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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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cod · 15/01/2006 22:15

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Carmenere · 16/01/2006 16:30

I found one today in Tesco. It's written on a bright yellow post-it and all it says on it is
Mango,
Nuts,
Fruit,
Lunch,
Ass wipes.

Ass wipes fgs - has to have been written by a man. What do you think he/she means? Toilet roll, moist toilet paper or baby wipes?

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 16/01/2006 16:53

maybe he's onto us and is referring to prospective readers of the note - "I'm buying a mango, some nuts, fruit and my lunch, you nosy need-to-get-out-more ass-wipes!"

None at all in Sainsburys today and I must have had a quick gander at hundreds of torlleys - gutted

cod · 16/01/2006 18:33

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Pruni · 16/01/2006 21:44

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cathyspam · 16/01/2006 21:48

lol at ass wipes!

milward · 16/01/2006 21:49

Like the order of that list - in one end & out the other!

Cabe · 16/01/2006 23:15

Great analyses

cod · 17/01/2006 11:20

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NomDePlume · 17/01/2006 11:22

also been to tesco this morning, no lists in my trolley either.

iota · 17/01/2006 11:23

I bet you diidn't check every trolley return in the carpark though, did you ladies?

cod · 17/01/2006 11:24

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milward · 17/01/2006 11:27

No lists but two trolleys had cabbage leaves in!!

NomDePlume · 17/01/2006 11:29

lol, iota. My shopping list this morning was...

Grapes
Sandwich meat
Shortbread biscuits
Cod loin
Baby carrots
Razors
Book

NomDePlume · 17/01/2006 11:29

That's my own list, not one I found.

NomDePlume · 17/01/2006 11:30

Forgot to leave it in the trolley

cod · 17/01/2006 11:30

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cod · 17/01/2006 11:30

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NomDePlume · 17/01/2006 11:31

what, what was on it cod ? Was it incriminating ?

Loaf
Milk
Extra small condoms
Extra large tampons
Lube
Large carrot/cucumber

cod · 17/01/2006 11:32

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wilbur · 17/01/2006 11:33

Not a shopping list - but a note on friends counter recently from her to her dh (it's okay, she was there when I read it, I wasn't snooping) - "Don't forget to turn off fairy lights - that family of five died!!! Love You. PS: New bread in bin" I just though that summed up marriage really - so I agree with Rothart et al that there is a lot of humanity in notes.

NomDePlume · 17/01/2006 11:33

lol, my reciept came with 2 vouchers this morning - 1 for extra points on Kandoo stuff, the other for extra points on fish from the fish counter if I spend more than £7

cod · 17/01/2006 11:34

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winnie · 17/01/2006 11:43

I made sure I brought my list home after readng this thread

winnie · 17/01/2006 14:12

... then went out again, popped into the shop for a bottle of wine (which I somehow managed to leave off my list this morning ), and picked up someone elses list.

(I felt like a criminal!)

It reads:
ginger bisc
" ale
pain au choc
butter
light bulbs canle/screw 60 w
pasta sauces
brazils

it is written on an envelope which still has a name and address on