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

[Worriedobsessive]

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?

It's forks that vanish here. We had loads, now we're down to 6, so there's a fight every night over who uses a plastic one (7 of us in the house).
We have hundreds of teaspoons though, ds had a birthday party when he was 5 (now 11), and wanted jelly, when I went to buy plastic spoons asda didn't have any, so I bought 48 really cheap metal ones, figuring they'd end up in the bin but they cost less than £2 so I didn't care. One of the parents diligently washed them all and popped them in a present bag for me. We still have most of them!

Brie ... it could have been that the washing machine was interrupted mid munch!!

Losing socks (usually) or bites taken out of other clothing is actually the sacrifice to the Laundry God that we must give in return for the convenience of not having to scrub in all in a tub and out it through a mangle.

My inlaws steal our spoons. I have found them in the cutlery drawer at their house and I quietly steal them back. I have no idea why they do it, but I know they do!

On multiple occasions I have accused school of running a spoon racket. They don't deny it quickly enough either so I think I am right. Recently they have diversified into socks.

Does your sofa have a tiny gap under it?

You are accidentally throwing them away. Trust me, i speak from experience. In finished yoghurt pots etc

Will trade you spoons for forks! Have about 20 spoons, 3 forks, where do they go?!

All of my dessert spoons are morphing into soup spoons. There is definitely a conspiracy afoot...

When the police catch this midnight spoon thief, can you get them to ask him where my fucking teaspoons are as well?

The decent cutlery lives in a wooden canteen hidden well away from the kitchen. I no longer have any matching cutlery in the kitchen drawer at all. Most of it has gone off to school or work and been replaced by random items of school or work bits. MOD canteen cutlery is remarkably horrible.

Garden.

DS was a digger.

Someone must steal my teaspoons. I've bought so many packs of them and they just disappear! DS1 used to take one in his packed lunch on wednesdays then it got taken out, washed and kept at his Dad's after school, so that explained some of them. But he's on school dinners now and they still vanish!

Something really weird happened a couple of weeks ago though. I was alone in the house overnight, had a small glass of wine then put a stopper in the bottle. I know I did this as I remember very clearly having to hunt for the damn thing in the drawer, and I had to push it in hard and wiggle it to get the seal right. I also took out my dangly earrings and put them both right in the middle of the dining table so they didn't get knocked off by accident. I went to bed, got up in the morning - the stopper was gone from the bottle and only one earring was on the table! I've hunted high and low but neither item has turned up in the house. Now that's very odd and worries me a bit - either I am insane and did something odd I can't recall (scary) or someone got in past the locks and alarms and only nicked those two items (unlikely!).

... or a ghost, Roomba

This thread has made me laugh, I used to think DH was leaving me 1 spoon at a time

Oddly, by the time the DC's were in about year 9, most of my spoons had reappeared. I think a big tidy out of school bags helped.

Of course YABU. And naive.

Clearly your dishwasher is eating them!!

I'll send you some. My tea spoons seem to grow up and change into dessert spoons. It's the only explanation for the fact I have about 4 times more dessert spoons than tea spoons.

The knives disappear in our house...

Thankfully amazon prime has saved me and two packets of spoons arrived just now. So ha, spoony thief!

My dog steals cutlery and hides it in her bed. I'm also always having to buy teaspoons from amazon!

Hope the new ones last longer! Ours are always in school/work backpacks as they never get put back in the lunch boxes after yoghurt and accumulate at the bottom of bags

An old friend of mine had the problem of disappearing spoons and it turned out that, unbeknownst to her, her new husband was a heroin addict! Apparently, metal spoons are used to melt the heroin before injecting it.

Oooo that could be it! I’ll ask Mr Worried if that’s what’s going on!!!

Does anyone in your house take spoons to work for their lunches? They might Accidentally be leaving them there!

No. But, I think I may have a new lead! I went down the garden earlier to put the bin out and there is a bit where the kids have been “digging for treasure.” For treasure they actually mean bits of broken brick from when the house was built, but anyway, it keeps them quiet. I saw a bit of something shiny and found, not treasure but a dessert spoon, in a shallow grave. Hmm. It was too late to start exhuming but unless my husband really IS a massive smack-head and I haven’t noticed, I think I could be on to something.

Ooh well done. Definitely explore in the morning