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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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WideWebWitch · 26/02/2006 15:06

I left another one in Sainsbury's yesterday but no-one found it, sob!

FrannytheBarkSucker · 26/02/2006 21:56

I FOUND ONE!!!

I have been looking for weeks but never usually go to big superstores, which was obviously holding me back as today I went to Toys R Us (near a big Tesco's) and nabbed one that had been dropped on the floor

Dp: "What are you doing? Is that your list?"
Me: "Shhh. Be quiet."
Dp: "Did you just pick up somebody else's list?"
Me: "SHHH. It's a Mumsnet thing, ok?"
Dp: "If we were married, I'd divorce you!"
Me: "I'm telling them that."

Anyway, here is the list:

Bread
Washing liquid
cling film
Sand bags

cucumber
Tea.
Michael (juice)

Amazingly dull except for the Michael juice which I have never tried. I suspect they may have mild OCD as regards cleanliness, as they seem to only eat cucumber sandwiches which they double wrap in clingfilm, then a sandwich bag, scouring the preparation area immediately with washing liquid.

champs · 26/02/2006 23:27

PMSL @ your dp

bearinthe... I thought that too, re: sweetners and k.kats. sounds like me tho, extra vale maccy dee's with diet coke lol

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Boopert · 27/02/2006 12:50

PMSL!!!! Am sitting at work looking for something amusing and i think i may have found it!!!! Just been showing it to dh, thinks MNers are mental!! Think i'll fit in well.... LOL!!
Will now go on a search for shopping lists...

cod · 27/02/2006 12:53

lol at glam sausages

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 27/02/2006 12:59

get you - a night at the opera, bet you eat glam sausages!

Pants for Wells - is this lister planning to corner the market in age 4-5 underwear in the smallest cathedral city on the south west? or is little Wills low on undies? whichever, you just don't leave lists like that lying around, esp at the opera.

love JackieNo's waitrose list - only there would one be shopping specifically for Pink Ladies and Braeburns

BettySpaghetti · 27/02/2006 13:13

Think I might be part way to solving the glam sausage riddle.
Take a look \link{http://www.laffnet.org/sausage_festival.htm\here} and scroll down for the Sausage Queens -SOOOOO Glamorous Wink

champs · 27/02/2006 13:30

PMSL!!Grin

cod · 27/02/2006 13:32

chuffin nora

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SoupDragon · 28/02/2006 13:27

A list surreptitiously nabbed from Waitrose this morning. It's not easy to be surreptitious when you're carrying a squawking infant in a carseat I can tell you. Almost as tricky as leaning over a line of trolleys to nab a list from the second-line-in when you're 9 months pregnant. But I digress...

Cream "Quality Bond" envelope, in pencil, clearly written in a hurry. Not very exciting apart from a couple of exact measurements (clearly list is written from a recipe) and the fact that it's not written in a sensible order for going round the store.

Shower gel
milk bath
bread
2x tin cherry toms
750g braising beef
plo 450g carrots (no idea what "plo" might be. It's not pto...)
2 large parsnips
tube tomato paste
baking powder
cheddar
washing liquid
bacon
sausages
eggs

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 28/02/2006 13:39

pick large ones?

AggiePanther · 28/02/2006 16:22

I didn't know you could get tinned cherry tomatoes ...can you?

plo ... perhaps its p10 rather than plo as in page 10 of the recipe book

AggiePanther · 01/03/2006 16:03

Oh my word! I knew I was good at killing threads but not this one surely? I thought it was immortal Shock

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 01/03/2006 16:24

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away. A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak. A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

A time to quit pilfering others' shopping lists; a time to stop posting on this thread; a time to get on with RL.

No, you haven't killed it Aggie, I have. Gone and never even reached 800 posts. I just can't be arsed any more. I saw one today and left it in it's torlley clip (it was pants anyway).

I need a new hobby, preferably something that brings in cash to pay the horrendous gas and leccy bills that have just arrived. Does crisp bag folding pay? A big blokey bear like me couldn't be seen beading, quilting or card-making, no matter how much they paid. But I think I could handle crisp-bag folding, I take it it's all WOH? Could someone please give me an idea of profit per unit, TIA.

AggiePanther · 01/03/2006 20:02

sob and I never even found a list.
Oh well ...I'm sure there are newer and more exciting hobbies to be had ...how about reading other people's post?

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 01/03/2006 20:25

isn't that a crime?

BettySpaghetti · 01/03/2006 20:40

Didn't stop an ex-flatmate of mine !Angry

She was a complete nutter. She used to open, read and hide my mail. Thanks to her I nearly got summoned to court over non-payment of council tax.

spacedacet · 01/03/2006 20:41

lol Bear. Yeah, but what the heck? :)

AggiePanther · 01/03/2006 21:52

Pah crime shmime ..we've cut our teeth on the torlleys of Britain, surely we can move on up now to postvans

nightowl · 01/03/2006 23:05

i hope this thread isnt on its way out. i was so excited on Monday when i went shopping (but then im always late to catch on). theres usually tons of lists in the trollies...this week? bugger all. but....but, you people have turned me into a criminal. This man walked past me and OMG it was HUGE, just hanging limply out of his hand, he wasnt even holding onto it properly. in a moment of madness i could see my hand moving towards it but i suddenly remembered that you cannot pilfer a list out of some random bloke's hand. it looked so interesting too. on a brighter note, when i went outside i saw a middle aged man, on his own, riding his trolley full of shopping across the car park. he went past me twice. now theres someone with a bit of wild child still left in them eh? Grin

champs · 02/03/2006 02:26

no, No, NO !!

i will not let this thread die!! infact I'm gonna make it go to 800.... so neeerrrrrr!!!

FrannyandZooey · 03/03/2006 08:13

I just had to add one last list that I found yesterday; I’m not sure, but I think it may have belonged to a Mumsnetter Shock

Nice ham
Grapes – don’t let ds eat them before you pay for them
Tablecloth

Mooncup – extra large
Cod
34 metres elastic
Lemon drizzle ingredients
Immac – check suitable for use on hands
Sausage roll – on no account allow dd to eat in her buggy on way home