Where Do They Go?!

The little man in the dryer that steals the socks sneaks out at night and takes kitchen tools! Bad, bad, little man!

I think the world will know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop before we have an answer to this question.

Yup. Stuff disappears from my kitchen all the time. Socks do too. I swear I have torn up the house looking for matches to socks and they are never to be found. We also have lost individual shoes. So we have the left one, but the right has gone missing permanently. I often wonder if my daughter's shoe is not in the middle of an intersection somewhere, and people drive by it and wonder "How in the hell did a shoe get THERE?!"

haha!

the spoons, the little cups, the condiment dishes , right earrings(and their backs) nail polish, hair ties, clips and brushes all went to to the secret meeting that the left socks were having.

They formed a union and have a list of demands.

Here too, tupperware with missing lids. Silverware taking to work by my hubby and not returning home. I give it to friends, family to take home in hopes it makes it way back (filled LOL).

It's almost like "sock heaven" I know I put a pair of socks in the washer but somedays only one returns (sigh).

I have a similar issue... I found out that my husband stacks bowls, plates, cups and utensils in our computer room, under his desk instead of just bringing them into the kitchen when he's done eating. GRRRR

they are somewhere hiding with all our lost socks, lost toothbrushes and hair hooties - how do we go through so many hair hooties!

Oh I can tell you where they are...in the back of my husband's car. That is where all missing things end up..."mysteriously"!! He has such a bad habit of taking things either for himself or the kids into his car to eat, drink, whatever, (yes, including bowls, silverware, cups) and they never return! ARG!

I have found anything plastic is subject to being thrown away. Not sure why but over a year ten plastic plates will disappear, cups even faster. I don't think it is an issue of not wanting to clean it because everyone seems to know if you can sneak it into the sink I will usually clean it without fuss.

Usually, but not always it is visitors. I have found them in the trash after friends leave.

been married almost 30 years.....& we're on our 3rd set of utensils!

WTHeck, where are those forks? :) Drives me nuts!

OMG, You have GOT to read the book There's No Place Like Here by Cecelia Ahearn. She also wrote P.S. I Love You, but this one is way different. It's about this OCD woman who is a private investigator & ends up lost herself while going for a run to clear her head. This place just called 'Here' is full of all of the people & things that have gone missing. It's totally bizarre, but a very entertaining read.

i think they get thrown away, too. i've had to have the kids go in the garbage and get stuff they accidently throw away with whatever food they have not eaten.

Might want to check the backyard, my kids use to use my spoon for little shovels and any little plastic bowls for mud pies :/

LMAO! I always wonder too..but I DO have a pig-pen messy teenage girl living in the dungeon...er...um, I mean the "basement" *wink*.

@ Nikki~ I am totally one of those peeps who constantly says (to the pig-pen dd) "Who the h*ll manages to lose ONE shoe...on the road no less??". Her witty retort? "I have no siblings, so I am not really qualified to answer this question, but I will extrapolate that someone "touched" or "looked at" someone in the back seat of the car. And likely, before parental figures (thats what she likes to call us) realized a window was open, am item of footwear was forcebly removed and CHUCKED out the aforementioned window!" Then she slips her headphones back on and ignores me!

I do home daycare and have the colored IKEA set of cups, silverware and little bowls and plates for my DC kids. Everyone is color coded. Everyone knows who gets what color. But sometimes the dungeon-dweller uses the little bowls for a snack or dip. Mysteriously, since she had her wisdom teeth removed a few weeks ago, and was eating alot of applesause, likely from these perfect sized little bowls, the Yellow one for little Miss Abby, is MISSING. I have a very organized deep drawer that my daycare dishes, bottles and silverware all go in. Abby has no yellow bowl now...ARGH! Likely it was tossed in the trash when the teen was "cleaning". I think "cleaning" is also responsible for the missing spoons around here. I just buy the 5-pks at Target all the time. I have given up!

The kids *accidentally* throw them away. We have the same issues. I don't even have matching silverware because I just keep replacing missing ones with ones from goodwill until the kids are older. I told hubby recently that I can't wait to have nice, matching dishes, glasses and silverware again! And I mean glasses that aren't plastic will be great!!!

A lot of ours ends up under the couch for some reason... or eaten by the dog. Also, a lot of spoons and plates end up also in the back of my husband's car.

LOL! Our spoons disappear . . . I don't know where they go! However I did find one under my car seat (ewww) one time. Don't ask how it got there! My grandma always blamed the leprechauns!

Elves. They also are the ones who finish the roll of toilet paper and leave the seat up and put the empty milk container back in the fridge.

check under furniture i.e. couch, chairs, beds, between cushions if you have a nice big cushiony couch....bottoms of closets, you name it.

I seriously thought this only happened at my house, good to know thats not the case :)

My kids end up playing with plastic cups & bowls and my oldest always seems to "accidently" throw away spoons.

uuuummmmm.....I DIDN'T TAKE IT!!!! IT WASN'T ME!!!

Ten bucks says the cheap stuff ended up in the trash...sad to say - but they may have thought they were helping you....

the cups and bowls? I would check in the play room, under the couch, outside and in their rooms.....I'm surprised at the amount of stuff I find each and every day in my house!! URGH!!!!

Kobolds in the Kitchen... my grandmother used to always say.

After becoming a mom (and finding my missing mixing bowl had become a worm habitat in the yard, getting a serving platter returned to me after bringing it to a potluck I do NOT remember taking it to a few months ago, and cleaning out my husband's office ... aha! half my missing silverware, never brought home from going in his lunchs, plus coffee cups, bowls, and tupperware that got washed and decided to become 'decorative / I don't know whose that is, it's been there for forever' -It's OURS- in their breakroom)...

I believe my grandmother. It's kobolds in the kitchen. Ours are named
Not Me, I Don't Know, I Didn't Use It, I Put It Away, Keep Track Of Your Own Things (my husband named that one), and Grrrrr.

Only spoons disappear here. Yes, we eat with other utensils as well, but somehow only the spoons get abducted.

@Nikki G - We have your daughter's shoes here in Illinois!!!!! Just the other day my son and I were out driving and saw a rash of lone shoes on various roads. And, yes, we actually did say how the hell did a shoe get there. It was odd that we saw so many shoes on one day. So, wherever you are, we are at the other end of the wormhole, lol!