We used to have 17 pairs of scissors, now we have none.

[ArseInTheCoOpWindow]

But no one has taken them

When we moved in l kept buying those cute ones from Dunelm with the flowers and ladybirds on. And we had 2 pairs already.

Yet no one knows anything about it🤷🏼‍♀️

DH used to borrow the kitchen scissors to use in the garden, I'd find them months later rusted shut and buried in compost

He's been warned that he'll be in serious trouble if I catch him using my fabric scissors!

They've run off with ours.

After the time I couldn't find a single pair of scissors I stormed up to Ikea, and bought three packs of the cheap 3 packs of scissors and put a pair in a drawer in every room in the house. As part of this exercise, I quickly found two pairs in the greenhouse .

This has worked well for at least a couple of years, but supplies are starting to diminish again.

But in short, buy a load of the Ikea ones and put them everywhere.

I’ve found 2 in the garage. So that’s 5 overall. Still missing 12

Scissors
Teaspoons
Wooden spoons
The Corkscrew

We had multiple of the first items, but only one corkscrew. Where are they? Where did the go? Nobody knows, not even me, and I'm renowned for knowing where anything is at any given time 😂

They’ve gone to the same black hole as all of my hair ties. I have at least 25 of them, somewhere…

They'll be in the places where people use the scissors. No bugger ever puts anything back. Used for cutting tags off new clothes? Try under the bed/chest of drawers. Trying to get into sealed plastic packaging for toothbrushes etc? Bathroom (behind that packet of maternity and nipple pads you still have even though your youngest is 14). Cutting tape for Christmas presents? They'll be in a bag of wrapping paper/decorations in the loft - you'll find them this December. Cutting open a bag of frozen veg/chips? Try the freezer drawer.

@80sMum

Our specialty item in that respect is metal tape measures. I think we own at least a dozen of the blighters. They are supposed to be kept only in one drawer in the garage but I could never find one when I needed one! In exasperation, I bought another one from amazon, but didn't tell DH of its existence. I keep it in my bedside cabinet - and it's always there when I need it. After that success I also bought myself a small set of screwdrivers and two pairs of scissors, which I keep in the same place, so I no longer need to dismantle the garage in order to find these items!

I have my own tool kits for this reason. Dh tool box is a mess. Then he messed up my general box. Now he's started on my special toolkit. He uses phrases like "well if you won't let me use it how can I stop the leak in the bathroom.". Emotional black mail it is. And he found my scissor stash. I'm sure they know where the hidden batteries are too but I've yet to catch them actually using them.....

@PattyPan

They’ve gone to the same black hole as all of my hair ties. I have at least 25 of them, somewhere…

Do you have a cat? They are buggers for this....when you move you'll lift a set of drawers and find them all pushed under the back.

@Igmum

Face masks. I must have bought enough face masks to protect the population of a medium sized city. We even have a special Face Mask Box by the door. Where are my face masks? Is someone cutting them up with Dunelm floral scissors to stick on wooden spoons while wearing many socks???

This is mine too. I nearly ordered some more this morning, but decided I will do a concerted hunt this weekend first.

On our house its a particular type of scissors. Nail scissors to be precise.
I was buying them on a regular basis as they were disappearing into the void. Until I moved some furniture in DS room and found them. (He has autism and hates having his nails clipped, so thought hiding these particular instruments of torture was a good idea (.

He was going to use your FABRIC scissors to cut wire with, @ArseInTheCoOpWindow??

LTB.

I once found dh using my fabric scissors to cut up bike tyre inner tubes. I bought myself a lovely, new, sharp pair, but hid them so damn carefully that even I can't find them.

@MrsMoastyToasty

On our house its a particular type of scissors. Nail scissors to be precise. I was buying them on a regular basis as they were disappearing into the void. Until I moved some furniture in DS room and found them. (He has autism and hates having his nails clipped, so thought hiding these particular instruments of torture was a good idea (.

Yes that exactly what happened here. And sun hats

Inner tubes😲 LTB? I’d have killed him!

I buy 3 packs of nail scissors and 3 packs of tweezers at a time. In Wilko. Still got 2 packs of scissors secreted in my bedside drawer, although time for another tweezers bulk buy as all gone. Mad isn't it. We also had the tape measure thing same as PP.

and it's one particular brush I can never find when I am doing my make up. It hides and hides. But I am ruthless when it comes to putting it back in exactly the same compartment so I keep searching till it turns up in there. Some things have a hidey function enabled.

I have turned into my father and I have tied my nail scissors to the towel rail next to the sink with a piece of string. This means they are no longer used to cut things as the only pair of upstairs scissors, and they cannot be used as a screwdriver unlike my tweezerman tweezers

We have hundreds of kitchen scissors as I buy a 3 pack from Ikea everytime I go. Now serving spoons and laundry dosing balls? That's what our Troll lives off.

There under my 17 year olds bed along with 2 plates, 17 thongs, 2 empty wine bottles and a tenner

I buy scissors and hide them, but they still manage to disappear.

But can’t they cut through the string they tied them to the sink?

I used to teach Textiles. We used to chain the pinking shears up with a carbon fibre thing. Some bright spark even managed to cut through that.

Metal tape measures disappear in our house too. My fabric tape measures are well hidden, only I know where those live.

I solved the problem of DH stealing scissors by regularly buying him sets of his own. So long as I keep him supplied, he doesn't go hunting and my craft scissors are all safe.

Teaspoons, who knows. I buy them frequently. I reckon they end up absentmindedly in the kitchen bin, you know - yoghurt pot on the counter, spoon in the bin, instead of vice versa.

@Mumdiva99 no cat as far as I am aware but there could be anything under all this crap 🤣

We once had half a dozen umbrellas disappear in the space of a couple of months.

I never lose a pair of scissors. But teaspoons? They melt away like snow in April.

It's teaspoons in my house. The teaspoon fairy takes them. I found out at work the other day she has a sister and all our work teaspoons are also in hiding.
I'm still annoyed that my lovely new red handled kitchen scissors went walkies when we moved into our new house many years ago I used them in that house a few times before they went. Quite a few pairs have followed over time.

Oh I’ve given up on umbrellas, I’m terrible for leaving them everywhere. I just have a raincoat with hood now as it’s harder to lose that!
I often contemplate putting my gloves on a string through my sleeves like a toddler as well

But can’t they cut through the string they tied them to the sink

They could but they are afeared to do so. Apparently there's a subtle difference between absent mindedly walking off with them and denying all knowledge of ever having seen them ever, at all; and deliberately cutting the cord and walking off with them and denying all knowledge.