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Aibu to no longer sort cutlery?

203 replies

FaithHopeAndSkulduggery · 01/10/2018 21:19

I just put forks, knives & teaspoons all together. I no longer can be arsed to sort them. I put the spatulas etc in a jar by the cooker.

Aibu?

OP posts:
Fiffyshadesofgreymatter · 03/10/2018 19:58

@UnleashTheBulsara

That made me chuckle out loud!

Vinylsamso · 03/10/2018 19:59

I’ve been considering getting a cleaner as the icing on the cake today. I’m just going to sit round like lady muck from now on 😂

UnleashTheBulsara · 03/10/2018 20:27

Lady Muck indeed Gadding around with your cutlery drawer all messy

Don't come crying back to us with odd socks and snail forks embedded in your wotsits!!!

UnleashTheBulsara · 03/10/2018 20:29

@JaneJeffer - Snails have LOTS of teeth, savage little brutes they are.

Melaniejay · 03/10/2018 20:47

I'm so ocd it will drive me crazy to not sort it!x

borntobequiet · 03/10/2018 22:13

Just looking at the washing basket full of clean tops, socks, bras, pants, tights and miscellaneous items (folded, I have to say) and wondering whether to take it to the bedroom and transfer all items to drawers or just to nudge it under the coffee table and leave it. No one will notice, it’s only me here (and the cat, but she won’t be able to lie on it because of the coffee table).

serbska · 03/10/2018 22:25

I’m so chaotic that I have bras and knickers in the same drawer

Same drawer. Separated by Ikea skub boxes, no?

3luckystars · 03/10/2018 22:26

I thought I had seen it all on here.

But this is so shocking, so OUT THERE that it has never ever even crossed my messy mind.

I often tell dh about threads on here, but I won't tell him this. He genuinely would not sleep. He would just keel over and make lowing calf noises for the night. It might even kill him.

morningconstitutional2017 · 04/10/2018 09:08

I always sort the cutlery so that I can find what I want when I want. I just wish that I could say the same thing about my sewing/computer room.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/10/2018 09:09

Tiny forks for snails shock They have teeth don't they?! They don't need cutlery!

I have teeth! I need cutlery!

(Not sure how a snail would grasp a fork, mind you . . . - with one of its eyeball stalks, perhaps?)

Nanny0gg · 04/10/2018 09:14

My dishwasher has a cutlery tray not a basket.

So it's really hard to muddle up the cutlery anyway.

TheFaerieQueene · 04/10/2018 09:24

KathDayKnight I cant believe you threw out your iron. Kath always has nice straight creases in her ‘stove pipes’

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/10/2018 09:40

I haven't thrown my iron out, but it is rarely used.

I sometimes hear it gently sobbing in the cupboard. I just turn the telly up.

KathDayKnight50 · 04/10/2018 09:56

I cant believe you threw out your iron. Kath always has nice straight creases in her ‘stove pipes’

LOL, I know what you mean Grin

I think I chose this username because I wish I DID have some of KDK's get-up-and-go. Aspirational choice of username for me.

KERALA1 · 04/10/2018 11:59

I always cheat at cooking. Nigel slater and his take X out then fry y I always just shove in together. No ill effects so far. I cba with any recipe that takes longer than 15 minutes if it does I get resentful and internally aggressive.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/10/2018 12:14

Aspirational choice of username for me.

You're worth it.

soupforbrains · 04/10/2018 13:01

You're worth it.

now I feel like I should have been more aspirational when I picked my name... Sad

JaneJeffer · 04/10/2018 13:32

Aww soup SadGrin

ToastyFingers · 04/10/2018 14:27

I'm as messy as they come, I've probably only ironed 3 things in the last year and I regularly eat off paper plates to avoid dishes but I shuddered at the thought of an un-organised cutlery drawer.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 04/10/2018 14:30

Just get a cutlery tray?

averylongtimeago · 04/10/2018 14:44

It's knives, forks, spoons. Separate space for serving spoons and another for teaspoons.
Mil used to move them to forks spoons knives whenever she visited, it would drive me nuts.

I also segregate mugs by size and desirability- big mugs and my favourite mug on the bottom shelf, tatty ones for outside on the middle shelf and the "best" China ones for visiting mils on the top shelf.

averylongtimeago · 04/10/2018 14:49

I don't do any ironing though, but I do sort socks and my knickers. They are sorted by colour btw, then folded got the idea from a thread on here and arranged in rows.
I just stuff dh's in his drawer.

JaneJeffer · 04/10/2018 14:52

avery you should use the tatty mugs for MIL then she might not come around so often and mess up your cutlery

averylongtimeago · 04/10/2018 15:42

Jane no, what she did was to choose mugs she knew I didn't like - the ones with a chip or that funny shape which is wider at the top than the bottom, instead of the decent mugs. She would even root them out from the back of the cupboard..

TheNoodlesIncident · 04/10/2018 17:05

Or cups with black or navy inside that makes your tea look poo

If I was handed a mug with a chip out of the rim I would interpret that as "I hate you."

But I wouldn't ever rearrange someone else's cutlery drawers. There are boundaries that you just don't cross...

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