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Original poster

to think someone is breaking in at night and stealing our spoons?

75 replies

Worriedobsessive · 19/11/2017 23:31

That’s the only rational explanation. We are a normal family and yet I have just had to order more dessert spoons as there appear to be only 2 left! And this is after buying extras last year!!! WTF? Where are the spoons going?

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5foot5 · 20/11/2017 00:03

In our house the spoons end up in surplus while the forks seem to disappear. I thought maybe the tines healed up and they turned in to spoons.

It's one of life's little mystery isn't it? Like the way bros left in a drawer will all turn red.

MyOtherProfile · 20/11/2017 00:03

I have the explanation! It's the space rabbits of Brocklevoons.

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5foot5 · 20/11/2017 00:05

Bros? What is wrong with this tablet tonight? I meant biroes as in ball point pens

WishingOnABar · 20/11/2017 00:06

Ours disappear at school with the yoghurt pots. We only have one teaspoon left in the house now. I buy the yogurt tubes now to stop it happening

NoSquirrels · 20/11/2017 00:08

5foot I autocorrected your "bros" in my head into "bras" and was quite pleased with it - but biros probably makes more sense, tbh.

Lily2007 · 20/11/2017 00:10

Did you try under the sofa as well as in it? Best only attempted when feeling brave.

The key in our house is you will find them close to where the male child eats and socks also appear there. Grin Though according to DD I also have the world's largest teaspoon collection, I think she said I have 36 spoons and there's only 4 of us 😂

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Worriedobsessive · 20/11/2017 00:13

I’m not looking under the sofa! God only knows what’s living there!

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lasketchup · 20/11/2017 00:13

I second the bin! I discovered two tea spoons in there after watching my 4 year old throwing her yoghurt pot in the sink and the spoon in the bin!

I’ve lost about 5 and can’t replace them as the set I have has been discontinued. 😒🙄

badbadhusky · 20/11/2017 00:16

We bought some really crap teaspoons from the pound shop for packed lunches. They must be homing spoons because we still have 5/6 nearly 18 mo later.

cattychatty · 20/11/2017 00:23

They ran away with the dish obviously Grin

brasty · 20/11/2017 00:24

We have someone who steals our teaspoons. I am going to have to buy more as we have hardly any left.

buggeritall · 20/11/2017 00:30

I used to lose forks when DS was a baby. He wasn't old enough to use grown up ones. Couldn't work out why we lost them.

One day I saw him take one off a plate and dump it in the bin

Sneaky bloody fork stealing toddler

Mystery was solved. Apart from why he did it which I will never know but I've made peace with that

IClavdivs · 20/11/2017 00:33

You must have Borrowers (as in the Mary Norton books) and they're using them for things as diverse as water features, serving bowls, cooking pots or even part of a trebuchet, if they're experiencing some form of conflict.

holdbackonthewine · 20/11/2017 08:07

I used to find things in the car which had fallen out of school bags or from eating on the hoof. Dare you look under car seats? Nothing you find will be worse than my friend who had potatoes growing in the carpet at the bottom of her boot.

We still have a tea spoon thief though and we are all grown up.

Now we have grandchildren it’s going into reverse. I was trying to pay for something and pulled out a baby sock (just one of course) and a door wedge (why?) from my bag. Also found a doorstop the wrong side of the door which was a puzzle until I realised little fingers had posted it through the cat flap!

totoromama · 20/11/2017 08:11

Poglites!!! Are you in space and do you have cakes? 🍰

londonrach · 20/11/2017 08:18

We have the same problem...

Dakiara · 20/11/2017 10:47

We lost 30 or so before we caught my then two year old "helping" with the breakfast tidying by binning them. Grin

Bluelonerose · 20/11/2017 10:51

The school coz the kids don't bring them back Hmm

Efferlunt · 20/11/2017 11:06

BIn. My dad has form for this, teaspoons, potato peelers even eggcups. We usually go through the bins after a visit.

Allthewaves · 20/11/2017 11:10

We have this with teaspoons

listsandbudgets · 20/11/2017 11:14

I think you are right. Should any of you fund out who these gome wrecking monsters are please will you ask them what they have done with all my bowls, spoons and socks

TheWildOnes · 20/11/2017 11:14

We used to have knives and potato peepers go missing all the time. We had a new kitchen put in this year and when pulling the old one out there were 2 carrier bags of stuff that had somehow fallen out the back of the drawers. There were about 10 peelers, a few knives, hundreds of straws, placemats, a baby bottle of middle DSs (who is now 10).

BrieAndChilli · 20/11/2017 11:15

We are losing knives at an alarming rate but gaining teaspoons!!

I think that the fluff in the tumble drier is the remains of socks!!

I found the top of a sock in the washing machine the other day, it was just the elasticated bit from the top, now t may or may not have been DD cutting up a sock for some unknown craft purpose or it could have been that the washing machine was interrupted mid munch!!

wonkylegs · 20/11/2017 11:19

My toddler likes secreting spoons in shoes - gave granny a shock the other week as she hadn't thought to check before putting them on.

JoanLenin · 20/11/2017 11:23

I used to know someone who left the teaspoons in youghurt pots and threw them to the bin together.
Investigate the kids and the husband.