to think that the b*st*rd gremlins that keep stealing my teaspoons should give them back!!

[psychomum5]

I swear there is a tea spoon conspiracy going on. I had 100's of the damn things once, now down to that few that in one day they are all used up!!

and then there is the black hole safe place.....that too is shit!!

hi there!!!

talk to the kids.

I had the same problem and discovered that the spoons were going in the bin with the yhoghurt pots.

WHY?!! I mean, well, just...WHY?!!!!

oh, and while I am on a moany subject....hairgrips, work of the devil, espeically when the girls drop them everywhere on dark carpets and then I hoover them up.

I think my dyson has died.....making a BAD noise and smells like burning now:(

hecate:o:o

I feel you may be right. this is why I started buying frubes, but no, DH feels frubes are too pricey and yoghurts are the way to go.
clearly they are also the way to lose said spoons

Spoons, hair bobbles and socks..oh and pens. There is never never a pen or pencil in this house and yet I buy packets of them

I thought AHAHA! i know the answer to that! I'm a genius and the world will be forever greatful! but en Hec got there first. bin with yogurt pots.

YES, pens too!!

they are to be blames on the children tho....I know that one.

I cleaned out the girls room in the summer, and took back all my biros and pens I have been missing......I filled a shoe box with them !

When I lived at home with my parents, we had the teaspoon problem. We realised where they were when we kept finding Mum's teabags in the sink or dishwasher .

Sorry, I steal everyone's pens. Went to a baby fair on the weekend and when one lady asked for her pen back I said "oh, I always steal pens". She pointed at my other hand (two pens, no idea they were there)and said "yes, you do". Oops

Brought a tin opener (as old one has decided not to open tins anymore). New one was used once... and has never been seen again. Now missing for well over a week.

Where do these things vanish to... have stipped the kids beds (strange what you find hidden there sometimes) but no sign of the tin opener.

The kitchen bin I expect has a lot to answer for... maybe a metal detector is needed to check contents of the bin, prior to it being put out for collection.

Check school bags as well...

Nice to see you back

lol katey....and also for you.

EG, seeing as I am doing the online shop this week, we are now back to frubes again.....only prob is, it won;t replace the spoons

googly, that is funny

nannynick, I lost mine once too......bought a new one, old one turned up in the place I had looked for days. this is why I reckon gremlins are to blame

chippingin, thankyou:)...my break ran away with me

We ran out of tea spoons too and resorted to 'frubes'....things lost in our house are ....intricate important lego starwars things,my hair bobble (im the only female) my bank card (seeing a chain here?) for some god forsaken reason my eye cream .....dh loses almost all his black sock partners and that could cause divorce ....but weirdly 5ps turn up everywhereand I really mean everywhere -its like a shilling burgular.

see, teaspoons and poens I can understand. My dilemma involves a quiche tin and 2 sandwich pans.

Where the hell did they go?

They still haven't turned up despite me going out and buying more of the buggers.

My tweezers for my eyebrows. I supposedly have 5 sets of them now, and can't find one. My eyebrows are approaching monobrow status, and I'm still resolutely hanging on to the idea that one of them will turn up. Because I just know that the very minute I buy another pair, all 5 of the others will turn up. I now buy tesco value teaspoons, which do not match my cutlery, because we had no teaspoons left.

nutella, I reckon if you pull your cupboards away from the wall, you will find them. I have a BOX full of tupperware, baking pans, veg peelers, knives and forks (but not spoons strangely) all found under and behind our old kitchen when we pulled it out!!

nickschick, shame the burglar can;t leave £1 coins ins;t it

always ran out of teaspoons when kids were younger,apparently they are useful for all manner of things.Also everybody laughs if I say Iam putting something in a safe place as it's never seen again.I have moved house four times and even completely emptying a house I still don't find them.

Ours are completely flush to the wall Psycho, so no chance.

I even pulled the plinth away to see if DH muppet had somehow managed to get them under there, but no joy.

loudlass, my tweezers are found in the girls rooms, always.

as are all my nail clippers.

and my hair brushes, make up, hair products, clothes, shoes.....

now, don;t get me wrong, I feel flattered that my teens like my taste in clothing and accessories, but taking and not returning....quickest way to my turning really psycho

lilyliz, you do indeed have a true black hole then

nutella, .....do you have a futility room?? I also lose stuff in there. I wander around with kitchen stuff, and low, 5wks later, I find it in the cupboard in there where I put it for safety while unloading the washing machine.

hence the name futility

Pens, socks and hair bobbles here. Although I have short hair so now that it's growing again I've no way of tying it up! Grr

Worst of all though, worse than ANY of that, is my sock gremlin not only misplaces them, but wears holes in all my SUPER COMFY WARM socks so I have to throw them out

I have a futility room from which nothing ever goes missing

Forks. That is what goes missing in our house.

But I think I know what is happening. The prongs are healing up and they are morphing in to dessert spoons. Why else would we now have an unfeasibly large number of spoons and hardly any forks.

I have hair bobble coming out of my ears....well, not literally, but after three girls plus me, I have baskets full of the damn things!!

and the holes in socks, yup, happens here too. And never to the odd ones, just the fave paired ones. moth type holes at that, not worn out holes (IYGWIM).

nuttella, you clearly have a good futility room