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

A list surreptitiously nabbed from Waitrose this morning. It's not easy to be surreptitious when you're carrying a squawking infant in a carseat I can tell you. Almost as tricky as leaning over a line of trolleys to nab a list from the second-line-in when you're 9 months pregnant. But I digress...

Cream "Quality Bond" envelope, in pencil, clearly written in a hurry. Not very exciting apart from a couple of exact measurements (clearly list is written from a recipe) and the fact that it's not written in a sensible order for going round the store.

Shower gel
milk bath
bread
2x tin cherry toms
750g braising beef
plo 450g carrots (no idea what "plo" might be. It's not pto...)
2 large parsnips
tube tomato paste
baking powder
cheddar
washing liquid
bacon
sausages
eggs

chuffin nora

PMSL!!

Think I might be part way to solving the glam sausage riddle.
Take a look \link{http://www.laffnet.org/sausage_festival.htm\here} and scroll down for the Sausage Queens -SOOOOO Glamorous

get you - a night at the opera, bet you eat glam sausages!

Pants for Wells - is this lister planning to corner the market in age 4-5 underwear in the smallest cathedral city on the south west? or is little Wills low on undies? whichever, you just don't leave lists like that lying around, esp at the opera.

love JackieNo's waitrose list - only there would one be shopping specifically for Pink Ladies and Braeburns

lol at glam sausages

PMSL!!!! Am sitting at work looking for something amusing and i think i may have found it!!!! Just been showing it to dh, thinks MNers are mental!! Think i'll fit in well.... LOL!!
Will now go on a search for shopping lists...

PMSL @ your dp

bearinthe... I thought that too, re: sweetners and k.kats. sounds like me tho, extra vale maccy dee's with diet coke lol

I FOUND ONE!!!

I have been looking for weeks but never usually go to big superstores, which was obviously holding me back as today I went to Toys R Us (near a big Tesco's) and nabbed one that had been dropped on the floor

Dp: "What are you doing? Is that your list?"
Me: "Shhh. Be quiet."
Dp: "Did you just pick up somebody else's list?"
Me: "SHHH. It's a Mumsnet thing, ok?"
Dp: "If we were married, I'd divorce you!"
Me: "I'm telling them that."

Anyway, here is the list:

Bread
Washing liquid
cling film
Sand bags

cucumber
Tea.
Michael (juice)

Amazingly dull except for the Michael juice which I have never tried. I suspect they may have mild OCD as regards cleanliness, as they seem to only eat cucumber sandwiches which they double wrap in clingfilm, then a sandwich bag, scouring the preparation area immediately with washing liquid.

I left another one in Sainsbury's yesterday but no-one found it, sob!

Second list - the smudged one.
Bit sheet of lined A4, written in pen. Spellings etc as per original.

Bread
milk
Shreedies
Sugar
fruit - grapes, 1 apple, 4 [too smudged to read]
Salad - cucumber, lettuce
Kitchen roll
Dolmio Packet pasta sauces
coke
crisps
Sandwitch fillas
Butter
Sanatogen pronatal [obviously a MNer in the making, then]

Found 2 in the same trolley at Waitrose in Abingdon this morning. Different writing, and one had been there during a shower, so it rather smudged - I may have to guess at some of the items.

List one, written on the back of a rather nice note card 'Just to say. Just to say. etc' all along the top. Too nice to use for a shopping list, IMO.
Prune juice [in pencil - the rest in pen]
loin of pork
comice pears (lots)
Apples

• some pink lady -some braeburn mini wheats (choc chip) ripe avocado

Or it might be glamorgan sausage? Though I do like the idea of glam sausages. Maybe decorated with diamante!

Finally, LIST 3 - written on piece of paper 2"squared that looks as if its been cut from a compliments slip. The company logo includes the phrase " a fresh approach".

pnut butter
ketchup
sh.poo
m.toast
ch.spr
v.tea
coffee
glam.saus
sw.com
muesli
liq soap

Highlight of this list for me glam. saus Surely glamorous sausages beat "nice ham" handsdown!

LIST 2
written on a piece of reporters notebook paper, strange use of capitals

Apricots
Organic figs
Sugar (BIG BAG)
ALTA RICA COFFEE (large)
MY COFFEE
(and one other item written in totally illegible lower case, joined up writing. Loks a bit like...Mneom malibor??!!)

Not 1, not 2 ...but 3 lists to post!
Wish I could take the credit but I was at work and DP took DD and DS to Waitrose list-hunting (normal families go to the park or swimming, mine go list-hunting for MN)

LIST 1 -written on the back of a piece of paper about a Xmas cards quiz,

Ties
Bread? for-cooking-Party
Grapes?
Brandy snaps
Biscuits for David
Deodorant
Bread for us

(and at the bottom of the page)
Lillies
Laundry

Now, by ties do they mean neckwear? and what about "bread for cooking"? Is that a different type of bread

like the juxtaposition of sweetners and kit kats - that diet's really gonna work wonders

but the best item is "drink" - shades of Father Jack. non-specific booze, much of. bit like one of my lists. Note there's no booze on the Gouty list

list two:

white notebook paper, unmargined jotter type.
Red writting. top is all smudged - caught in rain?

teabags
bread
sweetner powder
sweetners
kit kats
toothpaste
soap powder (think it's soap first part very smudged) (cant read next item either^)
tin foil
oven chips
tomato soup (i think)
dolmio
jam
drink
ribena
fish fingers

handwritting looks a bit male like.

PMSL@ ham tshirt!!!

found two today. saw one in trolley so swooped ds2 up and plopped him in and pounced on note, and at corner of my eye saw a woman who was coming towards me and then turned away as she saw me take note!! am i paranoid or was it a mner planning on nabbing it??

smiled with glee and dh asked me what it was, "a list" I said all happy "a list?" he asked "you made a lsit? good". "no i found it" I said grinning "found it?" he asked and shook his head, grabbed the trolley and walked in the store shaking his head, just walking past the trolley row and i see another list, I push my fingers through the trolley guard fence and the trolley grid and pull it out "what's that mum?" ds1 asks, in a tone not unlike his dad's, "a list" i say skipping, yes skipping to the store entrance...... anyway......

list one, torn paper, on back of 1st ethical tax planning limited form.

says Shopping list at the top, in the middle of paper

Beetroot
Pasta
Cheese
Green beans
IBfren kids
Gout tablets (ouch!)
wipes (baby? cleaning?)
Apples

blue biro scrawly writting

OK, you got me. I've been outed. I am that Elvis, at least I've now had the hernia stuffed back in.

Yuk - that's put me off whatever it was I was going to snack on right about 10pm after the footie. Cheers POD

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lmao at t-shirts