Vanishing teaspoons? (the thread featured in the NEW SCIENTIST!)

[Bomber]

We all know that there is always one lone sock left when you empty the washer but can someone explain where my teaspoons are disappearing to ? Does anyone else suffer from vanishing cutlery syndrome [VCS] ?

 

[fanta]

Interogate your servants for god sake man!

So hard to find an honest scullery maid these days.

 

[tobyjug]

We all know that there is always one lone sock left when you empty the washer but can someone explain where my teaspoons are disappearing to ?

Heroin addict?

 

[Griff]

Dodgy little bastards, teaspoons. They're always dissapearing from my house too.

 

[felixthecat]

The spoon thief visits our house regularly - altho on a rare foray into my son's bedroom I've found out where he stashes them. The amount of cutlery to be found(dirty and mostly attached to a plate/bowl/cup/yoghurt pot) was amazing.

 

[Wolfie]

http://www.scififx.com/news/topstory.php?q=7965

 

[zenie]

yep always always teaspoons god damm them house fairies

 

[longdog]

Steal replacements from Weatherspoons. It's what I do

 

[zenie]

Steal replacements from Weatherspoons. It's what I do

Is that a bit like Karma then?

Or just a 'what goes around comes around' ethos??

 

[Bomber]

The spoon thief visits our house regularly - altho on a rare foray into my son's bedroom I've found out where he stashes them. The amount of cutlery to be found(dirty and mostly attached to a plate/bowl/cup/yoghurt pot) was amazing.

I too had considered this a possibility but no, none there ! I just do not know where they are going, bloody weird it is ?

 

[twisted_angel]

When the kids were small i'd find them all over the garden from their mudpie making exploits now i think i throw them away as they still keep vanishing.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

yeah, mine seem to have dwindled down to about 4. I blame someone who doesn't like washing up

 

[moose]

look behind the microwave

 

[Ms T]

I've just bought six from Woolies because mine are disappearing too.

 

[trabuquera]

Personally I believe that the odd socks are seducing the spoons with stories of The Life That's Waiting Outside the house, and then taking them along when they disappear to the dimension of lost things.

 

[Bomber]

I've just bought six from Woolies because mine are disappearing too.

I bet there's only five when you open the bag !

 

[MysteryGuest]

At some point in the future, all the missing ones are going to reappear at once, in the formation of a giant spoon. And then they'll scoop the planet up into a giant alien eggcup and a massive huge alien thing will knock the top off it and dip vast eggy soldiers in and eat the earth's core for breakfast.

 

[Louloubelle]

At some point in the future, all the missing ones are going to reappear at once, in the formation of a giant spoon. And then they'll scoop the planet up into a giant alien eggcup and a massive huge alien thing will knock the top off it and dip vast eggy soldiers in and eat the earth's core for breakfast.

they'll have to do battle for dominace with the giant pen first

 

[Bomber]

http://www.scififx.com/news/topstory.php?q=7965

Ah! So it's the bloody Australians fault is it!

 

[SwizzleStiX]

Spoons as well, the doc noticed a few of his spoons have gone missing recently.

 

[Bonfirelight]

Steal replacements from Weatherspoons. It's what I do

Is that a bit like Karma then?

Or just a 'what goes around comes around' ethos??

is that why weatherspoons staff keep trying to sneak into my kitchen

 

[Strawman]

As Zenie said, its the housefairies taking them. Although they will eventually return important items to you, I believe they construct their nests from socks and cutlery.

 

[Cloud]

I have a nasty habit of throwing them in the bin when intoxicated

 

[sojourner]

The spoon thief visits our house regularly - altho on a rare foray into my son's bedroom I've found out where he stashes them. The amount of cutlery to be found(dirty and mostly attached to a plate/bowl/cup/yoghurt pot) was amazing.

Hehe - I was just going to say this, and ask if you have a teen in the house! Don't bother actually asking the teen though as they will deny all knowledge.

 

[Crispy]

I drink my yoghurts from the tub and I have my coffee black. Problem solved!

 

[pennimania]

I have this VCS thing.

It is caused by several things.

They are under (or in) teenage son's bed

Teenage son has left them all over the living room

I have thrown them in the compost by mistake

 

[wiskey]

I have thrown them in the compost by mistake

i used to do that when i lived at home! (and bowls and plates and stuff - i'd always have to go back and rescue them)

 

[pennimania]

i used to do that when i lived at home! (and bowls and plates and stuff - i'd always have to go back and rescue them)

or else find them in DISGUSTING condition when you turn the compost

 

[spanglechick]

i used to go to school with a girl who, after eating her packed lunch every day would throw away the yoghurt pot and spoon with it - because she didn't like dealing with the mucky spoon. i always used to wonder what her mum must've thought.

i don't think it's house faries tho - a combination of living on my own and not drinking tea or coffee mean that i still own every teaspoon i've ever bought.

 

[wiskey]

or else find them in DISGUSTING condition when you turn the compost

when i was a kid i buried some lego horses in the garden and lost them, about 15yrs later my little bro dug them up and they were absolutely fine (well maybe a little miffed about all the spangly new star wars lego in the toy box)