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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no more?
shame

Oh fab! Have not had time to read until now but DH in bed ill, kids in bed, stacks of crap to do so thought I'd read it now. Am going to keep an eye out. I read them but don't keep them usually but will from now on.
Perhaps we should all write Mumsnet on them and leave them deliberately - see who finds the first MN one.

Did anyone ever post on this site while it was active? It was hilarious but hard to stop once you start reading all the comments.

• JudasnotCod!! -

The Sconnoisseur remit was to locate Britain's finest Scone really! My sister and I think we're pretty hot at making a good scone - something a little biscuity about the very best ones and without that I've been frozen and thawed crumblyness... many put either too much baking powder in to get the rise or mix baking powder with self raising flour which makes for a soapy tasting scone which dries your mouth out. Anyway, we take it upon ourselves to 'Tea-shop' with frequency and award the scones on a scale of 1-10

Best scone to date - The Olde Tea Shoppe on Steep Hill by the Cathedral in Lincoln... this was way back in 1994 so can't vouch for standards now, or even if the 'shoppe' is still the purveyor of Afternoon Teas! (That scone was a legend and at over £10 for two 'Afternoon Teas' (old money ) it bloody should have been)

No more lists?

This could be the making of another thread!

y'know that walmart site isn't a patch on this thread!

If you had to find a soundtrack for this thread what would you choose?

lol at lincolm

no mreo lists here

receipts dont tell us much o they?
think handwriting asn missplelign are vital parts of it

Never any at Waitrose. Clearly the (generally male) Trolley Dolleys are better at clearing them out when they rehouse them back at the store entrance than they are at lower quality supermarkets.

oooh i love this thread..does an overheard (woman on phone to someone on train) shopping list count? i don't have physical evidence but it's so good...

babyonboard that list you kept sounds spookily like one of my lists!
(scuttles away questioning sanity)

Beg to differ Soupy, the foodstore of the John Lewis Partnership is always a rich hunting ground for me, Sainsburys is cack. Although today I found one there, but it's the dullest yet.

Page torn from a shorthand notebook; fat, left-leaning handwriting in blue biro (can never see the point of blue pens - they should all be black)

Onions
Milk (both)
Chocolate
Fresh Pasta
Skimmed milk
Vegetables
Tins
Frozen Peas

we need to know more about the tins before we can have a stab at tonight's tea, but I'm prepared to bet it's pretty minging - onions and peas with the pasta and a milky sauce perhaps. Double yum!

here's hoping for better lists elsewhere

i cant imagine putting chocolate on my shopping list. like i would ever forget to buy it!

In Wilkinsons today.....

condoms
Preg test - not shit one
Card for arse
Marshmellows
Moms stuff
spot stuff
Hair die

I think she must have been young. List had swirly doodles on. Red pen.

I got one

written on the front of brown envelope from the tax credit division of the tax office. In biro, caps..

bread
t-bags
domesties bleach
jam
cat food
tooth paste
king edwards maris piper potatoes
chopped fresh ceyon (?)
thyme
1 lemon
5/6 chicken
foil 4 roasting
white wine
peas
carrots
parmesan cheese
asparagus
stuffing
frozen foods
anti perpirant

in red biro, same handwriting
chips
cat food
tooth paste

Tamba, you're just pissing around aren't you, some people take this quest very seriously. That list's too good to be f'real

Where sells chickens in sixths - if you were going for 5/6, why not just go the whole way? D'ya think the cat wrote the bit in red? A big fat cat with lovely teeth?

Nope was in wilkinsons this morning!

I thought it was very ing myself!

what's an arsecard and what does one do with it (at the risk of inviting the obvious suggestion), does one buy it like paper "I'll have an A4 pad, and a big sheet of arsecard, please" - or is it a greetings card that one send to one's arse on Arse Day? "Happy Arse Day, Arse, thanks for the great job you've done all year"

I'm interested.

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ooh troupout...
so its you who has the crap nd posh loo roll then..teeehheeeee

i have a theory about the crap and posh loo roll-posh for the en-suite bathroom, crap for the cloakroom that gets used by the builders?

or posh for the one that guests see?
or crap for the kids?

alexsmum - you are right, my step MIL bought builders tea and builders bog roll for the workmen. They were allowed to use the kitchen and loo next to the swimming pool.

OUrs is clearly a posh Waitrose though Bear. Actually, it's only been open about 16 months so I'm guessing the staff are still keen. There are very rarely any items of rubbish at all left in the trolleys near the store.

next to the swimming pool?
who is your mil? the queen??

i'm going to tesco soon-quite looking forward to looking for lists!