Where do all the forks go?

[PollyannaMom]

I gave up here and just bought some I liked even though they didn't match.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

I used to think it was just me who had this problem - I gave up years ago on matching silverware I’m up to 3 sizes maybe 4 on forks - I got to point at one time I was buying them 10 or more at a time I swear the kids were throwing everything in the trash to not have to do dishes as I’ve replaced plates too ! Now I have mismatched plates too

 

[bluezy]

It's my spoons that seem to have wandered off somewhere. I currently have 6 left from a total of 16. I pulled some spoons from a pile of flatware that we have the in attic from when my husband had an apartment before we met. Those spoons don't match my set but at least we have enough spoons every day. I'm also missing a few forks, but not nearly as many. The next time I get new flatware (which I have said I'm going to do for the last 5 years at least), I'm getting extra pieces right away. Though I suspect that now that 4 of our 5 kids have moved out on their own and DH no longer packs his lunch for work, I won't be losing flatware pieces anymore.

 

[slo]

When you find out, let me know - some of my knives are probably with them - LOL!

 

[mrodgers]

I have 2 other households that we swap food back and forth. I don't know how, but I have a fork from each household and a spoon and a knife from one of them as well.

Containers are obvious, but how did I get these utensils? I have no idea.

 

[Ms.Minnie]

I had baby utensils that I used for my kids and again for the grandkids. It upsets me to say that I'm now missing the spoon. I really think it got thrown out in someone's haste to clean up after dinner. It really upsets me that I no longer have the complete set, I would have liked to hand the set down to my daughter for her to use when her (hopefully) grandchild came to visit. Oh well, at least I still have the fork.

 

[rowan1813]

This is what happened with my mom's everyday flatware set as well. Over the years and decades she lost teaspoons and dinner forks and we always questioned what the heck happened to them. I ended up finding replacements on Ebay because they are no longer made - it was the Oneida flatware that was sold through the Betty Crocker catalog (anyone remember that?!). She now had a full complement again and it very happy but it was a running thing in the house for years about where the forks and spoons had gone.

 

[BLTtinkerbell]

At my house the joke is our teaspoons run away and never return. We have all the other original silverware.