It goes, knives, forks, spoons, knives, forks, spoons....

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

It always has
Knives, forks, spoons..... always

AI therefore BU to be irritated beyond belief that when DH unloads the sodding dishwasher that he cannot get it right?He always puts them in random places in our cutlery tray, but never knives, forks, spoons

I suspect he does it like this so that I stop asking him to do it, but we have been together for 15 years!

Knives, forks, spoons or AIBU?!!

No this thread is purely about cutlery drawer organisation, and to my horror,
many people don't seem to be organising theirs correctly or socially acceptably.

No, it goes small knives, forks (both small and big), big knives, sharp knives, with spoons, both normal and soup, at the front. Teaspoons on the slidy bit on top. (The different sizes of utensil that share a space get put opposite ways round, in nice tidy piles, so you know which is which, by the way). And yes, separate in dishwasher too.

No, I'm NOT anal! Honest!

Ooooohhhh, I see - cutlery trays. Well yes, knives to the back along with old toothbrushes for tap cleaning and other toddler hazards.

Nit combs should be hidden too as I found out to my cost after seeing DS rubbing his teeth with one.

Absolutely agree - it goes

Knives
Forks
Spoons

Anything else is madness. DH keeps putting the forks in the spoons bit and then he says
WHERE ARE ALL THE FORKS.

Quite right too, Rather.

Now where would one's fish knives live?

well mine is sort of knives forks spoons just in reverse

maybe I should turn the tray round

Fish knives and nit combs....let me think.

Chuck out the fish knives then there will be no confusion and as for nit combs, they go in the general junky clutter drawer which is entirely separate. They have no place in cutlery drawer etiquette

this thread is so unbelievable I cant actually believe I am reading it! You will all be obsessing about washing lines and order of clothes hung out types of pegs used etc Honestly life is too short!!! so go and get one!

ClaireDeLoon

Turn the tray around, and your life will be complete.

Rubyrubyruby

You too need to rotate your drawer, knives do need to go in the long one ON THE LEFT, then you will find it will go

knives
forks
spoons

Thank you bm3

It's like some sort of existentialist poem: KNIFE, SPOON, FORK etc (repeat for 48 hours in a lugubrious voice).

Some of these people are pretending to joke but you know deep down they're deadly, deadly serious.

Forks, spoons, knives but only because middle sectin is wider (for spoons) and right hand side is longer (for knives).

I can't mix different patterns of cutlery so anything thatch goes all together in a wide bit at the back. I'm not OCD, it's the only tidy bit in my whole house.

I'm serious

Tomorrow, I'm going to do a thread about my son's top drawer of his chest of drawers where it goes pants, vests, socks

Flippin keyboard...grrr.

'anything thatch?'

You have thatched cutlery????

I find it more utterly shocking that there are households in this very country... perhaps living near me, that don't have this very issue

You my friends have married your soulmates. I bet he knows exactly which coffee mug and which teacup to use on each individual occassion also doesn't he?

I'm phoning Relate in the morning

Well, not read all of this BUT

In the cutlery draw it is quite clearly forks on the left, spoons in the middle, knives on the right.

They can be in a muddle in the DW, but now sure that I dare go there in case it opens the whole handle up or handle down debate. (For the record DH says handles up, always. But I say sharp knives go handle up for safety reasons - and I should know having previously impaled my hand on a steak knife that when in the wrong way up! - but otherwise handles down.)

Pants, socks, vests

You're all fucking loons. L-R should be spoons, forks, gap where knives would be if DH wasn't so free with them knives. Anything else is an abomination and frankly, weird.

inchhighprivateeye You may be snooty about cutlery etiquette, but you can't keep away can you

Thatched cutlery sounds very rural to me, something maybe they would have had in Cranford?

you

When you phone relate tomorrow,you will get the engaged tone, because I will be calling first.

And it does go knives, forks, spoons

Rockbird You are the loon on loon tablets and clearly need to rotate your drawer, you have it in the wrong way round

When I get to 100 posts on my thread I will call it a day!!

Are you the same people who have to hang the washing out in a certain way?

I quit!!

But I'm glad you all agree with me - there is only one way

knives
forks
spoons

Thank you, and good night

Meet up tomorrow for pants vests socks in DS top drawer of his chest of drawers.