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!!

5foot5....:o

Ha Ha Ha.. But why do they only ever take ONE of my DS's socks??..
Have lost sooo many pens, have now resorted to nipping into Barclays to nick theirs!..

Ah, have been in 'relationships' for last 3 days.. Needed a chuckle.. Thank you!

5foot5 i feel your pain!! we have a fork drought here but its raining knives and spoons!! i think at last count we had 5 forks and 19 knives and 17 spoons!!...not that im sad and count my forks like...

i buy hair clips and bobbles like nobodys business!! me and DD spend at least 5 mins or more every morning hunting for a hair bobble

i have a full basket of odd socks in DDs bedroom...they enter the washing machine as a pair and come out on their own...god knows what goes on in there!!

well, barcleys actively encourage the stealing, tis free advertising for them, so hey, you have to please the banks don;t'cha

I don;t venture into relationships.....tis sad and scary and depressing in equal measures. god, that sounds horrible doesn;t it

panda, I reckons if you went into the drains outside everyones houses, the ones that the washing machines empty into, there would be a whole world made up of odd socks, all come to life like a sock version of toy story:o

Lordy Lordy ,Am glad you said that psychomum! I only joined MN on Friday, was beginning to think i was a right bleedin' numpty over there!
Couldn't work out what they where going on about half the time!

Am grateful for the bit of advice tho'.. But a bit heavy!!

Do you feel really bad tho' when at christmas you take the pens sent to you in the post,from charities, without giving any money to them? ..It's bad!..

Ohhh psychomum how ive missed you ,only you could 'do' a sock version of toy story .......

nickschick...:o:o

flamingo, I also take the pens. I reckon if they have enough money to send free pens, they don;t need the charity do they??

Psychomum5, Speaking as a women who, in her youth used to be a right little anarchist..
These days nicking pens from Barclays, and charity letters is all i have the energy for!

I wanted to go out and change the world..
but i couldn't find a babysitter!

Scissors have legs in my house
Every time I go to Ikea I buy a pack of 5.

I you were to ask me to put my hand on a pair now I would be gone for hours.

something a little like this maybe

ah, I have many pairs of scissors......damn shame really, I try and hide them from the scissor monster (DS2 has a scissor fettish and confetti's everything.....clothes, bedding, sponge bob is legless at the moment as is 'elent', all due to the evil scissor monster ), but alas, they all return.

flamingo, that was my problem, lack of babysitter!!

panda, thats where the socks all go

It all sounds like 'The Borrowers' have been making an entire village under our floorboards!

have a job in my house.....all concrete flooring downstairs!!

Psychomum.. We would of shown 'em!..!!

i steal teaspoons

Aaah psychomum.. teaspoons for to dig tho'.. all be it v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.. Don't quite know what the scissors and odd socks are for tho'!?

thisisyest.. Are you a borrower?

no, but perhaps i was in a previous life??? :-S

....send 'em back please!!

I am nice tho, I will make you a coffee before you leave with said stolen spoons:o

flamingo, we would have indeedy:o

We have a very similar problem.

Its most odd.

Its like there is a cutlery tide or something. Knife tide comes in and we have so many they don't all fit in their bit of the cutlery drawer.... teaspoon tide goes out and we have to stir coffee with a knife...

Then next week it'll all change. Teaspoon tide will come in and there will be a very low knife tide.

Tho' I suspect the real problem lies with the resident teenagers.

Like big, hungry, noisy Borrowers, they are

Big borrowers-Living on top of the floorboards, in the fridge, in our hair!..

Fact: every house has a singularity that pulls in pens, odd socks, paperclips, teaspoons.
It's all pouring out into a parallel universe.
In our house it is The Black Hole of Calcutta our son's bedroom.

Oh and by the way - check under your floorboards. Apparently when my DH and SIL were small they used to shove teaspoons down between the floorboards . This was seemingly what they did for entertainment in the good old days. My MIL discovered them all by chance after wondering where they all went.

There is NO WAY i am venturing between the floorboards in my son's bedroom..
Not for all the tea(spoons) in China!..