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

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y'all ready for this?

No. 3 and this was on the pavement on the way home from the supermarket (I admit I am worried about how much I'm enjoying my new hobby and am taking legal advice about staving off any potential criminal proceedings)

written on the back of an envelope from an insurance company all in the same handwriting (quite messy) and ticked off in pencil as each item was pouched. From the first few items, I'm guessing it's been pretty dark in their house this week.

60w norm bulbs
60w candle screw LB
40w G Ball LB
Halogen GU10+c 240v 50w (ooh ooh we use them too! and take it from me, that supermarket is not the place to buy them - dirt cheap in BHS lighting section)
Yog Tubes (they've got primary-age ankle biters)
Ch Straws (ditto)
El Bog Roll (are they spanish?)
Jam (what flavour? there are hundreds - don't waste time staring at them all decide before you go out and write it down, woman!)
Apple Sauce
Marmalade
Chedderx2
Ham (no signifier for nice or coked or otherwise)
Wens + Cran (think wensleydale with cranberries but who knows with this off the wall list - this one is NOT done in store order, which I find hard to cope with - if you're doing a list you have to think your way round the store, don't just scribble down a stream of consciousness, that'll mean you have to keep going back to aisles, the whole thing will take longer and five'll get you ten that you'll forget something)
Salsa * (no idea why the asterisk, but it's there)
Soft Tart (no comment)
Refried Beans (anyone who buys their frijoles refritos rather than making their own must be really busy or really lazy, the tinned ones are minging and look and taste like the gunk you get out of the dishwasher filter when you can finally be arsed to clean it out to stop bits of broccoli being welded to your wine glasses)
Sour Cream (I've a hunch theres something mexican in the offing which maybe explains the latin loo roll)
C.Flakes
Crisps
Pringles
Snacks (well it is Friday)
Eggs
Mince
Pizza
G. Bread (in the words of Peter Kay "G. Bread.??"
El Bog Roll (yes, again!?!)
Scampi
Savs??? (or could be Saus)
Shampoo
Bog Roll (?)
El Bog Roll (honestly, I kid you not)
TV Guide

this weekend clearly holds the promise of big nights in in front of the telly with crap food and fried snacks and a lot of toilet tissue (foreign or otherwise). I'd have thought that with the lack of veg and high fibre foods on the list, the need for so much loo roll wouldn't come up, but, there's me getting all scatalogical again, sorry ladies.

my work here is done, I'm not looking for anymore until tomorrow. Safe.

I'm breathless in anticipation, bear

sorry, the second column of No. 2 comprised only "Sun" - could be dishwasher powder, or the paper, dunno.

Still typing no. 3, but it's worth the wait

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Well I was wondering that cod, but would you find the bread with the dried fruit? Or the coleslaw with the pork chops?

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oh and the items Fabric Cond, Cheap Disinfectant, Pittas, Bread, Pumpkin Seeds, Marmite, Chicken, Pork Chops, L Fat Burger and Blackcurrant all crossed out.

Come on..

ooo - just been to Morrisons and found a list. (actually saw it in the trolley 'park' and edged my way round and stuck my fingers through the bars of a trolley half way through to get it )

Written on a A5 piece of notebook paper. Rather 'disorganised' IMO. Mostly in black ink

Here goes. each line is as the line is written on the paper - for you analysing

Morrisons £73 to spend

Satsumas Melon Bananas Apples Grapes
Celery tomatoes cress (I think), cue
Onions, Baking Poatoes, Brocolli
(this line in blue pen) Hairspray Deod Make-up Remover
Toilet Cleaner, Fabric Conditioner, Cheap Disinfectant
Pittas, Bagel, Bread, sultanas, Apricots, Prunes
Peanut Butter Pumpkin Seeds
Mixed Herbs Marmite Parmesan Cheese
3 x Milks
Cheese, Grated, Ham +Chicken (I think) Cottage Cheese
Pork Chops low cal coleslaw
L Fat Burger? WW300 meal Pepprs Mushrooms

Foil x 4 Bettaprice Chicken Gravy Veg Oil (underlined)
spicy beans sweetcorn tuna custard
peaches x3 tomatoes chopped (in little writing) x2

Coke OJ Blackcurrant

oops "on" a page etc

anyway
No. 2

a bit better - old lady handwriting; two columns; each item struck through in pencil as she trolleys it

Tarragon
Cheese
Bacon
Sweet PICCALILLI
Fabric Softener
Marjoram
Peas
Wedges

again, pretty dull - typical old lady stuff

just wait for No. 3, it's the daddy

No. 1
and I've nothing much to say on this one - one a page from one of those little note pads with the hole for the pen in the corner:

Lemons
Bananas
Bacon

even Ainsley would have a job with that lot

boo hoo I must o gone in too early today no lists for me except my own should of left it i suppose for someone else to read.

hooray - I managed to find one at last -- had to do a very undignified pounce and scrabble in front of complete strangers to get it.

have to get ds2 now so will post later - bet you can hardly wait

have had second thoughts about the ham -you'd just keep coming back for more to the exclusion of everything else and re niceness, it would think it was very nice, but it would just be really, really dull

thanks Cod, you of course are the deus ex machina that started it all, holds it together and keeps it going

anyway, glad I'm not the only one obsessed here

I GOT THREE TODAY

haven't even read them yet - am saving that guilty pleasure until DS is napping and DD is having her downtime in front of Beebies

only then will I share, ooh the power

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but would it be nice coked ham???

that's more like a dance than a list with all those turns.

Must say I like the thought of coked ham tho.

found a list in sainsbury's today, typed in a girly font on A4 paper.

it said

bananas
apples
rasberries (if in?)
bag of salad

TURN LEFT

pots
green beans

chicken
coked ham

turn right

cakes

that was it!

wonderful.....

went to tesco's today and i deliberatley left my shopping list in the trolley for someone to find. i never do this usually but was inspired by this thread.

ps, as a joke, i wrote 'mooncup' on it

I got one! I got one! Stuffed in the toddler seat at Sainsbury...

ANd wait for it... it MUST be a MN-er beacause it's the cut-off strip from the left hand side of the 'Organised Mum's Life Organiser'...

How do I know? - because we have one ..

It must come from a frightfully organised household 'cos there are 3 different styles of handwriting on it - I'm betting DW/ DH and an au pair.... see what you think...?!

Viakal (au pair?)
Honey (Mum?)
Org. Straw Jam (Mum)
Light bulbs (60w) (DH)
Washing Poweder -Colour (Au pair!)
Easy up pants (Mum)
Sardines (DH)
AAA batteries - NOT own label (DH!)
Mini boxes Raisins (Mum)
Dettol spray (au pair)

Clearly a very organised bunch, with high expectations from the au pair!!!

Hugs cabe will see if I can find a spare and hand it over at lunch tomorrow.

Been to Asda three times today (don't ask long story) but failed to find any lists we must live in a really tidy neighbourhood

I used to run a training room a long time ago and there was a book left which when I looked inside it, to see who it belonged to, saw that there was a draught copy of a break up letter, a real dear John. It was one of the trainers who worked there.

Was rather