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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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NappiesGalore · 14/02/2006 14:37

i left my note in the trolley today, was boring tho. have prepared a much more interesting one to 'plant', but forgot to take that out. doh.

threelittlebabies · 13/02/2006 23:41

Sorry, other side:

1,3,6,22,23,39

1,3,6,22,23,39 21

at least I think they were lottery numbers, not some lost-type bizarre sequence! Though why the extra no on second line???

threelittlebabies · 13/02/2006 23:35

Got one! My first one. At asda- had to insist on taking trolley back, then sneak it into my pocket with commando style moves

Bread Barms
Baby food
Soap Powder? Lenor
Toms.
Cheese Milk Butter
Dinners
Cover (think that's right) Mattress * Rolls
Lottery

and on the other side, their lottery numbers!

jura · 13/02/2006 00:17

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cod · 12/02/2006 19:51

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mummytosteven · 12/02/2006 19:43

I got ever so excited yesterday, found a shopping list in my handbag but not in my handwriting yesterday, and thought of this thread immediately then I realised that 1)it wasn't a particularly amusing or interesting list and 2)I had accidentally picked it up from my friend when I went shopping with her a couple of months ago!

Socci · 12/02/2006 19:41

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Mercy · 12/02/2006 19:40

You don't have to look at this thread you know.

fedupofhearingit · 12/02/2006 19:37

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JackieNo · 12/02/2006 16:55

Maybe it's someone like me who still has a load of Christmas cards waiting to be put in the recycling, and who still hasn't put the Christmas decorations back in the loft.

Like the sound of the 'Pork Pike' on the first list - some sort of surf and turf version of a pork pie, maybe?

bettythebuilder · 12/02/2006 16:17

do you think that list has been lurking in an ASDA trolley for ages, and that c/cards and c/tree are christmas cards and christmas tree?
I know that seems a bit far fetched, what with it being February and all.

SoupDragon · 12/02/2006 15:00

Lots bread ??

Naughtynoonoo · 11/02/2006 20:52

and the second is:

Pots
Coffee
Sugar Butter
Milk
Lettuce
Toms
Onions
Spring
1/2 cucumber
1 brown hovis
Lots bread
Ham
Chicken
eggs
Mayonaise (small)
Salad cream
Cakes

On other side

c/cards

------

clean paperwork away

------

Clean front - c/tree etc

written in a scriggly script (kinda old ladyish) on a thick quality paper.

Naughtynoonoo · 11/02/2006 20:48

Hello

I am a bit of a lurker and have not really posted, but this thread has made me really laugh. I was in ASDA today and found two lists, the first is:

Newspaper
Rolls
Pork Pike
Sony Stuff x3
Cheese
Potatos
Butter
Square Crisps
Bread
Rice
Pasta Sauces
Juice's
Coke Cans
Pizza's
Sausages
Peas's
Biscuits for tin
Salad
Toad in Hole
Potato dish
Hot chocolate

Written neatly in black ink in a quarter of a page of lined paper with a margin.....

BettySpaghetti · 11/02/2006 19:54

Maybe we should try a Ready Steady Cook-type challenge and see what we come up with using those ingredients??

Then again, maybe not, as I have enough problems following a proper recipe

madmarchhare · 11/02/2006 19:51

Oh definately making something very sweet and sickly there. I left my recipe ingredients in my trolley for some lucky lucky lady to find today .

BettySpaghetti · 11/02/2006 19:48

Following on from my recent success in Waitrose last week I've now found one in Morrisons (although technically I should say "we" as DP is on board with this quest -we scoured the trolley parks together with a rather bemused DS in the trolley).

Its written on part of an envelope from the AA (motoring organisation rather than than Alcoholics Anonymous )in blue biro.

100g white/milk choc
butter
light brown soft sugar
golden syrup
self raising flour
cocca powder (presumably mean cocoa powder)
golden gran sugar
evap milk

Reads more like a recipe than a shopping list but what do you make with so many sugars and sweet things?

MrsBadger · 11/02/2006 18:10

Got one on the emergency milk dash to Waitrose last night - saw it lying on the pavement outside and had to pretend it was mine and I'd dropped it. Worth it though:

Salad
Potatoes
Veg
Cereal
Meat
Marg
Cheese
Shepherd mix (underlined heavily)
Milk
yogurt
Actimel
Bread

Shepherd mix??
is this something you feed shepherds, is it made of shepherds, or does it enable you to whip up an instant shepherd just by adding boiling water?

Perhaps it's something to serve with Cubes and Wedges

fullmoonfiend · 11/02/2006 10:33

could be ickle note pads for party bags?

ICindigo · 10/02/2006 17:55

That is a seriously weird list!! obviously a kids birthday party is in the offing... but why 20 pads...?
I was at tesco 2day and didnt see '6 meals' anywhere!!! I have scoured the land for these entire meals and am disappointed to find none!

littlerach · 10/02/2006 16:32

Finally I can join in.

Do you know how many times I have peered at trolleys in tesco?

And now I have a list!!

A scrap of brown paper, possibly a bit of envelope.
written in blue ink, rather neat writing.

Chicknuggets x 4
sausage rolls - quiche x 2
squash x 2 (obv not a Mnetter!)
Pop x 4 (See above)
crisps x2
fingers - 2x jaffer
3 BDay cakes ( aclue I think)

Balloons x40
Pads x20

Playdo
Paints

Tractor x2

Top - Mac

And the first part of the list is repeated on the other side??
Followed by:
6 meals
apples
toilet rolls
washing up liquid and powder

Bath baby top and toe
nappies
bags wipes.

Golfset
balls
top

vest.

Your thoughts please...

SoupDragon · 10/02/2006 15:39

My mother now thinks I'm completely mad as went to Waitrose with her earlier in the week and snaffled these from 2 trolleys...

M+Ms
Milk
Rolls for Burgers
Beers

My kind of list! (square of white paper from a memo block, black biro, small handwriting if you're interested in that sort of detail.)

( Library )
( Bank )
( Cooks )

Veg. - not runners
Spuds
Puds? Ice cream

First 3 items are bracketed together (I assume they're not expecting to find them at Waitrose) Long thin envelope, blue biro, scrawly writing.

MrsBadger · 09/02/2006 11:41

I like the sound of the cheese/ham - is it as nice as Nice Ham though?

ICindigo · 09/02/2006 10:55

fr meals...?
b bars...?
we are a nation of weirdos!!!
Like 'cheep' wine though... so much tastier than a nice chianti!!! hahah as if

catj · 09/02/2006 10:47

On the other side was shopping
milk
coffee
lemonade
coke
juice
bread/rolls
toilet rolls
chicken
quorn
peppers
sweet pots
cheese/ham
b'bars
crisps
jacket pots
veg
cheep (yes!) wine
yogurts
fr meals

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