Does anyone know where spoons go?

[Pacifist Patriot]

I've resigned myself to a life of an odd number of socks, but the spoon thing is really starting to bug me. Why is it that every time I start with a full set of silverware, within a year I have half the number of spoons as forks and knives?

[miss_american_pie]

1. It's butter knives here

:hi:

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. So something somewhere is collecting a full set?

[miss_american_pie]

4. A full mismatched set

It must be something evil. Mismatched silverware would drive me crazy.

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. It's an abomination.

[billyskank]

3. Same place mutley's socks go

:D

[buddhamama]

7. they are plotting the revolution

the socks are escaping the socks are escaping. :D

[billyskank]

10. They are going to overthrow our governments

and establish a single sock state, with sock law, under the one Sock. :rofl:

:loveya:

[buddhamama]

11. we'll be ruled by sock puppets

hauntingly familiar... :think:

lol :hug: :loveya:

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. Who will sock it to us.

[riona]

5. Same problem here

(along with the phantom sock thing). I'm thinking that maybe between the meal and clean-up, the spoons find their way into the trash.

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. I thought so too, but why spoons and not the other utensils?

[riona]

25. We should "Ask Marilyn"

(Parade Magazine).

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. What I want to know is...

why does the flatware disappear, but if you set out plastic spoons, forks and knives for a party, people leave them all over the place??

[Pacifist Patriot]

18. Excellent question!

[Truebrit71sbruv]

28. You might want to give the family pet a "spoonectomy"...

... it's amazing what the little buggers will wolf down when in a frenzy...

[Orsino]

8. They go to spoon heaven. Please don't cry. n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

20. LOL!

[crim son]

9. In my house I am almost positive it has something to do

with children. That's just a guess.

[QMPMom]

12. We found out where spoons go.

Our DD is mentally handicapped. We'd pack her lunch every day and put in plastic spoons and forks in the lunch bag. She'd throw them away at school when she was done with them. One day she was taking a bowl and spoon back to the kitchen and I was behind her. She sat the bowl on the counter and took the real spoon and put it in the garbage! She was doing exactly what she had been taught at school!

We had a little chat with her and she no longer does that.

Bowls and glasses go to our son's room. Missions to collect wayward ones are needed every so often.

[LiberalEsto]

13. They run away with the dishes

Remember the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle"?

[KitchenWitch]

14. Not sure about your spoon

But has anyone seen my potato peeler? Lost, totally. :grr:

[billyskank]

16. KitchenWitch!!

Dunno about your potato peeler, but I've found you! :bounce:

:loveya:

[KitchenWitch]

23. And that is worth far more than any stinkin' potato peeler!

:bounce::bounce:

:loveya:

[BensMom]

15. They are not really spoons

They are gardening tools - check the potting bench.

[MissMillie]

21. for me, it's knives

I bought a set of silverware this summer, within one month I had only one knife left.

:shrug:

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. That's got to be a record. My spoons don't go THAT fast.

[El Fuego]

26. Maybe the spoons and the socks got it going on.

[QMPMom]

27. OMG, don't tell the fundies!

They'll get really upset at the thought of spoons and socks together!

Wait! Tell them. Maybe they'll all stroke by next Tuesday at the shock of it.

[KurtNYC]

29. They elope with the socks

then run off to Mexico

[astral]

30. It's discrimination

People who like to practice their psycho-kineses skills like to bend SPOONS. The bent spoons are then trashed as they do not know how to bend them back into shape without breaking them.

I save myself grief by having only mis-matched cutlery which I have scrounged up at the second hand stores. Who knows how many spoons there used to be, then? Except for cooking utensils.

[trof]

31. On your nose. Like this:

Clean the oil off your nose. Blow on a spoon. Hang it from your nose.

[ElboRuum]

32. Check inside the cat. Just saying...n/t

[BigMcLargehuge]

33. Ran away with the Dish

I'll ask the cow when she lands if she has anymore information.

[LeftyMom]

34. There is no spoon.

/geek

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. To the right of the knife in a proper place setting.

:hi: