Kitchen Shears = Paper Cutters

[The empressof all]

I THINK NOT!

It was not a pretty site tonight when I discovered my husband had been sneaking the good "Chicken Scissors" out of the kitchen to cut PAPER!!!!!!

I feel violated and betrayed. Can this marriage be saved? For God's Sake, What decent human being would do such a thing?

For those of you who live with others- Are you a Kitchen Nazi? Do you need to control the utensils and appliances? Does it drive you crazy when your SO fries onions in your omelet pan.

How do you maintain law and order in your kitchen. Help me save my sanity---or at least the little that's left of it.

[TommyO]

1. Oh, the stories of SO's in the kitchen...

My ex, on more than one occasion, and after being warned about it, would run my non-stick pans and wood-handled knives through the dishwasher. That's not why he's my ex, but at least now the things that shouldn't get washed in the dishwasher, stay in the sink!

[Dora]

2. I'm happy if he puts things away in the right place

We've been sharing space now for three years, and he's finally realizing that there is a specific place for things in the kitchen:

Peanut butter doesn't belong in the coffee mug cabinet.

Ice cream scoops don't belong in the wooden spoons & spatulas crock (that's for stove-top tools only).

Plastic mixing bowls belong with all the other plastic mixing bowls, not in the bottom drawer with the vintage corningware mixing bowl set that I never use but won't get rid of.

If it's something that we have more than one of (like measuring cups), then it belongs with all the others of its kind (all the other measuring cups). It does not belong in the first-available open space seen in the dish cabinet.

I don't have chicken scissors to protect ferociously, though I do hide my sewing scissors. I ask him to cut the chicken for me, and he does it so nicely that I don't bitch when I find something put away in a funny place.

He's finally realized that because I'm the person who does 90% of the cooking for our household, it's important that I find tools when I need them.

A Dora searching for the cheese grater is not a happy Dora.

[Longhorn]

3. It only took you three years to train him?

I'm impresed! I still have these issues with my husband of almost 29 years!

I can't complain too much, though. He does nearly all of the kitchen clean-up. But if he isn't sure where something goes, it goes on the garden window sill about the sink to become a permanent part of the kitchen decor -- until I notice it and do something with it.

[politicat]

4. The ex managed to break 97% of a china set I inherited...

I'd packed it in the dish barrel (which looked like the trashcans he had at work, to be fair) and then gone off to pack something else. When I came back, the barrel was gone.

He'd taken out the trash.

My great-grandmother's china. And then he didn't have the stomach to get in the dumpster and find more than a couple cups and plates.

That relationship ended not too long after that. Yes, I'm still mad, 10 years later.

So, no, I don't worry about the kitchen shears. Those are cheap and easy to replace. But the expensive stuff? Well, Mr. Pcat and I had a discussion about that before we moved in together, and I promised to label the cabinets for him, and teach him my methods of cleaning x items if I was concerned. We've been fine ever since.

There are things to be said about marrying the older ones.

Pcat

[The empressof all]

5. Oh it's so sad about your China

Early in our marriage my husband threw away my Woof Woof, (favorite stuffed animal from childhood) He's had to live hearing about that at least once a week for the last 20 years. I'm still not done letting go of that one yet.

[politicat]

6. I've let go of it to the extent that I only bitch about it to other people

since Mr. Pcat is not at fault on this, he doesn't get the bitching.

Pcat

[Kipepeo]

7. But, but...he took out the trash!

How do I get my partner to do that?!? :)

[Phentex]

9. Ouch!....

After my husband threw out parts of a baby stroller and had his head torn off, he's learned to ask if something is trash before he takes it out. Of course, I have learned to hide anything I don't want him to throw out.

[Phentex]

8. My sister has labeled hers "MOM" and she is the only

one allowed to cut with them. I thought it was odd at first but now that I've been through several pair.....