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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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OP posts:
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...

flashingnose · 27/01/2006 17:48

Special prize to anyone who finds the "spineless turd list

LIZS · 27/01/2006 17:57

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

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....

SoupDragon · 27/01/2006 18:32

"a good looking chicken"!!

SorenLorensen · 27/01/2006 18:32

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

babyonboard · 27/01/2006 18:33

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

teehee

Mercy · 27/01/2006 18:35

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

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?

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

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

SorenLorensen · 27/01/2006 18:45

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

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

babyonboard · 27/01/2006 18:52

lol..
i used to use the ' i forgot my kit' line at school until i was handed a pair of tiny mud soaked shorts and a stinky boys rugby shirt and told to put it on

Miaou · 27/01/2006 19:09

What are "b bags" and "f bags", I wonder?

misdee · 27/01/2006 19:11

Bin bags?

the f i am stuck on.

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 27/01/2006 19:11

bin & freezer

purpleturtle · 27/01/2006 19:15

You def need to get out more, Bear!

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 27/01/2006 19:20

I get out every day - to the store.

Got a couple earlier, but they're with forensics ATM, maybe share later.

Saw a great one on a row of torlleys being pushed by a spotty youth (I was once that soldier) and thought he'd think it odd if I broke off from dragging a screaming (top of lungs stylee along the lines of 'You carry me', when that was never going to happen, me with shopping bags and all) 2 year old and an away-with-the-fairies-so-just-might-walk-into-a-car 4 year old across the car park, to ask him to stop so I could have someone else's list from his torlleys. D'oh. It looked great and all - with doodles!!!

Cabe · 27/01/2006 21:57

370 posts on here now Cod! I've only just managed to log on - anyone else had problems tonight?

Serenity - Of course! Taste the Difference! Thanks

The posh and crappy list is hilarious!
Waitrose for Mange - don't let it get too near the chickens or they won't be good looking for long!

Bear... Waiting in anticipation Your local stores have loads of list leavers... they seem to be far more jealous of them round here.

WideWebWitch · 27/01/2006 23:13

That posh and crap list is fantastic, thanks, I am sitting here sniggering.

ShaysMummy · 27/01/2006 23:21

really hope someone finds my 'spineless' turd list ! lol

babyonboard · 27/01/2006 23:21

heehee, glad you all find it funny too
me and dp have had many conversations and laughing over that list but them felt a bit crazy teeheeh, i would love to meet the person that wrote it, teehehheee

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 27/01/2006 23:29

dishwater tablets
oatmeal
brillo

have spent the guts of 6 hours thinking of something, anything, to say about that

sorry

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 27/01/2006 23:35

Puff's celery salt, bouillon and SDToms has got to be the poshest so far - I'm leaving my lobster, Veuve and Duchy Originals Butterscotch Shortbread list in every torlley tomorrow so everyone knows how effin well-heeled I am

BOB - from bitter experience, good lookin chickens promise more than they deliver

night then