If your toilet has the ball and chain mechanism, the chain may have been kinked up and finally unkinked itself with the last flush. Can't answer the tablespoon question, is hub the only other person in the house?

I have no answer or explanation. Just wanted to say that I got a chuckle out of the screen name of the person who responded first -- GhostlyVision. Appropriate!

Yes, kinked chain may have "fixed" the toilet; undoubtedly DH has been losing these spoons unless you have outside help.

Regarding the spoons? Who scrapes off plates into the garbage? I have had spoons, folks and knives go missing. It only happened when my MIL visited. She would always help with clean up after dinner. Either they fell into the garbage and she didn't notice or didn't want to put her hand in the garbage bag to get them back out. She had some OCD quirks.

What with everything going mobile, these days/(in recent years) ...

... you don't suppose that your toilet, not wanting to be left behind, learned how to Google, (NO! NO! - them google guys are everywhere - but not here, please!) to go mobile, too, was able to get out to the kitchen, grab a couple o' spoons and used them to (had a hubby/spouse that knew how to make them) fix the system??

Happy that your system has decided to behave itself - hope it continues along that path.

ole joyful

When did you notice the silverware missing? Is there anything else that is out of place? would look where hubby spends most of his time at home. Before we moved into this house cups would disappear only to show up in odd places. His excuse was he was busy and did not want to take time to put it in the kitchen. I think there were about ten behind the seat of his car. Several were even in his closet on the shelf.

Woo woo is a new expression for me, I had to look it up. Knowing the definition now, I can say, it wasn't woo woo since such things don't exist. A better explanation could be as others have said or, another possibility, a change in pressure from the water main.

Spoons? Also, could be as others have suggested or - does anyone take spoons out of the house for a work lunch or otherwise and forget to bring them home?

It has to do with the alternate universe where the missing socks end up after going into the dryer and disappearing.

DawnInCal is so right. There are so many things fixing themselves it is scary. The light in my dryer didn’t work for 2 weeks. Now it does. I am always wary of these kind of things. Like fluorescent bulbs flickering for weeks and suddenly they work before husband has a look.

Do you have pet in the house who likes to cart things away to use as their toy. Maybe you have a dog whose sleeping pad is loaded with table spoons. If a small child was in the house, he/she could have tossed a bunch of things down the laundry chute. I have found all manner of stuff there.

Does either of you load up a plate with food and take it to another room to watch the telly, and absentmindedly stick a spoon in a shirt pocket and then forget its there. The next time that person bends over, opps! there goes a spoon. Maybe someone puts a spoon in his back pocket, and then looses it while sitting on the couch. It gets stuffed under the cushion or shoved between the cushion and the back. Lift the seat cushions on your couches and easy chairs to see what's there.

Do either of you wear a lined jacket with pockets while casual dining? If there is a hole in the pocket, a spoon can go through and be inside the jacket at its bottom edge.

Did someone else wash the utensils (maybe a rare occurrence) and then put them away in an unlikely place?

Maybe there are spoons in containers that got shoved to the back of the refrigerator a month ago and forgotten.

Let's hope there wasn't a spoon that took a dive to the bottom of the gravy dish and you decided to toss the gravy into the garbage.

Have you checked to see if there are 9 spoons in the toilet tank miraculously fixing whatever was off? Maybe there are 8 and you only have to search for one unaccounted for?

Seriously , no clue but glad the toilet got fixed. I cannot fathom that many spoons missing in such a short time. The only thing I can imagine is the garbage but so unlikely for so many in such a short time frame.

If you ever solve this please be sure to let us know!

I think the answers concerning the toilet could have happened, kinked chain, debris under flapper, etc. - yes that is possible. But the spoons thing - unless DH is fibbing about taking them to work, none of them can be the answer, I've already thought about all of them and they aren't good answers. We are the only ones in the house and even when we do have company I'm the one who clears the dishes. The frig. is cleaned out, nothing there. And I know that neither of us take dishes into another part of the house to leave. But thanks for all your concerns and possible solutions, I'll have to keep thinking. BTW - Ole Joyful - LOL!

Maybe your husband (or you) unloaded the dishwasher and accidentally put the spoons into the wrong drawer or slot. Check the kitchen tool drawer and maybe they are there? This sort of thing happens as we age...you know how people put the flour in the refrigerator and find it there the next day when it was supposed to have gone into the cabinet? Could they have fallen into the bottom of the dishwasher?

My guess is the kink too. REALLY easy to fix--yourself. Leave DH out of it.

Rita, it sounds like you've already looked everywhere your missing tablespoons could logically be, so alternate reality or ghosts are the only answers possible.

Seriously. My DH gets all his meds through the mail. One day he said two bottles were missing. He recalls putting them in a container that he thought made sense "at the time". We have looked in every container in the house and have not found them. Someday they will show up - probably will be expired by then.

I worked with a woman who took some folders of work home with her and they disappeared. She took her house apart trying to find them. Two years later they turned up at the bottom of a stack of towels in a closet near her front door. She then remembered that her wet dog come in the house, she grabbed a towel, putting the folders on the shelf. At some point the folders got covered (unnoticed) by fresh towels. My point is that your spoons are, perhaps, somewhere you haven't looked because it makes no sense they would be where they are. Good luck on your hunt.

In our house growing up we had a Mr. Boo who lived in the clothes chute. I am sure he is still there because things always disappear around here. haha I am missing a few pieces of cutlery too, I always used to count them as I put the pieces in the drawer after drying but I don't know, lately pieces have gone missing. I don't dare bring out the good silver. I wish the dripping tap in my kitchen would fix itself.

The Poltergeist got credit for all the funky, unexplained and usually bad things that happened around the house when I was a kid.

I have one for your spoons... my son never loses mine, so maybe my son uses yours and loses them and your husband uses mine and loses them. Are you low on forks too?

I had to look up woo-woo too.

At first I thought maybe spell check changed it from voodoo because I've had spell check do weird things to me if I'm posting from my phone.

Woo-woo. I've learned something today. :)

maybe he had someone fix it.

Woo-woo happens here. I don't care if anyone believes it or not.

woo-woo happens here too. The unexplained..... But I think you may have a spoon thief in your house. Look in other drawers, in case you may have absentmindedly put in a different place. Around here, that's usually the case.

Not likely the cause but when you moved into your current residence did you change the locks. There were two incidents in the past couple of years where someone did not know the previous owner had moved. They used the key that they were given to get in. One was found asleep on the couch. The other one was making something to eat when the homeowner came home.

Of course there is always the elfin people but normally they do not steal only play tricks on people.

JoAnn, the only person who calls the plumber around here (and it's always out of pure exasperation) is me. He doesn't even want to talk to a plumber!! I'm telling you, something really bad must have happened to him plumbing-wise in a former life!! And our dishwasher has been broke down for 5 years now. And tablespoons are the only thing missing, still have all the forks (both kinds), knives and teaspoons. We are the original and only owners, and yes I've looked in all the other drawers - I do have senior moments. But why only spoons??

Hmm, maybe someone is sleepwalking in the middle of the night and gets a spoon.....dips into the ice cream and puts the spoon in the dishwasher.....which doesn't work ...so no one checks it? :-)

No clue about the toilet magically fixing itself. But I had this exact same cutlery problem years ago when my son was small. I'd pack his lunch and always included a pudding and a spoon. Being in kindergarten, he had no idea that he had to bring the spoon back - he was throwing them away! The only cutlery that's gone missing lately is one of our steak knives just up and disappeared. Where it went? Who knows.

Replacements Ltd might have some spoons from your service though.

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This wouldn’t explain how so many spoons went missing but when we had our polo ring replaced the contractor pulled out our stove and found a knife that had foall between the counter and the stove. My stove is a 2 oven 8 burner Viking monstrosity that seldom gets moved. Another funny thing when we moved after living in our first house for many years, we found a bunch of our daughters toys from when she was a toddler, and she had dropped them in the hole where the sound comes out of our stereo speakers.

I think that I may have some extra spoons here ... but I doubt that they have much experience in fixing toilets.

Quite possibly not dressed to suit your standards, either.

o j

I am thinking Space Aliens with a spoon fetish or you might check the attic. People really do occasionally have someone move into the attic. Someone who eats soup. I also thought of counting the dishes as well.

I found a stainless steel fork in our front yard that wasn’t ours. Maybe your spoons ran away!

^^ And the fork ran away with the spoon. :)

Check your linens. Perhaps they somehow got wrapped up in a placemat or table runner.

My kids must have been visiting. I found seven spoons in ds's room the other day. Dd had four bowls. I can't explain the toilet fixing itself because I know my kids wouldn't fix that. Lol!

Don't forget to come back and tell us if they were ever found! I'll be wondering now. lol

They aren't by any chance in that broken down dishwasher? Maybe someone thought they were doing a favor by loading it and stuck them in there not realizing it wasn't working? I have a habit of putting them in dishes and putting that dish in the refrigerator...sometimes there will be a few in the fridge.

My half tspn measuring spoon was missing for several weeks. I found it in the corn starch box.

Dawn, I do that also. I will leave a spoon in with the flour or sugar...so it's handy. :)

Well at the grands house ,Bob did it. Seems Bob is very busy in that house, and gets in a lot of stuff when there are three boys. They also have a cat named cardie that takes tp and almost any thing else she feels needs moving.

I know where your spoons can be found. 'The Borrowers' are making use of them, under your floorboards. ;)