I've looked at our TS & haven't seen any spoons or forks. So I guess they are in middle of a depression, maybe the stores could issue "rations" stamps so they could ration them out to the customers, worked with sugar!! Glad you got a windfall!! Happy spooning!! Jan

We may have to set up spoon "spotters" on mountain tops with radio phones to call into HQ when a spoon is spotted...if rationing sugar and airplane spotters worked during WWII, surely spoon spotters would work during this current crisis!

Kathy, did you know that they just opened a new GW in Waukesha? I haven't made it out there yet--- maybe they sent all the other spoons to that one to help stock it. j/k

Now that I think of it, my favorite TS in Hales Corners doesn't have any flatware either. none.. not even knives.

I went to a couple of yard sales last weekend and bought two boxes full of silverware. One box was 5.00 but I made them throw in a birdcage. The other sale the silverware (junk dealer) wanted 10 cents each. I think I had 33 or 34 pieces and he only charged me 3.00. I buy from him a lot so he always cuts me a deal. Golly if you guys need any silverware and can't find it let me know I am always happy to share, swap whatever works for you.

I'm new here and enjoying this site. I hope to learn lots! Last year I couldn't garden because of back issues and really looking forward to getting everything whipped back into shape this year.

I'm wondering what you are using spoons for in your gardens?

CAR

>>Last year I couldn't garden because of back issues

Boy am I DUMB! When I read your post, I imagined you surrounded by BACK ISSUES of gardening magazines that kept you so busy daydreaming that you didn't have time to actually garden! Perhaps I was just channeling myself in that I have a pretty good stack of gardening magazines myself that need my attention!

Glad your BACK is better this year and that you're able to get back into the garden! People are using spoons as windchimes, welding them together as whirl-a-gigs, using the bowl part as wings for junk bugs, using spoons as name tags for plants in gardens...and about a zillion other ideas these creative people come up with!

I think I'm the only junker in my area. There's always plenty of silverware at the GWs where I shop. Last week there were lots of forks and spoons with the blue lucite handles. I didn't pick them up and now I wish I had.

i haven't looked in a while, but the spoons are few and far between unless you luck out and find a whole bunch at one time at a yard sale. the thrift stores only have stainless, but i did grab a dozen of those nice big round soup spoons. when i bought them i was thinking pendants,though, and thought of finding the alphabet stamps they use for metal....never did! at least, not yet,lol! i had lots of stainless knives i gave away, and now wish i kept them for mushrooms. someone on this forum mentioned about pushing the knives into the mushroom stem for keeping it in the ground...but i forgot who.
kudzu