Coffee Chat - Where Did the Spoons Go?
By Nona Morris
@nonersays (3329)
United States
March 6, 2017 8:30am CST
There are some things in life that just disappear. Why do they disappear? Whey do they go? Nobody knows.
Most commonly this happens with socks. Perhaps the dryer vortex opens a pathway into a sock loving dimension, but each laundry one disappears.
In our house something similar happens with spoons. Teaspoons.
Not long ago we were down to 2 teaspoons! The rest had gone to wherever our teaspoons go when they are no longer in our dish-drain. So we went to the store, and and bought 6 more.
The ones we bought had thick black plastic handles, easier for the little one to hold on to.
Guess what! As of this morning we only have ONE of them left.
Where are the rest of them? Can anyone tell me that?
Maybe they went to be with their friends in the world of lost socks. Maybe the old nursery rhyme where "the dish ran away with the spoon" was wrong. Maybe it was actually supposed to be "and the sock ran away with the spoon."
(image from Pixabay)
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@nonersays (3329)
• United States
7 Mar 17
I'm glad your spoons stopped disappearing. Maybe one day they'll all return home. lol
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@JudyEv (326100)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Mar 17
@nonersays I ended up buying some from the op shop (thrift store).
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@nonersays (3329)
• United States
7 Mar 17
That is a possibility. Even I've tossed one before, but caught myself before it was gone for good.
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@LadyDuck (458730)
• Switzerland
7 Mar 17
@nonersays The small spoon sometimes are hidden under the paper napkins and things we throw in the bin.
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@GardenGerty (157645)
• United States
6 Mar 17
Some child took them to dig in the yard. More likely hubby ate something in front of the television and did not put it away or in the dishes when he was done.
@nonersays (3329)
• United States
7 Mar 17
Beleive it or not, hubby is awesome about taking his dishes back to the kitchen. He has to clean up after me more often than I do him.
He might could have scraped them into the trash though.
@marsha32 (6631)
• United States
7 Mar 17
If you figure it out, let me know. We have very few spoons right now and the holder used to be over flowing.
LOL
I'm sure the kids have them somewhere....basement, bedroom, maybe even outside to dig with.
@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
8 Apr 17
Well, here at our house when the eating utensils disappear it is because one of the two 5-year-olds has pushed it down the heating/AC vent or hidden them in one of their numerous hiding places around the house. A few weeks ago, we found two of those small lime juice containers (missing from the pantry) in a panel at the back of the couch. Elijah (one of the twins) had gotten them out of the pantry and then hid them in the couch. Good luck at finding and keeping your teaspoons!
@nonersays (3329)
• United States
10 Apr 17
The lime juice that comes in a bottle that looks like a little lime?
Luckly we're just missing spoons. No pantry items have gone missing...yet.
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
11 Apr 17
@nonersays I normally find the lime juice over in the produce section. You know how you can buy lemon juice in one of those bottles. I think "real lemon" is the name of the brand. The lime and lemon juice both come in smaller quantities in the little bottles that are shaped like limes and lemons.
That was the first and only time Elijah has taken anything out of the pantry. I think it is because they have the pretend grocery store at school with plastic fruits. I guess he wanted to make his own grocery store here at home.
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@nonersays (3329)
• United States
11 Apr 17
@Shellyann36 My boys have a play kitchen and I sometimes give them empty boxes/containers to use. They may raid the pantry yet.
