Fun post! Although is it saying they are using the previous apartment tenant's silverware? I feel like I've had to bring my own silverware to the apartments I lived in.
It's common for furnished student apartments to include silverware.
Donating forks to the dining hall
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Your idea is good. Marking them in a non-intrusive (to function) way would serve to make it clear this is communal property. But, in essence we don't care, and I also think its not always wonton theft, I know I've shed spoons into the waste bin being uncareful.
It hasn't worked for banks and all the various ways they've tried to keep pens from walking off, nor gas station bathroom keys. In effort you expend is ultimately wasted, as someone that wants to take will take and someone that is unawares they accidentally disposed of the utensil will not be stopped by any of the attempts. However if it makes you feel good and you enjoy the time spend over a weekend doing it, by all…
I proudly leave my “This pen stolen from the Sloop Tavern” pen on my desk.
With that kind of marking it’s like they want me to take it!
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#23Unfortunately many people feel they have no more forks to give
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#24Fun post! Although is it saying they are using the previous apartment tenant's silverware? I feel like I've had to bring my own silverware to the apartments I lived in.
It’s pretty common for student housing for houseware to be handed down from previous tenants when they left. It’s often cheaper to “pay it forward” to the next group of students than it is to store cheap houseware.
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#25Fun post! Although is it saying they are using the previous apartment tenant's silverware? I feel like I've had to bring my own silverware to the apartments I lived in.
It’s pretty common for student housing for houseware to be handed down from previous tenants when they left. It’s often cheaper to “pay it forward” to the next group of students than it is to store cheap houseware.
Thanks, TIL! My first apartment after leaving campus was 20+ minutes away, but that makes sense.
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#26Asking the BIG questions here... Like wtf would a school playing with so much money couldn't buy forks.
Kids shouldn't go to college
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If you care (which it sounds like, quite reasonably to me, you don't really), use pliers to bend over just the very end of the handle or put 180 twist in the handle. Very obvious and maybe unappealing to the sticky-fingered, without too much degradation to the immediate function of the object. And for teaspoons bought by the score, which i assume are stamped metal, the handle is probably thin enough to make it easy.…
Your idea is good. Marking them in a non-intrusive (to function) way would serve to make it clear this is communal property. But, in essence we don't care, and I also think its not always wonton theft, I know I've shed spoons into the waste bin being uncareful.
But you don't even need silverware to eat wontons.
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#29You can always identify cheap stainless steel cutlery from the sharp edges that cut into your skin while eating. Presumably the decent ones have extra manufacturing steps to polish off the burrs after stamping.
Re: Donating forks to the dining hall
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your idea is good. Marking them in a non-intrusive (to function) way would serve to make it clear this is communal property. But, in essence we don't care, and I also think its not always wonton theft, I know I've shed spoons into the waste bin being uncareful.
But you don't even need silverware to eat wontons.
Dim sum wise words, mon.