Stupidest thing you've lost your shit over? Mine is spoons.

[IncompleteSenten]

Just now gone to get breakfast (I know it's quarter past 2, I was busy) and the ice cream sundae spoons and the serving spoons are in the same section of the cutlery tray as the table spoons. I had a mini tantrum to myself because this happens every. single. bloody. time. I put the spoons away properly - teaspoons in one section, tablespoons in one section, ice cream spoons in one section, serving spoons in ... you get the picture.
Yet whenever anyone else unloads the dishwasher, what do I later open the kitchen drawer to see?
Huge pile of assorted spoons in the tablespoon section.
If you can out trivial-shit me, I'll be surprised.

To save you all some time :D :D
Is this all I have to worry about?
No. I'm also deeply concerned about the beans being in the peas row of my tin cupboard and the loo roll getting hung 'over' instead of the right way, which is under.

Why don't I just do it myself if it bothers me so much?
Fuck off. :D there are 4 adults in this house and 3 of them are doing shit WRONG and I'm not rewarding them by turning into the housework fairy.

Am I the only one disappointed that this thread isn't about a well known inexpensive pub chain?

No. I think I'llbefine is flabbergasted by my entirely correct and unarguable loo roll hanging.

My fred, my rules.

You and me both. I think I nodded to every single post.
Getting more and more cross.
If I read much more then when my husband walks in the door he'll find me, rolling pin in hand, yelling "And ANOTHER thing..."

Dear upstairs neighbour - we have two recycling bins for plastics/glass and two for paper. You're allowed to use the second bin if the first one is full; not fill the first bin to overflowing.

And when they've been emptied on bin day please as you leave the house stop chucking your drink can in the paper recycling bins every week like you do currently.

And turn the fucking hall light off. We pay the bill, not the landlord.

Dirty socks on the side table by the sofa.
My OH has been doing this so long my youngest thinks it's normal and now she does it. I throw their socks away if found on said table - which is really stupid as I buy their socks in the first place.

I lost it at DP for using the 'good' teaspoons to make a cup of tea when I have made it quite clear that those spoons are for yoghurt and desserts only! There are plenty of - already stained - teaspoons to use for tea making. And don't get me started on when I find he has dirtied two teaspoons to make one cuppa. It's his teabag squeezing method . . .

@IncompleteSenten the original patent for the toilet roll holder shows the correct position is OVER not under, so that falls into the title of your thread category

I let Dh dictate the cutlery drawer which is from the left, fork, knife, dessert spoons and I honestly didn't really feel like it would irk me as much as it does. In my mind it is knife on the left, then fork because I like things to be left to right the way you say them, knife and fork. This also applies to salt and pepper. But every time I open the drawer it annoys me.

No sugar spoon, OP?? 😱

I lost my shit over a plastering trowel.

I can't plaster. At all. But I was trying SO HARD. And the trowel kept getting stuck on the plaster, and when I pulled it off with a squelchy sucky tug, it pulled the plaster off the wall.

So I threw the trowel at the wall and called it all manner of unpleasant names.

Then I cried. Big fat snotty-nosed gulping sobs about how unfair the trowel was, and how UNFAIIIIRRRRR that I couldn't plaster the wall and it was the bastard trowel's fault.

Then I had to clean gobbets of plaster off all the adjoining walls, because throwing a trowel with plaster on it isn't an unmessy thing to do.

I threw the trowel in the bucket (which already had hard-set unused plaster in it, along with the mixing paddle that I couldn't dislodge) and flounced the whole lot out to the bin, where I called it a fucking wanker and slammed the lid shut.

My bf hangs the washing up cloth over the tap. I hate it, I ask him not to but he does every.single.time. Bad day at work and came home to that and lost my shit.

hmmm. a wedding gift you say?

When I take the bed covers off to wash them,I dry them and dump the whole lot back on the bed

Dp puts the sheet on,I do the duvet cover and we do our own pillows

One day he came down and proudly told me that 'I've done the bed love,you just need to do the cover' (fine)

Went upstairs and he'd done the sheet and his pillows as normal but had failed to do mine

I blew my top-he expected praise for what he normally does!

Quorn nuggets.

Our daughter was a baby and had been unwell with bronchiolitis, our son was on day 4 of noro and I was on day three, I’d not slept for 3 nights, my blood sugars were insane (type 1 diabetic).

My husband made me chips and quorn nuggets for tea and overcooked them. I completely lost my shit and told him the cooking of the nuggets had ruined my life and I might as well be dead. He let me rant and then just offered me some ketchup. He’s never cooked them for me since 🤣

Mine (and I’ve told this before) was over cold roast goose leftovers. I have a Plan, at Christmas - roast goose and all the trimmings on Christmas Day, cold gammon and baked potatoes on Boxing Day, then the next day, left over goose, shredded and cooked in a honey, soy sauce and five spice marinade. I stress a lot, in the run up to Christmas so having this plan takes away a bit of that stress.

One year, I went to the fridge, to get the left over goose, to make dinner, and found half of it missing - and it turned out ds2 had decided to make himself a delicious roast goose sandwich for his lunch! There was a lot of yelling, followed by tears and snot and incoherence, and dh had to put me in the front room with a very large glass of sherry, to calm down, before he went and got dinner sorted. Of course, we had plenty of food - cold gammon, some leftover goose, salad etc etc, but the Plan had been derailed, so I derailed too.

Ds2 still jokes about making himself another left over goose sandwich, even now.

My DH skiddles tea down the front of the white cupboard that's under the sink, while he is putting the tea bags on the draining board. Inside the cupboard under the sink is our bin.

It's a 3 in one deal.

As for me, I stuff wrappers in cups/glasses to transport to the kitchen and place them in the sink (the one with the bin in the cupboard underneath it) which gives DH the rage when he then goes to fill the dishwasher or use the sink.

Wrong in your eyes. Why are you making the spoon rules?

No, no, no I couldn't deal with this. It's knife, fork, big spoon, teaspoon.

I know @TheDogsMother but the man is an absolute star, he is everything I could ever wish for so I can forgive him these small (massive) things because it feels really petty his reasoning? You can pick up forks in your left hand and knives in your right hand and set a table easily. I see it, I don't have to like it but at least it feels logical to him.

I fell out with my partner one Christmas years ago, he offered to wash up and THREW THE GRAVY AWAY. To say I was apologetic with rage is an understatement.

It was a lush gravy made with love.
We still talk about to this day, every Christmas in fact it's folklore in this house.

A few weeks ago I lost my shit as DH decided to help me cook and put something in the oven a few mins earlier than necessary. Instead of simply telling him that and taking the tray back out, I blew my stack... 🙄

Worst time was when DD was tiny: the house was a tip (in the usual newborn-stage way) and DH had the insensitivity to buy me flowers 😳

DH is a very patient man!

Hormone-fuelled rages are not fun at the time!

boiled egg spoon
teaspoon
grapefruit spoon (also useful for melon)
fruit spoon
ordinary spoon?
soup spoon
sundae spoon
tablespoon
serving spoon
fruit serving spoon
sauce ladle

This does not include slotted spoons and full-size ladles etc which I count as utensils.
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My lot when they were younger would walk past their clutter on the stairs ( learned from their father) after screaming blue murder one too many times i decided to charge them when they wanted anything that had been left on the stair if they had passed the pile twice. Believe me they soon learned to move the pile.

@NeverDropYourMooncup ”You have a Magic Spoon!”

I never knew the correct name for it.

“Treasure that spoon - modern versions are just too big, too light, too scratchy to the touch and just Not Magic.”

Oh, I do. It’s at least 20 years old, but thank you for the warning that it’s irreplaceable.

I hope I won’t have to join a future version of this thread if it goes missing.

On reflection, I think the largest metal spoon in my image upthread is a serving spoon. I have tablespoons as well, but avoid using them because they are heirloom EPNS and won’t go in the dishwasher.

Cutlery here too. It took me months and months to find the perfect set for the weight and how the handles felt in my hand, and I ended up spending around £130 so I had 12 each of lovely matching knives, forks, dessert spoons and soup spoons and 24 teaspoons because the sets had double teaspoons in them.

I now seem to have 6 teaspoons, and have also lost a few forks, as well as forks and spoons being bent despite the fact they don't feel like you should be able to bend them at all.

I think DH might have lost some of the forks at work because random shitty forks have appeared in the drawer instead and every time I banish those ones from beside my nice forks they keep reappearing.

I also have some old sundae spoons which I don't keep in the cutlery holder but they go in the side of the drawer instead. I have the Joseph Joseph one pictured (from their website, not mine) and people keep putting the sundae spoons into the teaspoon slot which is a pain when you go for a knife and there's a long spoon handle blocking them.

I also have the Joseph Joseph loo brush pictured. The brush hides nicely inside and the lid part fits nice and flush in the little holder. Do people put it back nice and flush once they've used it? Do they heck. It's always just thrown back in willy-nilly and never put back properly. I should be glad they're using it but if they're going to the effort of using it, they can also go to the effort of putting it back properly.

Now that's what I call compromise. I may give it a try one of these days.

@kittylion2 I am in awe of your spoon collection and I'm obviously a complete spoon amateur.