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

[codnotamod]

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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Cod - i concede to your greater being - this thread has considerably warmed up since my last look at it!

Was pmsl at "last tango in paris" post.....

Proud to say this thread has been on my watch list since jan 14 and get a snigger out of it every day. (And if there's no snigger-factor I re-read spreadable butt and Bear's Butt-hinges (IYKWIM) and am snurking all over again. DH thinks it's barking but still demands daily updates . Race is still on for someone to find another MNetter list-nicking in your local store. Go go go!

veni
wonered ho uncultured that lot were not to lol at it
thoguth it was one of my best gags!

I love this thread.

Got one today in Waitrose in Abingdon. It?s big, though, but well organised. Written on the back of some instructions to a babysitter by the looks of things, as the reverse says ?TV on kid?s channel already? (their apostrophe), then ?Rachel? and a mobile phone number. Below it says ?Snack? with an arrow pointing down to the bottom of the page.

The list itself is on lined paper, which has then had vertical lines drawn over it, to create a grid. And it goes like this:

Avocadoes
Bananas
Cucumber x 2
Spinach
Apples
Peppers
Hummous
Dips
Mild cheddar
Cheese slices
Cream cheese
Marge
Plum yog
Little yogs
Eggs

Next column:
Plain flour
Baking powder
Caster sugar
Soft brown sugar
Vanilla es/ (essence ? I?m thinking a child?s birthday party is being planned here)
Plates/cups
CANDLES etc
60W Bayonet candle bulb
Tinned pineapple
Apple juice
OJ
Fizzy water
Lemonade.

Next column:
Crackers ? free from
Apricot bars
Biscuits/choc fingers (definitely a kids? party)
Bread ? white sliced
SODA (bread rather than drinks?)
Crisps (grown up)
Little cakes
Choc cake/carrot cake
Sausage rolls
Nibbles
Bread sticks
Wipes
Toilet roll
Nappies x 2
CRISPS (tots)
Apricot bars (again?)
Biscotti (that?s Waitrose for you - a better class of biscuit!)
Dishwasher tabs.

There?s definitely one or more kids? parties on the cards. It also has a supplementary list of things to do on the reverse of the list ?

Birthday cake [arrow pointing to] M+S/market
Pitt Rivers museum ? bits (I?m guessing for posh party bags?) ? SAT AM
Little bags ? x10 ? card shop
Ethan present/Noah presents (why does Ethan only get one and Noah gets 2? Seems a bit unfair to me).

Blimey ? bit of a mammoth one, sorry! I was excited out of all proportion to find one. Made my morning.

got two today in sainsburys!
first one;

Feta
parsley
avocado
fresh free range eggs
fresh spinachx3
grated cheese
mr muscle bathroom
sainsburys kitchen cleaner
fresh duck(toilet cleener)
bleach
edam

straws

Now what makes this list interesting is that opposite each word is written,i assume, the same word in arabic! do i get points for the novelty value?

the second list is duller-written on plain white a4 paper folded in half.
satsumas x2 grapes.strawbs.
peppers
carrots
pie
milk 2lg+2 med
strawb &banana smoothie
bread-1 wholemeal, 1 tiger
crumpets x2
naan bread
poppadoms x2
med curry x2
birthday cake
choc biscuits
bag raisins
lucozade x4
2 bootles coke
1 bag cat food
washing tabs -bold
choc fingers
hippos-kinda bueno
george-birthday card
toothbrushes-electric heads.

I like Jackieno's one - it all sounds very dignified and organised. If a shopping list can be dignified.

Am still sniggering at it cod .

Forget to list hunt today, will do it when im out tomorrow........

Hmmmmm 1 tiger and 2 bootles of coke?

mercy- i wish i could say 'yes how funny a bootle of coke' but that sp mistake was mine

I thought we had stumbled on a new way of measuring narcotics.
They do say you can buy anything in supermarkets now

Message withdrawn

she wants to buy romania? a country? isn't this a little ambitious for the supermarket? maybe she has just won the euromillions and has thought to herself' yes i know i'll buy a country and be the queen and impose lots of crazy rules....verybody will hve to wear a green hat on a sunday' that sort of thing?

I'm a little concerned about the mansize tissues and the pot of vaseline

1 tiger - is tiger bread from tesco

Joy and rapture. I think the trolley boy must be on holiday as I found 3 today.

LIST 1

written on small note pad in pencil

fruit (underlined)
straws
grapes
bananas

veg (underlined)
onions
pot
mush
peppers
broc

meat (underlined)
sandwich
all other

rice,noodles,pasta
tin toms
baked beans
sweet chilli dipping
tuna
beef oxo
salad cream
tom ketchup
marmalade

LIST 2

written on a page torn from an address book in black ink.

sweet cake
cocoanut cake (cossed out) replaced with loaf
turnip (small)
6 x yoghurt
1 jar beetroot
fabric conditioner
b beans
chopped toms
soup
mushy peas
orange juice
bread 4 freezer

I nearly left my list in the trolley last week on purpose in the hope that some mumsnetter would enjoy posting on this thread (but chickened out at the last minute as it was on the back of an envelope with DH's name and address on it)

LIST 3

Written on back of envelope in blue ink by someone who I am guessing is the same age as my Nan (very unecessary fancy letters)

watercress & chives
grapes
fruit
medium potatoes
bananas
carrots
sprouts
cabbage
tomatoes
red-yellow pepper
spring onions
large potatoes
chick thighs
scissors
toothpaste
sweetcorn
4 mushy peas
cottage cheese
meusli & orange
juice
milk x 2
coffee & tea bags
fairy liquid
flora
yoghurt
soda water x 3
toastie loaf
oven chips
baby spin leaf
frozen peas
low fat natural yoghurt
sauce

PC, me too, it has also crossed my mind to post my list to see what everyone would say .

Have just noticed this on back of list 3.

6 small pies
1/2 lamb cubes
3/4 bacon
2 large pies
1/2 bacon

This has just made this my favourite list out of the three.

Kind of related to this-- I used to work for tesco (yes i was a checkout chick!-lol) and there were some odd combinations... There was a young girl and her boyfrien who bougt 2 pregnancy tests and a bumper pack of condoms, i just thought to myself
"Unlucky if thats positive love you will have wasted a fiver on something you wont need for a few months!!!"
it is very unusual...

at tesco's yesterday, standing at exit, waiting for dp to get to me from checkout.

young couple walk in-
HER- have you got the list?

HIM- what list?

HER- the list!- the shopping list! what other list would I mean???

HIM- er, no- do we really need it? i know what we need.

HER- you know what you need you mean.< walked off shaking head and tutting.>

wonder what was on it?!

Hey Cod - more Cubes!!!

LAMB cubes this time! Wonder if Bear likes them any better than Beef Cubes - they're only half ones so maybe a bit more paletable