Dear departed FIL list of foibles
Knives for the job; butter for toast, butter for bread, hard cheese, soft cheese, chicken, roast meat, steak, chops, grapefruit, melon, loaved bread, bread rolls, chopping herbs/ garlic.
Spoons for the job; sugar, coffee, tea, grapefruit, jelly, melon, hot soup, cold soup
Glasses for the drink; lager, bitter, fizzy pop, water, fizzy water, red wine, white wine, sherry, port, brandy. You couldn't see the table. Whole other cupboard just for glasses for breakfast purposes.
The whole rigmarole of getting the right glass and then finding which glass fronted cabinet it is in. Then washing it up before finally being presented with a drink.
Repeat for cutlery.
Microwave (always unplugged) has a sheet of kitchen roll in it on top of the glass plate. Changed weekly on a Sunday morning. When the hob is taken apart and brillo'd. No one is allowed in the kitchen during this time.
Gadgets for the job; green bean stringer, evaporated milk can opener, tomato knife, strawberry husk remover, tea bag squeezer, spaghetti measurer, a million Tupperware inventions like a blamange shaker. There is an entire Tupperware floor to ceiling cupboard.
We had to empty the loft and he had everything already mentioned, bank statements, millions screws & hooks, pieces of wood, three old toilet seats, four sets of spanners etc. The loft, garage, summer house and shed are filled to the brim with at least three of EVERYTHING.
I miss him dearly 
My mother has turned into her mother. She keeps the fairy in a pump dispenser next to the sink. The ergonomically perfect bottle designed by Proctor and Gamble isn't up to the job.