Miscellaneous Measuring Cups
unwind July 14th, 2009
I was whipping up a batch of cookies the other day and noticed something…my miscellaneous measuring cups! I figure, in the nearly 25 years since I’ve been married…I must’ve owned at least three different sets of measuring cups. The reason I assume I must have owned three sets being…I have one metal “1 cup” measuring cup, one blue plastic (that sort of country blue that was popular for kitchen stuff in the late ’80s) ‘1 cup” measuring cup, one metal “1/2 cup” measuring cup, one blue plastic “1/3 cup” measuring cup, one cream-colored plastic “2/3 cup” measuring cup, and one cream-colored plastic “3/4 cup” measuring cup. (There ain’t a 1/4 cup measuring cup in the group!) Thus, I began to think, “What the heck happened to all the rest of the metal, blue plastic and cream-colored plastic measuring cups that, at one time, went with the ones I do have? Are they like that old adage about the dryer eating socks…or is it something else?
I began to ponder over the state of my curious measuring cup collection…and her is what I have, at last, surmised:
1. Children! Can I even begin to tell you of the love of a hose and dirt combined that my children owned? And how could one possibly appropriately play in the mud and water without measuring cups! Also, I’m thinking of how my daughter used to play with her little miniature “My Little Ponies,”…always pretending some witch was trying to cook them up in a stew! She definitely needed measuring cups for those imaginative little recipes! Further, measuring cups are perfect for studying such little things as ladybugs and tomato worms! So there you have it…possibility #1!
2. Moving! How many items are misplaced during a move? My measuring cup collection has been from Albuquerque, NM…to Rexburg, ID…back to Albuquerque…to Utah…back to Albuquerque…to New Orleans, LA…back to Albuquerque…Ferndale, WA…to Monument, CO…and back to Albuquerque! I mean, oh my heck! How could I possibly expect to keep three complete sets of measuring cups during all that?
3. Stove Top! Possibly…I’m thinking it would seem very like me to set a measuring cup down on a hot burner and melt it. I seem to have a vague recollection of have to pick blue plastic off a burner at some point.
In truth…there isn’t a definitive answer I guess…no perfect explanation of my measuring cup situation! So…I guess I’ll just quit fixating on it…try to think of something else…such as…why do I have remnants of three different sets of measuring spoons?
- Fragrance
- Comments(6)
Haha…that’s funny! I have three different sets already! Lol, also I remember you melting one too…and I did that a couple months ago…boy did that smell!!
That is so true! I don’t think we have a complete set either. Mixing bowls as well. I think we have pieces from 3 sets of stacking mixing bowls. Funny how those things just vanish.
LOL! I have the same problem! I have had at least 6 sets of measuring cups and I only have a few from each set. What is up with that!? And I have only been married twelve years. I have a couple of the country blue cups. I think I got them for my wedding as a gift. Too funny!
Same problem here too! Although I can’t remember what happened to them… except one metal set we were given for our wedding- I sent it to Goodwill or the dump…, because I would actually cut my hand on them when I was baking!
I would also end up getting a new set each time I would find myself without the size I use most regularly - and my oldest is only 5… but we have moved about 10 times in the 8 years we’ve been married… I think it’s just one of those things… maybe it’s time for a small treat… a new set ;^)
Your mother never looses anything except her purse. She has two sets of measuring cups. One set she got as a wedding gift 54 years ago. The other set she has had for 36 years.
Dad
I remember that measuring cup burning. And the horrible smell!