Suburban Feminist
Ken WhiteNow that all three kids are home for the holidays, the silverware is disappearing at an unsustainable rate. What do they do with it? Sell it for drugs? All I want is a spoon. It’s my house. Why can’t I have one spoon in my own house?
BJC860@Popehat Just remembering my own days at school, start looking under furniture...
❄ SnowWrite ❄@Popehat as an empty nester with six kids -- lemme just say.. hahahahahaha *snort* hahahaha - oh and charge them a fee per second for not bringing the silverware back! :D you'll be rich..
CodieneC@snowwrite @Popehat Just wait until your grands start hanging around your place for days/weeks/months at a time... it all starts again :p
@CodieneC @Popehat my oldest is 37 and married nearly 10 years and I'm still not a grand :) with six kids you'd think I'd have ONE grandbaby but nope! Don't blame em one bit with our current world.. all six of them are gonna wind up having my grands at the same flipping time :D just watch! I am actually looking forward to grands :)
@snowwrite @Popehat Three daughter each had 3 (1 girl/8 boys)
Two grands produced a total of 5 greats
I would love to share this time of year - believe me :p
Doc Sigma
Stoicism is My Charm@Popehat I think my kids threw them in the trash with yogurt cups. Out of 12, I have 4 teaspoons left.
@CharleneTeglia@Popehat Somewhere there is a crow with a shiny shiny nest and all the spoons are safe there
MarcoDillo@CharleneTeglia @Popehat I guarantee you they are near the TV
Bits and gubbins@Popehat Should be a few between the couch cushions, a cache in each bedroom and a couple in the back yard.
Tappin Lisa
the american caliban@Popehat they are gone to the Bic Planet
Spocko
Dr. Sobek@Popehat You should investigate the dishwasher, pretty sure it's taking bribe from them.
Griff Ferrell 💙💛 masto-xyz
Jeremy "Candyman" Thompson@Popehat Need a new spoon for everything. Wife gives each dog a spoon with every meal, plus spoon for treats, plus spoons from meals.
Icevice@jeremyathompson @Popehat I don't think dogs can digest spoons. Unless they are made of cookies
sodalis@Popehat There are other ways to cook your heroin. Be creative.
leE Brotherston@Popehat Personal experience suggests that forks are the item with the most scarcity, so probably has the highest street value.
Jeff_the_Geek@synackpse @Popehat in our house, I clearly see the value on the street for each. Salad forks seem to have the most value, followed by tea spoons, then dinner forks, knives, and finally table spoons
I guess there is a glut of table spoons on the street or something
Patrick Fessenbecker@Popehat it's almost as if there's some sort of coordinated group criminal activity involving their transport and sale. Someone should make a law —
Bushido Squirrel@Popehat clearly they are starting an family spoon band, get ready to tour!
ice.cream.assassin@Popehat Debating either going with a Soundgarden reference or The Tick reference.
Neysa Nevins@Popehat walk around to all the rooms in the house and you’ll find the spoons… and bowls and mugs and water glasses…
The Simpsons - You Call That A Knife?
Steve Syfuhs@Popehat we all run out of spoons this time of year
It's still Just Jason@Popehat check the trash.
Alex Hanna@Popehat heating up their heroin, of course
Ben@Popehat
I'm lax about using measuring spoons for spices and herbs while cooking, leading to grabbing a bunch of teaspoons—now, with my boyfriend's kitchen merged in, we have at least 3x as many teaspoons, espresso spoons, whatever small spoon, than any other implement in the drawer.
I'm lax about using measuring spoons for spices and herbs while cooking, leading to grabbing a bunch of teaspoons—now, with my boyfriend's kitchen merged in, we have at least 3x as many teaspoons, espresso spoons, whatever small spoon, than any other implement in the drawer.
@Ms_Ellen_F@Popehat HAHAHA!
They carelessly throw it out with the food waste. At least that's what happens in my house!
They carelessly throw it out with the food waste. At least that's what happens in my house!
T2Va@Popehat I bought cheap replacements. Not going to spend real money until the kids move out/attain the age of silverware reason.
EdTheKat@Popehat
If a couple of table knives turn up with burn marks on the tips, ask me and I will explain...
If a couple of table knives turn up with burn marks on the tips, ask me and I will explain...
sean 🌒@Popehat I was a utensil thief when I was living with my parents. They stayed in a pile of plates and cups on my desk in my room.
Sensational GusShoulda thought of that before having kids…
wiredogSpooooon!
Jeffrey Vagle@Popehat Erma Bombeck couldn’t have said it better.
Ras Fincher@Popehat Our silverware was disappearing for a long time before I saw my son clean off his plate into the trash, fork and all...
djohngo@Popehat Keeping up with the dishes is like a race at my house. Silverware especially. Why do two kids need a half dozen spoons per meal?
Ali Van Zee@Popehat A) Wastebasket patrol on a daily basis B) Replace all silverware prior to visits with recyclable utensils. #SurvivalTipsForDads
Flavio 
@Popehat Well you don't have a spoon because of the kids....do you at least have a tree up or are you afraid of the cats taking it down? I couldn't put up a tree...I tried but my cat kept climbing it.
Bruce Preston@Popehat Reserve one for yourself. Somewhere it will always be available. Maybe on a chain around your neck?
The Original Luzah@Popehat hahaha I would say to check their rooms for dishes but it's just better to not and not new spoons.
#BeenThere
#BeenThere
Andrew Wetzel 
@Popehat Our teens work in catering at a community center. We have SO MANY SPOONS and I don't know where they all came from!
I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!
Jamie Dyer@Popehat I keep some spare cutlery in my room for just this reason.
Angela Grace@Popehat
https://www.amazon.com/Teaspoons-Stainless-6-29-inch-Flatware-Dishwasher/dp/B0915JN7WB
I always have scissors and spoons in excess. It saves me so much irritation—
@Popehat I regularly have to take a pass through my son's room to retrieve errant dinnerware. Then there's the tendency of folks used to disposable plasticware to throw the silverware into the trash.
jaymerryfield 
@Popehat the eternal struggle, except I have mine with my wife. 😂
Notarobot@Popehat Carry one with you and wash as necessary.
Fat_Al_NYC@Popehat Are they also on your lawn?
Espy@Popehat You chose to have kids instead. Those are just the rules.
Dustin George-Miller@Popehat The struggle is real
tryggth@Popehat Look in the peanut butter jar. They're probably all in there if it's inconveniently far from the dishwasher.
MrNick 🇨🇦
Doctor Memory@Popehat I am desperately waiting for the day when my kid goes off to college so that I can conduct a full-scale excavation of their bedroom and recover not only all of my missing teaspoons but also several of my nicer knives. (No, they do not self-harm. God only knows why my cutlery attracted their magpie-like attention.)
Madhur Chadha ✅(Product &Tech)@Popehat do you still have the TV remote?
@Popehat Check the dishwasher before making any accusations.