NFRC: My cutlery is disappearing!

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evan

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This is really weird:

Two years ago my BF and I bought new cutlery for everyday use. Nothing fancy, but still.

We packed up our belongings and moved recently, and the funny thing is, I just realize that I have "lost" a lot of spoons and forks!

I didn't loose them during the move, they must have been gone before. But where??

And it's a lot of stuff missing too.

We started out with 12 knives, 12 forks and 12 spoons. We have left 10 knives, 6 forks and 11 spoons.

I do get the spoon. It's easy to "forget" one in a bag of flour, but it will surface again.

But I have no idea about the 6 missing forks.

Does this happen to anyone else too?

Or could it be that my forks and spoons and my knife has gone to heaven - the same heaven that the single socks go to????

 
This is what my husband found,

when he moved my son's bed out to really clean his room. You have to understand, that his room always looked so clean. No toys on the floor, books always in the bookshelf, dirty clothes put in the hamper, etc. Then this was discovered.
At least I know where stuffed animal heaven is.
My favorite is the T-Rex waiting for the beanie baby to drop from the wall into his waiting jaws!
Eva, I will send in a search party!

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/dawnie2u/underthebed.jpg

 
You- we, too, bought new cutlery two years ago. I think it sometimes happens when

guests "help" clear the table. The fork get scraped off the plate at the same time the food does. I did find one that poked through the bag when I was taking the garbage out. Now, if we have more than 2 guests, I count silverware!

 
There's a children's book called "The Planet of Lost Things."

It's where all the socks, mitten, scarves, homework assignments, etc., end up. Perhaps the author should have included cutlery!

 
When my stepsons still lived with us in their teens....

One liked to go digging for civil war 'treasures' and would take the big spoons and the knives to dig. If I was lucky they came back but when the spoons came back, more often than not, they were bent and were never quite the same.

I bought a new set 2 years ago and know some is missing. I think DH throws it away in his zeal to clean. I know one spoon is still sitting at a friend's house where we had a get together right after I bought it and used it in a dip and she was cleaning my dishes for me since it was all gone (Buffalo chicken dip - so you understand why the dish was empty).

So one tip I have is to go to Goodwill and buy some of the nicest looking pieces of flatware they have to keep on hand to use when you go to potlucks and parties - that way it doesn't matter if it doesn't make it home. I also keep some for miscellanous things like when someone wants to dig or needs a knife to pry on something.

 
When my son was about 2 1/2 years old, I noticed that several

of my spoons went "missing." At first I thought that maybe it was the difference between those in the drawer and those being washed, but one day when I unpacked the dishwasher, I realized I only had about 3 or 4 spoons left.

Now, my son really like yogurt at the time and often requested it for snack. At the daycare, he was taught to clean up after himself after eating lunch. One day I noticed him get up from the table at home and throw his empty yogurt cup away in the trash along with, you guessed it, his spoon!

I had not noticed, but he was throwing away the spoons along with his trash. I couldn't be mad because he was just doing what they taught him at school. I started giving him plastic spoons after that!

 
We took a metal detector out into the ivya nd ground cover and (more)

found most of my sister-in-law's missing silverware......
3 children under 6 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
In our everyday silverware, we have 3 different patterns - the remnants of

sets gone by....

I agree with Cyn, at our house I think they've gotten thrown away, one at a time.

 
we use alot of paper plates for everyday easy meals. DH tosses silverware out with the paper---my

30 year old cherished Wilkens flatware from my relatives in Germany no less. I still cringe when I write this. Needless to say, we have a lovely set of Martha Stewart flatware, bought on clearance when Kmart left Alaska, and my precious Wilkens is put away for special occasions.

 
My husband told me that when he was a boy, (more)

he used several of his mother's silver knives as tools when building his model railway.

 
Oh, and if a spoon falls down the disposal and gets a bit chewed, DH thinks it needs to be

tossed. Does anyone have these smoothed out, like at a knife shop? I'm just talking about saving the good stuff.

 
A few pieces of my good silver have gone down the garbage disposal. One salad fork is an

interesting sculpture.

 
LOL, Randi- never thought of it that way! I guess I should make sure DH and I are alone before I

ask him to count the forks!

 
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