Disappearing cutlery? Just where does it go?

I have the same problem and my son is not little he is a grown man. I just do not know where they all go, it is just crazy. There is no sense to my talking to him about it because he always says he doesn't know what happened to them.

Where does it go? It goes into my sons dark cave of a room never to see sunlight again. I have found an endless supply of cutlery in there. When we run out we send him up to scavenge for us. It is so pitiful that you have to laugh.

Maybe you have a ghost in the house? I seem to collect untensils, not sure where they come from and I make sure I count my knives every night. You never know when you'll need that big butcher knife and when you reach for it its not there.

Hi ellie, Yes I have tie same problem here, some of my spoons are missing also my teaspoons goes missing, I'm the one that does the washing up here and hubby never clear his plate, I do it but always make sure I remove the cutlery first, it is a strang things like the sock that goes missing. Love and huggles. Tamara xxxx

That's the story of our kitchen life and everyone is a suspect, everyone. I will look for your forks in knives, anywhere there is a tv, game system or dog. Good luck.

Has he by any chance taking a liking to spoon bending? I remember when I watched some documentary about metal bending when I was young and took our forks for practice. I hid them so that my mother would not notice them when she cleans my room. Or maybe he eats at places around the house and leaves the cutlery there or it falls under the bed? Happy hunting :-) PS: I never did become like Yuri Geller

I have a 22-year old Bermuda Triangle living with me. My dishes, glasses, cups and all sorts of silverware seem to disappear on a regular basis. His room is quite the pit of stench. Some things, after coming out of there, are only fit for the trash. Debris is hermetically sealed to it and just isn't worth the effort or elbow grease to get off. When he finally moves out, all the leftover kitchenware is going with him and I am going to buy myself all new stuff! I can't wait!!!!

You confirmed it...we all have this problem. I have no idea where they go. I have had this problem for many many years. When the children were younger and now with the grandchildren. I have bought so many sets of silverware, not real silver for everyday use. I have bought just the small spoons many times too. I'll even get stray spoons at thrift store or yard sales if they match my set. It's a mystery that's for sure. But I think your forks got together with my spoons and all of my daughters silverware that has left under mysterious means. lol

well, a lot of my flatware goes missing because the roomie leaves it on her desk and the cats knock it off. Sometimes I go in and use the reacher to pick up the stuff. I recently picked up a spoon that had been hanging around on the floor by my computer tower. I've also had to throw a few away because they got a bit chewed up by the garbage disposer. you might see if they have gone to strange places in food or maybe out to dig in the dirt....

Remember the nursery rhyme 'Hey Diddle Diddle'? It tells you where all the missing cutlery went. "...and the dish ran away with the spoon". It's where 4 of my salad forks went! Now I'm not missing any dishes, but those smaller sized salad forks that my kids use...

Funny you should mention this as my mum has the same problem! Whenever we go there we can never find any forks, and have to improvise with plastic ones, small ones or broken ones! I don't know where they go either, so I'm not much help I'm afraid! Luckily we don't seem to have a cutlery black hole in our house, although cds and dvds are a whole other story . My daughter admits to playing with them, but can never remember what she did with them, and we've lost so many good ones. We've looked everywhere, so it's like she's posted them into some whole other dimension! Or maybe it's not her at all, maybe the aliens have taken them to learn more about life on earth. (I'm sure they'll learn a lot from the Mr Men, lol!) Perhaps they've also taken your knives and forks, although I'm not sure why. Could be that they're just short of them?!

Could your missing cutlery be with all the socks that we are missing at our house? (LOL) It’s interesting, if no one else in the family has meals in other rooms and you have searched your son’s room and kitchen thoroughly the cutlery has either being thrown in the trash or you may just have a presence who likes to steal eating utensils!

Hello ellie333, wow I seem to have the same problem as you. In my household our collections of forks seem to keep disappearing. We just bought another collection of forks,spoons and knives. The las tset I got was a couple of years ago and more than half disappeared. When we have family over it got to the point of using plastic fork for house members and real for others. I am wondering how long it will be before I start to see forks disappearing

I have no children and mine disappears all the time. I think its kitchen goblins, or brownies or fairies or sprites or whatever you want to call it.

I wonder if they are with my striped bag I can't find? Maybe they took off together! I had my bag filled with stamping stuff, went to stamp club, came home and put my supplies away and since haven't been able to find the bag! If you find out where they are hiding will you check for my maroon and white striped bag please?

This could either be human error or OOps.. I don't wish to scare you, but could be that... But then again, sometimes whenever I find things missing, I will find them the next few days lying around on places that I wouldn't have imagined. In the cabinet, behind the sofa, under the bed and many more.

Well we must be having the same problem because I am short of forks too, the other week I had to go out and buy some more dessert spoons and this week it looks like it is going to have to be forks!! I have looked everywhere, in the garden, washing machine, under furniture, everywhere but not one sign. Oh and in the bin!!

Not sure about forks. Under the sofa, maybe? I know I've lost quite a few knives, especially the ones I use for preparing food. They probably went out with the potato peelings. Not sure where they end up either. Hope it's not as pig swill. It might be a bit sharp for the poor pigs.

I have the same problem! My husband says I throw it away to keep from washing it. LOL, if you've seen my other discussion. I honestly don't know what happens to the silverware. But I cannot keep a set for long at all. It just slowly goes missing to where I realize I don't have enough forks, or spoons or whatever the case may be. Good luck with your investigation!

I was about to ask do you have children. I find mine all over the freaking house and yard. I went and purchased a new set, placed the old set in a bottom drawer and told them they could play with the old set and not my new.. That has worked wonders.