This is my silverware drawer. I took this photo last night, right after the dishwasher was unloaded. This drawer should contain service for 12. Meaning 12 dinner forks, 12 salad forks, 12 butter knives, 12 tablespoons and 12 teaspoons. What you see here is what there is.

I think it’s time we bought new silverware. Or is it flatware? Our eating utensils are stainless steel, so I guess it’s called flatware. Whatever you want to call it, we have a serious problem here!

Somehow, we’re down to 2 teaspoons and 1 salad fork.  We have 10 butter knives, 9 dinner forks and 9 table spoons left.  All the rest have just… disappeared.  I know who did it.  It’s that “Not Me” kid again. He’s forever stealing, breaking, spilling, losing, shredding, dumping, and leaving things laying around.  This time, though, he’s going to cost me money. And it’s going to hurt.  We NEED service for 12. There are 7 of us much of the time for meals. We finally bought a second service for 6 after we grew tired of requesting guests bring their own silverware… but that was 10 years ago.

I didn’t pick out my silver pattern from a bridal registry, nor did I choose china or crystal or anything else. This isn’t the heirloom silver my Gramma gave me a few years ago, which is carefully wrapped and put away for when my kids are mostly out of the house. No, this is just everyday Oneida flatware, but I did choose the pattern when I was about 9. It did come from my Gramma (I love my Gramma!!), and it makes me kind of sad to see the need to replace it.  I looked into purchasing replacement spoons and forks, but at $12 for FOUR (and I need 10-11 of EACH) it is cheaper to just buy new flatware.

And as for that Not Me kid?  Well, I will pass a strong message to him, through the kids who live here and would never dream of digging in the dirt with my spoons and losing them, or using my forks as darts to hit things in the storm drain, never to be retrieved, that the silverware stays in the house.

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