

serenity · 27/01/2006 17:14

cabe - TTD in sainsbury's is more than likely Taste The Difference (ie posh and expensive)

Found a list today in our sainsburys (we're a bit rougher over here though!)

A5 plain white writing paper, written on blue roller ball in a strange mixture of small and capital letters (which I won't even attempt to replicate.)

Virbe - 5 fruit a day juice
4 tin of Baked beans
1 Jam Dougnut
4 carton of pure orange juice
4 green sponges

A bit of an obsession with the number 4 I think.

SorenLorensen · 27/01/2006 16:46

I left mine in the basket in Tesco today in honour of this thread. It was a corker:

salad
flaked almonds
bread
crisps
spider

(the spider was a rubber one from ELC but cunningly I didn't elaborate on the list)

purpleturtle · 27/01/2006 16:43

Vinegar

(Essig, that is)

Pruni · 27/01/2006 16:13

Message withdrawn

WideWebWitch · 27/01/2006 09:03

I'm very glad this is still going, don't stop Bear. I may even leave a list for you in a Bristol Sainsbury's later

ShaysMummy · 26/01/2006 23:57

i hope i didn't leave mine in the trolley the other day. dh (in jest of course!) for some reason called me a 'spineless turd' the other day and i noted it on the back of my list as he always later denies what he said. i thought this way i could prove it....
god knows what sort of a freak anyone would think wrote that list when they read 'spineless turd'....

Cabe · 26/01/2006 23:50

Keep looking Sunchowder - I've only found the one but must share the buzz you get when you see that crumpled paper full of promise in the bottom of an abandoned torlley (have to admit to a private little 'got one' jig when I found it)

Bear - I can almost smell the pungent almondy baking... Ohh my tummy's rumbling

I've been lectured by dp about my food shopping habits of late so I'm having to leave it till the weekend before I get a chance to look again

sunchowder · 26/01/2006 20:05

I just wanted to say that the translation for kitchen roll in American terms would be a roll of paper towels. I just got back from the market and I did not find any shopping lists to post.

SoupDragon · 26/01/2006 20:02

There should be an option on the home delivery grocery websites for "please check the trolleys for lists".

cathyspam · 26/01/2006 17:57

almost died laughing at this thread! was looking in trolleys yesterday but no luck yet!

flashingnose · 26/01/2006 17:47

I do love this thread .

And don't you stop contributing, bear

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 26/01/2006 17:32

got one here with thyme, proscuitto and dried porcini mushrooms on it - boy do we live in a nice part of town

also eggs, 100g dark choc, ground almonds, almond essence and butter (225g + 225g) - I feel a cake coming on, a posh one I'll bet