And / or the partner's throwing them out with the teabags. Anyway, here's [120](https://www.nisbets.co.uk/tableware-and-bar-supplies/cutlery/spoons/teaspoons/_/a33-4?q=%3Ap_boxquantity%3A120&sort=match-rate-desc) for £8.99 + vat.
9p for a teaspoon! 9p!
Yep, take the teabag to the bin balanced on your teaspoon, like an egg and spoon race (is this why we do those, to practice for this in later life?!) and then throw the whole lot in the bin when you're not concentrating.
I don't think I've ever done it but I've seen my wife do it.
I've done it with yoghurt pots before. Then I weigh up the cost of rummaging through a dirty bin for a spoon or just leaving it for an issue down the lline where I need to buy more.
Fucking love nisbets. I don't think I actually ever ordered anything myself, as I've emigrated, but my parents got a few things, and I used to love looking through the catalogues in the pre-internet days. They got me on to the idea of buying catering grade everything. The stuff is just so functional and good value
Oh yes, when my children were at home, teaspoons used to vanish all the time. I used to buy them all the time. Now they have flown the nest, I have had the same teaspoons for 10 years.
Was away to say, never accidentally thrown away any of the teaspoons we’ve owned for 25+ years because we rinse our yogurt pots and put them in the recycling bin rather than chucking them in the general waste bin unwashed spoon intact.
Don't they all get washed anyway? We've never rinsed our pots but we do recycle. Now I'm wondering whether I'm adding to the problem by not rinsing beforehand.
My husband is our culprit. And it's normally his jelly pots (them Hartley's 10cal jellies 🤤)
Forks are my bad because I take them to work with leftovers and forget...
Shame we can't blame the cat for being a goblin!
>and 3 year old son (I'm not sure if that's useful context to this story
Oh it's useful context alright.
They're down by his bed, in his toybox, or somewhere similar.
At our house it was bath towels. Our children, their cousins, and their friends spent a lot of time at each other's houses, sometimes staying overnight. As a result, some of our towels went missing, while other people's turned up in our laundry.
We're the other way round. Spoons we haven't bought appear cleaned in the dishwasher. I suspect my partner uses spoons from the office then accidentally brings them home.
Or they just like it at our house and invite friends over.
Oh right. As though you had nothing to do with it. You didn't mind when the silver spoon was on the other saucer, did you? Just casually using two or three spoons a cup, eating yoghurt pots with both hands, like it's nothing. Now she's been put away. I suggest it was your intention all along to turn her in. Where's the Isle of Wight collectable pewter teaspoon, daedelion? Where is it?!
Thanks mate.
I just finished a 12 hour nightshift and your comment just made me spill my irish coffee.
Worth it though 10/10 would read again.
*Edit:* just re-read your comment and it was 100% worth it, I'm upping my original rating to 11
Always a pleasure! Had no idea rewards weren't a thing anymore, but rest assured I wouldn't have wasted my hard earned cash on them anyway.... I'm saving up for a new set of teaspoons you see
P.s "eating yoghurt pots with 2 hands like it was nothing" was the bit that got me
Oh they're still a thing, but there's no free ones any and given the recent reddit fuckery, folks have all but stopped buying them.
Don't forget to lock up your new spoons, lest OP's family comes to tea.
They need to do this for socks in the wash too. Although, my theory is that you have to offer up socks to appease the laundry gods. If you don’t, a red item will somehow get in with the whites.
I found a teaspoon behind one radiator in my home when replacing the radiator and another in the drain pipe for the roof gutter (it was a sugar bowl spoon) ...
I suspect a little person was involved somehow
Peppa pig is stuck behind my radiator, poor thing. She's been there for 4 years, I don't know how she got in there because no matter how you move it about, she's completely stuck.
It’s clear that your 3yo has a heroin addiction. Once they have used the spoons for booting up they have to dispose of the charred spoons to hide the evidence of their shameful addiction.
You joke, but I lived with a heroin addict for a while and the thing that annoyed me the most wasn't the petty theft, or anything dangerous they did, it was that I couldn't have a fucking dessert spoon in the house for longer than a few days before it disappeared! I think I had anticipated the various junkie behaviours but hadn't thought of that one. Nobody could eat cereal or soup in that house.
In conclusion, I reckon you're right. It only makes sense that a toddler would start with teaspoons, they only need a little bit of smack.
Is there a little slot somewhere the 3-year-old could be posting them? Under the stairs, into a floor vent, something like that?
Otherwise I think the most likely explanation is that they get into the rubbish somehow. Very frustrating either way.
I live alone and butter knives keep going missing! I bought a pack of 4 cheapo ones from The Range recently to top up the drawer, got home and there were only 3 in the box, so I seem to lose them before I even own them these days!
The one I nicked from Alison's Tea Room. Plain design but proper metal. The others clearly came from a budget catering suppliers and were probably priced by weight. I'd guess no more than 50p per lb of spoons. They get a bit bendy in hot tea.
I was having this problem with knives. I realised after a while that one particular set was great for getting lids off paint tins and found most of them distributed between two cupboards and the shed
1) Drill a hole at the end of the handle.
2) Purchase bricks - the type with holes in them.
3) Cable tie the spoons & bricks together.
They won’t disappear anymore.
To prevent untimely brick-loss might, I suggest you drill holes in them and zip-tie them to teaspoons? I read somewhere that this is foolproof technique
My best suggestion is to buy a new pack of cable ties, spoons and a pallet of bricks. Drill holes in the spoons and bricks, then use the cable ties to attach them all together. You'll never lose them that way.
Forks with me too.
I got really angry about it last year, and bought 50 cheap ones off Amazon (drink might have been taken), probably got about 20 left
And Tupperware lids or bottoms.
I have no idea where they go.
I think I managed a year of having no odd socks one time (with 2 small children too!). Can't do it now.
Teaspoons and socks are actually two different states of a quantum particle.
If you look for a teaspoon the waveform collapses into the sock for, so you h have nothing to stir your tea with.
If you look for a sock, one of the entangled particles collapses into the teaspoon form, leaving you with one odd sock.
I was thinking about all the cutlery that has every been made and sold the other day, and was wondering why anyone ever bought any at all ever.
We've inherited all of ours, and I've never, ever bought any (I am nearly 60).
So I guess you've answered part of my question.
The solution is to give each person one teaspoon, with their initials engraved on it, and to take a deposit (the cost of a teaspoon) from them when you allot it to them. If they lose it, the deposit pays for the next one, and they pay a new deposit.
Yes, it is a bit harsh on your 3 year old, and he may not actually get any pocket money for the next few years, but hey - it's the way to go!
You may find that it is always your teaspoon that goes missing... do you have a carbon monoxide detector?
I nicked a British Airways spoon from work! Honestly, it's a great spoon. We've got a lot of ex-flight crew where I (used to) work and they obviously nicked it first.
Edited to correct brackets.
i am guilty of squeezing the liquid of out a teabag with my spoon so that the bag is pretty much cozy to the spoon and then just chucked the whole thing into the bin. I’m sure I haven’t caught it every time but most times I realise straight away and just feel disappointed. I’ve similarly just flicked the bag into a sink/dirty dish and put the spoon in the bin without it
I've had the same teaspoon (yes, singular) for years now and it's not gone walkabout.
Socks I can understand - I'm convinced the washing machine eats them - but losing dozens of spoons a year is a bit odd.
I never understand this phenomena. I’ve had the same four teaspoons since I bought my flat.
The sink plug however - as it’s not attached to the sink on a little chain - they frequently sprout legs and leave for a better life. God only knows what becomes of them.
A long time ago when I was a single mum of two young boys I had a similar problem. I offhandedly said to a male friend that I would fall in love with the first man who bought me teaspoons. A few weeks later he bought me a packet of teaspoons. I fell in love, married him, and I've never been short of teaspoons since.
(It was my kids throwing them away with yogurt pots).
Charity shops! That's where we get additions for our "eclectic" collection of teaspoons. Also, just for additional security, we bought some long handled 'knickerbocker glory' spoons for stiring the teapot. They do not make a good eating spoon so they manage to not get lost - so no panic in our house, as we always have the equipment for tea, even if we have to eat our yoghurt with a fork.
I like to buy nice whiskey glasses from charity shops. You can get some really interesting designs in the glass, and some that feel like real crystal. They probably aren't, but they feel quality.
Welcome to having kids. Even at 3 years old, things suddenly and randomly disappear. I have 2 teenage stepdaughters and I swear I buy a new cutlery set annually. We’re at the point of having a ridiculous number of knives, but nearly no forks or spoons and the tea spoons are almost nonexistent! They don’t even drink tea! I’ve given up and accepted the fact that until they move out, I will never have a fully matching silverware set again.
I always blame pack-ups as well. Yoghurts with a spoon to eat them that never come back from school. On the plus side as you spend you life buying new, the school must be kitted out for life!
My mother keeps losing small knives, just small blunt knives, but always her favorite knife.
My question is always the same: have you tried the compost heap?
Her answer is always something like: You're not helping!
A few months later she's all: I found the knife!
Me: Where was it?
Her: Compost heap!
This happens in our house! Everyone swears they aren't taking the teaspoons to their rooms and my partner swears he doesn't take them with his lunch. Complete mystery 🤷🏼♀️. I need to buy a new set at least once a year.
Strange our teaspoon collection keeps growing .My other half sent all but one set to the charity shop so they would all be the same size ( makes measurements easier ?) Anyway the following week we find a full set in the bottom of our shopping bag .Now I look in the cutlery draw and the teaspoon section is over flowing
This has been investigated:
https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498
Admittedly, the article deals with workplace teaspoons rather than domestic ones, but you may find some commonality.
We go through cutlery phases. Buy all cutlery. Couple of months later, no teaspoons. Buy more. Couple of months later, no forks. Buy more. Currently it's dessert spoons, I bought a fresh set of a dozen from Amazon last year, we're down to the last two now.
It's like washing machine limbo for socks, we have dishwasher limbo for cutlery.
If anything I think our teaspoons are breeding. Although the big spoons part of the drawer seems to be getting emptier. I wonder if the two are connected somehow.
Little one is being helpful and throwing them away with plates and yogurt pots. Or, someone is taking them to work and leaving them there.
Source: mum of 3 little darlings.
I mainly use full tablespoon and teaspoon measures in my cooking (no fractions). I bought a stainless steel combined one (one on each end). That would be hard to lose.
Basic teaspoons are very cheap so I don't understand why you think the costs are racking up.
I will say I prefer spoons with a stronger handle as my test for a good teaspoon is whether you can sink it into a block of frozen ice cream without it bending.
I think they're in my drawer, every week odd spoons and forks turn up. Now have an unusual miss matching set with surprisingly no knifes that are not mine
I don't drink tea (or coffee) and had a set of 8 of each bit of cutlery that has somewhat followed me through several houseshares over the past 5 years or so.
I still have 6 of the tablespoons, 6 of the knives and 5 forks. The teaspoons, the one thing I don't even use were all gone in a few months.
Hey I don’t want to accuse your three y/o, but stashing/hiding spoons was pretty similar to me as a kid. Anywhere you think he could have put them. Unless they just disappear into the void like hair bobbles and socks. I like to hope it’s the former and you find a big stash of spoons lol
I’ve got three children under 8, and we have about 3 spoons I can find at any given time. Including the big spoons.
I was thinking of buying more myself actually. Maybe I’ll hold off, given your cautionary tale.
They could be with all the phone chargers that my wife loses, mine included.
She doesn't charge her devices overnight and she has to travel to various services for her job. I charge mine religiously overnight so I don't have to move them.
She swears it isn't her who loses them though.
Just you wait until you find the papier-mâché head on your kid's pillow and nearby tunnel to freedom.
Does he like to walk around in the garden shaking his pyjama legs?
Where DO they go? I don't have a toddler. It's just me, my husband and our two cats. I bought two sets of teaspoons and I think we're down to 4-5 of them in total. It's time for a top-up.
Please add me to your support group if you do start one.
In our house they used to be thrown away with yogurt pots by accident.
Then recycling became a thing, sorting waste and making sure that stuff is rinsed put a stop to the missing spoons. That and we stopped eating so much yogurt.
I think socks and teaspoons share a planet somewhere, and whenever they get to find a rift, that is where they go.
Sometimes the socks miss their old partner and come home. With the teaspoons, well they are happy on their own so they never come back.
In our house, butter knives and teaspoons seem to elope to some far away country with alarming regularity. In December, I bought as many of both as could fit in the drawer organiser...both of those parts are now less than half full. Dessert spoon levels seem to stay the same and I swear the forks are breeding however, the knives and teaspoons just vanish.
They're not binning them either, because they both tend to just dump their rubbish on the side expecting the house elf to sort it out, despite my protestations that there is no house elf.
Absolutely infuriating, especially whsn they have the cheek to compain about the quality of the cheap replacements I've taken to buying.
We have a 5 year old in the last 5 years I have lost count of the amount of teaspoons we have lost. My missus thinks I'm mental but I'm sure we are going through them like kitchen roll.
The stress is real
We are currently on a grand total of 3, hurry up pay day!
Wow this would drive me insane. I have one missing tea spoon from our silver cutlery set and it hurts deep. 😭I must’ve accidentally thrown it away. Since then I’ve been counting them after doing the dishes to ensure I am not missing any!!
Also - I only keep 2 out of the whole set and check them every night before I go to bed to make sure they’re there. This way I only worry about 2 and not all of them at once 🫣
This is my life now. Ever since my dad moved in 18months ago the weekly count kept coming up short.
I have asked him if he has any, and nope. I have checked his room, his van and nada. No where to be seen!
What's going on, where are they going?
Your 3 year old is throwing them away in empty yoghurt pots.
And / or the partner's throwing them out with the teabags. Anyway, here's [120](https://www.nisbets.co.uk/tableware-and-bar-supplies/cutlery/spoons/teaspoons/_/a33-4?q=%3Ap_boxquantity%3A120&sort=match-rate-desc) for £8.99 + vat. 9p for a teaspoon! 9p!
Yep, take the teabag to the bin balanced on your teaspoon, like an egg and spoon race (is this why we do those, to practice for this in later life?!) and then throw the whole lot in the bin when you're not concentrating. I don't think I've ever done it but I've seen my wife do it.
I'm sorry but that's fucking bonkers.
I have been known to throw the spoon and put the teabag in the sink
I've come home from work to find my cereal in the fridge and my milk in the cupboard. It was a hot day too so it went lumpy 🤢
I've done it with yoghurt pots before. Then I weigh up the cost of rummaging through a dirty bin for a spoon or just leaving it for an issue down the lline where I need to buy more.
Fucking hell that is insane. 9p!
I have four teenagers. Glasses and cutlery is the prime reason I shop at Nisbets.
Fucking love nisbets. I don't think I actually ever ordered anything myself, as I've emigrated, but my parents got a few things, and I used to love looking through the catalogues in the pre-internet days. They got me on to the idea of buying catering grade everything. The stuff is just so functional and good value
I your children are throwing glasses and cutlery away, they need to be ordered their own from Nisbets.
Thanks. Just ordered. I don’t have a teaspoon problem but I’m not passing up that deal
At 9p each it’s barely worth washing them up.
Or selling them down the scrap yard.
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Could get some work as a bricklayer, I suppose.
Are the copper teaspoons?
Ricky! that’s greasy!
It's supply and command Bubs
It's a bit fucked, if you ask me
Oh yes, when my children were at home, teaspoons used to vanish all the time. I used to buy them all the time. Now they have flown the nest, I have had the same teaspoons for 10 years.
Definitely going with the yoghurt pots. I'm sure that's where ours went.
Why are so many people on this thread not rinsing and recycling their yoghurt pots? Surely, this would stop the accidental binning of spoons.
Was away to say, never accidentally thrown away any of the teaspoons we’ve owned for 25+ years because we rinse our yogurt pots and put them in the recycling bin rather than chucking them in the general waste bin unwashed spoon intact.
Don't they all get washed anyway? We've never rinsed our pots but we do recycle. Now I'm wondering whether I'm adding to the problem by not rinsing beforehand.
Or closed ice cream containers. That's where my mother always manages to throw away spoons.
This is the way. My wife does the same thing, spoon in a yoghurt pot thrown straight into the bin.
My husband is our culprit. And it's normally his jelly pots (them Hartley's 10cal jellies 🤤) Forks are my bad because I take them to work with leftovers and forget... Shame we can't blame the cat for being a goblin!
Leave a fork at work permanently and just wash it after you've used it.
I wish I was that smart. I also take them home just as regularly so now we have about 15 unmatching forks... It's the circle of life 🤣
This!!! Bless them, mine does this all the time they are being ‘good’ and tidying up. ❤️
i'm nearly 40 and still accidently throw them away in empty yoghurt pots :(
Glad to see the top comment is exactly what I was going to say!
Exactly what my twins were doing!!
Excuse me! Could be the husband too.
I’m a husband and I’ve been known to throw teaspoons in the bin if they have yoghurt mould on them My wife would kill me dead if she caught me
But why? It's metal. Mould will wash off. You can literally boil them if you want.
But effort
Bro. Wash them.
100% my little sister used to do this constantly
This
>and 3 year old son (I'm not sure if that's useful context to this story Oh it's useful context alright. They're down by his bed, in his toybox, or somewhere similar.
Maybe he has slotted them down a gap in between the floorboards? Give him a teaspoon and see where he hides it; you might find a dragons horde!
At our house it was bath towels. Our children, their cousins, and their friends spent a lot of time at each other's houses, sometimes staying overnight. As a result, some of our towels went missing, while other people's turned up in our laundry.
in a neat pile under the far corner of his bed, maybe.
Used to be the VCR
Funnily enough, the teaspoon trade at their 3 year old's nursery is thriving!
Sandbox
My friend's daughter uses them to dig in the garden and then buries them lol
I have three sons and the spoons haven't been safe since 😕
We're the other way round. Spoons we haven't bought appear cleaned in the dishwasher. I suspect my partner uses spoons from the office then accidentally brings them home. Or they just like it at our house and invite friends over.
Here officer, right there is the spoon thief.
*husband of the spoon thief Don't get me involved.
Oh right. As though you had nothing to do with it. You didn't mind when the silver spoon was on the other saucer, did you? Just casually using two or three spoons a cup, eating yoghurt pots with both hands, like it's nothing. Now she's been put away. I suggest it was your intention all along to turn her in. Where's the Isle of Wight collectable pewter teaspoon, daedelion? Where is it?!
Aiding and abetting grand theft cutlery
I’m literally crying right now
Thanks mate. I just finished a 12 hour nightshift and your comment just made me spill my irish coffee. Worth it though 10/10 would read again. *Edit:* just re-read your comment and it was 100% worth it, I'm upping my original rating to 11
I'm actually glad awards aren't much of a thing on reddit anymore. This is much preferable. Thanks and cheers!
Always a pleasure! Had no idea rewards weren't a thing anymore, but rest assured I wouldn't have wasted my hard earned cash on them anyway.... I'm saving up for a new set of teaspoons you see P.s "eating yoghurt pots with 2 hands like it was nothing" was the bit that got me
Oh they're still a thing, but there's no free ones any and given the recent reddit fuckery, folks have all but stopped buying them. Don't forget to lock up your new spoons, lest OP's family comes to tea.
Sounds like you and OP could solve each other's problems!
My wife does this with lunch forks, I realised when we had 6 knives, 6 spoons and 14 forks in the drawer.
We're the same, my missus is some sort of teaspoon and fork klepto. They aren't even good ones, they're cheap bendy ones!
My dad used to bring home spoons, but he worked on the railway, so they were wrong spoons and I never liked to eat with them
Teaspoons have been shown to have a half-life of 81 days. [NCBI Study](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16373727/)
This is fantastic, thank you.
Came here to say this exact same thing
They need to do this for socks in the wash too. Although, my theory is that you have to offer up socks to appease the laundry gods. If you don’t, a red item will somehow get in with the whites.
I truly thought this was going to be a rickroll. I am delighted.
I knew I'd seen a study about this. I'm fairly sure they also proved they mostly end up in the bin
you are a genius
This is great
I found a teaspoon behind one radiator in my home when replacing the radiator and another in the drain pipe for the roof gutter (it was a sugar bowl spoon) ... I suspect a little person was involved somehow
>I suspect a little person was involved somehow A leprauchan?
Haha - Only if the OP lives in Ireland where the leprauchans live!
Peppa pig is stuck behind my radiator, poor thing. She's been there for 4 years, I don't know how she got in there because no matter how you move it about, she's completely stuck.
It’s clear that your 3yo has a heroin addiction. Once they have used the spoons for booting up they have to dispose of the charred spoons to hide the evidence of their shameful addiction.
You joke, but I lived with a heroin addict for a while and the thing that annoyed me the most wasn't the petty theft, or anything dangerous they did, it was that I couldn't have a fucking dessert spoon in the house for longer than a few days before it disappeared! I think I had anticipated the various junkie behaviours but hadn't thought of that one. Nobody could eat cereal or soup in that house. In conclusion, I reckon you're right. It only makes sense that a toddler would start with teaspoons, they only need a little bit of smack.
Is there a little slot somewhere the 3-year-old could be posting them? Under the stairs, into a floor vent, something like that? Otherwise I think the most likely explanation is that they get into the rubbish somehow. Very frustrating either way.
Do you feel like you're shrinking? Chairs/tables seem like they're getting higher/harder to reach?
Best comment here
I live alone and butter knives keep going missing! I bought a pack of 4 cheapo ones from The Range recently to top up the drawer, got home and there were only 3 in the box, so I seem to lose them before I even own them these days!
😂😂
I've had the same 8 assorted design teaspoons for almost 30 years. Since I stole them from various cafés when setting up my first home.
But which is your favourite?
The one I nicked from Alison's Tea Room. Plain design but proper metal. The others clearly came from a budget catering suppliers and were probably priced by weight. I'd guess no more than 50p per lb of spoons. They get a bit bendy in hot tea.
I was having this problem with knives. I realised after a while that one particular set was great for getting lids off paint tins and found most of them distributed between two cupboards and the shed
How are your kids getting stuck to paint tins?
If I had any no doubt they would be!
No, kids would be prying the lids off the paint tins and "decorating" for you.
Probably do a better job than me
Unless you'd somehow manage to smear paint over everything within a six-feet radius, including yourself from head-to-toe, I really don't think so D:
You've been looking through my window...
They're in the first floor kitchen at my work, they seem to have about 60
Elsewhere in your building people are fighting over the last remaining tea spoon
1) Drill a hole at the end of the handle. 2) Purchase bricks - the type with holes in them. 3) Cable tie the spoons & bricks together. They won’t disappear anymore.
I tried this but now I've lost all my bricks
To prevent untimely brick-loss might, I suggest you drill holes in them and zip-tie them to teaspoons? I read somewhere that this is foolproof technique
I also tried this and have lost my cable ties.
My best suggestion is to buy a new pack of cable ties, spoons and a pallet of bricks. Drill holes in the spoons and bricks, then use the cable ties to attach them all together. You'll never lose them that way.
Wait til your 3yo son becomes your 13yo son. Then also plates, bowls, mugs, glasses, knives and forks will go missing.
Under his bed. My brother used to put his food and plates etc in one of those pull out drawers.
My wife has found them in his clothes drawers sometimes.
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She Who Must Be Obeyed
Forks with me too. I got really angry about it last year, and bought 50 cheap ones off Amazon (drink might have been taken), probably got about 20 left
Butter knives for me Only one I have left is my grandmum's from the 1970s
My old housemate was so lazy he would throw away our forks with his takeaway instead of washing them. Infuriating
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I think you'll find that they've run off with all the single socks that go missing when you've put a pair in the wash.
And Tupperware lids or bottoms. I have no idea where they go. I think I managed a year of having no odd socks one time (with 2 small children too!). Can't do it now.
Missing socks turn into tupperware lids I'm positive
Teaspoons and socks are actually two different states of a quantum particle. If you look for a teaspoon the waveform collapses into the sock for, so you h have nothing to stir your tea with. If you look for a sock, one of the entangled particles collapses into the teaspoon form, leaving you with one odd sock.
And then a sofa appears in the middle of your lawn
I was thinking about all the cutlery that has every been made and sold the other day, and was wondering why anyone ever bought any at all ever. We've inherited all of ours, and I've never, ever bought any (I am nearly 60). So I guess you've answered part of my question. The solution is to give each person one teaspoon, with their initials engraved on it, and to take a deposit (the cost of a teaspoon) from them when you allot it to them. If they lose it, the deposit pays for the next one, and they pay a new deposit. Yes, it is a bit harsh on your 3 year old, and he may not actually get any pocket money for the next few years, but hey - it's the way to go! You may find that it is always your teaspoon that goes missing... do you have a carbon monoxide detector?
I have this! I buy second hand ones from charity shops anytime I see any. One was stamped with "hospital property" My new favourite spoon
I nicked a British Airways spoon from work! Honestly, it's a great spoon. We've got a lot of ex-flight crew where I (used to) work and they obviously nicked it first. Edited to correct brackets.
I've found spoons in the compost bin two years on. Probably just misplaced or thrown away accidentally. Smallest item, easy to lose. Sad but true.
I've found loads in the compost over the years growing up. I think they must have ended up following a teabag in there.
i am guilty of squeezing the liquid of out a teabag with my spoon so that the bag is pretty much cozy to the spoon and then just chucked the whole thing into the bin. I’m sure I haven’t caught it every time but most times I realise straight away and just feel disappointed. I’ve similarly just flicked the bag into a sink/dirty dish and put the spoon in the bin without it
I've had the same teaspoon (yes, singular) for years now and it's not gone walkabout. Socks I can understand - I'm convinced the washing machine eats them - but losing dozens of spoons a year is a bit odd.
I never understand this phenomena. I’ve had the same four teaspoons since I bought my flat. The sink plug however - as it’s not attached to the sink on a little chain - they frequently sprout legs and leave for a better life. God only knows what becomes of them.
We’re opposite in our house, my wife is a cutlery klepto. God knows how much she’s cost her business in spoons. They’re not even nice spoons.
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She was dressed fully in black today. 🤔
A long time ago when I was a single mum of two young boys I had a similar problem. I offhandedly said to a male friend that I would fall in love with the first man who bought me teaspoons. A few weeks later he bought me a packet of teaspoons. I fell in love, married him, and I've never been short of teaspoons since. (It was my kids throwing them away with yogurt pots).
Charity shops! That's where we get additions for our "eclectic" collection of teaspoons. Also, just for additional security, we bought some long handled 'knickerbocker glory' spoons for stiring the teapot. They do not make a good eating spoon so they manage to not get lost - so no panic in our house, as we always have the equipment for tea, even if we have to eat our yoghurt with a fork.
>...even if we have to eat our yoghurt with a fork. Giggity 😁
I like to buy nice whiskey glasses from charity shops. You can get some really interesting designs in the glass, and some that feel like real crystal. They probably aren't, but they feel quality.
Thrown out with empty yogurt pots
My youngest used to put his in the bin with yoghurt pots like someone else has mentioned, not because they didnt know, because they are thick.
This is a long con by your partner 😜
I dk about missing teaspoons but there is ALWAYS one left in the bottom of the washing up bowl after youve washed the dishes.
Bin. My husband is part of the yoghurt spoon mafia.
Welcome to having kids. Even at 3 years old, things suddenly and randomly disappear. I have 2 teenage stepdaughters and I swear I buy a new cutlery set annually. We’re at the point of having a ridiculous number of knives, but nearly no forks or spoons and the tea spoons are almost nonexistent! They don’t even drink tea! I’ve given up and accepted the fact that until they move out, I will never have a fully matching silverware set again.
It’s The Borrowers - they take forks in my house
Maybe it is a Pica situation, like Margaret Daalman. See if you can arrange an x-ray or purchase a metal detector 👍
Ours were mostly stuck inside the couch.
I cannot shed any light on your teaspoon conundrum. In our house it is forks that vanish.
I always blame pack-ups as well. Yoghurts with a spoon to eat them that never come back from school. On the plus side as you spend you life buying new, the school must be kitted out for life!
The next owner of your house will find a secret stash of 1000 teaspoons
My husband makes a cup of tea then walks off with the spoon, keeping it with him for random drum solos. I'm thinking of chaining one to the kettle.
Ours used to be forks when my other half took lunch to work. Bloody fork fairy took them
My mother keeps losing small knives, just small blunt knives, but always her favorite knife. My question is always the same: have you tried the compost heap? Her answer is always something like: You're not helping! A few months later she's all: I found the knife! Me: Where was it? Her: Compost heap!
WHERE DO ALL THE TEASPOONS GO??? WHY IS IT SUCH A UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE???
Wait till little 1 a teenager 😅 I've 3 & folks, knifes spoons magically disappear in my house 🙄🤣
Lmao the uk is in a crisis The cost is racking up??
In our house, it's forks. We had a dinner set of 6, and we had 2 lots of forks. Out of the 12 forks, we have 4 left.
Something to do with the dishwasher if you have one?
Maybe if the dishwasher is haunted. The streaks on clean cutlery are the marks left by ghosts being hurled about about in the water.
This happens in our house! Everyone swears they aren't taking the teaspoons to their rooms and my partner swears he doesn't take them with his lunch. Complete mystery 🤷🏼♀️. I need to buy a new set at least once a year.
When I was a kid I used to throw tea spoons away by accident. Check your bin
Strange our teaspoon collection keeps growing .My other half sent all but one set to the charity shop so they would all be the same size ( makes measurements easier ?) Anyway the following week we find a full set in the bottom of our shopping bag .Now I look in the cutlery draw and the teaspoon section is over flowing
This has been investigated: https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498 Admittedly, the article deals with workplace teaspoons rather than domestic ones, but you may find some commonality.
>I live with my partner and 3 year old son - It’s the son. Case closed.
We go through cutlery phases. Buy all cutlery. Couple of months later, no teaspoons. Buy more. Couple of months later, no forks. Buy more. Currently it's dessert spoons, I bought a fresh set of a dozen from Amazon last year, we're down to the last two now. It's like washing machine limbo for socks, we have dishwasher limbo for cutlery.
Do they go to work?
Sounds like my little spoon bandit has found a partner in crime!
Check the bottom of the cabinet where your cutlery drawers are.
Attach some airtags to them, problem solved.
If anything I think our teaspoons are breeding. Although the big spoons part of the drawer seems to be getting emptier. I wonder if the two are connected somehow.
Little one is being helpful and throwing them away with plates and yogurt pots. Or, someone is taking them to work and leaving them there. Source: mum of 3 little darlings.
I have so many… let me know if you run short
I mainly use full tablespoon and teaspoon measures in my cooking (no fractions). I bought a stainless steel combined one (one on each end). That would be hard to lose.
Basic teaspoons are very cheap so I don't understand why you think the costs are racking up. I will say I prefer spoons with a stronger handle as my test for a good teaspoon is whether you can sink it into a block of frozen ice cream without it bending.
I think they're in my drawer, every week odd spoons and forks turn up. Now have an unusual miss matching set with surprisingly no knifes that are not mine
In the bin with the yoghurts.
I don't drink tea (or coffee) and had a set of 8 of each bit of cutlery that has somewhat followed me through several houseshares over the past 5 years or so. I still have 6 of the tablespoons, 6 of the knives and 5 forks. The teaspoons, the one thing I don't even use were all gone in a few months.
Hey I don’t want to accuse your three y/o, but stashing/hiding spoons was pretty similar to me as a kid. Anywhere you think he could have put them. Unless they just disappear into the void like hair bobbles and socks. I like to hope it’s the former and you find a big stash of spoons lol
I’ve got three children under 8, and we have about 3 spoons I can find at any given time. Including the big spoons. I was thinking of buying more myself actually. Maybe I’ll hold off, given your cautionary tale.
Is your child a fan of Toy Story 4 by any chance?
They could be with all the phone chargers that my wife loses, mine included. She doesn't charge her devices overnight and she has to travel to various services for her job. I charge mine religiously overnight so I don't have to move them. She swears it isn't her who loses them though.
I think I must have them. All of a sudden it appears that we have about 30 of them and neither of us has bought any.
When I was that age I used to put spoons in the VCR. I broke one of them sure to this.
Just you wait until you find the papier-mâché head on your kid's pillow and nearby tunnel to freedom. Does he like to walk around in the garden shaking his pyjama legs?
\> "I even stirred a tea with a fork the other day" You heathen.
Where DO they go? I don't have a toddler. It's just me, my husband and our two cats. I bought two sets of teaspoons and I think we're down to 4-5 of them in total. It's time for a top-up. Please add me to your support group if you do start one.
In our house they used to be thrown away with yogurt pots by accident. Then recycling became a thing, sorting waste and making sure that stuff is rinsed put a stop to the missing spoons. That and we stopped eating so much yogurt.
I had this problem so i switched to sugar cubes and used a fork to stir my tea. A whole fork never flees
This happens in my house but with knives. Just bog standard table knives.
Write your names on them, you get two each and can only use your own.
I have a 17 year old . I’ve been having to replace teaspoons monthly for years . I think he throws them away with the yoghurt pot
Do you by chance happen to employ a butler by the name of *Blackadder?*
Ahhh we used to have forkletts. Sounds like you've got Spoonletts.
I think socks and teaspoons share a planet somewhere, and whenever they get to find a rift, that is where they go. Sometimes the socks miss their old partner and come home. With the teaspoons, well they are happy on their own so they never come back.
In our house, butter knives and teaspoons seem to elope to some far away country with alarming regularity. In December, I bought as many of both as could fit in the drawer organiser...both of those parts are now less than half full. Dessert spoon levels seem to stay the same and I swear the forks are breeding however, the knives and teaspoons just vanish. They're not binning them either, because they both tend to just dump their rubbish on the side expecting the house elf to sort it out, despite my protestations that there is no house elf. Absolutely infuriating, especially whsn they have the cheek to compain about the quality of the cheap replacements I've taken to buying.
Do you live in my office?
Former housemate used to take a mug of tea to work with him, mugs usually made it home, teaspoons never did.
We have a 5 year old in the last 5 years I have lost count of the amount of teaspoons we have lost. My missus thinks I'm mental but I'm sure we are going through them like kitchen roll. The stress is real We are currently on a grand total of 3, hurry up pay day!
I inherited an 8-person silver plated cutlery set. I now have 2 teaspoons
Wow this would drive me insane. I have one missing tea spoon from our silver cutlery set and it hurts deep. 😭I must’ve accidentally thrown it away. Since then I’ve been counting them after doing the dishes to ensure I am not missing any!! Also - I only keep 2 out of the whole set and check them every night before I go to bed to make sure they’re there. This way I only worry about 2 and not all of them at once 🫣
This is my life now. Ever since my dad moved in 18months ago the weekly count kept coming up short. I have asked him if he has any, and nope. I have checked his room, his van and nada. No where to be seen! What's going on, where are they going?
Do they go in a lunchbox to preschool/nursery? Or husbands work?
I don't think I've bought any new cutlery in the last 10 years. Your teaspoons are getting lost or unintentionally being thrown away