Why?

[Redhelen72]

Currently packing up the house, why is it we have plastic boxes with no lids and lids with no matching boxes?
Is there a plastic eating monster like the sock eating monster?
And I have found 6 jars of mustard all open but different kinds! I don’t even eat mustard!

[DTCwordfan]

You have obviously had an illicit and secretive visit from Simeon the Holy Fool (Saint's day is July 1st.) He is the patron saint of mustard......

[Mamyalynne]

I certainly have the plastic box/lid section - goodness only knows how it happens.

[sunny-dave]

The Law of Conservation of Mass states that all lost socks are actually transformed into tupperware lids that fit no known box ...

[Redhelen72]

Lol glad I am not the only one with the plastic box issue!
I have now sorted it out so only matching boxes will move in!

[maggiebee]

Understand this perfectly RH. Clearing out cupboards and found 14 plastic containers and 20 lids. Tis a mystery.

[Redhelen72]

Lol Maggie, well they are all matching now let’s see if they come out the dishwasher matching

[pat2604]

We have plastic box issues here too. A cupboard full of them!!And also with the foil trays with card lids which we use for freezing.

[Redhelen72]

I like the tinfoil trays may have to look at getting some of them

[pat2604]

/sunny-dave The Law of Conservation of Mass states that all lost socks are actually transformed into tupperware lids that fit no known box .../

Love it SunnyDave!!!!! Really did Lol.

[pat2604]

Red, I use a lot of those tin foil trays and always end up with missing lids. But Indo prefer them to plastic containers.

[tiggerblue10]

I think there are very few households that don't have the plastic box and lid issue. When I moved in the summer I found loads of plastic lids but very few containers. It's a mystery, as Toyah once sang.

[Redhelen72]

Nooooo now that song is going to go round and round in my head!

[gness]

Never mind the plastic boxes and lids....just don't mention mustard to me!

[Redhelen72]

Lol why Gness?

[gness]

The chef who manages all things kitchen was out the other night so I had to fend for myself.
I managed, trial and error, to get one of his cooking contraptions working so I could heat up a sausage roll. Sausage rolls have to have an accompaniment of mustard.
I trawled his fridges and found more jars of ancient mustard than you could shake a stick at. Some were fancy mustards....boozy mustards....grainy mustards....all nearly as old as me.
All I wanted was some fresh English mustard... :-(

It's embarrassing enough taking our empty wine bottles to the bottle bank but I'll need a trailer to take the empty mustard jars.

[Redhelen72]

Lol yup he has that sort of mustard collection