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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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wabbitintheheadlamps · 07/02/2006 18:41

Can you get Sunday's from shops now?? I think i'll have three in a row to catch up on reading the papers and gardening.. I could wash the car a few times too don't you think

wabbitintheheadlamps · 07/02/2006 18:50

Bear's too hooked to kick the habit I'm sure he couldn't go cold turkey!

Bob - Fab list... looked horribly like one from an ex of mine though (Alcies have noooooo shame) Just what he'd have done... wanted an extension on his tab to wrangle more booze into the house

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 07/02/2006 19:23

mmm I love cold turkey - that's what I'm putting on my cryptic lists to flush out M'netters:

Cold turkey
Nice Ham
Cod
Arse card
TURN RIGHT, SECOND LEFT, THEN STRAIGHT ON
Cubes
Tomorrow's dinner (should really be tea)
Saturday
Lube
Ketchips
Spreadable Butt
That wine we like, not the shite stuff

and it'll be on the back of my JLP Gold Card statement (with all details there for any identity tea-leaf to help themselves to)

Bearpoints for the finder

wabbitintheheadlamps · 07/02/2006 19:34

Will you be dropping the list locally or picking a random venue anywhere in GB????

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 07/02/2006 19:38

could be anywhere - I have my contacts
be on the lookout ladies

wabbitintheheadlamps · 07/02/2006 19:39

Ooooh a challenge!

babyonboard · 07/02/2006 19:57

oooh, for some reason this thread reminded me of what my friend did to her dad,
his bike was stolen from outside a shop which he got real stressed about and even wrote to crimestroppers..lol.
she phoned/emailed/wrote to everyone she knew asking them to buy a local postcard with a picture of a bike on it and post it to him with just the words on the back 'Is This Your bike?'
they got friends of friends doing it and he recieved over 300, some from places like cuba and georgia that they don't know anyone from.
he got an exhibition in wiltshire..including ours sent from london of a penny farthing crossing tower bridge in sepia..lol..he should make a book!

OldieMum · 07/02/2006 19:58

JackieNo - My heart misssed a beat when I saw you found your list at Waitrose in Abingdon. Luckily, I mostly do my shopping there over the Net. Maybe I should go there this week and leave a list for you to find....

When I saw the reference to the Pitt Rivers, I first thought "Shrunken heads for party bags?" And then I remembered their little shop. But HOW pretentious.

babyonboard · 07/02/2006 20:00

and we should too..these shopping lists (and our critical commentary on them)are literary gold.
any mumsnetters or their dps work in publishing?

JackieNo · 07/02/2006 20:33

OldieMum - I'm ashamed to admit I've never been to the Pitt Rivers. However, I think she was leaving the whole party bag contents buying thing a bit late - need to start collecting bits a bit earlier than when you make the birthday cake, IME.

NotAcow · 07/02/2006 21:14

Bob - i know someone in publishing; my dads (now ex apparently, but still good friends) girlfriend. shes very important in the literary world, dont you know, and i jst told her about mumsnet the other day. can you believe she hadnt heard of it??
well, yes. i hadnt either till fairly recently. Anyway, maybe she can work out soem kind of deal for you all...
ps - PMSL at bear's planted list...

wabbitintheheadlamps · 07/02/2006 21:57

the Ashmolean does a good line in Party Bag Booty toooo don't you know! (no shrunken heads though... They're wierd) (No witches in bottles either )

hunkermunker · 07/02/2006 22:55

Found one today.

Written on small square of white paper, in spidery almost illegible handwriting.

lemons
fruit and fibre
packet soup knorr
beetroot
glace cherries
cocoa
stamps
what looks like "men" crossed out...
biscuits, choc ginger
jelly babies

And on the other side of the paper:
salad cream
beetroot
coffee
crisps
coffee (again)
UHU
birthday cards

cathyspam · 08/02/2006 00:12

oooh - that is definitely an old person!

hunkermunker · 08/02/2006 00:20

Oh, absolutely. An old lady with a beetroot habit!

Bit confused about "men" though - wishful thinking, perhaps?!

JanH · 08/02/2006 00:36

Talking of Pitt Rivers - have you read Bollocks to Alton Towers? It gets a rave review! (In the book, not in the Guardian)

JanH · 08/02/2006 00:42

Whoever writes out, in full, things like "semiskimmed milk"? That's "gr milk" on my lists. (We buy rd milk and bl milk too NTS).

Skribble · 08/02/2006 00:48

I have been completly ignoring this thread but I will now be on the hunt for some now. Perhaps it is a local thing we call the shopping lines here or just lines.

jinglybits · 08/02/2006 01:11

oh god its too funny, i can't breathe! must get out tomorrow and look for lists...lists...lists!!! may get desperate if i can't find any and ask friend to distract nice shopper whilst i grab list from their hand and make a run for it laughing insanely down the aisles! ...oooh its a bit like reading someone elses diary isn't it. my list would say chocolate, chocolate cake, chocolate biscuits, something to feed the baby, petit filoul. but if i ever make a list i always end up losing it...or is one of you lot nabbing it when my backs turned!

Skribble · 08/02/2006 02:26

Just remembered there was a list lying in the ailse I was working in today argh!

To Do List for tomorrow-
Stake out supermarket trolley park,
Trawl charity shops for £1.50 ebay challange item.
take MIL to dentist (drop MIL at Adsa for lists and I will concetrate on Tescos).

champs · 08/02/2006 02:31

lolol@this thread.

cod you loon, but very entertaining and i must be a loon too

will add lists i find here from now one, i normally just leave them.
I get loads at work too, not back till june tho

champs · 08/02/2006 02:32

a mnetter surely skribble!!

champs · 08/02/2006 02:34
PiccadillyCircus · 08/02/2006 11:35

Bother - meant to abandon my list and forgot

Skribble · 08/02/2006 12:52

Sorry I should have clarified I never thought to pick up the list as I had't read this thread yet, that was my to do list. I have been thwarted by by DS and is croaky throat, took MIL to pick up some stuff at the supermarket though and sat in the car with DS ready to pounce but didn't see any lists.