Teaspoons ….

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Where the hell do they go?

I bought a whole new set just a month ago. Gone! Everyone in the house denies any knowledge of where they go so I was wondering if MN has any insight. I’m wondering if they hang out with odd socks?

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I need to buy some more !
Where does everyone buy some

Yep. Pens, teaspoons, odd socks. No idea. I dint have little kids and my kids tend to not throw stuff out (near the bin rather than in the bin).
My DD is now at uni and has also complained about how socks go walkabout.

I think washing machines eat socks. But I don’t think the dishwasher is eating my teaspoons.

I would check bags with flour and sugar. I often leave them there after measuring.
They also tend to go sort of under/ on the side of cutlery tray which is slightly smaller than its drawer.
One teaspoon was in my bag.
DH took one to work and forgot to bring back.
If all of them have disappeared there is a chance that it’s a case of putting them into a wrong place. If half of them is not there, they are lost completely.

I once found one in my compost heap.

They’re with the socks, hairties and my dignity.

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My teaspoons hang out in hiding with my nice clicky tupperware lids

My prime suspect is our oldest. The teaspoon haemorrhage situation seems to have calmed down since she went to uni.

DH and I went teaspoon shopping recently, trying to find some to match the shape and heft of our one remaining wedding cutlery teaspoon. John Lewis let us down on this, but we found some nice, really solid ones in Pro cook.

There used to be a theory that as they grew they metamorphosed into the wire coathangers which used to multiply in wardrobes - however this must be false as most coathangers now are plastic and the spoons are still disappearing.

I feel like I’ve unlocked some elite adult achievement as we’ve had the same full set of IKEA cutlery since 1998 and through three house moves - all teaspoons still present and correct!

Mind you, we don’t have DC. Nor, it would appear, borrowers.

We do have a kleptomaniac cat but she’s obsessed with nail files, not flatware.

There was a brief mention on BBC World service the other week about the 'half life' of a teaspoon. For those who are unsure about 'half lives' in scientific terms it's usually the length of time it takes for a radiation level to drop by half.. But teaspoons? Not generally radioactive. But the researchers had bought 100 teaspoons for their canteen, and within 81 days there were only 50 left. The half life of a teaspoon is apparently 81 days. Who knew?

Ha...

I have only lately throw out 3 nice like-new clicky lids for boxes which have been in hiding for the last 4 years.....

Three new teaspoons have appeared in that timeframe as well as others disappeared I think my kitchen has a randomly opening portal👽

@AnSolas , you do realise that by binning the lids you have summoned the boxes?

It’s tweezers and hairbands here 🙄

I've got the opposite problem.
Started with 8 from ikea set. Purchased a few more when DD was small.
We now have about 29 of various sizes and patterns.

They run off to Teaspoonland.

One mystery I want to know is that when we've replaced the missing teaspoons then the forks decide to run off to Forkland, so we replace the forks.
Next thing the knives are disappearing followed by the dessert spoons.

Now the bloody shower scrunchy puff things have got wind of what the cutlery has been up too & so they've decided to clear off too!

They may look like innocent household items but they're fooling us by pretending they're not sentient 😂

Yet we end up with 56 knives , I’m sure they breed with each other in the cutlery draw on a night !

It was teaspoons, until I got a load more and now there are always far too many.

A year ago our forks went missing, so I bought a couple of inferior replacements. Now the knives have gone to join the forks.
Our cake forks have also gone. I swear it’s teenagers but they deny it.

Why are they in such weird places?

Im not expecting an answer, as our youngest (now 19) was like this and we never found out a reason. He just shrugged, so he didn’t know.

Just hoping you had cracked one of life’s mysteries. 😁

Terry Wogan used to say that disappearing scissors turned into teaspoons at the bottom of the washing up bowl. Perhaps you have the reverse happening!

Never lost one at home. This thread is a mystery to me, but then my kids just put their yoghurt pots and spoons straight in the sink, instead of rinsing out the pots themselves and putting in the recycling. Maybe I won’t force the issue in case we end up with a sudden spoon shortage.

Work however, never a clean teaspoon anywhere. Always a few in the disgusting sink of doom though.

My kids used to clear up after meals and I firmly believe the teaspoons used to accidentally get thrown in the bin along with the other detritus. I found one in there once. Poor teaspoons.

Trust me I Know!!

I lost my credit card and cancell it.
It quite literally tripped me the next morning ....... when I stepped on it.
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