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

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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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Ok - I got one today and it's totally totally Kenilworth! snooty snooty up your bummy clique clique snob town!
Another of the highly efficient abbreviators, this one has nice looking but difficult to read writing. Notes on the side are in Red ink whilst the body of the list is in Black ballpoint apart from two entries which are also written in Red (I shall mark these with an asterix)
it starts

Sains

Sberry Jam (ok think that's quite normal)
Melba T (oast I think)
Fat Chips (well I'd have to agree, better for you than weedy ones)
Soup - Covent G (arden? yup entering snob zone)
Caulif (lower)
Persil white and col - (in red) tabs (so not only does this woman separate colours from whites but she buys them separate detergent! Tooooo much time and money obviously!)
Sk Milk [1pint-Organic](obviously watching her figure this one)
Go Ahead Bars [Ras] (in red) x2 TDR (???? no idea what this TDR is code for)(told you she was watching her figure!)
*Tissues for work (how very naice! special ones... perhaps with a pretty pattern on! poncey person)
*White Lady (something that looks like Seaches???) (then more code) TTD off (any ideas anyone?)
lemons x2
Parsley (to sprinkle delicately on the faux home made soup I presume)
Avocados
Beef Tins (or at least that's what I think it says and I'm sticking to it!)
Noooooooo!!
Beef TOMS (Ha Ha Ha Ha didn't think Tins was specific enough)

So I think Woman (perhaps single - not a great deal of MAN food in there) Mid 40s, Likes good things in life, Tee total, OOOH sounds like a singles ad for her.... We could be onto something here!

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Would be gutted if lost mine. We have a household book which has shopping lists, lists of jobs to be done at home, notes to each other etc.

would be like my arm had been cut off.

Cubes!

Oh God, how did I miss this?! Am off to Tesco tomorrow so will keep my eye out for lists! I think we should all leave a list with a poignant thing on it (e.g. baby pasta?) and see if it turns up back on MN!

Oh God, how did I miss this?! Am off to Tesco tomorrow so will keep my eye out for lists! I think we should all leave a list with a poignant thing on it (e.g. baby pasta?) and see if it turns up back on MN!

Bear - Fancy soft drinks Ame (with accent acute on the e!) or SCHLOER dont you think
We know that kind of thing 'ere we do

it's like Pooh sticks innit? Leave it in a torlley and see if it comes back to haunt you online. Karmic revenge. Word of warning, be nice about your listees, I'm trying to not convince myself that I know one of mine and the guilt of taking a hand out of him/her is keeping me awake and almost stopped me doing this, but then what other kicks do I have with a largely absent breadwinner and two poorly demanding toddlers. Please promise that someone will tell me when to stop this, I'd hate to become dull.

I'm sure I had beef tins when I was a student living in Squalor. I know I had cubes, but beef tins is setting off a synaesthesial reaction, an aromatic memory way deep in my subconcious.

Ame's minging. I'm going teetotal for lent and am roadtesting alternatives - yet to find an acceptable one, but it won't be Ame (or Schlurr)

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Oh Bear... do you think I've been too horrid about the Listee?
But this is such a horrid snobby town I'm afraid I feel little remorse (my own sad little way of feeling less frowned upon).

you go girl - sounds like the plot of Footloose to me

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

I do love this thread .

And don't you stop contributing, bear

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

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

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.

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

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'....

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

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Vinegar

(Essig, that is)

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)

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.